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Introduction
/ Background: In 1998,
the Bradford County Regional Arts Council (BCRAC) initiated the Learning Early Network in
response to brain research indicating the importance of learning in early childhood. The
Network is a vibrant collaboration of people and organizations including Head Start
Centers, Daycare Centers, libraries, pre-natal and early healthcare programs, government
programs, private and public preschools, and parents. Since that date the BCRAC has worked
especially closle with Bradford-Tioga Head Start to develop and implement early arts
programming. In early
2003, a middle school student in Wellsboro, PA brought a gun to school and shot himself in
the school bathroom. Peggi Yacovissi,
Bradford-Tioga Head Start Executive Director, responded, “When I put this (incident)
together with my observation of more behavioral problems in our young Head Start students,
I wish we could help young children learn to better communicate their feelings, needs, and
thoughts.” From this comment and six
years of collaboration experience, a new program of the Learning Early Network was born: Learning
Communication Skills Through the Arts.
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