Our mission is to provide parents and educators with quality assessment tools and educational activities to be used to prepare their children for elementary school.

Jaclyn Morris Howie is the founder of KindergartenReadiness.net. Howie is a graduate of the University of Richmond. She has had the opportunity to teach in Virginia, Georgia, and California working with young children from a variety of different social and ethnic backgrounds.

Howie truly has a gift for working with parents, young children, and colleagues in education. She believes strongly in the importance of preschool and kindergarten to the future success of a child. Her enthusiasm, positive attitude, thorough attention to detail, and patient, kind demeanor make her a natural in the field of education.

Howie’s favorite aspects of teaching included working one-on-one assessing and evaluating her kindergarten students, developing lessons to further their academic and social growth, and conferencing with parents to help them work with their children at home. In 2002, she decided to combine her favorite aspects of teaching with her belief that parents could use more consistent support in educating their own preschool children, thus Kindergarten Readiness was born. 

Through teaching, she found that many students were entering kindergarten with a less than solid foundation and were struggling unnecessarily. So in December 2002, Howie wrote The Kindergarten Readiness Guide to educate parents on how to develop a solid academic and social foundation for their preschool children. Two years later, she wrote The Teacher’s Guide to Pre-K and Kindergarten. Howie has sold her books online for 3 years. To her website she has added valuable links, articles, and other tools to offer parents, educators, and children a kindergarten readiness “one-stop-shop”.

Howie is current with education trends, while continuously searching for better ways to fulfill the needs of parents, teachers, and children.

Congratulations, enjoy the website, and good luck on your quest to create successful kindergarteners!

Read a letter from the Founder of Kindergarten Readiness