NISOD
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?
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Posts to Help with Planning
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?
New Year Going to be an Important one for ECD
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!
A Chance to Give to Children of Fukushima
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…
Christmas Child
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…
Christmas Shopping?
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!
Reading is Important
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…
Pre-Service On Sale
Directors in Austin are telling me that they have no good product for pre-service training. So I put the first 8 hours, necessary before a new employee works at all, into one binder. It follows the topics exactly as Licensing requires. It is all on CD, along with exercises and little, easy tests you can…
Listening can be part of leadership
Here is some great advice for directors. http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/seven-secrets-to-listening-when-time-is-short/ Dan Rockwell says people talk because it makes them feel important. With women, talking sometimes makes them feel loved — so listening is once again very important.