Early Head Start and Head Start are family-centered success and early childhood education programs offered at no cost to expectant mothers and families with children ages birth to 5 years old. Their education program focuses on developing the physical, social, emotional and learning skills that children need to be ready to promote into kindergarten.
Maricopa initially struggled with collecting in-kind for their families who speak a different language from English. Learning Genie’s translation feature combined with
Now, they have passed $2M and in 10 days alone have collected $71,000. the dedication of their teachers, as they met with families, helped them to collect $1M in in-kind in 4 months.
Here is a screenshot of their agency’s family engagement dashboard, where administrators can see which engagement items are resonating well with families, and where to improve.
When the Learning Genie was introduced to me, I was very excited about sharing with the parents what I was teaching to the children on a more personable level. One of the most valuable features that I used was taking photos of the children doing activities and being able to send the pictures electronically to the parents on a daily basis. The parents were very excited each day to receive their email and see what their child had learned. The parents would use information we provided on a daily basis and talk about what they learned at school. This was a great conversation starter. Most children would come home from school and ask their child what they learned at school today and most would say “nothing I just played”. With the daily information I found that the children showed what they learned at school sometimes teaching their parents some things.