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Providing equal education opportunities to young children contributes to breaking the cycle of poverty

Early Childhood Education Philosophy and Approach

As part of Jumpstart’s mission to ensure children enter kindergarten prepared to succeed, members work to provide high-quality services to children through Jumpstart classroom service and planning. Jumpstart provides members with the training, coaching, and support to ensure that all of Jumpstart’s activities provide children with high-quality, developmentally appropriate experiences and supportive interactions with well-trained adults. Jumpstart programming supports the success of all children by:

• Embracing a culturally competent approach to curriculum implementation that values diversity and children’s unique strengths, language backgrounds, and cultures.
• Utilizing developmentally appropriate practice, including facilitating intentional powerful interaction and positive guidance strategies.
• Engaging children in playful learning experiences with an emphasis on valuing children’s emotions, voices, and perspectives.
• Holding all children to high expectations while striking a balance of adult-led and child-initiated learning.
• Supporting children’s development of oral language and social-emotional skills in an inclusive environment where children feel safe, valued, respected, seen, and heard.

As a result of the additional support they receive, Jumpstart children:

• Make 1.5X greater gains in literacy skills than non-Jumpstart children
• Are 2X more likely to score high for social-emotional skills

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