Dear A Stepping Stone Supporters, This week we have been publishing thank yous from our program parents, especially thanking you for the Christmas Angel gifts. I will post one a day until Christmas. Dec. 13, 2012 We would both like to thank you for the gifts and for all your kind(ness). Thanks again, because if…Continued
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
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
Recently I caught up with former Stepping Stone Board Member, Maritza Rosales. She was kind enough to share this wonderful picture of her new son, Julian. See Julian’s comments below: My mom is Maritza Rosales who attended A Stepping Stone Preschool Class 1990-1991 at Mitchell School in Isaac School District– only she was Maritza Hernandez then.…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
Please enjoy the following video that President Bev Carroll put together earlier this year. It is a montage of children and their parents in the preschool classroom setting. Our parents MUST attend 32 hours of adult education, home visiting, parenting classes and preschool helper duties each month for nine months. If they fall below an…Continued