This week, honestly I am behind on this blog assignment. I have not had an opportunity to locate and contact two professionals as I have only opened this assignment minutes ago. I will look at the resources that were given for this assignment and follow up on this assignment during the week. I am also going to take the steps to contact a former co-worker who is now a Center Directer of a active duty Army instillation CDC. It is my hopes that she will serve as my contact for this assignment. I would like to have a personal relationship with at least one of my contacts. I feel with a personal relationship, honesty and frankness will be given.
I have chosen to study the National Black Child Development Institute http://nbcdi.org/. I found it very interesting that I had not yet heard of this organization and its mission “To improve and protect the quality of life for children of color and their families by giving every child a chance.” I am eager to learn about the diverse speciality programs that the organization has to offer as well as educational resources that will be useful to families. I have a special interest in minority children (not exclusive due to their skin color) and I welcome information about organizations and programs that aid to the "under dogs."
Tasha,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your honesty. It has been difficult for me to establish contact with international educators. My emails have either been retruned or I have not gotten responses. I hope you have beter luck.
Robin
Hi! Tasha,
ReplyDeleteI hope you have better luck than I did getting in touch with fellow colleagues from other countries. I do think that communication barrier is the reason why other have not emailed back. Unfortunately, I believe that I will end up doing the alternate assignment.
Amanda Stapleton-Tuhy
Hi Tasha!
ReplyDeleteI also chose to study the National Black Child! As an African American myself, I am looking forward to learning about this organization. Years, years ago in the 90s as a CDA requirement, I had to join a professional early childhood organization, I became a member because it was inexpensive to join. Of course, I didn't keep up the membership. You know how that goes, sometimes you do things because you have to. But where I am in my life now, I want to know more. Take care and I hope you have better success making contact than I did. I am using the World Forum podcast which is awesome too.
The National Black Child sounds like a good organiztion that I look forward to reading about on your blog. Good luck to you with your contacts and responses back. I think we are going to run into this problem a lot. We can not make them respond back within the time frame we are working with. Good luck and I look forward to reading you post.
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