Growing Your Collection of Resources -additional resources

Quotes Related to Children:

Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child’s future. A child’s self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.                         
                                                              STEPHANIE MARTSON

Children need models more than they need critics.      
                                                              JOSEPH JOUBERT

Website:

Resources for Educators –Early Childhood Development Coalition.

http://www.earlychildhoodswi.org/ResourcesForEducators.html

Books:

Evidence-Based Practice in the Early Childhood Field by Virginia Buysse

Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell

Growing Your Collection of Resources- Course Resources

• Administration for Children and Families Headstart’s National Research Conference
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/

• Association for Childhood Education International
• http://acei.org/about/
• Children’s Defense Fund http://www.childrensdefense.org/
• Center for Child Care Workforce http://www.ccw.org/
• Council for Exceptional Children
  http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
• Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.  http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf
• FPG Child Development Institute http://www.fpg.unc.edu/main/about.cfm
• HighScope  http://www.highscope.org/
• Harvard Education Letter http://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85
• Institute for Women’s Policy Research  http://www.iwpr.org/index.cfm
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
  http://www.naeyc.org/
• National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education
  http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/
• National Child Care Association  http://www.nccanet.org/
• National Institute for Early Education Research  http://nieer.org/
• Pre[K]Now  http://www.preknow.org/
• The Erikson Institute  http://www.erikson.edu/
• The Division for Early Childhood  http://www.dec-sped.org/
• WESTED  http://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm
• World Organization for Early Childhood Education
  http://www.omep-usnc.org/
• Where we stamd on school readiness.  http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/Readiness.pdf
• World Forum Foundation  http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/about.php
• Voices for America’s Children http://www.voices.org/
• Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
  http://www.zerotothree.org/

Lyndon Johnson, Ann Turnbull, and Sandy Escobido offers great words of inspiration and motivation

Lyndon Johnson

“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”

“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.”

Ann Turnbull

“Positive behavior support is an approach for helping children develop social and communication skills, while creating a positive environment for learning and growth. Essentially, positive behavior support is a package of strategies, not just one intervention.”

Sandy Escobido

“ My passion stands from my personal experience growing up. My mom and dad come from different countries. My mom comes from Mexico and my dad from El Salvador,  they came to this country looking for oppitunity for themselves and for me.”

“So when I go to these parent meetings and actually see parents see how to speak to policy makers and learning how to write letters and learning how to tell their stories and share their voice that’s what keeps me motivated regardless of all the challenges going on.”

Personal Childhood Web

Grandfather-Reny Textus

I was a papa's girl. As a young child I grew up in Trinidad and he was always there for me. He was retired and his life revolved around me. He took me to school every day, he came to any event that I had, he spent time with me like a father should of. He always told me I had a gift of love, and that is what I think fuels my passion for children. My papa never turned a hungry man away, and to this day if someone tells me they have no money for food I will provide for them.

                                            On the beach in Trinidad when I went for a visit

Papa, Tyler, and I in 2006

Grandmother-Lonia Textus

My grandmother and grandfather have been married since they was 18, so they was very much in love. My grandmother was focused on my education and wouldn't let me sit on the job. She knew I could do anything that I put my head too, and she told me that every chance she got. I remember she used to make me special treats when I finished reading a book (ice cream, cake, comb my hair in a fancy way, etc.) Family is first is what she always said, and to this day I follow her belief. I just pray that my husband and I will a happy marriage for as long as they did.

                                                  The last picture I have with my grandparents

Mother-Jillian Tucker

My mother is my rock and my role model. She came to the United States at a young age, alone, and learned from her mistakes. In my younger years even though I was not physically living with her until the age of 8, she made sure that I was able to experience different things. I went to the best schools, different trips, and had everything that I wanted. As a young girl she wanted me to know that I didn't need to depend on anyone but myself. My mother made it possible for to me dream. She is a fighter- she overcame cancer, financial obsticles, and the reputation that she wasn't going to amount to anything becasue she divorced her husband. The number one thing I learned and practice from my mother is to never give up on my dreams.

                                            My beautiful mother enjoying the sun

                       My mom and Andrew (my youngest son) infront of her first home

                        That was her dream!!!!

Meaningful to me

Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conducts is pure and right. Proverbs 20:11

Days of the week drawing

I love this drawing that my son made for his book. I like for him to do work thoughout the summer even if he don't have school. About two weeks ago he hold me that he wanted to do a days of the week book. He went on to tell me that when school starts he wants to give it to his teacher so they know what he did in the summer. So for Sunday he drew a picture of him going to church and on Monday playing basketball and he continued until he reached Saturday. What makes this picture so special is that he looked in the newspaper to get the spelling of basketball, and took the church program out my purse to spell church. All I could do was laugh, and I hope his teacher likes his book.

Go, Dog Go is a Great book

"Go, Dog Go" by P.D. Eastman is a fantastic book. The main reason this book is one of my favoriates is because my 5 year old son can read it to me. The book is about dogs, things they do, places they go, and things they see. The interesting part is that the book is loaded with sight words, which makes it a easy  book for 4 and 5 year olds to read. Let's not forget the pictures throughtout the book, it is colorful and goes hand in hand with the story. Once a week my son reads this book to me and each time it gets easier and easier for him.