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About Us Mission Statement Our mission is to provide educators with convenient, dependable one stop shopping for products that correlate to Head Start Outcomes Framework, early childhood curriculums, thematic units and pre-kindergarten guidelines so educators can FOCUS on what's most important -- CHILDREN. About Brewer Educational Resources Melissa Brewer founded Brewer Educational Resources Inc., a McKinney, Texas based company, in 1998. She began her journey as a distributor of Discovery Toys with the objective of providing educational materials that enabled young children to develop language and literacy competency through a combination of play and academics. Throughout her career, Melissa continued to take an active role with her customers and quickly became the nationwide top seller of Discovery Toys while also raising her children as a single parent. Melissa’s background in early childhood development and her strong emphasis on customer relations allowed her to quickly build her Discovery Toys Business to include additional product offerings from national suppliers which we now know as Brewer Educational Resources Inc. In 2002, Melissa developed the Head Into Literacy™ S.T.E.P. Component Kits (now called P.E.L.L. Kits). These Trainer and Classroom Kits focus on meeting the oral language, literacy and math needs of children through a series of activities that directly correlates to the C.I.R.C.L.E. ™ Preschool Early Language and Literacy (P.E.L.L.) Teacher’s and Trainer's Manuals. Brewer Educational Resources, Inc. offers books and materials used by the State Center for Early Childhood also known as the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (C.I.R.C.L.E.) in their national training programs. Brewer Educational Resources, Inc. distributes products for the early years to elementary concentrating on the tools needed to build a strong foundation for early literacy and school readiness through play and early intervention with research based literacy materials. Additionally, products and services include customized learning materials to meet the needs of the customer, book collections with English and Spanish titles and educational products that correlate to Head Start learning domains/outcomes, early childhood curriculums, thematic units and pre-kindergarten guidelines. Assistance in setting up early childhood classrooms is also available! Product lines offered include Award Winning Products by Poetry Pals, Scholastic, Learning Resources, McGraw Hill, Creative Teaching Press…just to name a few. The Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H) is under the direction of Susan H. Landry, PhD and incorporates a large number of research and training staff and child development faculty. Currently the center is actively involved in numerous research, community programs and training activities related to the goal of promoting quality learning environments for young children. A large research database on early childhood has been developed from numerous research programs supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), foundations, and the UTHSC-H. These include, longitudinal evaluations of environmental influences on children's development from infancy through elementary school age years. Research funded by NICHD and foundations has also funded the development and evaluation of parenting programs for infants and young children. These programs have resulted in several ongoing training and service programs in Texas including collaboration with the Mental Health Mental Retardation Early Childhood Intervention program staff and the development of a community based early childhood program with parent and childcare components. The center is particularly interested in using the knowledge gained from years of studying young children to help promote the goals of the Texas Statewide Early Childhood Initiative. This initiative is funded by the Texas Education Agency. With this new initiative, the following goals will be addressed by the CIRCLE staff:
Visit their site at http://www.childrenslearninginstitute.org/.
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