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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">This article is in the May edition of the
<i>Education Update</i> from the Oregon Department of Education:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><a name="vroom"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;font-weight:normal">Oregon Chosen for Expansion of Early Learning Program<o:p></o:p></span></i></a></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">“…Vroom’s free, multilingual, and culturally appropriate early learning tools and activities encourage healthy brain development in children ages 0-5 and Oregon was chosen for a pilot project to
expand access to these tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">The national Vroom team (led by the Bezos Family Foundation) has offered our state the unique opportunity to make the Vroom brain-building activities available via text message. The free Daily Vroom
app – which contains more than 1,000 brain-building activities – has already been used more than 95,000 times in Oregon. Expanding to text messages furthers the goal of the Early Learning Division (ELD) to promote kindergarten readiness by building crucial
abilities such as math, early literacy and important social-emotional skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Please help us spread the word about this texting pilot by
<a href="http://sms.joinvroom.org/oregon"><span style="color:blue">sharing the Oregon Vroom opt-in page</span></a> or signing up yourself. You can also text the word ‘CHILD’ in English or ‘HIJO’ in Spanish to 48258 to participate…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/ode/about-us/Pages/Education%20Update%20pages/May-Education-Update.aspx#vroom"><span style="color:blue">https://www.oregon.gov/ode/about-us/Pages/Education%20Update%20pages/May-Education-Update.aspx#vroom</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">FYI,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Jen Maurer, MLS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/ld"><span style="color:black">www.oregon.gov/osl/ld</span></a>
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