You make a difference.
There it is. It’s a powerful thing and one that we can easily take for granted in the midst of paperwork, getting stuck in traffic between visits, going to meetings, and completing even more paperwork. You never know when you are going to provide support to a child and family that will …
Everywhere you turn right now, you hear or see an ad related to New Year’s resolutions. Did you know that 45% of people make resolutions but only 8% say that they are successful? In case you’ve made some resolutions for 2014, I thought I would help you get started on them by sharing some strategies you …
Just this morning I realized that today’s post would be our 100th! That’s a big milestone for what started out as a small blog from one state’s professional development team . We are so very proud that this blog is reaching early intervention providers and others across Virginia, providers across the US and in other …
Sitting Around the Campfire
Here you are sitting around the campfire with good friends after an exhausting day….just staring at the flickering flame. Each person sitting around this circle is lost in his or her own thoughts, drifting miles away. Then someone pulls out a big log, pokes the embers, blows on them, strategically places the …
I could tell you that a great way to cultivate early intervention expertise is to take a workshop, read a book, join a community of practice or go to a conference. In fact, that’s how the first draft of this post read. The more I thought about this topic, though, the more I realized that …
Developing & Promoting Early Intervention Expertise – What Professional Development Providers Can Do
In the most recent issue of Young Exceptional Children, Bonnie Keilty, Ed.D., wrote the “Voices from the Field” about using infant & toddler development and family systems as the framework for early intervention practice. She suggested that building effective practices around child and family development, family functioning and family systems would help practitioners do two …
Last week we posted 3 tips to help you get organize and prioritize your many work duties. These tips involved organizing lists, prioritizing your work, and using tickler systems. Here are 3 more tips for managing your time!
Tip #4: Follow the 3 minute rule (or 5 minute rule or whatever time you set for yourself)
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Do you ever feel like you have so much to do that you don’t know where to start? Do you ever have one of those days or weeks where you feel like everything is merging together and you don’t remember where you left off or where you should begin at the beginning of each day …
We all have the “shelf of shame”…the shelf in our offices that houses the dusty collection of folders and handouts we eagerly collect when we attend conferences and trainings. We also probably have a similar shelf in our brains…a folder in the back of our heads where we store the information we were so excited …
