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Seed Program

Supporting Every Child's Emotional Growth and Development

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The Seed Program increases social-emotional learning and vocabulary skills in children and youth through teaching literature, creative writing, and providing visual arts projects. This program can be taken to schools and other community organizations that serve children in grades second through sixth.

To achieve our program goals, we meet weekly, for at least seven weeks. Each week the stories, poetry, art projects, and creative writing exercises are related to the week’s social-emotional theme.

 

There are seven themes:

 

  1. Reach for Your Dreams

  2. Express and Regulate Emotions

  3. Speak, Write, and Draw with Your Voice

  4. Play! 

  5. Expand Social Skills

  6. Cultivate Diversity

  7. Treat Others with Respect

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In addition, every child keeps the art projects they begin in the class and gets a free book at the end of the program to take home. We use a wide variety of art projects to engage children in learning and art techniques, mandalas, sculpting with model magic clay, and painting. We also provide creative writing prompts for children to take home to help them improve their writing skills.

Delta Wolf Trap

Institute for Early Learning through the Arts

Additional services offered through Delta Wolf Trap include Family Engagement Workshops available to early childhood centers, libraries, children's museums, and organizations focused on supporting parents with young children. These interactive family workshops provides parents and caregivers opportunities to engage in a live arts experience with their children and learn to play with their children in educational ways that support kindergarten readiness.

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Professional Development Workshops may be available for early childhood centers with aim to provide annual training on research-based practices of instruction. In-person and virtual workshops provide early educators with hands-on teaching strategies and active learning techniques that support literacy and language development, STEM learning, problem-solving, social-emotional development, classroom management, and more.​

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A Case for Arts in Early Childhood

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2014). Teachers Know Best: Teachers’ Views on Professional Development.

Child, H. U. (2017). Brain Architecture.

Child, H. U. (2014). Executive Function & Self-Regulation.

Children, N. A. (n.d.). The 10 NAEYC Program Standards.

Clay, J., Campbell, V., & Madsen, C. (2015). CUNY Creative Arts Team Astor Early Learning Program Evaluation Findings.

Green, M., M.F.A., & Sawilowsky, S., Ph.D. (2015). Social Innovation Fund Grant Final Report Year 3.

Klayman, D., Ph.D. (2006). Final Evaluation Report of Fairfax Pages Professional Development Project: An Effective Strategy for Improving School Readiness.

ReadyNation. (2013). The Vital Link: Early Childhood Investment is the First Step to High School Graduation.

Song, M., Ludwig M., and Marklein M.B., (2016). Arts Integration: A Promising Approach to Improving Early Learning, American Institutes for Research.

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Delta Wolf Trap

301 S Rhodes St, West Memphis, AR 72301, USA

office@DeltaARTS.org

(870) 705-5075

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