TEACHERS REPORT TO LEGISLATURE ON BRIDGES - Early Learner Program And Lab

(03/06/2001)

Submitted By Larry Stinn Pleasant Hill School, Principal Pleasant Hill preschool teachers Kelli Whytsell and Patricia Haught were invited to Charleston on Friday, March 2, to give a brief presentation before the House Education Sub-Committee. The presentation focus was the Bridges Early Learner program and Bridges Lab implemented at Pleasant Hill Elementary School this year. The Bridges program improves a student's ability to learn. It increases attention span, memory, comparison/contrast thinking, eye-hand coordination systems, reasoning and other skills essential to learning how to read and do mathematics. This is accomplished through both physical and workbook exercises. Because it helps students perform better in school and in life, they feel good about themselves and begin building success upon success. The Bridges program has been funded by grants from the governor's Department of Education and the Arts supplemented by county school funds. Kelli and Patty also had an opportunity to share views and insights on Bridges in a more extensive meeting with the sub-committee chair, the Honorable Jerry Mezzatesta. This was arranged by our representative, the Honorable William Stemple. Both members of the House Education Committee were very interested in the continuation of the Bridges Program and were helpful in recommending additional grant possibilities.

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