Primrose Schools, The Leader in Educational Child Care®, is taking the parent-school partnership on the go with the new My Primrose App, free for iPhone and Android users.
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Primrose Schools will open its second urban preschool next week in Houston, Texas, with additional locations under development in Denver, Dallas and Philadelphia.
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When hundreds of children, adults and seniors make a difference, it is important to give them the recognition they deserve. That is exactly why staff and residents at Parkway Place, a senior living community in Houston, paused to give gifts and say thank you to all of their volunteers during National Volunteer Week, April 21-27. In addition, the community is always looking for more people to lend a helping hand. From school children who do crafts with residents in memory care to volunteers with therapy dogs who come out weekly to church groups that hold services to a mother/daughter team who volunteers during special events on the weekend to high school students who give residents manicures, there are hundreds of people who touch the lives of the residents at Parkway Place.
When Andrea Choate was approached by her sister-in-law with the idea of starting a day care, it sounded like the last thing she was interested in doing.
Choate, a former teacher who had stepped away to raise her own kids, was pitched the idea to start a Primrose School franchise in northwest Oklahoma City. Her sister-in-law, Ashley Hughes, convinced her to visit a school near Atlanta and it was a trip that opened Choate’s eyes to what running a Primrose School could be like.
A Dallas resident is an entrepreneur and president and CEO of a child care company, which has led her to win an award for being a game changer in her field.
Jo Kirchner, president and CEO of Acworth-based Primrose Schools, won the Womenetics’ POW Award in the Game Changer award category. Atlanta-based Womenetics is a business resource company which promotes women in the workforce, and the advantages of hiring them in high-level positions.