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Stepping Stones Academy – Rosenberg TX Licensed Center – Child Care Program

Description: Parker & Parker Learning Center is a Child Care Learning Center in Riverdale GA, with a maximum capacity of 174 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of Infant (0 -12 months), Toddler (13 months – 2 years), Preschool (3 years – 4 years), Georgia’s Pre-K (4 Years), School Age (5+). The provider also participates in a subsidized child care program.

Additional Information: Has Drop In Care; Has School Age Summer Care; Has Cacfp; Financial Info: Multi-Child Discount;

Program and Licensing Details

• License Number:
  CCLC-48295
• Capacity:
  174
• Age Range:
  Infant (0 -12 months), Toddler (13 months – 2 years), Preschool (3 years – 4 years), Georgia’s Pre-K (4 Years), School Age (5+)
• Achievement and/or Accreditations
  QualityRated_Participant;
• Rate Range
  Under 1 year – $175. 00|1 year – $175.00|2 years – $155.00|3 years – $140.00|4 years – $140.00|5 years (Kindergarten) – $120.00|5 years & older – $120.00
• Quality Rated Star:
  2
• Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
  Yes
• Languages Supported:
  English, Spanish
• Type of Care:
  Before-school Program|After-school Program|Summer Camp|Georgia’s Pre-K; Full Time|Part Time
• Transportation:
  To/From School|Field trips|Before and after school

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Parent Testimonials

• I accidentally stumbled upon Parker Early Learning Academy while looking for a new daycare when we moved from Castle Rock to Parker earlier this summer. Now I know that it wasn’t an accident, but fate! Sangeeta has a beautiful vision to bring personalized education and a community to all enrolled families. Miss Nicole loves my 6 month old as if she were her own. Katie and Teri are on top of everything and always make sure I know what’s going on. I highly recommend this daycare to anyone looking for a great, loving, and educational place to send their kids everyday!

  Whitney Zolna
  August 27, 2019

  Best preschool out there. Top notch teachers, bilingual options available and very caring staff. Highly recommend to anyone! My 3-yr-old daughter loves it and my 1-yr-old will be going there next.

  Denisse Cantu
  March 21, 2019

  We have been at the school for nearly a year and the new owner has done a very nice job updating the equipment and freshening the building. We love the teachers and the price is fair. The bilingual aspect is also great and very good for young childrens minds.

  Beverly Worford
  May 8, 2019

• This place is fantastic! Our girls are always so excitied to go and the staff is so kind and attentive. They are learning new things every day!

  Helen Karl
  August 16, 2019

  We’ve been at PELA for just a couple of weeks, but we’re very happy with it so far! My daughter has had a hard time separating from me in the mornings, which tugs at a mama’s heart strings, but her teachers are so kind and caring when she’s sad, and it’s such a comfort to see photos from them in their app just a few minutes later reminding me that she’s having a blast and is fine as soon as I’m out of sight

  Amy Thompson
  August 15, 2019

  My 4 year old daughter started attending PELA in September of 2020 and she loves it! We have found it is a safe place for her to learn and grow. They have a great curriculum and we love that she’s learning Spanish!

  Olivia Salazar
  February 5, 2021

We are a locally owned small, intimate, preschool managed with a personal touch. Our teachers work with small groups providing personal attention to children. Our goal is to provide safe and loving environment to our children and quality education in STEM and bilingual Spanish. We have completely transformed our operations to ensure child, family, and employee safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. We continue to stay in small classes and have added advanced STEM and Spanish bilingual curriculum as our children stay longer before transitioning to the school system. We offer a safe alternative to the school system for children under the age of six with our pre-K and Kindergarten curriculum.

Sing Your Song Well – Master’s Program in Writing – National Research University Higher School of Economics

American writer and professor Jeff Parker talks about how learning to write is life-changing, why a literary community is useful, and why writing with blood is important.

Jeff Parker and Polina Reprintseva. Photo: Anna Pravdyuk

Jeff Parker is an American writer and director of the DISQUIET international literary program in Lisbon. Author of a travelogue about life in Russia Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal (Where bears roam the streets: a Russian magazine), an autobiographical novel Ovenman (Baker) about skateboarding, working in restaurants, a collection of short stories TheTaste of Penny (Taste of a coin) investigating personal and political contradictions, etc.

Jeff taught creative writing at several universities in the United States and Canada for about four years. He is currently a professor at the State University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMassAmherst). In July 2017, Jeff Parker became a guest lecturer at the Creative Writing School Literary Workshops picnic in Tarusa. There, a young poet and writer, a graduate of CWS Polina Reprintseva , asked him about how he once studied to be a writer himself and what he now teaches his students.

Jeff, you yourself studied writing at the prestigious Syracuse University. How did it affect you?

This education changed my life. I grew up in the South, my family was lower class. Of course, our house could not be called literary. Everything I knew about writers was taught to me at school. It wasn’t until I started studying creative writing that I began to understand what it’s like to be a writer in today’s world. Before that, I thought a writer was a wild, unbridled person, like Bukowski or Henry Miller, or some kind of sexaholic drug addict. It turned out I was wrong. I met people who were decent and loving, kind, generous and sane. My views on literature have completely changed.

How did your life change in the end?

I became who I became. Writer, teacher. If there were no such master’s programs in fine arts, there would be no opportunity for me, a poor guy from the southern hinterland, to meet with writers, with the world of literature. I couldn’t just get on a plane and fly to Paris like previous generations of writers did. I didn’t have the money for this, and I didn’t know about such a possibility, I wasn’t a city dweller.

The master’s program in creative writing allows many people to discover a new way of thinking, which is very different from how they think in a working class environment, in families in which everyone worked in a coal mine, steel mill or farm.

Tell us about the content of the master’s program at the University of Massachusetts.

Our program is very simple. It consists of seminars and theoretical classes. That is, you write and read. In addition, there are elective courses. If you want to study mitochondrial DNA replication, take up biology, if you want to learn Italian, take a course in Italian, learn to draw, please. This is an open system. A master student studying fine arts receives his degree in a studio or workshop. Here you will not become a candidate of sciences, this is a completely different education.

What do your undergraduate students do besides teaching? They work? Or completely immersed in writing?

There are two types of Master of Fine Arts programs. There are programs that offer partial or full funding, and those that don’t. And I believe that people should choose those programs that are fully funded. What does this usually mean? You enter and do not pay tuition. You either teach to earn a salary (this is the responsibility of a teaching assistant), or receive a scholarship, or both. As a rule, our students receive about twenty thousand dollars a year, it is difficult to resist such prospects. You get a degree and teaching experience, you won’t get rich on it, but you can live on it. What’s important. Many pay to get an education.

For example, me.

If you have money, you should spend it on things that are valuable to you. Why not? Wouldn’t it be better to buy a car? This program will not provide you with qualifications, but it will give you invaluable experience, you will learn a lot for your inner world.

In my case it was really a great experience. The program helped me get rid of the sense of self-importance that stood in the way. You need to forget about everything, just sit and write. Then it makes sense.

A student’s first priority is to write, but many applicants have other motives. They are interested in success and recognition, writing itself excites them in the second, third or fifth place. Because of this, difficulties arise. My old teacher Arthur Flowers used to tell us that all good writers were once in the trenches. Five, seven, ten years of work with no hope of publication is the norm, not the exception.

And if you’re lucky…

If you’re lucky, at some point your work will start to bring results, you will be able to get a grant and a teaching position.

Very interesting, it would be nice to write this as a preface to master’s programs.

In the end, all you have is your job. I want to believe that you did it well. It’s all you can hope for.

What is your method? What do you usually talk about with students at the very beginning of the course?

I was trying to find a flexible teaching method that would allow open discussion of students’ creativity without resorting to subjective conclusions. It is based on the idea of ​​”not knowing”, which belongs to Donald Barthelme.

For aspiring writers, the workflow looks like this: an idea is born in the writer’s head, he turns it into a brilliant story, which ends up on the pages. The writer himself, in their opinion, is a god-like being: he makes the reader laugh in one place, cry in another, as if by music. In fact, it happens exactly the opposite. The author begins the story with a fragment of an idea, with one character, sound, object or place. When he starts work, he does not yet know how the whole story will look like. He follows his intuition, plunges into the unknown, believes that this path will lead him somewhere. The question is, are you ready to surprise yourself.

I have heard similar arguments from commercial writers and great contemporary artists. The work of such brilliant creators as Leo Tolstoy resonates with the idea of ​​”ignorance”. If I’m not mistaken, he copied Anna Karenina seven times. If you look at the drafts, you will see that the character changes dramatically. Tolstoy makes changes to the setting, the structure of the narrative, in a way it’s just a proofreading. On the other hand, you can see that he is ready to make discoveries, to look for something new for himself in this story.

Stephen King seems to have said that he doesn’t like hard rules, and the main thing for him is to start creating, to write the first sentence.

That’s right, King is one of those writers who doesn’t know exactly where the story will take them. But a certain feeling tells them what they are going to write about. And the writer follows this feeling, it is it that fills the story with energy.

Flannery O’Connor has a short story called “Good Country People” in which a traveling bible dealer steals her wooden prosthesis from the protagonist. The writer said that she knew what the climactic scene would be like only twelve lines before she wrote it.

Really?

Amazing, right? She seems to have planned this from the start. She believed that the denouement surprised the reader primarily because it surprised her. If you write with such interest, attention to the text and involvement, the reader feels it. As a result, the energy of the narrative penetrates into it through the page. Sometimes people challenge my approach, and that’s totally fine. If you don’t want to work this way, there are other options.

These days, stories attack us from all sorts of sources: advertising, TV, newspapers, books, TV series. We are actually drowning in the narrative. There is a danger of repeating familiar stories on the page, and if we want something more, then we need to listen to the voice of the unconscious.

How do you feel about deadlines? As far as I remember, Nabokov said that it takes two weeks to write a story, and about a year to write a short novel. Do you have similar rules?

There are no such rules. Nabokov was a genius, and I’m not sure the world needs all the lyrics I can write. It’s very important to me that writing be a game that I enjoy, not a job. If I become one of those who write for three hours every morning, then I will no longer have so much fun.

It always seemed to me that the type of writers you are talking about now are people who work within the genre. Let’s say the author is working on a series of detective stories, he has a clear schedule. What do you think your students’ goals are? Do any of them plan to write, for example, teen literature?

We do not teach genre literature, only fiction and non-fiction. The best thing about the master’s program is the structuring of work and deadlines. When we accept students, I tell them: it’s time to write a book. You have three years for this.

You can find a mentor in one of the faculties, meet friends among students who will become your first readers, fall in love. If you get teaching experience here that will help you find a job in your specialty, great. Are you going to take courses in Italian literature and learn Italian? Wonderful. Do you want to spend all this time in the room where you will write? I will help you organize your own lessons.

But all this is beside the point. You have come here to write a book, that is your main task. Even if you fail, you will still do something good for yourself. It is most important.

There is an opinion that writing is a solitary occupation. But community gives you a sense of connection with people like you, and that can be rewarding. Do you think a writer should interact with other writers on a regular basis?

Of course, why not? This is useful. Francine Prowse has this idea: writers need a community to help and support them. During a workshop, we learn faster when other writers’ stories are critiqued than our own.

Here you need to find a balance, as a result, these communities shape the thinking of the writer.

Yes, writers complain too much, so it’s better not to spend a lot of time with us. What do you think, are you involved in all these writing communities?

The result of a writer’s work is always unpredictable, there are no guarantees that his work will be rewarded. This factor creates a special type of thinking that is not easy to deal with. By the way, as far as I remember, Viktor Pelevin is not very supportive of literary communities.

But he studied at the Literary Institute.

But he didn’t finish it.

Maybe he prefers to do yoga and snort coke in his apartment all alone. Everyone has their own method. The most important thing is to do your job. Writers are very interesting people, I learn a lot from them. I noticed that students often gravitate towards a kind of “incest”, that is, they like to meet each other very much. I always tell them: get yourself an architect, meet someone from economic school to learn more about economics. But romantic relationships go their own way.

Let’s talk about teachers. Did you learn from other writers, from books, from experience? Did you have teachers who helped you find yourself as a writer?

Yes, there were two or three people that I met in Syracuse, they changed my attitude to many things, for example, Arthur Flowers, he said: “Parker, you don’t need to be the best writer that ever lived. You just gotta sing your song as well as you can.” In other words, you must try to do everything that depends on you, create something original, unique in your copy. And whether the world recognizes your creation or not – these are the problems of the world. You don’t have to worry about it.

But the work is created for the audience, for that very world. If you have done something special, you should share it with people. Sometimes this requires making changes to the work so that the reader likes it more.

Of course. I am not saying that you should not work on your text. I mean “popular” and “good” are two different things. You will not argue that Britney Spears sings better than Anna Netrebko, this is absurd. Or that Dan Brown writes better than Sorokin. But Sorokin cannot even dream of the number of readers that Brown has. And he should not strive for this.

Is Denis Johnson? He was both, that is, he reached his maximum flourishing as an artist, at the same time being a cult figure.

Yes, but his books don’t sell as well as Stephen King’s.

Of course.

He is a great writer. You know, he recently died. He said one of the best things about writing that I have ever heard. It’s a whole lesson in writing in three lines: write naked, write in blood, write in exile.

Write naked as if you had nothing to hide, write in blood as if every drop of ink was as valuable as a drop of your blood, write from exile as if you were expelled from the country and you will never return home , so you have to reproduce every detail as accurately as possible. This is the best advice.

I was very fortunate to have spent some time with Denis Johnson and learned a great deal from him, even though he was not my teacher. It was so sad to hear that he passed away. He looked great a year ago at the DISQUIET writing festival. I usually don’t post my photos on Instagram, but I broke this rule and posted a photo from a year ago, where we are together with Denis: apparently, he is very uncomfortable in my arms. He was a great writer. And he was very wise. He wanted to write, he did not care about the external attributes of the literary world. You want all this tinsel while you are still very young. When you get older, you realize that happiness is not there.

Is happiness important?

This is where my American perception of reality may differ from your Russian one. You know, the Declaration of Independence says that we have the right to pursue happiness. And we are striving for it.

Interesting. I have something to learn from you.

You never know exactly what will be in demand in the world of literature. Winning prizes is great. It’s nice to be recognized. But that’s not what matters at all. Of course, when I win a big prize, I will change my mind. We’ll talk after I get a call from the Booker Committee. My point of view will change a little in this case. But until then…

You are absolutely right, it can be taken as an axiom: opinions and prizes are secondary. No need to try to adapt your style of writing to this.

Yes. For example, Pelevin is an isolated case. A writer who refuses to stop. He follows his vision, it always delights. I can’t imagine Pelevin writing War and Peace out of the blue to get Booker. The problem with master’s programs in writing is that they force us to focus on the superficial, which to some extent reflects human nature. Of course, I say this, but I myself wonder why I did not get into the issue of Grant’s magazine about new American novelists. (Granta is a periodical on politics and literature founded by students of the University of Cambridge in 1889. Since the 70s of the twentieth century, Granta has concentrated on the best literary novelties, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Zalee Smith and others have published in the magazine. Once every ten a number dedicated to American novelists is being published).

Yes, yes.

I’m not too worried about this. Just a little. Enough. Worry enough to remember that I’m alive. You will never be able to decipher this interview.

Text: Polina Reprintseva
Photo: Anna Pravdyuk
The interview was first published on the Creative Writing School website.

Kate Middleton and Camilla Parker-Bowles teamed up for a common cause

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“Beautiful duchesses in action.”

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Camilla Parker Bowles and Kate Middleton

The relationship between Kate Middleton and Camilla Parker-Bowles, the wife of Prince Charles, is not as cloudless as it seems at first glance. Nevertheless, the duchesses managed to find a common language. The other day, for the first time in a long time, they visited together the training center of the Prince’s Foundation for the Arts and Culture at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.