About

Our Approach

Prime Time uses proven humanities-focused strategies to engage new and underserved audiences in literacy and early learning programs. Created by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, this approach has generated long-term improvements in academic achievement.

Our methodology features five pillars of learning and teaching to:

1. Promote participant-centered instruction and learning for children and families
2. Use the Socratic method of open-ended questioning
3. Develop higher-order thinking skills
4. Make connections to quality literature
5. Use the collective learning approach to bond students and families around reading

Prime Time programs offer our partners — libraries, schools, museums, community agencies, and more — research-based initiatives that engage children, parents, educators, and providers in learning experiences. We seek to create communities in which children and their families become self-motivated learners eager to explore the world through literature, inquiry, and meaningful interaction with others.