I had a rather exciting call from a former Stepping Stone teacher yesterday.  She had received a visit from a former preschooler that was wishing she had more money to go to college.  Enter, or rather RE-enter, A Stepping Stone Foundation.   The teacher called me to be sure this student would qualify for our scholarship and…Continued

FromExchange Every Day (NAEYC newsletter) “If you need a short, credible, to the point case for the importance of early childhood education to share with parents, funders, or other stakeholders, check out “The Science of Early Child Development,” a policy brief from the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University.  This brief shares five…Continued

Do not look first to what we are doing in our schools today that increases the quality of our life.  Look first to where there is a high quality of life that exists in the adult world and ask what was being done one or two generations ago to create this high quality? Then look…Continued

The idea of balance in our curriculum needs to be resurrected. Elliot W. Eisner As an educator, I often am frustrated by the tension between accountability and the space to help young students become a life-long learner.  I DO belive we must assess a student’s progress and adjust our teaching accordingly, but in the grand scheme…Continued

Last Friday (4/27/12), the Morrison Institute for Public Policy released a new report called, “Dropped?” highlighting the fact that Arizona’s economic future is at risk if we continue to fail to address our Latino education attainment levels.  As I listened to the presentations, I couldn’t help pondering what’s next?  Most of us in the room…Continued

Every day is the day of the young child at A Stepping Stone Foundation’s core program model at Westwood Elementary in Phoenix, AZ.  Besides our primary task of giving four-year-old children all the skills they need to read on time, we also provide daily opportunities to learn how to be a good friend and neighbor. …Continued

Preschoolers OR Parents? BOTH! Today, on the NPR site, the following article reports a study initiated by University of Chicago to see if the bigger bang for social investment is in the young child, or that child’s parent(s). A Stepping Stone Foundation has always seen the value of doing both. We have been delivering quality…Continued

Who is the “they”?  Pundits, academics, economists, and newscasters! What is “it”?  Early education for disadvantaged kids. Below is a link to a recent news piece that validates the power and value of what A Stepping Stone Foundation has been doing for 21 years.  You help us do such good work in our community. THANK YOU for…Continued