RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with WestEd to pay County up to $6,000 for participation in the WestEd Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Games Home Study for the period from the date of MOU execution through September 30, 2013.
FISCAL IMPACT:
County to receive up to $6,000 from WestEd PBS Games Home Study.
BACKGROUND:
The WestEd Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Games Home Study (Study) addresses the efficacy of four (4) PBS transmedia suites in increasing preschoolers' mathematics skills and their parents ability to support their young child's mathematics learning in the home environment. The Study will focus on how parent facilitators can be trained to facilitate parent meetings related to the suites at the Head Start programs. The Study will take place over a 10-week period in homes recruited from the program and involve students' and parents' use of four (4) mathematic-focused transmedia suites created by PBS: Cat in the Hat, Dinosaur Train, Curious George, and Sid the Science Kid.
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