Introduction

Integrated Learning Solutions (ILS) partners with eleven schools who are members of the Pasadena Area Independent Schools Consortium (PAIS) to assist them with screening kindergarten applicants. ILS has worked closely with the administration, admissions directors and Kindergarten teachers at each school in order to gain a solid understanding of their assessment goals, allowing ILS to provide their applicants with a school readiness screening. These schools have agreed to share the results of our carefully designed developmental screening in the hope of relieving some of the stress and repetition for the children by coordinating this portion of the admissions process.  We make every effort to ensure that the screening experience will be positive and enjoyable for every child and that the application process will be streamlined. During the screening, each child will be asked to participate in a number of developmental tasks, enabling our experienced staff to observe the child's language and reasoning skills, motor skills, visual and auditory processing skills. The screening will be individually administered by ILS personnel and will take approximately twenty-five to thirty minutes. Currently, the following independent schools screen their kindergarten applicants through ILS:

 

 

Admissions Directors

Barnhart School	Keanuenue "Nue" Yim-Herrera	www.barnhartschool.org
Chandler School	Gretchen Lurie	www.chandlerschool.org
Clairbourn School	Janna Hawes	www.clairbourn.org
Crestview Preparatory School	Michele Poteet	www.crestviewprep.org
Foothill Country Day School *	Colette Sims	www.foothillcds.org
The Gooden School	Dr. Marianne Ryan	www.goodenschool.org
High Point Academy	Kristin Haines	www.highpointacademy.org
Mayfield Junior School	Lauren Marlis	www.mayfieldjs.org
Polytechnic School	Sally Jeanne McKenna	www.polytechnic.org
Saint Mark's School	Dan Hare	www.saint-marks.org
Walden School	Scott Turner	www.waldenschool.net
* The FCDS Admissions Office will send families a specific link to the ILS registration. Please note the deadline for FCDS registrations is February 1, after which a $25 late fee is applied.