Early Learning Coalition of Manatee

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“Board members sign a conflict of interest policy once a year.”

“Evaluations performed by the board of directors.”

“Organization's documents available upon public request.”

“To provide and coordinate the services of school readiness programs, in an efficient manner, in order to help all children develop the skills needed to achieve future education success, to support the role of parents as their child's first and most important teacher and to continue to improve the quality of services available in the community.”

“Comprehensive consumer education coalition staff conduct one-on-one education in the office, provide literature in the lobby, and participate in many community events such as day of hope, safe kids night, and back-to-school celebrations at title one elementary schools. The coalition's fleet, consisting of the mobile learning lab, the dream machine, and the elc explorer are utilized at these community events to distribute high-quality children's books, promote the school readiness and voluntary prekindergarten programs, as well as to educate the public about the early learning coalition's role as a community partner. The coalition also maintains consumer education on its website. For example, the child care resource and referral page contains valuable links to school readiness and parent education documents, such as the family guide for selecting quality child care and quality checklist. The elc continues to publish its seasonal family magazine, nextgen. This publication is distributed to all manatee county contracted childcare programs and elementary school children and provides a variety of informative articles on child and family-related topics. Nextgen also includes a directory of all legally operating childcare providers in manatee county. In addition, over 45,000 high quality children's books were shared with the community. Early learning professional development and technical assistance: the elc provided 78 professional development sessions on 41 individual topics with 1,744 student contacts, and 241.6 training hours. Topic included language and literacy, inclusion, mathematics, steam, behavioral management, social and emotional development, nutrition, and first aid and cpr. Additionally, the elc provider coaching and technical assistance to 2,506 teachers totaling 1,073 technical or coaching hours, and 789 sessions provided in childcare centers across manatee county. Early learning classroom quality enhancement programs: the early learning coalition of manatee county brings educational continuity and activities related to early learning standards to neighborhoods around the county through our fleet-based programs. These programs serve children of all abilities ages 3 to vpk in childcare centers around manatee county in transformed school buses. Frame their learning is a teaching system specifically designed to help teachers improve their performance and raise their class? Instructional support scores. The tools provided help teachers ask more thought-provoking questions and improve their exchanges with students to spur higher-quality interactions, learning, and retention. Elc combines frame their learning and steam by offering on-site sessions with teachers and then a steam visit with the bus where students explore various hands-on activities such as nature, lights and shadows, and buildings and structures. An average of 56 teachers participated in frame their learning from 38 classrooms. Readingpals completed 25-30 weeks of reading with ten classrooms at nine childcare sites for a total of 156 children served. Every child received a book, totaling 3,113 books. With the help of our 92 volunteers, readingpals mentors focused on developing early literacy skills, building relationships and reinforcing the love of reading. Sleep baby safely goal is to equip and educate all people who come into contact with infants to reduce the number of preventable infant deaths due to unsafe sleep environments. The program provides clear consistent messaging in both english and spanish supported by local data and scientifically proven facts. The early learning coalition offers a variety of trainings specific to the audience, with flexible times and locations. 39 childcare provider sites in manatee county have been trained in our sleep baby safely initiative. Nemours reading brightstart is an innovative, supplemental early intervention curriculum specifically created to teach early literacy and foundational reading skills to small groups o”

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