Thus, Collaborative has partnered with United for Brownsville, an organization that improves services and outcomes for infants and toddlers in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to create Discover Together: Brownsville. Because much of the work in Grundy County was personalized to the local community, Baicker said, the collaborative wants to test this approach in different regions. Now that the new partnership is formalized, the center and Scholastic are looking to take this work to other areas.
Both organizations partnered in conceiving and adapting the methodology of the pilot, she added.
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In Discover Together, the Child Study Center brought its expertise on implementation science and participatory research, with knowledge of how to plan and execute studies and how to measure impact and outcome, according to Smith.īaicker explained that Scholastic provided curriculum and literacy materials. Specifically, children read the book “Diary of a Worm” by Doreen Cronin in reference to a prominent worm farm in Grundy County.
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This initiative is a series of programs that includes a summer camp, a family co-op and a customized curriculum to “make children see, value and feel connection to their community” and “make those connections between text and place,” Smith said.įor instance, the program used books that incorporated places in the community. The center and Scholastic have been working together since 2012 with local partners in Grundy County, Tennessee to create an intervention called Discover Together, according to Baicker. For parents, it allows them to bond with their children,” Smith said.
It connects you to your community, and, for children, connects them to schools. For example, she said, the lack of social relationships is a mortality risk factor that outweighs traditional risk factors such as obesity and smoking. Social connectiveness and health are critically linked, explained Megan Smith, the director of the parent and family development program at the center. As a literacy company, we were looking to see if literacy could be used to form that social connectiveness in children, parents and communities.” “We knew that the strongest predictor of resilience in people facing adverse circumstances is social connectiveness and social support. “We set out to answer the shared research question: ‘Can literacy be used to build resilience?’” said Karen Baicker, the publisher for family and community engagement at Scholastic. An official launch event was held this Tuesday at the Scholastic Headquarters in New York City. The Collaborative, which was a nnounced in December, aims to “advance research, promote social-emotional learning, improve teaching strategies and contribute to the creation of resources and programs to build resilience,” according to the mission statement on its website. The Yale Child Study Center has created a formal partnership with Scholastic to study how literacy can build resilience in children and families.
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