Sharing web resources....

• Follow some of the outside links that you have not yet explored. Where do they lead?

In following the outside links of this website, it leads to many articles that support the same cause of the website National Black Child Development Institute.

• Thoroughly search one area of the site. What do you find?
• One area that I searched was the resources and it has resources from nbcd as well as outside resources from their resources. One I'm particular was http://depts.washington.edu/pthru3/framework.html, it's about The Framework helps to address key questions facing those who are developing PreK-3rd grade approaches in their school, district, or community:
  • What does a comprehensive PreK-3rd grade approach include?
  • The word “alignment” is used often, but what needs to be aligned?
  • What kinds of changes need to take hold in adults’ behaviors before we can expect to see improvements in child outcomes?
  • What kinds of responsibilities need to be shared among 0-5 programs, grades K-3, families, and communities?
• If you receive an e-newsletter, follow a link related to one of the issues you have been studying. What new information is available?

The newsletter that I subscribed to was  National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators. A current issue in this newsletter is The members of our allied professional organizations applauding the profound step the President has taken to promote high quality early childhood education and offering their support for the Presidential Early Learning Plan.Their work of preparing early childhood teachers and leaders for the target programs
making their members natural collaborators in this important initiative and they are offering their partnership, expertise, and nation-wide presence to support the President's agenda. 

What other new insights about issues and trends in the early childhood field did you gain this week from exploring the website and/or the e-newsletter?

• This week I actually realized that information on the website, it isn't updated that often and most of the information that I saw this week is the same information that I've been seeing throughout the course. I must admit, there there isn't too much knowledge that I've learned this week from the web site. However the newsletter is constantly updated and I learned that they think of excellence and equity in the same way that we as students do. That was very interesting to know.