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At-Home Program Offers Summer Classes For New Hampshire Pre-K Students
Parents, children have access to Waterford Upstart Summer Learning Path from June to August this year, in 2023 via NH education department.
CONCORD, NH — The state education department is using federal grants to assist parents in enrolling in online, personalized learning for pre-kindergarten children.
The Waterford Upstart Summer Learning Path runs from June to August for 4-year-olds. The New Hampshire Department of Education is using federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds to provide children with free access to the program. By enrolling and participating in short classes during the summer and fall, students will be ready for kindergarten and should be reading close to first-grade level.
Waterford Upstart is an at-home, pre-K learning program providing “positive, parent-child interactions while delivering personalized, online instruction,” according to state officials. Students will engage with the curriculum for 20 minutes a day, five days a week. During a fall program, the students can use the nonprofit’s software 15 minutes a day, five days a week.
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“Children beginning school on par with their peers have better educational outcomes and better life outcomes,” Kim Fischer, the national spokesperson for Waterford.org, said. “That is our goal.”
The education department is using the funds to provide Waterford Upstart to children this year and next.
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The org’s mission is to “achieve universal literacy for children through equity, access, and parent empowerment” by using “educational tools that guide students along adaptive, individualized learning paths toward fluent reading and lifelong learning.” Waterford “empowers parents as a child’s first teacher and supports teachers in taking the right actions at the right time for their students.” About 300,000 students in more than 40 states each year participate in the organization’s programs.
New Hampshire families with a child entering kindergarten in the fall of 2022 or the fall of 2023 can register by calling 1-888-982-9898 or visiting Waterford.org/summer or WaterfordUpstart.org.
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