Getting Ready—Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

The Global Alliance of NAEYC has e-mail addresses for early childhood professionals worldwide:

http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance

Unicef, United for children, are working in every country you can think of to help improve the lives of children.  You can research what they are doing by country or as a whole.  The site offers many resources.  You can register with most any social media you are familiar with to keep involved with what they are doing. I registered to become a fan on Face book.  They have a link titled “The State of the World’s Children”, It features videos, panels article from real people sharing information about children rights, policy, health etc...from world.  

UNICEF has local organizations and representatives worldwide. Check out the country specific links and contact a local representative:

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html

I am familiar with NAEYC however, I did not know about their contacts outside of the U.S.  I joined TORCH, The Online Resource Center Headquarters.  The online community resources to help you better understand and implement the NAEYC accreditation criteria.  Most of the questions I read came from professionals living in the States.  I find many of the question and answers to actually be useful to me.

 

After exploring many of the sites and registering for a few of the newsletters I chose the following to full engulf myself in.   

National Black Child Development Institute

http://nbcdi.org/

(Newsletter: http://nbcdi.org/support/sign-up-for-nbcdi-newsletters/ )

Totally personal reasons.  As an African American mother and teacher it is important for me to state informed and connected.

National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators

http://www.naecte.org/

(Newsletter: http://www.naecte.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=29 )

I have been a Early Childhood Professional for ten years.

Summer letter from the president, Discussing the Summer Conference taken place in RI, It has a nice write up about teacher research explaining who performs  the research and the purpose for the research.

International Child Resource Institute

http://www.icrichild.org/

(Review also the international projects at: http://www.icrichild.org/kenya ) Click on the International Projects tab at the top to see a list of the available projects.

I truly believe “it takes a village”.  And when I open up this site the front page of the website reads “Empowering the Village to Raise The Child”.

State it’s mission is to improve live of children and families around the world.  In a world where so many children do not have basic human rights.