{"id":4770,"date":"2014-09-30T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2014-10-06T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:02:35","slug":"educare-teaches-new-orleans-preschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/educare-teaches-new-orleans-preschoolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Educare Teaches New Orleans Preschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/170062158&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Educare\u00a0serves at-risk children from birth to five years. Educare Schools embrace a community&#8217;s most vulnerable children with programming and instructional support that develop early skills and nurture the parent-child relationships that create the foundation for successful learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I see this furniture, I can\u2019t help but smile,\u201d says Rafel Hart, the Director of\u00a0Educare New Orleans\u00a0\u2014 which is part of a network of non-profit schools across the United States. The furniture he\u2019s talking about is for the children in one of Educare\u2019s infant toddler classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the children in this classroom range in age from six weeks to 3 years old,\u201d explains Hart. \u201cThat sounds like a wide range for the children, but in actuality, what it does is it mimics what the children might see at home if they have an older or a younger sibling. And it also teaches the children some principles around empathy, and the older children caring for the younger children and the younger children learning from the older children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each infant toddler classroom has eight children and three teachers. Across the hall is a preschool classroom where the children range from 3\u20135 years old. There are 17 of them, and three teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s show Mr. Hart that we know red,\u201d a teacher tells the students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you all know red?\u201d asks Hart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes!\u201d they answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to see if you all know red,\u201d Hart repeats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s sing about red,\u201d a song instructs them, and the children comply. \u201cR-e-d. Red,\u201d they sing. \u201cR-e-d. Red.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hours of operation are 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and the parents can leave the children with the program for as long as they like,\u201d explains Hart. \u201cIt is extremely good for working families \u2014 moms and dads. At its core, this program is a Head Start program. And one of the requirements of the program is that the parents are either in school or working, and so therefore to have your child enrolled in the program you have to have a reason to need child care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that children don\u2019t start learning when they\u2019re 5 years old or when they go to kindergarten. They\u2019re actually learning and developing quite a bit before that. Between the ages of birth to 5, the brain is developing, their socio-emotional abilities are developing. Basically, what\u2019s happening at that time frame \u2014 the early childhood time frame \u2014 is the child\u2019s foundation is being strengthened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny child who lives in Orleans Parish can attend the program. So we have children as coming from as far as Algiers to New Orleans East coming to this program, and we have a very extensive wait list \u2014 250-plus children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which is well over the 150 children Educare New Orleans can enroll in its 12 Head Start classrooms. Hart explains how children are admitted to the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe determination in reference to the children is based on a scoring system. So the parents apply, and they provide us with information based on their socioeconomic status, and then based on the numbers they receive from having completed the application, that determines if they\u2019re going to have a space in the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies in most need are the families that would receive higher priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we do selection, when we determine who is going to be attending the program, we\u2019re always looking at that list and seeing way more children than we have slots for,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The number of children far exceeds the Head\u00a0Start slots we have in the city, and that tells us we really need to divert some attention and finances to shoring up early childhood education in the city of New Orleans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation. To learn more about Educare, click <a title=\"Educare\" href=\"http:\/\/www.educareschools.org\/locations\/neworleans.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educare\u00a0serves at-risk children from birth to five years. 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