In March 2020, after 23 renewal grants had been awarded, the country began responding to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Public health guidelines to slow the spread of COVID-19 required states to adapt their intended renewal grant activities, including those related to kindergarten transitions. Each interviewed state was at a different stage of initiating their grant activities at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in variations in the adaptations that states made to their planned grant activities. This report describes how states have risen to this challenge. (author abstract)