Hillary Clinton coming to Tulsa to help announce new education campaign
Hillary Clinton coming to Tulsa to help announce new education campaign
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in Tulsa with local billionaire philanthropist George Kaiser on Monday to announce the kickoff of the "Talking is Teaching" campaign, a partnership with the Too Small to Fail Initiative aimed at helping parents and caregivers of children ages birth to 5 prepare for success.
The partnership is a communitywide effort by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, CAP Tulsa, Tulsa Educare and Too Small to Fail — a joint initiative of Next Generation and the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation — to empower parents and caregivers to boost the brain development and vocabularies of young children by increasing the number of words they hear spoken to them each day.
The announcement will take place at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Educare No. 2, 3420 N. Peoria Ave. It is not open to the public.
Through the initiative, parents will be taught to use simple actions such as describing objects seen during a walk or a bus ride, singing songs or telling stories for five minutes three times a day with the idea that it will improve a child's ability to learn new words and concepts.
The campaign will include messages throughout the community in the form of public ads and will be shared by pediatricians, business owners, faith-based leaders and others in the form of toolkits developed with the Sesame Workshop and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and it will test new technology to help parents build these activities into their daily lives.