A Promising Start
Early Learning Series
We offer facilitated early learning series at selected sites (in-person and online), in partnership with preschools, childcare providers, libraries, social service agencies, medical clinics, as well as other professionals who support families with children birth to age five. These sessions are designed to help professionals engage parents and strengthen young children’s early language, math, reading, and writing development at home and in the community. For the strongest foundation, we recommend beginning with The Early Years Matter and More Than Words series.
Foundations Series Part 1: The Early Years Matter (4 Sessions)
Explores how young children develop and learn, and the
essential role parents and caregivers play in shaping early
learning experiences.
Foundations Series Part 2: More Than Words (4 Sessions)
Explores how children develop language from birth to the preschool years through everyday, warm, responsive conversations and interactions with parents and other caring adults, including strategies to support communication and multilingual development.
Math Counts (5 Sessions)
Explores how mathematical and logical thinking begins to
emerge in infants and toddlers through everyday routines, experiences, and play, supported by warm, responsive conversations and interactions with parents and other caring adults.
Math Still Counts (10 Sessions*)
Explores how preschoolers develop nine early math concepts through daily routines, experiences, and play, supported by meaningful conversations and warm interactions with parents
and other caring adults.
*This series may be offered as one 10-session series or two 5-session parts. The final reflection session follows completion of all nine learning sessions.
The Stories We Share (5 Sessions)
Explores how children ages 0–5 develop early reading and storytelling skills through everyday conversations, experiences, playful interactions, and shared book experiences with parents and
other caring adults, while learning simple ways to build a
reading-rich home environment.
From Scribbles to Words (5 Sessions)
Explores how children begin their journey as writers from birth to age five through warm, responsive interactions and experiences that support early meaning-making through language, marks on paper, and early writing, building confidence and helping them see themselves as writers.
If you'd like to learn more about our facilitated early learning series, we invite you to get in touch.
WHAT PARENTS ARE SAYING
"I am excited to implement these strategies with my children to restore our relationship and make it more positive and more educational.”
"I wish it was longer and more sessions - I had such a great time.”
“I enjoyed the warm environment and how much I was learning (and retaining!) from class to class."
“I would definitely recommend this course to other parents. There is so much information that parents may already have an idea about, but with this course you gain more knowledge and understanding.”
“I enjoyed these sessions. I learned a lot about my children’s development and their needs. I also learned things about myself."
"It allowed me some new insights on just to how to be a little bit more understanding or open minded to my child as he grows and learns and explores new things in life."
A Promising Start is an early learning series and professional training resource designed to support young children’s early language, math, reading, and writing development at home. Grounded in child development science, this resource equips professionals who work with families to more deeply engage parents in their child’s learning journey and strengthen the foundations for school readiness and lifelong learning. The series is currently under publisher review.