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I recently visited a friend of mine whose son and his family are relocating to this area. The son, his wife and two very young daughters are staying with his parents while they sell their house and get re-established. Another...
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Posted by Barbara Long on February 26, 2011
Halloween is Not so Scary Almost every year someone asks me how I feel about celebrating Halloween with young children, especially in a church setting. My personal feeling is that Halloween is much like many other things in life;...
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Posted by Barbara Long on October 11, 2009
Everywhere I go I hear people talking about how awful the EOGs were this year, particularly in the elementary grades: How the material they covered was actually way beyond the grade level of the students taking the tests How stressful...
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Posted by Barbara Long on June 11, 2009
An article I read recently, which I am sharing with you, reminded me of an experience I had years ago. A friend of mine was teaching a class of at-risk four year olds in a public school. She paired each...
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Posted by Barbara Long on June 10, 2009
Brain research shows that the experiences children have, or do NOT have create actual physical effects on the way the child's brain develops. Below are suggestions for activities that will encourage positive brain development. Try them this summer and have...
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Posted by Barbara Long on May 30, 2009
I went to a conference recently, and came away with a severe case of information overload. I commented to my husband that, for a group devoted to improving learning environments for children, the conference organizers were not very good at...
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Posted by Barbara Long on May 29, 2009
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