A streamlined version of the Deluxe
Born Learning Academy, the Basic version provides all the same essential
resources, minus the extra take-home tools for parents. The Basic is perfect
for groups expecting smaller class sizes or preferring to be more selective
with the free tools provided to parents.
What parents and families do in the first few years really matters for a
child’s future. The new United Way Born Learning Academy helps families learn
the hands-on skills they need to help their child succeed in school, work and
life. It harnesses all of Born Learning’s researched-based content and delivers
knowledge to new parents and caregivers in a classroom setting.
Through a series of six workshops held in local schools, the Born Learning
Academy provides families and caregivers with practical, user-friendly ideas to
turn everyday activities into learning moments. The Born Learning Academy can
do more than strengthen your community’s school readiness efforts—it can also
help your school partners engage families before kids start kindergarten.
Founded on an evidence-based curriculum established by early childhood faculty
at Northern Kentucky University, the workshops are led by trained professionals
—usually teachers, principals or other education staff—and focus on the
following topics:
Building Relationships
Building Your Child’s Language
Skills
Nutrition and Health
How Children Learn Routines
Learning on the Go
Academy workshops offer
individualized attention and support to families, including:
- Research-based resources to
take home, which help parents apply their new knowledge
- Opportunities to practice new
skills with their children, and with other parents
- Free, age-appropriate and
activity based childcare
- A nutritious dinner
- A pre- and post-workshop survey to assess new
knowledge
What’s included?
The Born
Learning Academy Basic includes all of the administrative materials, training
aids, marketing materials, and one take-home parent tool for twenty families.
Each academy can be taught by one school location for a period of 3 years.
To view the comprehensive list of what is included in the academy, please see
the image collection.
