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Lakeshore has grown from that first brick-and-mortar store to a leading developer and retailer of top-quality educational materials for early childhood programs, elementary schools and homes nationwide. Today, we have a thriving e-commerce business, a national sales division, catalogs and 60 retail locations across the country, but we still consider ourselves “69 years young”—a company that experiences record growth year after year. We attribute that growth to the more than 2,000 people who make up our team. While 30% of our full-time employees have been with us for more than a decade, we’ve also been fortunate to attract lots of new talent—with all the fresh ideas and outside experience they bring to the table. The combined talents of our people allow us to reach for the stars—as we continue to experiment and try new things. In recent years, we have expanded our export market, opened offices in Asia and built a second distribution center in Midway, Kentucky—increasing our inventory and distribution space to more than 2 million square feet.
Explore, discover, play and learn! Our products are specially designed to motivate and encourage little ones to investigate and engage with their world…preparing them for grade-school success!
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Marcus Hughes, Regional Sales Manager Lakeshore Learning Materials C: (479) 588-1521 E: |
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Discount School Supply ® is the premier one-stop shopping destination for early childhood education products, designed to help make early childhood learning fun. Key product segments include content & curriculum, classroom tools, and play & learn serving Infant through Early Childhood Education.
Arkansas Contact Personnel:
Simon McIntyre
Email:
Phone: 203-395-2914
Customer Service: 800-627-2829
www.discountschoolsupply.com
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For more than 50 years, Kaplan Early Learning Company has been a champion for play. From our research-based curricula to enriching classroom environments and innovative technology solutions, Kaplan's products and services inspire a lifelong love of learning in children and educators. We are architects of learning good and defenders of the imagination. We live for inseparable bonds and open minds. We encourage the eager and inspire the inspirers. Together, we transform lives through play.
Arkansas Contact:
Sharon Beaver-Freeman, Territory Manager
Kaplan Early Learning Company
1-800-334-2014 ext. 5346
Mobile: (405) 740-4528
Fax: (336) 293-1169
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The purpose of the project is to create a visible presence at the state level, which can assist in the development of significant, multi-agency and public private partnerships between Head Start and the state. The Head Start State Collaboration Office (HSSCO) methods by which they coordinate and lead efforts for diverse entities to work together include:
- Communication: Convene stakeholder groups for information sharing and planning. Be a conduit of information between the regional office and the state and local early childhood system.
- Access: Facilitate Head Start agencies’ access to, and utilization of, appropriate entities so Head Start children and families can secure needed services and critical partnerships are formalized.
- Systems: Support policy, planning, and implementation of cross agency state systems for early childhood that include and serve the Head Start community.
Head Start-State Collaboration Projects play an important role in helping the Administration and the Governors make progress toward goals, which improve the lives of young children. Collaboration Projects assist with these and other relevant state initiatives and bring the support and perspective of Head Start to the development of early childhood systems. All fifty states were funded as of 1997.
Collaboration grantees build and strengthen linkages among Head Start, child care, education and health care systems in order to build an effective child development and early childhood system. Head Start-State Collaboration grantees are encouraged to consult broadly with the early childhood community, and in particular with the State Head Start Association, as they carry out these projects.
The Head Start - State Collaboration Office funding in Arkansas flows to the Department of Human Services- Division of Child Care/Early Childhood Education and then to the Arkansas Head Start Association. The Arkansas Head Start-State Collaboration Project began in 1996. The Arkansas Head Start Association has the responsibility for implementing the collaboration project in Arkansas.
Head Start State Collaboration Office Priority Areas:
The Head Start Act requires the HSSCO to conduct a needs assessment of the Head Start/EHS grantees in the areas of coordination, collaboration alignment of services, and alignment of curricula and assessment. The Head Start Act also requires the HSSCO to use the results of the needs assessment to develop a strategic plan outlining how the office will assist and support Head Start/EHS grantees in meeting the requirements of the Head Start Act. The needs assessment and strategic plan must be updated annually. The HSSCO will continue to Work on all priority areas as required by the funding agency, the Administration for Children and Families and the Office of Head Start.
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There are twelve federal priorities for the HSSCO. These priority areas include:
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The Head Start State Collaboration Office conducts a program needs assessment with all Early Head Start/Head Start programs every five years. The Needs Assessment is updated each year. In 2019, Family Engagement and racial equity was added to the needs assessment in order to serve programs in an equitable manner.
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Six Degrees to Racial Equity Webinars focus on key ways to successfully eliminate inequities in our early childhood education System. These sessions are to help others to learn more about what is being done to address racial inequities, racial disparities, and racial policy issues in Arkansas’s early childhood system.