last time is a teaching artist at the sharon miller academy for the performing arts and finally ronnie ragen is the community partnership director at the trenton community music school i want to thank all of you for joining us now the last time part one we had linda bowden with us from pnc and it was a great discussion i want to pick up that discussion talking about creative development in early childhood education but doctor i just want to bring you into this let's set the context for this what does the research show in terms of how important it is to establish this strong foundation we could talk about math and we could talk about science and we talked in the last show about there's a strong connection between the arts and science and math et cetera but how important is a strong foundation in these early years for children? well we know from the research that their experiences in early childhood is heavily related to later learning we also know that intervention in those early years is a window of opportunity that they call it that we can have an impact on how children will grow and learn

stephens is a teaching artist for the great sharon miller academy for performing arts and finally ronnie ragen is the community partnership director at the trenton community music school i want to thank all of you for joining us throughout this program you're gonna see a variety of websites your collective websites of your non-profit organizations and how you can find out more about the grow up great initiative by the way before we start talking about creative beginnings in early childhood the history of grow up great and why it's been so important particularly for our world in pbs go ahead sure well thank you steve and i would like to say we partner with everyone here and in fact long standing support with ronnie and her group i would say probably ten eleven twelve years ago pnc had obviously a foundation and had really always worked hard to be a community partner but we decided to put a very specific stake in the ground around children five and younger the idea being that this is where we really wanted to concentrate our efforts this is where we felt we could really make a difference and i k