Thanks so much for welcoming all my guest posters this past week! I enjoyed a jam-packed trip to Washington D.C. where I spent 3 days at Mom Congress, 1 day sight-seeing (aching feet!), 1 evening gallivanting at the Reading is Fundamental gala, and 1/2 day of meetings. (I’m more introverted than extroverted so don’t expect […]
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My New Parenting.com Blog and How to Subscribe to an RSS Feed
I’m blogging over at Parenting.com for Class Notes in addition to my blogging here at Imagination Soup and my other freelance work. If you want to keep up with my blog posts at Parenting, you’ll need to subscribe to the RSS feed. I realize that over the over 1,000 of you that subscribe in RSS already […]
Fed Up With (School) Lunch – The Book
I met Sarah Wu when she was Mrs. Q., the anonymous teacher blogger, chronicling her year-long experience eating school lunch. Since then, she’s officially come out and published a book which I know you’ll want to read. “I know that at some point in your life you ate hot lunch at school. . . I have […]
RIF Helps Low Income Families Without Books
Do you remember Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) when you were in school? Tables filled end to end with chapter books and picture books. And you got to pick one out for your very own? I fondly remember RIF days. They were so awesome. RIF’s goal is to reach families without any books. Nearly two-thirds of […]
Jumpstart Volunteers In ECE
Start Behind, Stay Behind “1 in 3 children enter kindergarten behind,” said Kim Davenport, mom and Chief Program Officer at Jumpstart, a national early childhood education program. She added that kindergarten teachers can predict with 90% which students will graduate and which will not. Scary. The statement has huge implications. If a child is not ready to learn […]
What Does Secretary of Education, Arnie Duncan, Believe?
“Our country far too complacent. We can not have strong communities with an uneducated workforce,” said Arnie Duncan, Secretary of Education, in a recent speech to Parenting Magazines Mom Congress, April 2011. My first encounter with Secretary of Education Duncan was an NPR Q and A with listeners. Folks were upset about the cuts in programs, […]
Doctors Make Literacy a Priority
One of the highlights of Mom Congress was hearing about the amazing work people do to help children. Reach Out and Read inspired me because of my own passion for literacy. It’s a program started by pediatricians to nurture the roots of literacy and encourage reading aloud to kids. Let me explain. In the Doctor’s Office […]