Please join us in celebrating National Family Literacy Day next Friday! See more information at:http://www.famlit.org/biggive-2013/ For teacher lesson plans you can see: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/celebrate-national-family-literacy-20681.html
A huge thank you to at&t who has provided funding to help with our Stepping Into College event and other dropout prevention activities. Stepping Into College takes place this Saturday at Burton Barr Library (see Media Advisory below): A Stepping Stone Foundation and AT&T to Host Workshop to Help Students “Step Into College” AT&T to…Continued
International Literacy Day will be celebrated Monday, September 9th. This special day focuses attention on worldwide literacy needs. According to the International Reading Association, more than 774 million of the world’s adults (nearly two-thirds of whom are women) do not know how to read or write, and roughly 123 million children lack those same skills, and are…Continued
READ ON Arizona is a state-wide movement whose mission is to create an effective continuum of services to improve language and literacy outcomes for Arizona’s children from birth through age eight over the next ten years, including helping to create an early literacy system that delivers the right program at the right time for every child. Over…Continued
2013 brings changes to A Stepping Stone. In this post, I’d like to say goodbye to Lead Teacher Fran Smith and Assistant Teacher, Veronica Dozal. In photo to the LEFT: Saying Goodbye. Two of our best move on to new things. Pictured from left top; Veronica Dozal, Fran Smith with Past President, Bev Carroll. Lead…Continued
Director’s Fund Phoenix IDA-City of Phoenix Agency award check presentation, Feb 20th. Left to Right, Sal Rivera of Rivera and Rivera Law Practice; Bianca Ortega, former Stepping Stone preschooler; Cindy Gattorna, Stepping Stone Executive Director; and IDA-City of Phoenix Executive Director, Juan Salgado.
We are so very grateful to you and all our AZ Givers for donating to our children and their families through Arizona Gives Day on Wednesday of this week. As of the writing of this letter, we are in the running for prize money. If that is figured into what you, our amazing donors have…Continued