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Gathering 4 Gardner Posts Zone Proxima Talk

December 18, 2024

The Zone Proxima talk presented by CEO Debbie Denise Reese, PhD, is live on the Gathering 4 Gardner (G4G) Celebration channel. Viewers learn how students' lack of math proficiency and mathematics readiness threatens their lifelong prosperity and achievement. Reese presents the Zone Proxima Math solution. She challenges viewers to join the effort. . . .

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Press Recognizes Zone Proxima Math Scholarship

March 16, 2024

The Cherokee Scout’s March 13, 2024, issue recognized Zone Proxima’s Gathering 4 Gardner 15 (G4G15) scholarship award. Zone Proxima leadership presented its math for early childhood initiative during the Gathering. G4G attendees should understand and support this theoretically grounded and sound approach to early childhood math readiness. Zone Proxima Math teaches adults to guide young children’s discovery of foundational mathematics through concrete challenges that embody foundational mathematics.  G4G attendance reactivated Reese’s awareness of the misconception that one-off “fun” experiences with science or math increase lifelong interest and lead to science and math achievement. 

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Zone Proxima Leadership Awarded Scholarship: Present and Exhibit Zone Proxima Math

February 21, 2024

Zone Proxima Math, an early childhood readiness initiative, received a full scholarship from the Gathering 4 Gardner (G4G) Foundation to introduce the math program to the community of G4G15 attendees February 21-25, 2024 in Atlanta, GA. Representing the company, leadership Debbie Denise Reese, PhD, and Steven Inglima manned an exhibit throughout the conference and gave a presentation to the general assembly. 

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WKRK Interviews Zone Proxima CEO Debbie Denise Reese

August 10, 2023

WKRK 105.5 M/1320 AM, serving western North Carolina, northern Georgia, and eastern Tennessee,  interviews Zone Proxima CEO Debbie Denise Reese, PhD. The interview reviews both current and historical lack of mathematics proficiency throughout western North Carolina, the state, and the Nation. WKRK’s Tim Radford questions Zone Proxima CEO Debbie Denise Reese, PhD, concerning lifelong consequences of inadequate mathematics proficiency, how Zone Proxima Math was designed to address those threats, what the Zone Proxima experience is like for young children and adults (caregivers, parents, and educators), how Zone Proxima’s theoretical foundations produce Math designed to increase mathematics understanding for young children, and how adults, sponsors, organizations, and philanthropics might bring this sound and effective early childhood experience to young children. 

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