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  December 13, 2012   
300 home child-care providers and parents will receive training in The Incredible Years

Over the next three years, Ready to Learn will train 300 home child-care providers and parents (in English and Spanish) in The Incredible Years.

 

The Incredible Years is a series of training programs that reduce challenging behaviors in children and increase social skills and self-control. Studies have shown that the programs, which are now used around the world in multiple languages, have turned around the behaviors of up to 80 percent of the children of participating parents and teachers.

 

In January, Ready to Learn facilitators will receive three days of extensive training from staff of the Early Childhood Clinical Research Center at Bradley Hospital. A grant from the RI Department of Health is making this possible.

Once again, it's 5 stars for our Pre-K Classroom
News that we had earned this highly-prized designation was no less exciting the second time around.

After a comprehensive evaluation, BrightStars, the state's quality rating and improvement program, let us know last week that our Pre-Kindergarten Classroom had retained the five-star ranking that it first received in 2010.

Located on the Liston Campus at the Community College of Rhode Island, the classroom - which is part of the state's Pre-K program - serves 18 children from Providence who are chosen by lottery.

Congratulations to the Pre-K teachers, AmeriCorps members, and administrators Christine Chiacu-Forsythe and Bethany Carpenter for achieving this designation and creating such a special place for our Pre-K kids. Shown in the picture above are, l-r: AmeriCorps member Cecilia Benitez, assistant teacher Kerry Roderick, teacher Victoria Botelho, and AmeriCorps member Lizeth Escorcia.

National magazine features Places to Play
Bethany Carpenter
An article highlighting "Places to Play in Providence" - and written by the project's co-facilitators �- appears in the November issue of Young Children, the widely-read monthly publication of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

The article, titled Places to Play in Providence: Valuing Preschool Children as Citizens, can be found here.

 

Bethany Carpenter, R2LP's professional development and education coordinator, co-authored the piece with Ben Mardell from Making Learning Visible, a research group based at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The article traces the process that culminated in the final product, Places to Play in Providence: A Guide to the City by Our Youngest Citizens.  

   


 

 

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A five-star program
National coverage of Places to Play
Meet our AmeriCorps members
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