National Head Start Association

The website that I have chosen to place my attention on for this class for the next 6 weeks is the National Head Start Association. I chose this organization because I am employed with a local Head Start in my community and have been employed there for almost 11 years. Even though I was unable to actually request for newsletters without being a member, I was able to follow through with retrieving current news from the website. None that I saw were related to this weeks discussion of diversity and demographics, but I did learn the following;

• Since May 4-8 was Teacher Appreciation Week, NHSA encouraged parents and teachers to log onto Facebook each day and post and respond to videos or photos of meaningful interactions within the classroom.
• Bammy Awards- The discussion was about the Bammy Awards, which was created by NHSA and the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. This award recognizes the great contributions being made everyday by educators across the community. The award is also aimed for offsetting the scrutiny and negative outlook surrounding our profession.
• Repurposed Crayons- I feel this was quite exciting to learn! NHSA has partnered with restaurants to used repurposed crayons in Head Start classrooms. The mission was actually started by a mom in California by the nameof Sheila Michail Morovati. Her mission was to intially collect as many crayons as possible and give them to kids that were in need. I guess this section would relate to lower-income demographics, as this is what type of families Head Start serves, as well as the families that received the crayons.

These are a few of the current articles that I found interesting enough to share!