On August 25th, in cooperation with Miami Unified School District and First Things First-Gila Council, and funded by Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation, A Stepping Stone Foundation opened an expansion preschool and family literacy program in Miami, Arizona. Please enjoy this excerpt from Superintendent of Miami Unified School District about our expansion written just yesterday:…Continued
Required, high-frequency parent involvement is one thing that sets us apart from other early childhood programs for disadvantaged children. Please read this post from Head Start’s daily e-letter. FROM EXCHANGE EVERYDAY Effective Parent Involvement September 18, 2014 I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein “Around the world, parents have…Continued
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
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
Of course early childhood development is in the new…whether you wish to fund publicly or privately or all of the above, high quality programs are a great investment for any community. See: Why Early Childhood?
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
Please take a look at the National Center for Family Literacy’s fact sheet for Media. Excellent food for thought. Remember; “They Talk About it; WE DO IT!” http://www.famlit.org/media-resources/statistics/
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. Here is our latest, again from the four-year-old families. Monday and Christmas, I’ll have one from the three-year-old room. The beautiful card below…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.