Getting Ready—Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

What an exciting assignment!   

Establishing Professional Contacts & Expanding Resources

By Saturday of this week, share in your blog the steps you took this week to locate and contact the two professionals, how far you have come in your attempt to establish communication: 

This has proven to be a very interesting assignment.  I am fortunate to work at a NAEYC accredited program and to  be a NAEYC member.  I have had the opportunity to utilize my contacts with the organization to find a fellow professional internationally.  I am current communicating with an EC professional in Canada and will keep everyone posted.  I also am very fortunate in that our local NAEYC affiliate here in North Carolina (NC-AEYC) is having there annual conference in my city next week. 

On September 17, 2011 I will be participating in:

Regional meeting of the National Dialogue, an unprecedented conversation between NAEYC and it's Affiliate network at the local, state and national levels to explore whether or not we have the optimal "relationship" in place to move a national agenda around young children forward in today's economic, political and educational climate.

Also, describe the process of selecting the early childhood organization, and which website you decided to study:

I chose to organizations to study over the next 8 weeks

 

Pre[K]Now: A Campaign of the Pew Center on the States
http://www.preknow.org/

and

The Canadian Association for Young Children
http://www.cayc.ca/ 

Both of these organizations are new to me as a EC professional and will hopefully provide additional resources throughout this course.  The Canadian organization was recommended to me by my professional/international contact.