    Me, You, Us: Social-Emotional Learning in Preschool written by Ann S. Epstien, PhD with a foreword by Lillian G. Katz – published by HighScope and NAEYC “….children progress from a focus on themselves (me), to an awareness of others (you), to the formation of reciprocal relatinoships (us.) (p 13)” This book does a really [...]
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Please check out Children’s defense fund new video about this vital matter and write your legislators! Take action please! In a country where many live large lifes of wealth and comfort, too many of our children and their families cannot afford decent health care.  If you aren’t ashamed of this, you should be.
Bingo Granola! Yes indeed, that is the name! It’s made in Brattleboro, Vermont and I buy it at Greenfield’s Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings.  I’ve just finished the bottom of my second bag. I often eat it with a little maple syrup (not really necessary – just to please my sweet tooth) and on top [...]
After a long day of many really quite good workshops on integrative learning; I feel validated in my thinking that college level learning has taken some time to catch up with early care and education where integrative learning is quality care and education! I always knew the littlest had much to teach us big ones!!
       I drove down today to attend a conference at Fairfield University: Innovative Pedagogy & Course Redesign IX: Integrative Learning in Practice. After a pretty nice dinner, participants were led through several exercises where integrative thinking, learning and creation were necessary. Being academics, it was quite possible! I think that there were some folks who [...]
