{"id":8,"date":"2012-02-02T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brompton.kusd.edu\/new\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:22:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/information\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Irene Santos Learning Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/04\/The-Conductors.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of a train conductor and toy train.\" width=\"438\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Irene Santos Learning Station is the home of the Head Start Program for 51³Ô¹Ï. Head Start eligible families can attend school at Irene Santos Learning Station or at various neighborhood schools. To find out more about the Head Start Program, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12fWV6NOombKD4c417_ij2gBiD0sMTv20\/view?usp=drive_link\">22-23 Annual report,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/information\/eligibility\/\">Head Start Eligibility<\/a> to find out if you qualify.<\/p>\n<h2>School Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Irene Santos Learning Station is a preschool-only building for 3, 4 and 5-year-old children and is home to the Head Start program, which promotes community awareness, child health and school readiness.<\/li>\n<li>Irene Santos Learning Station is a Pyramid Model Implementation Site, which is a research-supported approach to address students\u2019 social and emotional skills at school and home.<\/li>\n<li>Head Start\u2019s mission is to create a meaningful learning environment for children at school and home through research-supported play-based curriculum, intentional teaching of math and literacy skills, developmentally appropriate learning goals, supportive development of social and emotional skills, hands-on learning and more.<\/li>\n<li>Head Start is focused on developing strong families through family engagement activities, home visits to support relationships and transitions to school and by teaching effective, empathetic, and respectful communication.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to addressing the academic, social and emotional needs of each child, Head Start also supports health and nutrition needs of students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Vision Statement<\/h2>\n<p>The vision of the Irene Santos Learning Station is to create a meaningful learning environment for children at school and at home; to develop strong families by teaching effective, empathetic, and respectful communication; and to promote community awareness, child health, and school readiness.<\/p>\n<p>Irene Santos Learning Station is the only school in KUSD that serves ONLY 3, 4 and 5 year old children.\u00a0 It opened in 2003 with 12 classrooms serving children in the Head Start program, Early Childhood Special Education, and the Pre-school Peer Program.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are five Head Start classrooms and two Early Learners classrooms at Irene Santos Learning Station, with offices that house a variety of Head Start and KUSD support staff for the children and families that go to school here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irene Santos Learning Station is the home of the Head Start Program for 51³Ô¹Ï. Head Start eligible families can attend school at Irene Santos Learning Station or [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":13458,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16603,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/16603"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kusd.edu\/santos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}