“That’s Me. That’s My Story” Every-other year or so, A Stepping Stone Foundation teachers show a video. It’s a story about journeying to the United States as an immigrant and seeking a better life. At the end of the video this spring, Lead Teacher Fran Smith asked the parents if any of them had anything…Continued
Check this paper out delivered by East Coast Economist, James J. Heckman from the Department of Economics at The University of Chicago. Although we know the current hype centers around President Obama’s focus – it does not lessen the importance of the message. Read Now
Dear Readers, Please check out this new website and the video on its home page (scroll down a bit to find it). Yet another clarion call for action to provide high quality resources for our youngest–which A Stepping Stone has been doing for the past 22 years! Please watch, and let me know what you…Continued
I recently received a link to a new TED talk by PhD Economist, Dr. Timothy Bartik. Thanks to former Board President Judge Maurice Portley for sending the link to me. I had not yet seen this particular and powerful argument for funding programs like ours. Please click on the following link to watch this 16 minute…Continued
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
We are so grateful to Eagle Scout Candidate Scott Poulsen for taking the time to organize an ASU-branded T-Shirt project. A Stepping Stone Foundation was just one among many beneficiaries that received these refurbished T-shirts. What a great time we had saying, “I want to go to College” instead of the old stand-by “CHEEEEEESE”. Thank you…Continued
Dear Supporters, We have been publishing thank you letters from our families this week, especially thanking you for the Christmas Angel gifts. I will post one a day until Christmas. (Translated from Spanish) We, the Hernandez Avila Family, wish to acknowledge with heartfelt sincerity what you did for our children Jeymi and Valeria. We…Continued
Dear Supporters, We have been publishing thank you letters from our families this week, especially thanking you for the Christmas Angel gifts. I will post one a day until Christmas. Please enjoy this latest thank you from one of our parents of a four-year-old preschooler enrolled at our Westwood Teaching site.
Dear Supporters, Our Program Director, Paultette, handed me a large envelope full of thank yous to you all, especially thanking you for the Christmas Angel gifts. I will post one a day until Christmas. This first thank you comes to us on a notebook paper which had been neatly folded into a small square with…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