Preschool Promise, Inc.

Exciting things happened this past Friday with leaders from across Ohio and the GAR Foundation discussing how local communities are making high-quality early childhood education in their communities a priority. Congratulations to our friends in Akron who are taking the next steps to bring similar initiatives to their community! Let's support them as we strive to ensure every child in Ohio is ready for Kindergarten. ?? #AcrossOhio #EarlyChildhoodEducationMatters #Community

Ayn Swann, a Parent Educator with Preschool Promise's Reaching for Readiness Program presented at the Parents as Teachers National Center Conference last week in San Diego. Ayn shared information on the work of our Parent and Family Voices Committee, a group of 13 dedicated parents and teachers that have spent the last year working to build recommendations for improving access to resources for families with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Congratulations Ayn, on a packed house! #ParentsAsTeachers #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AccessForMore #FamilyResources

Thrilled to have partnered with Omega CDC and Fairview PK-5 for an amazing Family Literacy Night! Families engaged in fun and interactive activities centered around the Science of Reading, working with our incredible Preschool and Kindergarten teachers to talk, read, write, sing, and play. It was a fantastic opportunity to strengthen literacy skills and foster a love for learning at home!?? Of course, no event would be complete without a visit from Power Panda!??? #ScienceOfReading #LearningAtHome #EarlyChildhoodEducators

Our team members Latoria Marcellus and Tennille Love PhD, MBA were learning about how to better support the early childhood workforce at the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research & Policy Symposium yesterday in Columbus. Early Childhood Educators deserve better pay and more respect in their field for the critically important work they do every day! #EarlyChildhoodEducationAdvocacy #WorkforceBehindTheWorkforce

Congratulations to our colleague Mary Wagner, PhD, of the University of Dayton for receiving the Research Award and to Shannon Jones of Groundwork Ohio for receiving the Policy Award at today's Crane Center for Early Childhood Research & Policy Symposium on Strengthening the Early Childhood Workforce. We are incredibly lucky to work closely with both of these amazingly talented leaders who are advancing our early childhood work locally and across the state of Ohio. #EarlyChildhoodEducationMatters #CraneCenter

Miss Dynasty at Inspire Me Learning Academy is reading our September Book-of-the-Month to her students. ?? Before reading the book, each student shared their favorite thing to do at school. Among the many excited shares included playing with Legos, painting and eating cookies for snack! ?? #DialogicReading #EarlyLearning

On Thursday, we hosted a showing of Never Whisper Justice film, Black Girls, engaging over 100 of our dedicated teachers and administrators. Thank you to The NEON for providing a space for these vital conversations about equity. We will be sharing this film again on October 19th and will look to add additional screening dates in the coming months. #EquityInEducation #CriticalCoversations

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) at Preschool Promise, Inc. are in full swing! Our amazing facilitators, Jacquel Harper and Shannon Karr, M.Ed, lead discussions on how the classroom environment shapes student success. Teachers worked together to organize learning materials by interest areas and shared strategies to enhance arts, literacy, math, social studies, technology, and science. #FirstFiveYears #CollaborativeLearning #EarlyEducation

Did you know? Every month our friends at Dayton Metro Library add our Book-of-the-Month to their Dial-A-Story program. Just Call 937-250-7500, and press 4 to have this month's story, "If You Take A Mouse To School" read aloud. (Para Espanol, Oprima el Cinco)

We had an amazing time at the Passport to Kindergarten Kickoff Carnival, generously funded by PNC, at Dayton Metro Library. Preschoolers and their families enjoyed engaging in activities with our wonderful program partners from The Dayton Art Institute, Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, The Muse Machine and Five Rivers MetroParks. A big thank you to Dayton Metro Library staff at PNC volunteers for making this event such a success! And lastly, a special shoutout to Cosmo for bringing all the cheer and hugs.?? #PassporttoKindergarten #KindergartenReadiness