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Scandia Elementary outlines expanded kindergarten onboarding, family-engagement events
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Scandia Elementary principal Shannon Carafelt and kindergarten teacher Jenny Helmgren described a multi-step kindergarten onboarding program — Explore Kindergarten, meet-and-greet slots, student ambassadors and community partnerships — designed to build family connections and early learning supports.
Scandia Elementary principal Shannon Carafelt told the Forest Lake Area Schools board Thursday that the school has expanded its kindergarten onboarding to emphasize family connections, play-based learning and early data collection to shape instruction.
Carafelt said the school begins outreach in December with ‘save-the-date’ notices, follows with formal invitations to Explore Kindergarten in January and offers tours and hands-on events so families and children can see “a day in the life of a kindergartner.” She added that the program highlights the district’s International Baccalaureate framework, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and available academic and behavioral supports.
“Explore Kindergarten is a great passion of mine,” Jenny Helmgren, a kindergarten teacher at Scandia,…
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