Writing about Linda Capone-Newton’s June training reminded me that while we used to distribute an article from “Newsweek” about the controversy surrounding the Nappy Hair book in every Many Eyes, Many Voices training, there’s no longer any guarantee that this 10-year-old story will get discussed. That’s okay—there are many other connections to current events that [...]
Linda Capone-Newton facilitated this small training in late June. The group included pairs of colleagues from three centers who were more inclined to talk to one another than to people they didn’t know, so the main challenge for Linda was to get the discussion flowing more freely. She found that Nappy Hair prompted good discussion.
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Born to Read proudly announces its very own LibraryThing catalog! All the books we own, for both children and adults, are now listed online using this website, which was started by a man now living in Portland. The cataloguer was our wonderful volunteer, Amron Gravett. Take a look around the catalog – you may be [...]
The Bi-County Conference in Sullivan, Maine, is sponsored by the Child Care Opportunities RDC for Hancock and Washington counties. This April, Bahia Yackzan facilitated two workshops sessions, each one hour and fifteen minutes long, on Many Eyes, Many Voices. She chose to distribute one copy of Thanks to the Animals and one Somali Alphabet book [...]
For this training, Bahia Yackzan and Linda Levesque worked with a very sophisticated group of nine experienced early childhood educators and two Born to Read volunteers. Bahia noted that “it was a wonderful thing to recognize, and adjust our agenda to, the fact that this group of providers was really ready for a deeper level [...]
