Haddon Township details full‑day kindergarten, inclusion model and daily routines

Haddon Township School District teachers used a parent information night to outline what families should expect from the district’s full‑day kindergarten program, emphasizing play‑based learning, early literacy and co‑teaching inclusion classrooms.

“Most important to us is that they leave kindergarten seeing themselves as a learner,” said Amy Bowman, a kindergarten teacher, describing classroom goals that range from name writing and phonics to multi‑step directions and social skills. Teachers said the district adopted an explicit phonics program and that literacy instruction combines…