The article is about our joint Creating Connections project with the U of O Brain Development Lab. The article features a Howard Classroom and our Teacher, Jenny Sonza. Jenny not only has used the program in her classroom the past three years, but has also been a facilitator of one of the Parent Groups. Thank you, Jenny for your ongoing participation and support of the program. Creating Connections involves teachers in the classroom, staff as facilitators, co-facilitators, food service workers and childcare for the parent groups.
I hope that each of you participating in Creating Connections is proud of Jenny’s representation of you, just as when Stephenie Kearny represented you in the NOVA episode. It is amazing to have two national recognitions of our program.
The Creating Connections classrooms are: Howard, LCC, Main Street, Fairfield, and Whiteaker. Just as important as the intervention sites are the control sites. True, control sites don’t do anything other than what they ordinarily do, but they are indispensable to the program as they are the sites against whom progress is measured making it an evidence based curriculum, the new standard.
Thank you to our control sites, Delight Valley, Junction City, U of O, and Brattain.
Mary-Margaret Reynolds
Region 1 Regional Manager
