Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

For part 1 of this blog assignment, I have yet to hear back from either people I emailed.  Therefore, I am going to continue on to the alternative assignment.  For this, I subscribed to World Forum radio podcasts.  I viewed TJ Skalski's podcast, of Canada.  I was interested in the mother nature perspective of her charter school.  I also visited their website, http://www.meccs.org/site/ .  I found their mission to be inspiring.  They foster an atmosphere in which children learn to respect one another and accept everyone's individual attributes.  They honor thier cultural backgrounds while also instilling a mainstream education.

For part 2 of this assignment, I chose Zero to Three.org.  I chose this site because I often visit it already for my position as an Early Head Start teacher.  I have referred to it often for articles, information, etc.  I find it to be very informative and applicable to my needs.  There are many informative websites for early childhood education, but I find Zero to Three to be the easiest to follow.  Their website is designed so that I can quickly find anything I need to.  I was not already signed up for newsletters, but while visiting for this assignment I did sign up to recieve newsletters.  I look forward to getting my first next month.

Resources:
World Forum Foundation
http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/current-work/world-forum-radio

Mother Earth's Children's Charter School
http://www.meccs.org/site/

Zero To Three
http://www.zerotothree.org/   (May have to use http://www.zerotothree.org/about-us/ )
(Newsletters:
http://zttcfn.pub30.convio.net/child-development/from-baby-to-big-kid/ and
http://capwiz.com/zerotothree/mlm/signup/ )