Articles we recommend {Articles on Teaching, Leading and Mentoring}

When we prepare for conferences and Institutes, we look around for current, relevant articles for the meeting packets. We choose these articles because we really like them, yet they too often get stuffed in a packet and forgotten. No more! We share with you in this section, not only articles that we have copied for Mentor Program meetings, but others that have been recommended and we find outstanding. Enjoy!

Teaching

• 12 Characteristics of Effective Teachers(1.81 mb)
• Early Brain Development Research Review (806 mb)
• Impact of Fear & Anxiety on Development (1.2 mb)
• Play Article(634kb)
• The Importance of Play in Promoting Heathy Child Development (114kb)
• The Moral Lives of Babies; link connects to the NY Times website
• We Grow Brains(88kb)

Mentoring

• Lifting as You Climb( 1.81kb )
• No learner left behind (726kb)
• Welcome the change coming soon (585kb)

Leading

• From Surviving to Thriving (100kb)
• Fundraising for your center: An opportunity to build community (674kb )
• Harvest Institute Description (72kb )
• Intentional Embedded Professional Development (299kb )
• Leadership Choices for Early Care & Education( 68kb )
• Leadership Matters (184kb )
• The Child Care Director [Exchange Article]( 38kb )
• What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate (167kb )

Public Policy

• Should the Government Help Provide Child Care? 2010 Wall Street Journal ( 38kb )
• The Future of Children( 112kb )