Recently, the staff at the Beverly Children's Learning Center completed an intensive training seminar focused on teaching literacy and math to children ages 3- to 5-years old.
The seminar and training exists due a $71,000, three-year grant donated to the Massachusetts' town school system from the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation. The grant's purpose was to implement a new, enriching curriculum for these young students, referred to as the Creative Curriculum for Pre-School.
"These are exciting times at the Beverly Children’s Learning Center," said Trudy Dougherty-Hall, the center's executive director. "We were accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children a year ago. Now, we are launching new literacy and math curricula for our pre-schoolers that will prepare them for academic success in kindergarten and beyond."
Hall relayed the Creative Curriculum for Pre-School offers a comprehensive child assessment system. Previous results have shown positive outcomes for children taking part in the curriculum.
Other than implementing new curriculum programs, schools receiving grants nationwide have begun upgrading their technology, adopting items, such as interactive whiteboards, media centers and classroom projectors.
Like the Beverly Children's Learning Center, the Junior Achievement of the Heartland received a grant to begin a new curriculum program, which will focus on furthering economics education for high school students.
