Mission Statement of Get Set Learn

Get Set Learn is a holistic family literacy program that provides a foundation for families with literacy challenges to experience successful lifelong learning.

Underlying Principles of Get Set Learn

1. Get Set Learn enables parents to understand that they are the child’s first and most important teacher.
2. Get Set Learn provides an interactive, nurturing and welcoming learning environment.
3. Get Set Learn acknowledges and builds on the strengths of families.

Curriculum Outcomes of Get Set Learn

The focus of GSL starts with the child and moves to include the parent’s needs. By the latter half of the classes, the focus is primarily on the parent’s needs, skills and future goals.

1. Give parents tools to become their child’s first and most important teacher
2. Help parents become work and/or education ready
3. Help families engage in literacy/math activities on a regular basis
4. Make families “school ready” for their children’s entrance to school
5. Build and strengthen networks for parents, children, and Project Read Literacy Network that will continue beyond the program which will instill self-esteem, coping, parenting, literacy, communication, and assist in alleviating isolation (geographic and social)
6. Model positive/proactive parenting practices (discipline, sleeping, nutrition, etc.)
7. Translate the school system (including literacy and math) into terms that parents and children can understand
8. Help parents advocate for self and child