Consulting is a new idea in early childhood. Too often directors think it is on the level of training. Even training is often seen as just ticking off the requirement of Licensing, instead of the amazing tool it is for positive change. Consulting is even more so: a key to opening doors to treasures, often…
Ever tear your hair out with your employees? Part of avoiding that is hiring the right people, and I talk about my secrets in the audio training for Directors. But there is more to it: setting them on the right track to start with. That is about training. I know you wish I could be…
What active learning activities have you used in your classroom, to good effect? What concerns do you have to the push for “gamefication?” Are we here to transfer knowledge? or not?
Calendars fill up fast for August trainings. Contact me soon.
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?
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!
God chose to communicate to His creation through a book. You know what that tells me? Literature is vitally important. – @KingCohl #books Dr. David Dickinson is going to speak in San Antonio about the importance of early language acquisition for life-long success an upcoming conference. How do you make sure that your classrooms are…