Now offering school standardized, norm-based readiness tests to licensed childcare centers in selected cities in Texas. However, this and other tests to gauge and plan for academic achievement (but not IQ tests) are available to families. Contact me for scheduling. info@NOSPAMorgstrat.net Know exactly how your child stacks up to expectation as he or she enters…
We do basic management consulting for small businesses, churches, and schools. Our greatest expertise is understanding the social dynamics of the workgroup. The second is sympathetic coaching of the frontline manager. Original assessment research and follow-up required. Topics for training include: 1) how to hire, manage, and fire for the new manager, 2) time management…
Top Ten Tips 1. There is no such thing as multi-tasking, there is only attention switching. 2. Disrupting attention leads to lower productivity. 3. Worrying about performance leads to mess-ups. An athlete, for instance, knows that best performance comes from automatic, not thought-through action. 4. One may reduce the 10,00 hours dramatically by using attention…
You asked for easy assessments. You don’t want to think through the issues of validity and reliability. Hiring a professional would be great. Well will talk about that later. But what is a TEACHER to do, who has no time but wants to start doing assessments? I have the answer! Easy assessments for 18 months,…
I started doing “diversity training” back in the 1990s. I was wondering if it were really a “dead horse.” Recent seminar feedback (diversity doesn’t apply here) and recent news (Ferguson. MO) suggest that it is still very relevant today. Please keep me in mind as your diversity trainer. Unlike most, I have a Master’s in…
Detoxing, drainage, off loading toxicity is all the rage among the health-interested adults. I am not going to urge you try some de-toxing protocol on children, but I am going to remind that you pay how important it is to allow children enough water. Cutting edge science is pointing to toxicity as a major problem…
Here is the promised to post resources in Austin for children with special learning needs . This is not necessarily an exhaustive list, just the ones I know about. Please be invited to post your favorites too. I do think every director ought to have a list. Autism Spectrum Disorder Johnson Center The Johnson…
Recently, while doing sales calling, I was told by a young woman answering the phone at a licensed childcare center, “Oh, we don’t do assessments here.” What she probably meant was that in their childcare center, like most others, there will be no formal grades, nor will there be diagnoses. However, it is not yet…
What does it take to be a great educator? Better formal training? Natural talent? A love for children? Kindness? Moral excellence in order to think of the children’s needs and the family’s needs and the center’s needs before one’s own? Or faith for a child to achieve academic excellence? Or what? How do you rate…
I was struck by the story of one of the American olympians who at 4 climbed to the top of the department store. Most parents would have punished, and I’ll bet he was told nto to do that — but his parents paid for him to go to gymnastics class. Have you any more stories…