From Laconia Daily Sun, March 25, 2022
Roberta Baker
FRANKLIN — Kelli Kneeland is no ordinary kindergarten teacher - and her young students vary greatly, too, in their early reading and writing skills and ability to sit and learn.
To her pupils at Paul Smith School, she is a playtime coach, a role model for kindness and behavior, a story reader, question asker, explainer, attendance taker, and guide for exploring a novel world.
She’s also a spotter of individual needs and levels – a job made more pressing and complex by COVID.
“This year I have a kindergartener already reading at a first-grade level. The kindergartener next to her did not know the letters in her name,” said Kneeland, who has taught for eight years at this pre-k -through-grade three school in Franklin...
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