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Catch the Cool This Summer!

As an educator, you build a child's foundation so that they may pursue curiousity and learning. Visits to cultural institutions help to build a child's confidence to continue their education outside of the classroom.

Encourage families from your program to experience the best NYC has to offer—a summer filled with arts and culture! Use fun resources to catch the cool all summer long.

BUILDING LITERACY THROUGH CULTURE

A child's first years are crucial to their educational foundation. Yet while all begin acquiring language skills when they are about 10 months old, by age three children from economically challenging backgrounds have been exposed to fewer words to develop their vocabularies.

As a result their vocabularies are about half the size of children from professional and middle-class families.

To help bridge the achievement gap, Cool Culture makes it possible for low-income families to access 90 of New York City’s finest cultural institutions—for free. Children exposed to the arts and sciences during these formative years will be on track to become lifelong learners.

Thank you for working with us to ensure that all children get the opportunity to enrich their learning experience.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES