Success by 6

Senior Academy Forum

IUPUI Glendale Campus

Tuesday March 14, 2006

10 a.m.

Professor Carlyn Johnson will describe “Success by 6” an exciting new initiative sponsored by the Indianapolis Mayor’s Office, the United Way of Central Indiana, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The program is designed to supply the “1000 hours of lap time” – close to an adult—that children need from birth to age 5 in order to acquire the necessary language, cognitive and emotional skills essential for educational success. Carlyn, chair of the “Success by 6 Early Literacy Committee” will tell us how these goals can be accomplished using “The Imagination Library”, a Dollywood Foundation program that gets hard cover books like “The little Engine that Could” and “Goodnight Moon” into the hands of children and their mentors.