100 Day Project – Day 46 – 7:18 pm Today, at the community college where I work, I had the great fortune to spend the day in a workshop with Barbara Walvoord. It was an excellent workshop about Curriculum Mapping. The overarching task I’m not so fond of — each department/division/program at the school – […]
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100 Day Project – Day 45 – Power of Mentoring
October 20th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, Important People, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Volunteer, Work
100 Day Project – Day 45 – 9;05 p.m. Become a Big. Do you want to make a difference in the world? Yes, you could donate some money, bring some cans to the food bank, donate your old clothes, your old car, and put coins in the red bucket during the holidays. These are good […]
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100 Day Project – Day 44 – Risk taking
October 19th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, family, Musings, Work
100 Day Project – Day 44 – 9:30 p.m. This evening I had occasion to have dinner with three other very bright, and devoted women: women who have worked for years with young children and their families. Discussion ranged from jobs and families to the state of politics, and about children. This recent study was […]
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100 Day Project – Day 42 – Motivation
October 17th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 42 – 8:16 p.m. (If you’re paying attention I skipped Days 40 and 41 over the weekend.) An interesting internet road happened today: First my usual email newsletter blast from Child Care Exchange about Creativity. From there I decided to follow their link to The 99% website that seems to […]
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100 Day Project – Day 38 – Light bulbs
October 13th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Musings, Teaching & Learning
100 Day Project – Day 38 – 8:56 pm There were two lightbulb moments today: one for a student, and one for me. An Introduction to Early Childhood Student had a really obvious lightbulb moment. I ask students to have Reading Talks. They have read an assignment, responded to it in writing and come prepared […]
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