Shelley Wickwire, Principal

Yolanda Calderon, Program Manager
ycalderon@wjusd.org
525 Beamer St. Woodland, CA 95695
(530) 662-1769 FAX (530) 668-5653

Family Literacy Program

The purpose of the William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy Program is to bring parents and children into the learning environment together. This model serves families through:

• Adult education which may include basic education, life skills, workplace skills, and ESL instruction.
• Children's Education: This may include instruction for preschool-aged children, elementary-aged children, and/or infants and toddlers.
• Parent and Child Together (PACT) Time: Interactive parent-child literacy activities that strengthen the learning relationship between parent and child and help parents become more empowered in their roles as their children's primary teacher.
• Parent Time: Provides parents with information about the literacy development of their children and an opportunity to discuss their children's development as well as other concerns.

The Beamer Even Start Program serves children birth through 7 years age and places a strong emphasis on language and literacy development in the context of the whole child. Older siblings may also be impacted as their parents begin to achieve the overall goal of family literacy-valuing education and transferring that value to the next generation.