Transitional Kindergarten
TK, Head Start, preschool and more: What’s the difference?
A Castro Valley Unified School District TK student uses scissors to cut a square by following the lines on the […]
August 29, 2025
Finding the ideal TK teacher: A challenge of credentials and preschool experience
Top Takeaways As California expands transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds, districts struggle to find teachers with both early education expertise […]
August 28, 2025
Inside transitional kindergarten: Where play, curiosity and early learning meet
When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more trauma and fear than a […]
August 27, 2025
California expands TK, but thousands of 4-year-olds remain unenrolled
A transitional kindergarten student at Castro Valley Unified’s Independent Elementary School stacks blocks during activity time. Credit: Andrew Reed / […]
August 27, 2025
Advocacy group leader talks about the challenges of transitional kindergarten
Michael Olenick has spent his life pondering the preschool years. His mother, a childhood development professor, was one of the […]
June 23, 2025
Transitional kindergarten comes of age in California
Top Takeaways Transitional kindergarten, or TK, becomes available to all 4-year-olds in the fall. Smaller child-to-staff ratios, 10-to-1, are slated […]
May 21, 2025