FREE Researched-Based Digital Early Literacy Programs in English and Spanish
Footsteps2Brilliance, Clever Kids University: Pre-Reader, and Clever Kids University: I Can Read contain thousands of interactive e-books and learning games in English and Spanish and will help develop and accelerate strong literacy skills in both languages. They can be used on most computers, smartphones, or tablets.
If you would like a login to use these apps with your child, please visit www.myf2b.com/parent/Napa (external website, new window) to complete the registration questions and create your password. A confirmation email will be sent to you.
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Technology and Young Children – A joint position statement issued by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media
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Transforming Learning Through Collaboration
KVIE TV Inside California Education
Napa County Digital Early Learning – Collaboration
Napa County Digital Early Learning – Overview
Napa County Digital Early Learning – Parent Interview
Napa Schools Footsteps to Brilliance with parents
Ilene Rosenthal & Barbara Nemko at FETC
Superintendent Barbara Nemko on Transforming Education
Barbara Nemko and Jeanette Luedders at CUE
Cooking Together Together with Barbara Nemko
Reading Together with Barbara Nemko
Ed Source, “Digital App Helps to Boost Vocabulary of English Learners in Napa Preschools“
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, “How Pomona Unified is Helping Low-Income Preschoolers Bridge 30 Million Word Gap”
eSchool News, “Closing the 30 Million Word Gap”
eSchool News, “Transforming Learning Through Collaboration,”
CA County Superintendents Educational Services Assoc. (CCSESA), “COE Spotlight: Footsteps2Brilliance”
eSchool News, “Napa County wins $50K collaboration prize for vocabulary gap solution”
Napa Valley Register, “County Education Honored for Preschool Literacy Effort”
The Edvocate – “Digital Early Learning Program in Napa Sees Strong Results”
Napa Valley Register, “Technology propels preschoolers toward literacy”
Napa Valley Register, “Napa County Preschoolers Offered Free Reading App”
The Journal, “Napa County Provides Literacy Tool Free to Preschools”
eSchool News, “4 Tech Tools that Met a District’s Top Goals”
The Journal, “3 Tech Tools that Boost Early Literacy”