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Quality Early Learning: Partnerships Make the Difference

Quality Early Learning: Partnerships Make the Difference. Rey Madrigal, Superintendent Harlandale ISD. PK: OFF TO A GOOD START. PK: OFF TO A GOOD START. PK: OFF TO A GOOD START. PK: OFF TO A GOOD START. Partnerships Make the Difference: It takes a committed city to raise a child.

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Quality Early Learning: Partnerships Make the Difference

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  1. Quality Early Learning:Partnerships Make the Difference Rey Madrigal, Superintendent Harlandale ISD

  2. PK: OFF TO A GOOD START

  3. PK: OFF TO A GOOD START

  4. PK: OFF TO A GOOD START

  5. PK: OFF TO A GOOD START

  6. Partnerships Make the Difference:It takes a committed city to raise a child • Avance, San Antonio & Harlandale ISD: • 9 Month Parent Empowerment Program • Early Head Start Home-based Program • Head Start School-based Program • Early On: Family, Friends, & Neighbors

  7. HEB: Corporate Partner • Annual Recognition and Promoting of • Quality Early Education Programs: 2012 First Texas Award: AVANCE, San Antonio • Recognizing and Supporting Parents as their Child’s First Teacher: • Read 3 Program • Store Literacy Centers

  8. City of San Antonio: Civic Partner • Providing Head Start Services City-wide • Initiating the P16 Plus Council: PK-3 sub-committee – a collaboration of nonprofit agencies, school districts, corporate partners, and City services to improve the quality of life for San Antonio’s youngest citizens

  9. Empowering Parents: Our Most Important Partners • Benefits: • higher academic performance lower drop out rates, increased post-secondary enrollment, higher self-esteem, improved behavior, higher attendance in school, greater avoidance of high-risk behavior in adolescence.

  10. Parent Engagement • “ If we all believe it’s appropriate for parents to be engaged in their children’s schooling, we might have very different ideas about the forms in which that engagement should occur, which would then lead to a differing role construction, a different set of skills parents would need to feel efficacious and to fulfill this role”. - Keith Catone

  11. Our Challenge How do we engage parents in meaningful ways? How do we empower all parents to be confident and effective first teachers of their children?

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