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Starting Smart and Strong

Starting Smart and Strong

Building Robust Early Learning Systems

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Credits

Thank you to the following educators and organizations:

  • Franklin-McKinley School District
  • Fresno Unified School District
  • Oakland Starting Smart and Strong
  • Oakland Unified School District
  • Whit Hayslip
  • Chris Sciarrino
  • Andrea Youngdahl
  • Melinda Waller
  • Lisa Kaufman
  • Early Edge California
  • Early Learning Lab (Start Early)
  • Engage R+D
  • Lightbox Collaborative
  • Mission Minded
  • New America Early & Elementary Education
  • New Teacher Center
  • UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities

Website credits:

Writing and reporting on this site by Sarah Jackson.

Website design and development by Poonam Whabi.

Photography by Anthony Bernard/ Fresno Unified, Hasain Rasheed Photography, Sarah Jackson, Christophe Testi, Maryam Salassi, Floyd Sanchez, and Nat Soti.

Starting Smart and Strong is a project of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Starting Smart and Strong was created through a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to Engage R+D.

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