the success of a child starts with dedication to early childhood learning.
It all starts with talking to your baby! Parents are a child’s first teachers, and children thrive best when they have parents, family, and other adults who lovingly interact with them.
When you talk, read, and sing to your babies and toddlers, you build their brains and help them learn everything from creativity and problem solving to spatial reasoning and self-discipline.
Kids who hear more words are more likely to do well in school, earn higher incomes, and be prepared to learn and achieve their goals.
Preschool provides the foundational academic and social skills that kids need in school. And the effects last.
Many students are behind before they even start school, and they may never catch up. Kids from tough circumstances—including children growing up in poverty or children whose families don’t speak English—are especially likely to be unprepared for kindergarten and first grade. Because most brain development occurs early in life, the earlier we help these children, the more effective that help will be.
