We partner with a lot of experts to create and support our standards-based early literacy curriculum, ABC Music & Me, including experienced early literacy educators, trainers, researchers and professional musicians and music producers who understand how music can unlock a child’s potential. However, we also recognize the pivotal role of parent involvement in early childhood education, which is why all of our programs, including our early literacy curriculum, include a child’s first and best teacher: the parent.
Parents as Teachers and early literacy
The organization, Parents as Teachers (PAT), shares our commitment to equip parents with the tools and resources to help provide young children with school readiness skills, including early literacy. PAT organizations around the United States use our early literacy curriculum, ABC Music & Me, to increase parent involvement in early childhood education. For example, the Choctaw Nation Support for Pregnant and Parenting Teens is a PAT program that uses ABC Music & Me in its group connection meetings with parents and children. The Tulsa Public Schools Parents as Teachers even received the coveted PAT Losos Prize for Excellence in 2010 in part for being the first in Oklahoma to use our early literacy curriculum, ABC Music & Me, to increase parent involvement in early childhood education.