{"id":25725,"date":"2019-10-31T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=25725"},"modified":"2019-10-31T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:30:25","slug":"clevelands-preschool-programs-revamped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/clevelands-preschool-programs-revamped\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland\u2019s preschool programs successfully revamped in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><b>A city initiative called <a href=\"https:\/\/pre4cle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PRE4CLE<\/a> has been instrumental in improving Cleveland\u2019s preschool programs. Its primary objective level up into a high-quality preschool in Cleveland.\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Previously, Cleveland\u2019s preschool programs were facing various challenges that hindered their optimality.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nFor instance, three (3) years ago, Chalfonte Smith\u2019s childcare center located in north Cleveland, Ohio struggled academically because it couldn\u2019t pay for a curriculum.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These were some of the tales about Cleveland\u2019s preschool programs, but this notion has been changed in just five (5) years as they have been considerably revamped.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Cleveland\u2019s preschool programs restructured through PRE4CLE<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Program officials were mandated through the PRE4CLE with purchasing musical instruments, blocks, science materials, and books as witnessed at Chalfonte Smith\u2019s childcare center.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The curriculum was paid up, and any intensive training costs were underwritten. This enabled teachers to acquire new skills, such as social-emotional learning and assessment of children\u2019s progress.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, Smith\u2019s teachers were sponsored to finish various courses necessitated to attain a Child Development Associate Credential that is needed by early childhood educators to show their expertise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Cleveland\u2019s preschool programs\u2019 shining star<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Cleveland\u2019s preschool programs have been shining as depicted by the one offered at the Chalfonte Smith\u2019s childcare center. For instance, based on the restructuring witnessed, it was able to move from a rating of two (2) out of five (5) to a straight five.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, three years down the line, the center comprises of assets that were only dreamed of by many parents. For example, it has teachers with bachelor degrees, offers yoga and cooking lessons, and parent seminars where they are taught issues like financial literacy, among others.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These changes have been instrumental in boosting children\u2019s literacy scores.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/japans-free-preschool-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan\u2019s free preschool education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> starting October announcement was met with jubilation by parents.\u00a0 Educationists in the country and around the globe also celebrated the move.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there\u2019s a side note: the nurseries are concerned for the sudden increase in the students that have applied and are waiting anxiously to get accepted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city initiative called PRE4CLE has been instrumental in improving Cleveland\u2019s preschool programs. Its primary objective level up into a high-quality preschool in Cleveland.\u00a0 Previously, Cleveland\u2019s preschool programs were facing various challenges that hindered their optimality.\u00a0 For instance, three (3) years ago, Chalfonte Smith\u2019s childcare center located in north Cleveland, Ohio struggled academically because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}