Establishing Professional Contacts

I like completing my blog assignment before either of the other two assignments.  At the beginning of the week I visited the World Forum Foundation website and sent emails out to six individuals within several minutes they were return to sender showing up in my email from the address I used.  It was too far into the week to wait for a response from the other emails.  I chose to do the alternate to part I using the podcast I listened to Susan Lyons podcast.  I found it challenging to access the audio because I had to initially subscribe to the digital downloads. Lyons stated she created a program called Innovative Teacher Project which is inspired by Reggio Emilia.  The projects mantra is quality work can happen in center based child care.  The program has weekly roundtable discussion Seminars and other resources that are related to children.  My suggestion to my colleagues is to allow enough time to explore the whole web site and make contact with early childhood professionals. 

The early childhood organization I chose to study is The National Center for Children and Poverty.  I am interested in how the organization uses young child risk calculator offering information about each state.  The site provides a demographic profile by each state; my state demographic indicates that there are 33% of the children living in poverty.  The information show that 55% of African American children live in low-income families in state of Virginia where I live.  This organization is interesting because I did not realize the circumstance surrounding poverty in my local.  I plan to return to this organizations site to find out what more I can find out involving Virginia. 

 

Reference:

Demographics of Low-Income Children. (2014, May 2). Retrieved September 6, 2014, from http://www.nccp.org/profiles/state_profile.php?state=VA&id=6