Artishia Hunter, Senior Education Associate at BPI, recently had the pleasure of interviewing an educator and a parent in the Altgeld-Riverdale community. While equity in education was the focus of our interviews, these individuals also speak to how families are…
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This post is the second in our series of highlights from BPI’s 50th Anniversary Report and highlights the expansion of trauma support services to Pre-K and Kindergarten students in the Altgeld-Riverdale community, part of an ongoing partnership between BPI and…
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For over four years, BPI, in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE), has supported a community-wide approach to strengthening children’s transition from Pre-K to Kindergarten via the Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten Transitions Project (PKTP). Not only does the program…
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Now entering its third year of implementation, the Altgeld-Riverdale Early Learning Initiative’s Pre-K to Kindergarten Transitions Program is designed to help young children in the Altgeld-Riverdale community acquire the academic and social/emotional skills necessary to enter kindergarten feeling confident and…
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As the new school year gets underway, the Altgeld-Riverdale Early Learning Coalition will be taking a closer look at how traumatic experiences affect children, and what it means to become “trauma-informed.” Exposure to just a single incident of trauma can…
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