Saying goodbye to children in those early mornings for parents can be quite a challenge, but saying goodbye to a child in your program or class for good can be a very upsetting task for many teachers.

Potty Training Tips for the Early Childhood Environment.  Get some quick and thorough pointers on how to approach potty training in your your child care setting!  Including what to consider, how to encourage the child's interest and what to do during set backs!

National Library Week started in the 1950’s when research showed families were buying more media materials than reading materials.

A grant of forty million dollars, to create, execute and manage The National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning to improve the Head Start program,  has been awarded  to Washington University in collaboration with University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, Iowa State University, University of South Florida, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Summary: Families All Matter is a project created by aMaze, a not-for-profit organization that focusing on nurturing the values of family, diversity and community.  A great program that provides curriculum to pre-school and grade school teachers to help with tough conversations about diversity in people's families.

A short synopsis on a longer excerpt about a new proposal for the administration of Head Start and federal pre-K programs.

Tweet Until we have our child care initiatives page set up and running, I thought I would blog about a teacher's award that came across a twitter feed. It is sponsored by Tylenol and part of The Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation.

The award is meant to encourage and recognize early child care teachers for "providing quality care and education." The award goes to fifty teachers that applied for it and of the top ten, one is awarded the Helen Marks Award as National Child Care Teacher of the Year.

Check out the application process, there is a project required as part of the process in which you will be asked to design an enhancement project for the children in your classroom. Sounds like a great and fun challenge to me!

Award ranges from $500 - $1,000 dollars for the teachers personal use and an additional $500 to put toward the project in your application. They even fly you out and pay for hotel accommodations so you can attend the ceremony that is held in Pennsylvania....

Synopsis of the webinar “Children’s Museum Experience: Learning Through Play” brought you by the Child Care Aware, Parents Network which is a part of the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.  It was geared toward parents but centered on how children interact in a museum and how the adult with them can enhance that experience.

“The mission of the World Forum Foundation is to promote an on-going global exchange of ideas on the delivery of quality services for young children in diverse settings.”

The world forum on Early Care and Education is meeting again in Honolulu in May of 2011.  Your peers from around the world with the same passion as you, to provide the best opportunities, education and care possible for children, get together and share ideas.