Summer programs encourage a child’s social and emotional growth through new friendships, mentors, and new experiences that show a child what he can do.
At the start of the pandemic, Dr. Cipriano and her colleagues studied 5,000 educators across the country who expressed record rates of anxiety, frustration, and feelings of being overwhelmed and undervalued.
The social and emotional skills taught in early childhood education environments provide children with an infrastructure that they will carry with them through later school settings.
