Studer Community Institute

Light Up Learning supports early learning work

October 13, 2020
/ Reggie Dogan
/ early-learning

Early learning staff and volunteers showcase Light Up Learning event

Each year Studer Community Institute hosts a series of events to raise awareness and funding to support its mission to improve the quality of life in the community.

Light Up Learning is SCI’s early learning signature event, set for Thursday, Oct. 22, at Blue Wahoos Stadium.

The Light Up Learning fundraiser supports the Institute’s work to make our community an Early Learning City by working together in three key areas:

— Brain development education for Escambia County mothers within 48 hours of childbirth.

— Parent and family outreach and education to help children living within our county’s pockets of poverty.

— Supporting partnerships with the University of Chicago, Harvard University and others to bring research-backed interventions to our community.

Healthy development in the early years provide the building blocks for educational achievement for success in school and life.

That’s crucial in Escambia County where only 47 percent of children show up ready for kindergarten.

And a child who isn’t ready for kindergarten may not have the basic skills they need to be ready to learn with their classmates.

Because 85 percent of the brain is developed in a child’s first 3 years, we need to make sure parents have the tools, knowledge and belief that they can build their child’s brain from the very first days of life.

Doing this in every aspect of the community will help our children — and the children in other communities who will learn from us.

The proceeds from Light Up Learning support our work in the community to provide tools, programs and materials that families can use to help build stronger brains in babies.

You can still support our early learning initiatives even if you can’t attend Light Up Learning.

Visit the link to Click Bid to browse, bid and buy silent auction items: https://cbo.io/bidapp/index.php?slug=lightuplearning

If you want to make donation, Text to Give lightuplearning56661.

For those who will attend Light Up Learning as guests, Wahoos Stadium has been the site for several outdoor, in-person, physically distanced events in 2020 and now add Light Up Learning to the list.

This space offers a physically distanced in-person, outdoor experience and a virtual component for guests who prefer to participate that way.

Understanding how important early experiences and relationships are to lifelong development is one step to making Pensacola America’s first Early Learning City.

The next step is to apply that knowledge to current practices and support early learning initiatives to continue in the mission to build a brain, build a life and build a community.

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