At 3 p.m. on a weekday, Briya Public Charter School on Georgia Avenue in Washington, D.C., is noisy with excitement. The school day has ended and pickup has begun. Toddlers bound out of classrooms as parents steer strollers down the narrow halls.
Briya is not just a preschool—many of the parents collecting their children are students here as well. Some took classes in English or parenting earlier in the day. Others will return tonight to study for a credential. Briya’s two-generation approach is known as family literacy, and it emphasizes parents and children learning together.
“Children learn best when they have really good role models,” says Lorie Preheim, the school’s academic dean. “If children see their parents learning, if they see them going back to school, they’re more likely to study, work hard, stay in school, [and] succeed.”
[For more of this story, written by Amanda Kolson Hurley, go to http://www.citylab.com/work/20...p-kids-learn/509792/]
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