Pawprints Literacy + Program and Pricing Information

  Core curriculum - language arts and science educators in Los Angeles and New York City are using Pawprints as a reading and writing tool in the classroom.  As you know, recent research has shown that youngsters’ achievement level in both reading and math improves with exposure to the out-of-doors, and the Pawprints program incorporates such activities.
 

   After-school creativity and enrichment programs:  A special series of sessions as outlined in the curriculum guide, including guided observations and write-up practice with animals at-home, in the class, outside the facility, in the neighborhood and more.  Ideas for field trips and special visitors. Habitats are explored as part of the course. Emphasis is on fun and creative development, plus encouragement of care for animals and the environment.  Drama, music and other performance art elements are a part of the program.
 

    Childcare Directors at the City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department are using a turnkey version (Hillebrandt facilitating a series of sessions). Ina also is available to appear once during a series of sessions as “the author,” in after school and core curriculum in New York and Los Angeles.  We are currently training other staff for planned expansion.
 

   In a pilot test, The Jane Goodall Institute incorporated Pawprints in its Roots & Shoots Educators’ workshop in Los Angeles. We are in planning to work with JGI Roots & Shoots again, allowing youngsters to reach out to others in 92 countries, and have access to the inspirational teachings that are part of Dr. Goodall's unique materials.  WOW (Wonderful Outdoor World), an LA (and other city) Rec and Parks program co-sponsored by The Walt Disney Company, the U.S. Forest Service, and environmental organizations, adopted the book and program for use in a campfire and overnight tent story-telling setting.  The Audubon Society is planning to collaborate with us in its new national green space education campaign for youth and families.

          As planned, we are now working with adults, including seniors
 

    Adult groups: For the past two years, we have been working with seniors, who meet weekly to read and write in short, short story format, or in longer form. Both fiction and memoir writing classes are now available.  For fiction, animal tales from Pawprints are the jumping off point.  Special tools designed by Ina Hillebrandt for use with adults in Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in all adult programs. We  very excited that our seniors in L.A. have penned an Amazon.com best seller! And that they performed in a live show with music.  We are planning more appearances and a new book is underway.
 

   Seniors also meet for our Grief Lifters™ program, created by Ms. Hillebrandt after interviews with more than 100 seniors coast to coast who had lost a spouse.  This program has been ongoing for over two years in Los Angeles, after initial research and programs were conducted for TIAA/CREF and Hyatt Classic Residence.  Some participants from Grief Lifters moved into the Footprints Writing Classes™ and remained actively writing stories and memoirs.