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106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. RES. 126

Expressing the sense of the Senate that appreciation be shown for the extraordinary work of Mildred Winter as a Missouri teacher and leader in

creating the Parents as Teachers program on the occasion that Mildred

Winter steps down as Executive Director of such program.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JUNE 23, 1999

Mr. BOND submitted the following resolution; which was considered and

agreed to

RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of the Senate that appreciation be

shown for the extraordinary work of Mildred Winter

as a Missouri teacher and leader in creating the Parents

as Teachers program on the occasion that Mildred Winter steps down as Executive Director of such program.

Whereas Mildred Winter has, with determination, expertise,

and unflagging energy, dedicated her professional life to

early childhood and parent education;

Whereas Mildred Winter began her remarkable career as an

educator and leader as a teacher in the Berkeley and

Ferguson-Florissant School Districts in Missouri;

Whereas Mildred Winter served as Missouri’s first Early

Childhood Education Director from 1972 until 1984,
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during which time the early childhood education services

to Missouri families and children improved and increased

dramatically;

Whereas Mildred Winter was a leader in initiating the Parents as Teachers program in Missouri in 1981 to address

the critical problem of children entering school in need of

special help;

Whereas the Parents as Teachers program gives all parents,

regardless of social or economic circumstances, the support and guidance necessary to be their children’s best

teachers in the critical early years;

Whereas Mildred Winter worked to secure passage in the

Missouri General Assembly of the Early Childhood Education Act of 1984, landmark legislation which led to the

creation of Parents as Teachers programs in Missouri;

Whereas Mildred Winter is recognized as a visionary leader

by her peers throughout the country for her unwavering

commitment to early childhood education;

Whereas Mildred Winter and the Parents as Teachers program have received numerous prestigious awards at the

State and national level;

Whereas today there are over 2,200 Parents as Teachers programs in 49 States, the District of Columbia, and 6 other

countries;

Whereas while continually striving to move the Parents as

Teachers program forward, in 1995 Mildred Winter recognized the importance of sharing with parents what is

known about early brain development and the role parents play in promoting that development in their children, and used this foresight to develop the vanguard

Born to Learn Curriculum; and
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Whereas after nearly 2 decades of leadership of the Parents

as Teachers program, Mildred Winter has chosen to step

down as Executive Director of the organization: Now,

therefore, be it

1 Resolved,

2 SECTION 1. RECOGNITION OF MILDRED WINTER.

3 That it is the sense of the Senate that—

4 (1) admiration and respect be shown for the vi5 sionary and innovative work of Mildred Winter in

6 the field of childhood education; and

7 (2) appreciation be shown for the work that

8 Mildred Winter has done through the Parents as

9 Teachers program which has enriched the lives of

10 hundreds of thousands of children and provided such

11 children with a far better chance of success and hap12 piness in school and in life.

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