Early childhood assessments should be used to guide teaching and learning, identify students that may potentially need interventions, and improve educational programs (NAEYC and NAECS/SDE, 2003). Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEA) are implemented at the start of kindergarten to provide a glimpse of where students stand at the beginning of the year across different developmental domains. The North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment (NC KEA) can be a very helpful resource when teachers use it to get to know children at the beginning of the year. It can help teachers understand strengths that each child brings to the classroom and specific areas where each child needs support. The data that the NC KEA provides is intended to emerge from the ongoing processes through which teachers gather rich portfolios of evidence concerning student growth, analyze those evidences, make periodic placements on developmental progressions based on those evidences, and use those placements to plan and support the next steps in the learning process (Lambert, 2018).