The Children's Museum of Atlanta is a children's museum located in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1988 as a "Museum Without Walls," the museum opened to the public in 2003. The museum is located Downtown, adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park.
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The Children’s Museum created Connected Learning Connected Communities (CLCC) in 2007 to work with the influential entities in a child’s life - parents, schools, and neighborhoods - to support children’s' literacy and nutrition.
This comprehensive outreach program for children ages 0-8 includes literacy, nutrition, and science workshops for students, family workshops on developmentally appropriate literacy practices and strategies, and childhood nutrition education classes for educators.
Children "graduate" from the family series to participate in classroom-centered workshops that currently take place in 17 partner schools, child development centers, and homeless shelters across seven of Atlanta's most under-resourced neighborhoods. From CMA's program, early childhood education teachers also gain new insights on teaching through play by observing the CMA educators who visit their classrooms and are invited to participate in professional learning workshops.
The CLCC program is further enhanced by Spread the Word Workshops which increase language and literacy skills among very young children. This program works with children, parents, and adult caregivers to create a culture of literacy and language (building on existing strengths and already present language skills), encourage communication between parents and their children to increase the number of words spoken in the household, and increase fluency in children through expanded vocabulary.
