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Pilot participants were co-designers in the Learning Neighborhood pilot, completing surveys and answering interview questions to help shape the experience. Through this pilot, the team proved out the Learning Neighborhood concept, established baseline expectations for future impact measurements, and developed a flexible, scalable blueprint for how future Learning Neighborhood initiatives might work. Most importantly, we learned that trusting and supportive relationships built through the Learning Neighborhood pilot endure beyond the program.
Family, Friends, and Neighbor caregivers (FFNs) will continue to engage in the Learning Neighborhood
Family, Friends, and Neighbor caregivers (FFNs) will continue to engage in the Learning Neighborhood
FFNs signed up for the Play & Learn program to benefit the children in their care. Yet the opportunity for the FFNs to reflect on empathy topics themselves, and share their feedback and experiences each week with other FFNs had the unexpected, positive consequence of strengthening their own SEL knowledge and expanding their strategies for working on SEL skills themselves and with their children.
FFNs had a 55% click through rate for all content shares from the program
- As the Play & Learn program continued, FFNs requested content messages sent to them more frequently, and the pilot team increased sends from 3 messages/week to 4 messages/week
- FFNs valued the shared relationships and learning opportunities so much that they continue to meet regularly, planning community outings and supporting each other through a private Facebook group that they started before the end of the pilot.
- In our final homework assignment, we asked the FFNs for examples of skills they had developed. Half of the adults commented that they discovered something about managing their own emotions during the program.
Teachers and Parents agree: The Learning Neighborhood helps to prepare children for Kindergarten
Teachers and Parents agree: The Learning Neighborhood helps to prepare children for Kindergarten
94% of School & Center Parents reported that the program met their expectations to:
- help their children learn more about empathy and getting along with others,
- help them as parents to learn more about what their children were learning at school and how to support that learning, and
- help to prepare their children for kindergarten
83% of Teachers responded to pacing surveys each week to set up their families with shared content messages aligned to their lessons in class
100% of Teachers reported that the level of effort asked of them in this pilot was “just right,” and that the Learning Neighborhood program met teachers’ expectations to:
- learn methods to help teach children empathy and how to get along with others,
- develop better classroom management strategies, and
- have a better understanding of social-emotional learning
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