Jumpstart Kids

Jumpstart Kids Jumpstart Kids is the leading early childhood literacy nonprofit. To learn more, visit JumpstartKids.org

For more than 30 years, we've trained caring individuals to help preschoolers build the literacy, language, and life skills they need to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. For more than 30 years, Jumpstart Kids has partnered with educators to support children ages 3-5 at the moment when language and learning develop fastest, building the literacy, language, and life skills children carry into kin

dergarten and beyond. Our Jumpstarters are trained caring individuals who join preschool classrooms and early learning centers across the country, working alongside educators to deliver research-based curriculum through play. By partnering with small groups of three to five children at a time, Jumpstarters provide the individualized attention that builds vocabulary, comprehension, and life skills and ensure children enter kindergarten prepared to succeed.

08/28/2026

Big news! Brave Like a Lion! How a Puppeteer Found Her Voice is the 2027 book selection for Jumpstart Kids: Read for the Record®, the world's largest shared reading experience. 🦁

Written by Megan Piphus, Emmy-winning Sesame Street puppeteer, and illustrated by Nina Mata Illustrations, it's a story about courage, imagination, and finding the confidence to speak up.

📚 Pre-order your copy at https://bit.ly/4d9OxJx and read together with millions of others on February 25, 2027.

🙏 Thank you to our publishing partner Penguin Kids Penguin Classroom

Dolly Parton believed that every child deserves books of their own, from birth. Through Dolly Parton's Imagination Libra...
08/26/2026

Dolly Parton believed that every child deserves books of their own, from birth. Through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, she made that belief real for families in homes across the country and around the world, mailing free books to children month after month, year after year.

That conviction is one we share. Our work rests on a simple idea backed by research: a caring individual can change the course of a child's early learning. For generations of young readers, Dolly was that caring individual, opening the door to literacy and a lifelong love of books.

We are saddened by her passing, and we are grateful for everything she gave to children and to early education. Her legacy lives on in every child who turns a first page.

You could be the first to know. 📚🎉We're about to reveal the 2027 Jumpstart Kids: Read for the Record® book selection, an...
08/25/2026

You could be the first to know. 📚🎉

We're about to reveal the 2027 Jumpstart Kids: Read for the Record® book selection, and newsletter subscribers find out before the public.

Want in? Sign up today and the official book announcement lands in your inbox first: https://bit.ly/3UzyMVS

The right words at the right moment open doors.We need caring, committed volunteers to join us as Jumpstarters this fall...
08/24/2026

The right words at the right moment open doors.

We need caring, committed volunteers to join us as Jumpstarters this fall, working directly with preschoolers in local classrooms to build the literacy, language, and life skills kids need to succeed in kindergarten and beyond.

Jumpstarters join a small team, follow our research-based curriculum, and become the steady, caring presence a child can count on every week. One conversation at a time, you help build what's ahead.

Registration is open in Massachusetts, New York, and Southern California. College students: many roles qualify for Federal Work Study.

Register by 9/18: https://bit.ly/4wKTu2m

"Everyday is a magic moment because every time I walk in everyone greets me with smiles and hugs. They always ask if I'm...
08/19/2026

"Everyday is a magic moment because every time I walk in everyone greets me with smiles and hugs. They always ask if I'm going to show up next week and to stay with them forever... It's a huge improvement since when I first started."

Our Jumpstarter, Maria, shared the pure joy of every Learn Out Loud session opening with smiles and hugs, and ending with sweet goodbyes and the wish that she could stay forever.

A preschooler asking Maria to return next week was no small ask. It's a child who knows that they have a dependable adult in their life their to support them alongside their teachers and caregivers.

Crayon in hand, trust on the table. 🥰One of our Jumpstarters, Tseyang, shared a simple from the classroom: "When a kid...
08/12/2026

Crayon in hand, trust on the table. 🥰

One of our Jumpstarters, Tseyang, shared a simple from the classroom: "When a kid got comfortable enough with me to ask me to draw for him."

This quiet, unremarkable-looking moment is what our Learn Out Loud program is built on. A seemingly small ask is really a big shift. Trust in a preschool classroom doesn't usually announce itself. It shows up as a kid handing you a crayon. 🖍

We ask Jumpstarters to reflect on their time in the classroom, and one answer from Freesia stood out. She not only saw r...
08/07/2026

We ask Jumpstarters to reflect on their time in the classroom, and one answer from Freesia stood out. She not only saw real growth of the children, but within herself as well.

"I was able to gain and enhance my abilities such as communication, teaching, problem solving, and creativity... it made me learn new things about myself and how much I love helping these children succeed and grow... [to] be able to express themselves more, problem-solving with each other, and sharing & being kind with their friends."

That's part of the unique, lasting impact of our Learn Out Loud Program - trained volunteers embedded in classrooms twice a week, building skills in preschoolers and gaining real, transferable ones themselves.

Last week in downtown Boston, new and longtime friends of Jumpstart Kids gathered to celebrate the launch of our Local C...
08/05/2026

Last week in downtown Boston, new and longtime friends of Jumpstart Kids gathered to celebrate the launch of our Local Champions Circle and to welcome Ashley Jaundoo, our Regional Director of Massachusetts. 🎉

Guests heard firsthand about Jumpstart Kids: Learn Out Loud and how it helps children build literacy, language, and life skills in early learning settings across the state. The conversations that evening made one thing clear: this community is ready to show up for young children in Massachusetts.

We are entering a new chapter as Jumpstart Kids in Massachusetts, and we are glad to have this community alongside us. 🥰

Brace yourself, this is going to warm your heart 😍Our Jumpstarter, Ashley, recently described her first week in the clas...
07/31/2026

Brace yourself, this is going to warm your heart 😍

Our Jumpstarter, Ashley, recently described her first week in the classroom. "The first time I went to my class, everyone was nervous. When we came back, the kids all ran to us and hugged us... everyone was laughing at how I was being silly with the activities."

The children were nervous, unsure of the new routine, but by the second session, they were running to the door to greet her with open arms and smiles that lasted throughout the session.

That shift from cautious to comfortable is what our Learn Out Loud sessions are built to support. Young children build language, confidence, and social skills fastest in relationships they can predict and trust. Our Jumpstarters return to the same classroom and group of children, week after week, because that consistency is what makes the learning stick. ✨

Jumpstart is becoming Jumpstart Kids.For more than 30 years, we have believed that every child deserves to jump into lea...
07/21/2026

Jumpstart is becoming Jumpstart Kids.

For more than 30 years, we have believed that every child deserves to jump into learning. That belief has a new name and a new look to match.

What has not changed: the organization, the research-based programming, and the trained caring individuals who show up for young learners when it matters most, building literacy, language, and life skills alongside teachers and families.

Visit our new website and get involved: JumpstartKids.org

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308 Congress Street Fl 6
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