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Margaret H. Cone Center
| Jerry R. Junkins Head Start Center | LEAP
| Davids' Place
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our main focus is now K-12 TI believes that early childhood
intervention is a critical key to give our community's disadvantaged
students the edge they need for future success. While social
programs provide certain necessities, TI has been a pacesetter
in creating initiatives to improve language and cognitive
skills. Through collaboration with Head Start, TI's programs
have been rolled out to pre-schools across Texas. The success
of TI's activities caught the attention of Laura Bush. Leading
her to embrasce early childhood education as her platform,
which has the learning innovations from the TI Foundation
at its heart.
Margaret H. Cone Center
With the help of our funding and involvement, the Margaret H.
Cone Model Head Start Center is beginning to paint a brighter
future for the children in one of Dallas' poorest neighborhoods.
Since 1990, the Foundation has collaborated with universities
and local Head Start administrators to develop a model preschool
program at the Cone Center—one which gives about 90 economically
disadvantaged students with the services they need to succeed
in school and beyond, such as quality nutrition, health care,
social services and education, including a rich multi-sensory
language curriculum.
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In 1995, the Foundation initiated a collaboration with two other
foundations to launch the Jerry R. Junkins Child Development
Center in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of West Dallas.
Modeled after the Cone Center program, a collaborative effort
founded in 1990 by the Texas Instruments Foundation and Head
Start of Greater Dallas, the Junkins Center opened in 1997 and
serves more than 153 children annually - providing a multi-sensory
dual language curriculum, health, nutrition and social services.
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With collaboration from the TI Foundation, SMU created the Language
Enrichment Activities Program, or LEAP, which helps children
develop language and pre-reading skills.
Learning
By Leaps & Bounds (PDF 630K)
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Davids' Place
The newest addition to the Foundation's family of Head Start
Centers is Davids' Place. The early childhood center will serve
a minority population in the Fair Park area of Dallas. This
is a major effort to bring innovative curricula to a new segment
of the Dallas population. This is one part of a neighborhood
revitalization effort.
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In 1998, Texas First Lady Laura Bush pledged her support for
four early childhood education programs – including one
modeled after the Cone Center called the "Ready To Read"
initiative, to be launched and administered across the state
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