The 5 Principles of The Basics
The Basics Pensacola campaign features five fun and simple ways that families from all backgrounds can benefit children.
Learn More About the Basics Learning Network
The Basics are five simple and powerful ways that every family can give every child a good and healthy start in life.
The basics are:
- Maximize love; manage stress.
- Talk, sing and point.
- Count, group and compare.
- Explore through movement and play.
- Read and discuss stories.
Watch and Learn About The Basics
Basics Insights text messages can help you every day with brain building.
Why The Basics?
The Pensacola Basics was born of a desire to come alongside families and offer practical, everyday ways to foster school readiness.
The Basics community is a diverse network of organizations and individuals committed to a single goal:
Improving young children’s lives by ensuring that all families have access to strategies for making the most of the time they spend with children from birth to 3 years old.
Get The Basics
The Basics Movement in Pensacola is powered by Studer Community Institute in collaboration with The Basics, Inc. The Basics approach was designed and launched in Boston by the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University and the Black Philanthropy Fund. We are a local affiliate of The Basics Learning Network, a coalition of cities, towns, and counties in the US and abroad.
Early Learning Initiatives
An Early Learning City is a community that gives parents the tools, advice, and support they need to help their children be ready for kindergarten. From healthcare to business, everyone has a part to play.
Pensacola Basics
Partners fueling the 5 Basics of health early brain development.
Donors
Supporters who keep our work alive and growing.
Volunteer
How you can join our volunteer corps.
Support Us
Become a contributor to our Early Learning Program.