Early Learning Case Study: Wichita Falls ISD

As a part of his role, Wichita Falls ISD Superintendent Michael S. Kuhrt sees a commitment to overcoming the barriers that restrict implementation of early learning for 3- and 4-year-olds and in some cases, 5-year-olds. The barriers often include family and society issues such as food insecurity, access to quality health care, dental services, vision exams, or steady work or employment for their parents. According to Mike Kuhrt, helping families overcome and resolve these social services barriers to early learning serves as a necessary precursor to successful delivery of services to early learners. Whether this includes providing for the physical needs, monetary needs, or emotional support that often plague single parents, young struggling families, and others, helping them to provide a safe comfortable environment for their family to exist has to be addressed as a prerequisite for students to be ready to start school and learn.