Congratulations Head Start for 

50 amazing and impacting years.

• URGENT NEED: Migrant Head Start has families they are not able to serve because they need teachers.  Positions are posted on  www.edjoin.com 

• Lake Family Resource Center is hiring an Executive Director. For information go to www.lakefrc.org or call Michele Meek at 707-279-0563 or michelem@lakefrc.org.

• LCOE is hiring a Healthy Start Director. For information go to  www.edjoin.com  or email Joan Reynolds at jreynolds@lakecoe.org

Program with open slots

May 28th -

Lucerne:  End of Year Celebration  8:00-11:00 a.m.

East Lake Luau potluck 8:10 a.m.

Lower Lake Moving on Party  AM Program 9-9:15 am;  PM Program 1-1:15 pm

Lakeport:  Year End Celebration   AM Program 8:30 am;  PM Program 12:30 pm

Pomo Graduation  AM Program 8:15 a.m.;  PM Program 12:15 pm

Burns Valley Graduation  AM Program 8:30 a.m;  PM Program 12:30 pm

Middletown Graduation  AM Program 8:30 am; PM Program 12:30 pm

The Learning House  Graduation 6:15 pm

Kelseyville Field Day  KV1 & KV2  8:30-10 am;  KV3 12-1:30 pm

Next LPC Meeting -  June 18, 3:30 pm, LCOE Kesey Room

Dark Side of the Full Moon Screening  May 21,  6:30 p.m., Soper Reese Theater, Lakeport  Learn more and register here

Social Security Workshop June 24,   4:30 pm.,  LCOE Kesey Room, 1152 S. Main Street, Lakeport,   Learn more and register here 

Developmentally Appropriate Practice for T/K and Pre-K  August 19 & 20,  Humbolt County Office of Education  Learn more and register here

We are accepting pre-applications for the 2015-2016 program. If you are interesting in applying or want more information fill out the pre-application and we will contact you.

Pre-Application English                   Pre-Application Spanish

Early Childhood and Education Virtually Ignored in Governor's May Budget Revision Despite a $6.7 billion increase in General Fund revenues compared to the January proposed budget, early childhood and education saw only a fraction of increase to its budgets. While the Governor noted that the economy has strengthened and revenues have surged upward, the May Revision reflected spending priorities that failed to make investments in child care. Despite the evidence connecting the significance of early care and education enabling low-income parents to work, the developmental benefits to children that support their success in school, the cost reduction to public safety and remedial support of youth not well prepared, child care remained a mere afterthought in the May Revision.  Read more here

State pre-K programs may have turned a corner in 2013-2014, but progress remains slow. If pre-K is to be made available to even all children under 200 percent of the poverty level within the next 20 years, state investments will have to grow at a much faster pace. At the 2013-2014 growth rate it would take about 75 years for states to reach 50 percent enrollment at age 4 and 150 years to reach 70 percent enrollment. Even a return to the average rate of growth since 2001-2002 would leave the nation 25 years away from enrolling 50 percent of 4-year-olds in state funded pre-K.    Read more here

A recent Migration Policy Institute report notes that children of immigrants make up one-quarter of the children under the age of 6 in the United States. Amaya Garcia and Shayna Cook discuss how this changing population of young children will require the early childhood education and care workforce to develop new linguistic and cultural competencies.

 available in English or Spanish online.

 Click here to order guides for your  program, download PDF or view  online.

 To receive guides for your program    please call Laurie at 262-4162.

What is CLASS, you ask? Find out what it stands for, what it means, where it came from, and how it can make a difference in your teaching. Download the info sheet to learn more.

Is Lake County  eager to spread the word in our own communities about the power of talking, reading, and singing with young children to boost early brain development? Too Small to Fail co-hosted a one-day conference on the word gap with the White House last October, where they committed to producing a guide with information, resources, and tools about how community leaders could launch or enhance word gap campaigns that would meet their specific community needs.  Watch the video below and click this link to learn more.