"Only when professionals understand culturally sensitive care and are in close communication with families can they know how to work toward positive outcomes for children's identity, sense of belonging, and cultural competence".
-Gonzalez-Mena, J., 2001
"We must be the compassion we wish to see in others!"
-Janet Gonzalez-Mena, 2011
"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be".
-Marian Wright Edelman
"A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future".
-Marian Wright Edelman
"The preschool years are critical, they are the first most fundamental period when children are in fact noticing who they are and are noticing the attitudes and the stereotypes and the discomforts or the positive messages about their skin color, their racial identity, their ethnic identity and so on".
-Louise Derman-Sparks, on the reason for her passion for early childhood video.
"I learned it's not all about you. You gotta take your ego out of it and think about what's best for this child, and you care about them enough to help them transition to what's next-what comes next and what's best".
-Renatta M. Cooper, on the reason for her passion for early childhood video.
Shelita,
ReplyDeleteI love that you added pictures to yours! I also loved the quotes that you chose for this week. The quotes by Maria Wright Edelman are some powerful words! Great work!
Shelita, I agree with Marian Wright Edelman quote and I stand behind it to be a better mother correction, not making the mistakes that were make by my mother again powerful words!!!!
ReplyDeleteAfter viewing the information presented in your blog I am empowered. You are truly a childcare advocate and I am grateful to have you as a colleague. I look forward to alongside you during this program. I thought I would share an inspirational quote from what Raymond Hernandez MS ED, Executive Director School of Early Childhood Education, University of Southern California says “Through the years I’ve learned that I’ve developed my own leadership skills and it’s something that you don’t read in books, leadership comes as you grow in your field.” “If your passionate about it, it’s going to come through, it’s not like you will have to have a script and it’s just as if you are speaking from the heart, and it will come through” (Laureate Education, Inc, 2010).
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