Atlanta Civic Site: Education Achievement
The Atlanta Civic Site is employing a Birth through Third Grade Strategy, incorporating multiple evidence-based programs for vulnerable families with young children. These programs seek to ensure that children are healthy, thriving socially and emotionally, and developing on track to achieve academic success by the third grade. We also help their families become their child’s best advocate.
Working with Parents to Increase Educational Achievement
We are working closely with parents to increase their children’s educational achievement through a variety of programs and strategies that provide NPU-V parents with the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to help their children develop on track and advance successfully through school.
A Birth through Third Grade Learning Strategy
In 2010, we launched a Birth through Third Grade Strategy in NPU-V’s Dunbar Learning Complex, which includes Dunbar Elementary School, a K through Grade 5 school, and the Early Learning and Literacy Resource Center (ELLRC). Parents enrolled at The Center for Working Families, Inc. are given priority for subsidized early education and care at the ELLRC through the
Sheltering Arms Early Education & Family Centers. Educators at the ELLRC are providing high-quality, affordable early education and care for children ages six weeks to five years in alignment with the elementary school curricula.
This seamless continuum of programs is designed to coordinate and align standards, curriculum, assessment, and instruction from Pre-K to Grade 3, increasing their effectiveness and leading to improved academic achievement for all children in the Dunbar Learning Complex.
This effort, implemented through the work of community partners, is intended to serve as a model for other early learning efforts, thereby strengthening the ability of vulnerable children to learn and achieve across the entire Atlanta Public School System.
Watch a video about the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students (GEEARS).
Brochure
Download the full brochure: Atlanta Civic Site: Creating Life-Changing Pathways for Families