The Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS) is a transition process that helps to ensure a successful start to the K-12 experience and connect the key adults in a child’s life.
In addition, WaKIDS provides a snapshot of where Washington's kindergartners are in their development early in the school year. These data help inform state and district-level decisions about education policy and investments, and classroom decisions about individualized learning. WaKIDS is legislatively mandated to be part of state-funded, full-day kindergarten (RCW 28A.150.315 and RCW 28A.655.080).
This mid-year training is open only to Transition to Kindergarten (TK) teachers and kindergarten teachers who are implementing multiple Whole-child Assessment checkpoints a year. If you are implementing the assessment with the standard one checkpoint, we look forward to training you in the summer of 2025. Those trainings will be posted in April 2025 on this page.