EdVenture

EdVenture Children's Museum will launch the Readiness Alignment Project (RAP) to improve early learning and increase family engagement around early literacy and health education in Colleton County. In response to community needs assessments and in close partnership with Colleton County First Steps and Colleton County School District, the museum will coordinate professional learning for 24 educators through a series of classroom enrichment programs and early learning conferences at the museum; quarterly family engagement nights that include dinner, standards-based educational programs for children, and programs for caregivers that cover health, nutrition, and student educational milestones; and inquiry- and standards-based instruction led by the museum's early childhood educators in 12 participating classrooms and at the museum during a spring field study experience. Formal, annual evaluation of RAP will measure each cohort of children's kindergarten readiness as well as an anticipated increase in their caregivers' knowledge of available education and health resources, and an improved relationship with Colleton County Schools.