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Early Childhood Center principal reports enrollment, literacy and social‑emotional gains
Summary
Principal Dr. Kimmy Andrews told the board the Early Childhood Center has grown from 82 to roughly 160–170 students, reported winter assessment gains in language/literacy and social‑emotional measures, and described coaching, curriculum and family engagement efforts.
Dr. Kimmy Andrews, principal of the Early Childhood Center, told the Excelsior Springs School District Board of Education that enrollment at the center has risen from 82 students at the start of her tenure to about 160–170 this school year.
Andrews said the center used the project approach in preschool classrooms and presented assessment snapshots showing improvements from fall to winter across language and literacy domains and most cognitive measures. “We did have a rise from our fall to winter data,” she said. She identified one area — a cause‑and‑effect cognition measure — where winter scores did not…
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