Expanding Horizons and Expanding Resources

I have chosen to use the foundation Save the Children (http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.8D6E/Official_Site.htm ) to learn more about global issues in early childhood. I have signed up for the newsletter for this website and hope to gain valuable information from it. I have also browsed the resource library and have found many article titles that will be useful in the future, but the main area of education and child protection being of the most interest at this time.

This week I have been able to visit many different websites and learn a little bit about their mission to help in the development of young children. I decided to focus on the organization Zero to Three (www.zerotothree.org ) as it interests me as both a mom of an almost 1-year old, another to be born in August, as well as an early childhood professional. I have been working for the past three years in Kindergarten but spent a few years in Head Start working with half a class of three-year olds. The information available to both parents and professionals will hopefully help me in both ways! I have signed up for four different newsletters through the Zero to Three website: From Baby to Big Kid, The Baby Monitor: Updates from our Policy Team, Baby Steps, and Journal Table of Contents Alerts. There seems to be a good mixture between these newsletters of information for both parents and professionals.

            This website seems easier to navigate than some of the others and there are many topics listed for exploration under each of these sub-topics: early development and well-being, early learning, parenting, and policy and advocacy. I look forward to exploring many of these topics in the coming weeks!

Resources:

www.zerotothree.org

http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6115947/k.8D6E/Official_Site.htm