“…Policymakers, researchers, and educational advocates in in the United States and across the globe (e.g., Christensen et al, 2022) continue to put forward the argument that having students enter schooling ready to learn, which encapsulates their cognitive, social, physical, and emotional skills, will improve their academic achievement in school (e.g., Guhn et al, 2016), success in life (e.g., Jones et al, 2015), and work toward ameliorating differences in levels of student achievement across varying sociocultural groups (e.g., McClelland et al, 2019). Much of the work supporting this argument is quantitative in nature and centers on figuring out what policies to enact so that students enter school ready to learn, which includes studies not only examining the impact of early childhood programs on school readiness but also the impact of familial interactions (e.g., Micalizzi et al, 2019), the role of community (e.g., Christensen et al, 2022), and homelessness (e.g., Manfra, 2019), and even sleep patterns (Turnbull et al, 2022b) on children's readiness for school.…”