ReadyRosie

ReadyRosie is an early education tool that helps families, schools, and communities deepen and scale their family engagement efforts. Our tools leverage the power of video modeling, family workshops, professional development opportunities, and mobile technology to build powerful partnerships between families and educators, resulting in Ready Families, Ready Educators, Ready Children.

​This picture summarizes the benefits of using ReadyRosie apps in the school. It embraces students, teachers, and families. In early childhood education the participation of parents is crucial for the students' learning experiences.
​This app can be played in different devices, so you can use it with your computer or laptop, tablet or smartphone. Being displayed in different digital devices offers families the possibilities to use it wherever and whenever they like.

We know that parents are so busy, and they can feel they do not have enough time for their children. ReadyRosie thought about them, that is why many activities are supposed to be short and entertaining. And even they offer activities and videos in English and Spanish.

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Some problems facing the use of this app is that many parents need to be helped with the setting of this app. Many schools only offer them a flyer that tells them how to install the app, but they need an extra hand to set it up. Besides, not all the families have the same time to do it, so educators may consider help parents create a schedule to work with this at home with their children.

One app can offer amazing services and educational tools, but if we -educators and school administrators- do not interact emphatically with our families hardly we'll be able to offer our students better learning experiences. I could see this challenge in many schools, my solution was to share the links of the activities on our social media groups where all of "my families" were participating. The benefit of doing this is that I could track the completion of activities through the social media app, and by doing so most of my students could learn at home with their families too.

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