It can make her want to crawl on the counter and press her face against the window. It can make a worried parent linger by the door. It can leave a lasting first impression of fear not good for the first day of school. At Mary Harrison Primary School, classroom doors are seldom closed and parents are never strangers.
Chances are, when kindergarten students begin school, they already have new friends.
They've met the teacher, the secretary, and the custodian. They know where the bathrooms are. Parents know the ropes, too. But that doesn't happen by chance. The transition team at Mary Harrison began as a collaborative project with the local Head Start program three years ago.