Very interesting article on low wealth families

Check this out and see what you think? Is this true for the families you serve? What does this mean for quality?

Low Income and Impoverished Families Pay More
Disproportionately for Child Care

I dare you to hit the comment button and write something! C'mon, only two of you have tried...Knowing what your colleagues think about this is important because:

you will know if you think like your Head Start colleagues
you may have a particularly helpful insight for someone else
you will be part of the larger professional conversation going on around you!

A challenge!

Hi everyone! Its been a while now since we were together! I am sure you have been crazy busy, but I wonder if you have had any opportunity to use any of our discussions in your real-life work. Any thoughts of the Pain Chart, Levers of Change, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, etc? Let us know how its effecting your work, if it is! Just click on the comment word below and tell us what you think!

I am making my way to each of you about the goals you identified, so if we haven't talked or emailed, we will soon! Hope you are enjoying an early NC spring! Best to all of you! kate

Congratulations are in order!

Our team member, Stacy Wolff, was selected as the Intern for the NC Head Start Collaboration Office! If you were at the award ceremony at the Head Start Association Conference last week, you already know this, but I couldn't miss an opportunity to bring this to your attention! Please join me in congratulating Stacy!

http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_TPQDPTSS

This is an article that summarizes the research about the relationship between stress, children's brain development and poverty.

http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_TPQDPTSS

Finding things on this blog

I have created notes from our meeting yesterday and you will find them on a "page" listed on the right, called Notes: February 26th. Click on it and you will see our chart notes! Just typing them up made me appreciate again how skilled you all are! And that there are a ton of good ideas in here!

Welcome!

Welcome everyone! Thanks for trying this out! I think you will be pleasantly surprised to see how easy this is.