Five from Thrive E-Newsetter Archive

• THRIVE BY FIVE WASHINGTON BOARD OF DIECTORS ELECTS NEW MEMBERS: Four New Members Welcomed
• LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: Early Learning Fares Well As Challenging Budget Session Winds Down
• "LOVE. TALK. PLAY." CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF: "Tiny Tot Rock...and More" event launches new "Love. Talk. Play." campaign for parents of early learners
• 3rd ANUAL STARTING STRONG INSTITUTE: Early Learning and K-12 to Convene in Spokane
• BIRTH TO THRIVE ONLINE: Have you heard the latest?

• THRIVE BOARD SOON TO WELCOME NEW MEMBER: Sen. Steve Litzow to be named to Thrive by Five Washington Board of Directors
• HOME VISITING: Thrive's Nancy Gagliano Speaks at National Summit on Quality in Home Visiting Programs 
  
• LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE: Focus and support remains strong in challenging budget environment 
  
• STRENGTHENING EARLY LEARNING IN WASHINGTON
  
  • First Joint Meeting of Early Learning Coalitions and Infant Toddler Regions
  • 2010 Culture of Literacy Efforts Show Progress
   
• BIRTH TO THRIVE ONLINE: Have you heard the latest?

• LEGISLATIVE SESSION
• Tough Legislative Session Now Under Way
• What we're sharing with legislators
• HAPPENING AT THRIVE: New Year, New Board Members, New Energy
• EARLY LEARNING COALITIONS: Quarterly Stateside Gathering for Early Learning Coalitions to be Held Feb. 7
• ONE YEAR ACTION PLAN FOR THRIVE, DEL & OSPI: Early Learning Joint Resolution Partnership to focus on 11 key strategies in 2011
• BIRTH TO THRIVE ONLINE: Have you heard the latest?

• HOME VISITING SERVICES ACCOUNT
• First grants awarded! Four programs share $355,000 to support families with young children.
• Thrive's HVSA manager, NAncy Gagliano, presents at Idaho's Early Year's Conference
• 2011 LEGISLATIVE SESSION: Tough Times. Tough Decisions.
• THRIVE DEMONSTRATION COMMUNITIES: New Briefs Capture Lessons Learned
• EARLY LEARNING COALITIONS: Connecting and creating momentum
• SHOPPING FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Support Thrive while you shop!

• EARLY LEARNING COALITIONS: Thrive awards $200,000 in Community Momentum grants
• HOME VISITING SERVICES ACCOUNT: Public and private dollars leveraged to expand proven programs
• BRAIN SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM: Scientific research, policy opportunities and innovative practices in early childhood development explored
• BIRTH TO THRIVE ONLINE: Have you heard the latest?
• SHOPPING FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Support Thrive while you shop!

• WaKIDS: Helping Kindergartners Get Off to a Great Start
• EARLY LEARNING COALITIONS: Collaborating and Connecting
• SEEDS TO SUCCESS: New Study Finds Targeted Grants and Professional Coaching Raise Quality of Child Care
• LEARNING FOR LIFE
• Conclusion of series
• Primetime Special: "How Babies Searn"
• September's Weekly Segments
  • State Releases 10-Year Plan for Early Learning
  • Helping Kids Successfully Transition to Kindergarten
  • Play & Learn Time for Migrant Families
  • Helping Kindergartners Get a Great Start in School
• BIRTH TO THRIVE ONLINE: Recent Highlights

• EARLY LEARNING PLAN: State Releases 10-Year Plan for Early Learning
• KINDERGARTEN TRANSITION PROGRAM: Beverly Park Elementary gets kindergartenders ready for their first big day
• THRIVE DEMONSTRATION COMMUNITY AWARDED GRANT: Ready by Five receives support from U.S. Education Department
• LEARNING FOR LIFE: During the month of August, Learning for Life (and Thrive’s daily blog – Birth to Thrive Online) looked at how children with special needs and their families fit in early learning.
  • Early Learning and Children with Special Needs
  • Keeping Up with the Cost of Helping Children with Special Needs
  • When a Child has Special Needs: One Family's Story
  • Autism: What You Need to Know

• QUALITY COUNTS
• Seeds to Success: Study Finds Provider Coaching and Grants Improve Quality of Child Care Programs
• Kindergarten Assessment Process: Schools Chosen for WaKids Pilot
• New Risk Assessment Tool for Home Visiting Now Available
• STATEWIDE EARLY LEARNING PLAN
  • Public Input Period Closed; Lead Organizations Release Draft of Priorities for Next Three Years
• UPCOMING EVENT
• Register Now: 2010 Starting Strong Institutes
• LEARNING FOR LIFE
• Outreach Doulas Supporting Latina, Somali Mothers
• Giving Dads Another Chance to be Dads
• Using dance to help children's development
• Young Children and Divorce
• Children and Sugar

• GROUND BREAKING RESEARCH EFFORT LAUNCHED: Looking inside babies brains
• EARLY LEARNING COALITIONS
• Talaris Institute partners with Thrive to benefit early learning coalitions
• Statewide Family Literacy Project Going Strong
• STATEWIDE EARLY LEARNING PLAN: Statewide Outreach for Draft Early Learning Plan Concludes in June
• LEARNING FOR LIFE
• Engaging moms to fight for family issues
• Raising an Adventurous Eater
• Helping Children Who've Been Expelled from Preschool
• Looking into the Baby Brain
• UPCOMING EVENTS
• The Conference on Early Learning at the UW
• Through the Eyes of a Child

• STATEWIDE MEETING: "It's All About Relationships!"
• EARLY LEARNING COALITIONS: Literacy and Learning - Fun for the Whole Family!
• THRIVE WELCOMES NEW DEPUTY DIRECTOR: Introducing Sangree Froelicher
• LEARNING FOR LIFE: Postpartum Depression: What It Means for Mom and Baby; Teaching Languages to Young Children; Interview with Founder of Sponge Language School
• REFOCUSING: Let us know what you think!

• BIG NEWS: Educare Early Learning Center Celebrates with GRand Opening; Governor Signs Early Learning Bills
• 13 SCHOOL DISTRICTS AWARDED EARLY LEARNING GRANTS: Support Awarded to Strenthen Local Preschool-3^rd Grade Partnerships
• STATEWIDE EARLY LEARNING PLAN: Let us know what you think!
• LEARNING FOR LIFE: Child Life Specialists; Managing Childhood Food Allergies; Parent Ambassador Program; Educare Early Learning Center's Grand Opening; BLOCKFest
• CHAMPIONS IN ACTION: Family Literacy Project to Launch During the Week of the Young Child

• THRIVE IN ACTION: Thrive Invests $350,000 to Support a "Culture of Literacy"
• LEARNING FOR LIFE: The Toddler
  • KEY DATES & EXCITING EVENTS: Statewide Early Learning Plan: Feedback Deadline Extended; Meetings Now Under Way for Seattle Youth & Families Initiative; Join Thrive and Department of Early Learning Leaders for a Discussion After Foundation for Early Learning Luncheon
• CHAMPIONS IN ACTION: Highlights from Early Learning Coalition
• PARTNER RESOURCES: Grant Allows Children’s Home Society of Washington to Expand Early Head Start; Enrollment Period for Guaranteed Education Tuition Program Closes Soon

• Business Leaders Breakfast
• Partner Resources featuring Cornerstone Classrooms at Wellspring Family Services, and Circle of Security Parenting Seminar
• Learning for Life - Primetime special Learning for Life: The Path to Better Early Education, and January's monthly series Learning for Life: Five Things Every Parent Should Know About
• Thrive's Web site - A New Year, A New Look
• Champions in Action - Highlights from Early Learning Coalitions

• Statewide Early Learning Plan - First Draft Delivered to Governor
• Thrive's Nurturing Familis Initiative Gets National Interest, Training Support
• Keeping a Balance with your Child's TV and Media Viewing
• Learning for LIfe: Gifts to Last a Lifetime & Information and Rsources for Early Learning Champions
• Thrive Welcomes New Director of Fund Development, Madelaine Thompson
  

• Draft Statewide Early Learning Plan Documents Now Ready for First Round of Public Input
• Stand Up for Kids, Tell it Like it Is
• Early Learning in Action - Spotlight on The Partnership for Children & Families, News from Chelan and Douglas Counties
• Input Sought on Updates to Early Learning Benchmarks
• Learning for Life:Nurturing Children's Creativity

• Thrive Awards $200,000 to 10 Early Learning Coalitions
• East Yakima Kindergarten Transition Program: A Better Start to School
• More Communities Added to Help Test State's Quality Rating and Improvement System
• Support Thrive While You Shop!
• Did You See It? Thrive by Five Washington and KING 5 TV's air Primetime Special; new Public Service Announcement
• Learning for Life: Social and Emotional Development

• Thrive Demonstration Communities Get $8 Million Boost for Year Two
• Don't Miss Primetime Special on School Readiness
• Learning for Life: Preschool (August 24-28)
• Joint Effort Launched to Benefit Children Birth to Age 8

• Snohomish Born Learning Trail Featured on KING TV's Evening Magazine; New Trail Coming Soon
• Mark Your Calendar! Primetime Special on School Readiness to Air August 30
• Play and Learn Comes to Wenatchee-area Migrant Worker Camp
• Learning for Life - Baby: The First Year

• With Heartfelt Thanks
• National First Five Years Fund Produces Video, Runs Campaign in Washington State to Help Influence Federal Budget
• Learning for Life
• Save the Date

• Ready, Set, Grow: A KCTS 9 Kids & Family Presentation
• Bezos Family Foundation Announces Endowed Chair for Early Learning
• Naval Avenue Trail Gets Kids Moving

• Week of the Young Child 2009
• Thrive Welcomes New Director of Early Learning Initiatives
• National Report Shows States Made Progress in Providing Quality Early Learning in 2007-08
• Doula Graduation
• Latest News from Thrive Demonstration Communities

• Learning for Life March 2009: The Economy and Families
• Thrive Presents at National Conference of State Legislatures' National Education Seminar
• National Expert on Trauma and Child Development Speaks to LegislatureFebruary 2009 (PDF|0.13 MB)
  

• New Learning for Life News Series to Put Spotlight on Early Learning Issues
• Bremerton Schools Chief to Lead State Department of Early Learning
• Building Momentum in Olympia for Early Learning

• New Learning for Life News Series to Put Spotlight on Early Learning Issues
• Bremerton Schools Chief to Lead State Department of Early Learning
• Building Momentum in Olympia for Early Learning

• Findings show pilot kindergarten transition program a success
• Karen Tvedt named as DEL interim director
• Research evaluation results now in on Thrive’s reading readiness initiative
• Ethnic and cultural diversity in early childhood education

• Reporters statewide gather to learn more about early learning
• Thrive Demonstration Communities to field test state's suspended quality rating and improvement system
• Governor and state legislature receive report and recommendations for kindergarten readiness assessment process
• Teens learn about early learning while filming family event

• Thrive launches new Web site
• New Thrive publication now available
• K-12 system doing more to help close achievement gap with high-quality early learning

• Meet Thrive's new CEO, Nina Auerbach.
• Educare Learning Center at Greenbridge Breaks Ground.
• Department of Early Learning officially launched Washington state's field test of a quality rating and improvement system, called Seeds to Success.

• Thrive's Culture of Literacy Taskforce meets with national experts to talk about the latest early literacy research and program trends.
• America's Edge benefit luncheon, hosted by United Ways of Washington, focused on sustaining America's competitive edge through quality education – starting with quality early learning for all children.
• The National Governors’ Association Center for Best Practices releases a new report, Partnering with the Private and Philanthropic Sectors: A Governor's Guide to Investing in Early Learning
• What to look for when choosing a childcare facility

• Born Learning Washington's Nurturing Children's Creativity campaign shows the power of play and artistic expression in children's learning
• New Zealand model of early childhood assessment one of many being considered by Washington's early learning community
• Economist Rob Grunewald on assessing the huge returns on investing in early childhood development programs
• At the heart of quality child care centers are quality early learning professionals – A look at some of the Workforce Development efforts happening in our state.
• New series of training podcasts is available from National CASA

• Thrive by Five Washington and the Gates Foundation announce $5 million in initial funding for Ready by Five – a community partnership that will significantly expand early learning services in east Yakima
• Seeds of Compassion was an unprecedented community-focused event in Seattle, highlighting the vision, programs and science of early learning.
• Four states (Hawaii, Mississippi, Florida and Washington) work together toward large-scale systemic change in early learning at the Kellogg Foundation's Learning Lab.
• Provider Appreciation Day recognizes child caregivers, teachers and other educators of young children everywhere.

• KING-5's "Learning to Learn" primetime television special takes a look at the newest science and research of early learning and shares the latest ways for parents to improve their care giving skills.
• The findings of an Opinion Research poll conducted by Thrive reveals most parents and early learning professionals are less aware of children's early learning needs from birth to age 2.
• Read our 2007 Year in Review for a complete overview of what Thrive accomplished last year and what we are working toward in 2008.
• The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation awards $95,000 grant to help fund Culture of Literacy – our joint effort with the Department of Early Learning to support early reading readiness programs

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