Last month, Sharon Abair led this group of 16 from a wide range of towns (Waterville, Winslow, Mercer, Oakland, Palmyra, Newport, and Belgrade) in reflections on peaceable practice. They were inspired by the assignment to try sharing the books from the bag with the children in their care. They had great activity ideas, such as [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
