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to A Stepping Stone Foundation via the Welfare Tax Reform Credit
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LEVELS OF PROGRAM SUPPORT-
Support 1 Family for a Day: $20 A typical day for our families begins around 8:15AM. The child spends 4 hours at their Stepping Stone classroom, including breakfast, outside play, and hot lunch. While the child goes to preschool, one or more of the parents attends ESL or GED classes and younger siblings may attend childcare. |
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"Christmas
Angel" for 1 Child: $50 |
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Support
1 Family for a Week:
$100
Over the course of a week, the preschooler has attended 16 hours of preschool. One or more of their parents has attended at least 4 hours of adult education. Their younger siblings may have attended a quality childcare and the teacher may have visited the family in their home to help the parents learn how to support their child's public school experience in the home. TOP |
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Support
1 Family for a Month:
$350
Over the course of a month, the preschooler has attended 64 hours of preschool. One or more of their parents has attended at least 16 hours of adult education, attended one or more parenting class, opened their home to a visit from the teachers, and worked with their child in the classroom at least 8 hours. TOP |
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Classroom
Supplies/Library:
$500
Literacy is the nucleus of our programs. While our children are certainly taught in a developmentally appropriate way with lots of hands on learning, an intentional focus is on pre-literacy and literacy skills. One important part of literacy is being surrounded by good models of language and reading. Our children and their families have great access to books of all kind with an emphasis on fine children's literature. Each year we provide every classroom with new and used books for their classroom and families' home use. TOP |
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"Christmas
Angels" for Half a Classroom (25 Children):
$1,250
Each year at Christmas time, A Stepping Stone Foundation places Christmas Angel trees at Shadow Rock Church, APS Generation Engineering and other community partners in Phoenix. Some organizations and individuals, such as the Family Arts Needlework Shop, sponsor all or part of an entire classroom of children and their siblings (50 children). TOP |
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Support
1 Family for a Year:
$3,500
By the end of the school year, the preschooler has attended 550 hours of preschool. One or more of their parents has attended at least 100 hours of adult education, attended 9 or more parenting class, opened their home to a 7 visits from the teachers, and worked with their child in the classroom at least 60 hours. Some parents will have passed one or all of their GED exams, and many parents will have completed one or more levels of ESL instruction. TOP |
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Support
1 Teaching Assistant for a Year:
$18,000
Our programs are only as good as our staff. It is critical that we have caring, highly knowledgeable teachers that pass a background check and are paid a competitive wage. TOP |
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Support
1 Lead Teacher for a Year:
$43,000
All our lead teachers have three or more years experience as a lead teacher in the preschool setting. Preschool children are achieving many developmental milestones in their 4th and 5th years of life. Science tells us they learn best by hands on activities...by play! It takes a nurturing and skilled teacher to plan active and experiential learning that feels (and truly is) play! By the year 2009, as with all public preschool teachers, all our lead teachers will have their Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education. TOP |
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Support
an Entire Classroom for a Year:
$65,000
We are able to keep the cost for one entire classroom operation to about $65,000 because of our partnering public school districts. Thanks to Alhambra, Isaac and Murphy elementary school districts, A Stepping Stone Foundation is able to keep its costs to: one lead teacher, one assistant teacher, in some districts child care, small supplies, and perhaps field trips, library, and continuing education costs. A portion of the Stepping Stone Foundation's Program Director is also figured in this amount. The school district partner provides the facility including furniture, adult education, on site supervision, and most supplies. Partnering with the local public school not only keeps Foundation costs lower, but allows the children to attend school in the districts they will most likely begin kindergarten. TOP |
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