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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