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School Readiness Programs in Bay Point & Concord
Eligible Schools
Bay Point:
- Bel Air
- Rio Vista
- Shore Acres
Concord:
- Cambridge
- Fair Oaks
- Meadow Homes
- Ygnacio Valley
Amount allocated by State: $830,000 over 4 years.
The following programs are taking place in the Mt. Diablo School District:
- A dual preschool-English tutoring program for children and parents – children attend preschool while their parents learn English in the next room.
- Literacy workshops that help educate parents how to be their child’s first teacher. The award-winning Raising a Reader program, which promotes early literacy and parent-child bonding through their lap-reading and book-lending program will start next month.
- A new cooperative preschool program taught by a kindergarten teacher with help from parents volunteering in the classroom.
- Outreach workers who link parents and caregivers with schools as well as provide information about school readiness and kindergarten transition activities available locally.
- Free kits containing crayons, shapes and colors cards, safety scissors, alphabet and number games, and other high-quality learning materials distributed to parents at kindergarten registration.
- Each school has a “school readiness team” made up of principals, kindergarten teachers, parents, and early care providers to implement local school readiness programs.
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