Introduce yourself on the Early Learning Community

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Permalink Reply by Joel Ballezza on February 6, 2009 at 6:54am

Hi, This is Joel from the Foundation for Early Learning. I'm excited to be helping to launch this service.

I've been involved in the field of early learning for just over a year however I've been involved in the education sector for some time.

I am passionate about education because I believe it is the best investment you can make in a community. I am also a product of a public education from age five to 25!

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Permalink Reply by Vaughnetta J. Barton on February 6, 2009 at 7:03am

I'm excited to join! My name is Vaughnetta J. Barton and I am the Executive Director at the Foundation for Early Learning. I've been involved in early learning for many years and the have a background that connects both social work and banking. Investing in communities and in early learning through grassroots initiatives is something I love.

Welcome to the Early Learning Community! Feel free to send me an email with your thoughts about this new service at vaughnetta@earlylearning.org. I look forward to working together!

Best Wishes,
Vaughnetta J. Barton

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Permalink Reply by Erin Okuno on February 9, 2009 at 3:04pm

Hi,

I'm Erin and I work for the Foundation for Early Learning. I oversee the Getting School Ready! and Ten Simple Ways booklet projects. I also work with a great group of librarians on the Early Learning Public Library Partnership.

Please feel free to drop me a note!

Cheers,
Erin

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Borgida on February 10, 2009 at 9:41am

Hello,

My name is Sarah Borgida and I am the Foundation for Early Learning's new Program Officer! I am delighted to be working for such a dynamic organization dedicated to children birth to five. I am a parent, and realize the vital role parents and other adults play in children's lives and how critical the first five years of life are. I'm also an educator, and have worked as a direct service provider, program manager and administrator, and funder for the duration of my career. Having been a part of schools and programs that serve children pre-kindergarten to beyond grade 12, I can say from experience that early investment in children pays off, and a lack of early investment costs a great deal - financially, academically, and socially.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Phanco on February 12, 2009 at 9:05am

Hello Everyone~

I am the Executive Director of the community coalition in Pierce County called "First 5 FUndamentals" Because the first five years are fundamental! I am excited about how this site can build our capacity. New to online social networking, I look forward to learning more about this new tool, and connecting with each of you better.

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Permalink Reply by Jenna Barrett on February 12, 2009 at 2:48pm

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to be a part of the Early Learning Community online. I am the Office Manager at the Foundation for Early Learning. I assist with the nuts-and-bolts side of our office work in Seattle to help our staff operate as a robust supporter of early learning programs. I believe strongly that an educated society is an empowered society, and I want that. It is a pleasure and an honor to support our earliest learners in this way.

Please feel free to contact me!

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Permalink Reply by Susan Dibble on February 19, 2009 at 11:01am

Hi! I'm Susan Dibble, the Executive Director of Page Ahead Children's Literacy Program. Our mission is to inspire a love of reading in at-risk children, and our services begin at birth. I am of the age that Social Networking is a new and foreign idea, but I am greatly interested in its potential! We serve more than 200 partners statewide, and it would be great to be able to disseminate information quickly and easily (not to mention interactively!) to them.

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Permalink Reply by Vaughnetta J. Barton on February 20, 2009 at 8:12am

Welcome Susan and to all those that have joined! I'm excited to see this resource developing and look forward to our public launch on 2/26

Susan Dibble said:

Hi! I'm Susan Dibble, the Executive Director of Page Ahead Children's Literacy Program. Our mission is to inspire a love of reading in at-risk children, and our services begin at birth. I am of the age that Social Networking is a new and foreign idea, but I am greatly interested in its potential! We serve more than 200 partners statewide, and it would be great to be able to disseminate information quickly and easily (not to mention interactively!) to them.

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Permalink Reply by Jan E.V.W. Hanson on February 21, 2009 at 10:51am

I am the Youth Services Librarian at the Longview Public Library in Washington State. We have a large collection of Board Books, a Parenting Collection, Theme Boxes on topics like Colors, Numbers, Diversity and Toilet Training, with books, manipulatives, sometimes music and videos, and laminated activity sheets.

We also have Mother Goose Time for 0-18months on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m., Preschool Storytimes on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m., Toddler Time at 10:30 a.m. and Toddler Tales, also on Fridays at 11 a.m. We have bilingual family programs on Saturdays at 2 p.m., and a family Craft & Storytime on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. There are also programs for teens and elementary school ages.

We are looking forward to becoming the 1st in our county to be a Born Learning interactive site. We are also working in partnership with the Longview School District and other agencies for a DEL grant.

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Permalink Reply by Leslie Dozono on February 23, 2009 at 4:29pm

Hi everyone, I'm Leslie Dozono, the Early Learning Policy Coordinator at the Children's Alliance. We convene the Early Learning Action Alliance, a broad coalition of organizations united in advocacy for early learning on the state and federal levels. If your organization is interested in becoming a member of the Early Learning Action Alliance, please let me know. You can find out more about the coalition, including our 2009 legislative agenda and membership, here: http://www.childrensalliance.org/our-current-work/early-learning-no....

During legislative session I send out weekly email updates to coalition members and early learning partners on what's happening with early learning in the legislature and I host a weekly 9am Thursday conference call for the same purpose. If you're interested in receiving these updates or participating in the conference calls, please contact me!

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Permalink Reply by Kathy Miller on February 26, 2009 at 10:59am

Hello,

My name is Kathy Miller. I have been a Licensed childcare provider in Washington State since 1999. I run a family childcare and preschool in White Salmon. I have also served on two bargaining teams for SEIU, am currently the Secretary of the SEIU ELD, Secretary for SWWFCCA (www.swwfcca.com) as well as a Certified American Red Cross CPR and First Aid Instructor.

I, like many childcare providers got into the business of Early Learning when my last child was born, 11 years ago. I decided to stay home with him and have not looked back since. I find my job in childcare to be very rewarding. I love being part of little lives that will someday change our entire society, I can't think of a job more important than that!

Kathy Miller
www.justlikehomeinc.com

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Permalink Reply by Tami Boynton on February 26, 2009 at 10:59am

Hello there. My name is Tami Boynton. I'm a Licensed In Home Daycare Provider of 15 years. I chose this profession to be at home and raise our two children now 14yro son and 11yro daughter. With my husband working shift work it was going to be hard to find someone to care for our kids if we both were to work the same profession. so, after alot of praying and asking for guidance this is what i chose. My mother has provided care in Olympia for many many many years and i found that doing as she did was the best idea to be home as a wife and mother but to still help with the bills financially. I love what i do and i care deeply for the children i care for. it is more then just job to pay bills it is a 2nd family.

I continue taking classes to better myself each year and to create a very professional portfolio for me later in life if i decide to go and work in a school with kindergartners. i plan on doing this for many more years.

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