This week our assignment was to make contact with two people in other countries that work or are interested in early childhood education. Over the course of our class we are to discuss trends and issues that are affecting early childhood education with our two new contacts in order to gain a new perspective of issues as they relate to people around the world. I am excited to establish my contacts.
To begin making contact with persons from around the world I went to the Global Alliance of NAEYC website provided in our weekly resources list. I actually chose five email addresses and sent out a brief message explaining our assignment and my desire to establish contact with professionals in other parts of the world. I have not received a message back from anyone yet, but I am hopeful that I will receive a response soon.
The website that I have chosen to follow for this course is the Harlem Children's Zone. When I saw this listed as one of the choices I was curious to follow the link. Last year I saw a documentary on 60 minutes about a school that was started in Harlem where students were accepted through a lottery because so many people wanted their children to enroll in the school. Parents of newborn were already registering their babies. This is the type of program that I am interested in starting. I want to develop a high quality program that will make a huge positive impact in our community that everyone will want our children to be accepted. I am excited to be able to learn more about the Harlem Children's Zone and to share it with my classmates as we proceed through the next 8 weeks.
Harlem Children’s Zonehttp://www.hcz.org/
The Global Alliance of NAEYC has e-mail addresses for early childhood professionals worldwide:http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance
I hope that you get in contact with the professionals that you contacted. I also hope that someone returns one of my emails. I have never heard of the Harlem Children's Zone. My only question is what kind of work do they do. I have seen people flock to schools because they are new or are assoicatied with another program not because of their abilities. I wish you the best of luck and look forward to finding out more about the Harlem Children's Zone.
ReplyDeleteUndrea,
ReplyDeleteThe Harlem Children's Zone has been in the news a few times over the past few years. They are a Daycare-12th grade school that also provides social and community services. They have a lottery each year to enroll students. Parents get on the waiting list as soon as their children are born so they can get into the lottery! I hope that my blog will help you learn more about this awesome program. I am hoping that I will learn more as well.
Thank you.
Jennifer