Blog Assignment for October 1, 2011

What specific section(s) or information seemed particularly relevant to your current professional development? SAVE THE CHILDREN has been involved in the USA setting up 84 sites in 11 states. The emphasis on the connection between parents reading to their child and those who do not have a positive impact on helping their child learn. There is a wealth of information concerning early childhood education and its importance. For me, their emphasis on training teachers to teach effectively reading programs and developing materials for families to use is a highlight. I want to teach young teachers effective methods of teaching little ones to read and to have a desire to learn.
Which ideas/statements/resources, either on the website or in an e-newsletter, did you find controversial or made you think about an issue in new ways? I was aware of the literacy programs in Africa but was not informed of the literacy programs in the USA. Their website tells of 16,000 children in the USA participating in their literacy program in the year of 2010.
What information does the website or the e-newsletter contain that adds to your understanding of how economists, neuroscientists, or politicians support the early childhood field? The list of members of their board can be found on their Board of Members link on the website. Every board member is either an education or a business man. This shows me that SAVE THE CHILDREN is supported by many sectors outside of Early Childhood Education.
What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain from exploring the website or e-newsletter? I did not realize the extent of operation and service that SAVE THE CHILDREN serves throughout the world. Assisting families in crisis is a first step in touching those families to educate them to the importance of education for their children and in developing literacy and early childhood programs.
SAVE THE CHILDREN retrieved from http://www.savethechildren.org

New Sites I just became aware of today

Move the Mountain www.movethemountain.org
Bridges out of Poverty www.ahaprocess.com
Circles of Hope also found at www.movethemountain.org
Harvey County Horticulture and Master Gardeners and City of Newton, KS partner to gather to create a community garden
Plant a Row for The Hungry found at www.gardenwriters.org
Since just having come to Newton three weeks ago I had to go to the internet for some information and some recommended by a city official

Contacts I have made and now need to follow up

Linda Bazerjian
Director of External Affairs
Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness
44 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
LBazerjian@icphusa.org
T: 212.358.8086 x 1204 | F: 212.358.8090

Subscribed to NIEER online Newsletter retrieved from http://nieer.org/resources/newsletter/

Sherry Hutton and Donna Burns, Fun@playbasedlearning.com.au
Statistics information for state of Victoria, AU
http://www.missionaustralia.com.au/news/2953-poverty-in-victoria-reaches-alarming-level

Dorothy Gibson
Organization and Field Services
American Federation of Teachers
555 New Jersey Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001
(206) 778-2703 (cell)
dgibson@aft.org
www.aft.org
I will be speaking on the phone with Dorothy this weekend.

Three contacts for the city of Newton, Kansas
Erin McDaniel
Public information officer
City of Newton
201 E. Sixth
Newton, KS 67114
Phone: (316) 284-6055
This is the information I received about the city of Newton, Kansas 67114
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 9.7%
(10.0% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 27.8% for Black residents, 6.1% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 0.0% for American Indian residents, 7.1% for other race residents, 2.4% for two or more races residents)

Need to receive this information
Statistics for School Lunch Program for the USD 373, Newton, KS area
Lunch Program, email mzinn@newton.k12.ks.us
Mandi Zinn, Director of Food Service
Resource recommended by Miss McDaniel

Myrna Krehbiel from Peace Connections. You can contact her at 316-284-0000 or info@peaceconnections.org. She leads the Bridges Out of Poverty program.

fun@playbasedlearning.com.au Sherry has written that she would be willing to correspond and answer any questions I have. She is a early childhood professional in Australia

Dorothy Gibson, Organization and Field Services, American Federation of Teachers, www.aft.org I will be interviewing Dorothy one day next week.

SAVE THE CHILDREN http://www.facebook.com/savethechildren?sk=wall
Be an advocate for children
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6151677/k.7FB4/Be_an_Advocate_for_Children.htm

Connections for current trends and issues

Sherry Hutton and Donna Burns, a blog search connection
fun@playbasedlearning.com.au

American Federation of Teachers, Dorothy Gibson, dgibson@aft.org

No connections with World Forum Foundation, eight e-mails sent and all came back from mail administrator as error

From a blog connection
http://lawhighteeducation.com
http://american-education.org
http://early-childhood-education-online.org

A program facilitator in Canada
http://www.strongstart.blogspot.com

An educator in Canada
http://common-senseinearlychildhoodeducation.blogspot.com/

An educator in Australia
http://malesinearlychildhood.blogspot.com/

Another educator from Australia
http://auntannieschildcare.blogspot.com/

The last four websites were donated by a friend.

SAVE THE CHILDREN SITES TO REVIEW THE WORK THEY ARE DOING:

http://results.savethechildren.org/Article/2011/Q3/Letter-From-the-President?msource=pcecures0911
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.7084413/k.26F5/Oprah_Winfrey_Matau_Primary_School_Project.htm?msource=pcecures0911
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.7084483/k.8F5A/Literacy_Boost.htm?msource=pcecures0911
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6153015/k.E633/Education.htm?msource=pcecures0911
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6153013/k.9328/Program_Areas.htm?msource=pcecures0911
http://www.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6150371/ Save the Children in Guinea is especially close to my heart as Guinea is where I worked as a teacher.

Zero to Three: Zero to Three's Fact sheet

http://bcove.me/fmgcut78