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Born Learning - Engaging Your Community
in Early Learning
Born Learning
is a dynamic public engagement campaign and toolkit created
by United Way of America and its partners, the Ad Council,
Civitas and Families and Work Institute for community partners
to use toin helping parents, caregivers and communities support
early childhood learning.boost community engagement with and
support of early childhood learning. Several children's museums
have already adopted Born Learning materials for use
with their family visitors, some in partnership with and others
independently of their local United Ways.
Which Born Learning materials can
museums access for free?
Born Learning materials are research-based, professionally
designed and produced to be easily adaptable to your situation.
All are free or low-cost to use and offer a range of formats.
Printing costs are the responsibility of the local distribution
sites or coalitions using Born Learning materials.
Children's museums can use Born Learning
tools as part of their work in promoting awareness, education
and action - all to help parents, grandparents, caregivers
and communities boost school readiness. Most of these materials
are available in Spanish as well as English.
As a Born Learning materials distribution
site or coalition member, free or low-cost materials include:
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Born Learning PSAs, "What You Can Do"
clips, and Talaris/Born Learning interstitials;
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"Learning on the Go" tips to drop into newsletters,
Web site and/or blast emails to members;
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"Your Child @ Series" of downloadable PDF handouts,
ready for photocopying;
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Print-ready, four-color flyers, posters, brochures and
handouts that you can customize with your museum logo
and print locally. (These materials are also available
for purchase from UWA.) Seeking funding to get these materials
printed can be a great joint project for a children's
museum and a local United Way; and
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Born Learning email newsletter for parents/caregivers.
Download
more information that addresses the following questions:
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What are the goals of Born
Learning?
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In what ways are children's museums
and Born Learning a great match?
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What can you do with Born Learning
materials at your museum?
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How can we fund the use of Born
Learning materials at our museum?
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Do we have to work with our local
United Way?
Below is a Decision Tree to help children's
museums get started and learn more.
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