When Families Play and Learn Together, Children Thrive!
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Engaging families - learning together!
Our products - backed by research and evidence!
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Cardstock Game with Book
Ages 3-6 Family Engagement game with book. English and Spanish/English!
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Getting Ready for PreK / K
Game for School Readiness! Prepare Families and Learners for School Success! Available in English and Spanish/English.
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Durable Fabric Literacy Kits
Durable, washable Family Engagement kits for home activities in English and Spanish! Also used as classroom resources.
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Literacy Book Sets
Multi-lingual photo based, soft cover, colorful books for early childhood learning support vocabulary growth.
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Family Engagement Solution Packs
Monthly solutions for Family Engagement professionals to send home. For ages 3 and 4. English and Spanish/English
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Door Hangers Standard or Custom
Let families know you stopped by. Missed connections can still build positive relationships. Let them know you care in their language!
Services
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Learn more about proper Family Engagement strategies at our YouTube channel. YouTube
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Invite Bev to present at your program!
Help your staff strengthen their skills to work with parents. Majority of trainings are customized to the needs of specific programs.
Staff Development Workshops Topics Available Include but not limited to:
Engaging Parents; An Investment that Pays – educators need to invite parents to take an active role in supporting their youngsters learning. This session will explore strategies that are effective in engaging families to support learning at home
Book-Making- Build Family and Early Literacy Skills by Creating Books – This hands-on session introduces many different approaches for creating books that have the potential of inviting authors to utilize their developing literacy skills
A Menu for Successful Parent and Family Involvement – Concepts and practice summary of booklet published in 2003 by Southern Early Childhood Association
Strengthening Connections With Parents – An overview of parent involvement practices
Communication 101 – Building stronger communication networks with parents
Learning Continues at Home – Guiding staff to support learning at home
Junk A Teachers Treasures – Making teaching tools from low cost and discarded resources
Parent or Partner What is the Difference? – You R—strategies for partnerships
Fun With Paints, Low Cost Learning with Paper Plates, Movement Fun With a Purpose, ….
Let’s discuss what topic offerings would benefit your program. Define your needs for a customized presentation or Bev Schumacher is also available for Parent Workshops and Consultation Sessions with your Parent Involvement Staff or Team.
Workshop fee, travel costs and material cost required
To schedule Bev Schumacher for one of her staff development sessions:
Contact Vicki Robinson
830.875.0330 / 877.776.7750
or
Vicki@lonestareducation.org
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Please contact me at vicki@lonestareducation.org for content and pricing.
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We can put your logo on nearly everything we do and contact information. We can also work on different language options upon request. Email us.
TESTIMONIALS
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“I LOVE your bilingual learning games; the kids & parents love them too!”
Elementary Spanish Teacher, Michigan
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“Learning Props kits give families fun, portable, easy tools to get kids ready for school in a developmentally-appropriate way.”
National Early Childhood Trainer and Consultant; Covington, Kentucky
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"We do have multiple sets of the Learning Props games and I think that they are wonderful. The fact that everything is self-contained in a washable zipper bag is ingenious. I also love that all the resources to help with managing check out and return are included. We are using Learning Prop games as a Title III Family Engagement activity. During this time of COVID-19 challenges and concerns, being able to send the games home helps us to meet that requirement.”
Kathleen Witte, Director of F.A.C.E. and El’s, at Quinlan ISD
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Our life’s work!
Learning Props was born out of Bev Schumacher’s work experience as a Parent Engagement Coordinator. What she saw was that parents wanted to be more engaged but needed a resources and ideas to guide them. Games and accompanying books were created to teach families in an simple, engaging manner. Thus was born Learning Props. Lone Star was born after 25 years spent working with early childhood literacy experts. What we both saw and all experts agree on.
“When children and their parents talk, learn and play together - everyone wins!”
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