http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/09/common_standards_will_it_chang.html Please let me know what you think of this. Did you hear President Obama say in his State of the Union address that we should work on early childhood education? Don’t you imagine Hillary Clinton will have early childhood on her agenda if she is president. What do you think?
There has been a movement for at least 20 years to boost self-esteem in children. Why did this ever get going? Baumeister et. al. trace the literature to California Assemblyman John Vascocellos arguing that raising self-esteem in youth would reduce crime, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, school underachievement and pollution (p.1) but even after nine years…
Planning is important to being organized, to getting people to move together, but planning also might mean being sure something SIGNIFICANT is happening. In the midst of all the cute and fun things going on at your center, are children learning what is most signficant?
From Dan Rockwell (http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/distinguishing-the-wise-from-the-foolish/) The most talented fool in the world only brings misery and destruction. Business is more than numbers and results. Leaders go astray when they neglect character at the expense of abilities. The gifts and talents of fools makes them dangerous. Wake up call: It’s possible to be talented and foolish. Wisdom…
Lots of training is going on. Various prices. Various content. What is worth it? Directors are cost conscious, but free can be a very bad deal, even expensive. You can waste your time. You can get bad information. Your center can have a worse culture. Someone could be hurt. Overall, you can lose an opportunity.…
Great plans are underway for early childhood. Some, wonderful; others disastrous. I’ve received a very urgent command to speak into this. Will start with some blogs about HIllary Clinton’s It Takes a Village. We need a more intelligent discussion. She invites us into it. Let’s go!
loha, My name is Yumi Kikuchi, co-founder of Fukushima Kids Hawaii, a long term colleague of Tom Atlee for peace and sustainability (hope he thinks that way about me and support what I do). I am a mother of 4 children, a writer, a flutist and a practitioner of Japanese traditional medicine, and evacuated from…
We are now celebrating a great holiday, a great feast of the church, Christmas. We remember when God the Son incarnated as a human baby. Wow! God Almighty and everlasting became a helpless human baby, pooping, puking, and dependent. And also cute. Let’s celebrate not just the glory of God, but also the wonderfulness of…
If you are looking for things for the center, check out my ‘STORE” http://www.mindspring.com/~sarles/osstore.html. My friend Marlene Nichols has some CDs out, the latest one is “Healing Waterfalls” which is entirely freeform instrumental. Don’t forget my books. Merry Christmas!
Here is a great sale — but I refuse to call it “Black Friday.” The Friday is good, and so is the week! I am thankful for all my clients and all the training I get to do. So here is a Thanksgiving sale: Pre-Service Training Binder half price. Regularly $197.00 plus tax and shipping.…