The first Born to Read training of 2009 was in Presque Isle on January 6 and 13. Susan Giggey-Bergeron and Karen Campbell-Sawyer led a group of 14 participants, including nine owners of their own home-based child care programs. A professor of early childhood from Northern Maine Community College, who has also been a trainer for [...]
Michael Sandberg and Virginia Dearani braved the holiday madness back in December, 2008, to co-facilitate this training group of twelve. Most of the participants were experiencing power outages from a winter storm, prompting lots of dialogue about limited resources. There were also a number of participants who work with families on second and third shifts, [...]
My Charlesbridge catalog arrived yesterday, and I noticed that Grace Lin is celebrating the tenth anniversary of her first published book, The Ugly Vegetables, by creating new cover art. So do not be alarmed if you see participants holding an unfamiliar book in your next Many Eyes, Many Voices training…it’s the same inside! I’ll post [...]
Last month, Linda Levesque and Bahia Yackzan co-facilitated a training in Machias that drew 10 participants from three different child care programs: Busy Bees, Step by Step, and the NAEYC-accredited Flaherty Center at UMaine Machias. The participants left with firm ideas about changes they could make right away, such as checking to make sure “the [...]
There is a passionate discussion currently underway on half a dozen blogs about if and how to describe a character’s race in writing for children. I wasn’t going to mention it here, since it wasn’t really about books for 0- to 5-year-olds, but when Mitali Perkins brought picture books into the discussion in her post [...]
