Why did DuPage Children's Museum launch
the Kindergarten Mathematics Initiative (KMI)? |
DuPage Children’s Museum launched KMI in 2006 to provide free Learning Lab Field Trips to all public school kindergarteners in DuPage County by the 2008-09 school year. The Museum currently serves about 20,000 students annually through eight school Learning Labs that provide high-quality math and science curriculum aligned with the Illinois State Learning Standards.
There are many schools with the ability to enroll their students in our Learning Labs, and many without that ability. We wish to “level the playground” by expanding our school programs and focusing on the essential “gateway skills” year of kindergarten. KMI will do this by providing Learning Labs to every kindergartener in DuPage County over the course of three school years. |
Mayors Pradel and Krajewski welcome
2006 Kindergartners from Indian Trail School |
How did DuPage Children's Museum start the KMI?
The Initiative began by serving kindergarten students and teachers in communities adjacent to DuPage Children's Museum, and will spread outward in succeeding years. In the first year of the Initiative, Comcast and West Chicago Charter One Bank funded field trips for well over 4,000 kindergarten students. Comcast also awarded the Presidential Award for the first time outside of Chicago, providing funding over a three-year period to allow KMI to extend to all DuPage County public schools.
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