By Michelle Smith Howard

President & CEO, Kids’ First Years

Alexandria, VA – Many families in Alexandria are busy preparing their young children to enter kindergarten or to start preschool after the summer break. But there is much more to being ready for school than walking into the classroom wearing new shoes or toting a new backpack. Social, emotional and independence skills are the most important skills that teachers want students to have when starting kindergarten.

Kids’ First Years, a partnership of people and organizations working together to support opportunities and learning experiences for young children, asked Heidi Haggerty, principal of the Early Childhood Center, a Pre-K school that is part of Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS), to share some school-prep tips to help kid

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