Side By Side Incorporated

Side By Side inc. Provides its 9-year-old great start program at six elementary schools. This is a series of free workshop evenings in english and spanish for pre-kindergarten to second grade parents. The parents find out what their children are expected to learn in the current year, and are given home activities to help in that learning. Topics include behavior, reading, writing and math. The evenings include a meal for the entire family and childrens activities. The partner schools are bond mill, calverton, deerfield run, james harrison, laurel, and scotchtown hills. A second program, the 1 -year-old family academic coaching teams fact, provides retired teachers and volunteers to be academic coaches to individual students and their parents, primarily focusing on skills and activities that support reading development. These students come from the 6 partner schools. Cont sched o