Location: Emerson Manner, Hoquiam WA 9:30 am.
In attendance: members Theresa A., Dannielle O., Jeanne W., Lynda S., Chris H. and guest Jennifer T.
Welcome and Introductions
Membership Drive Goals & Objectives: Our current goals include boosting membership to 10 active members and to reinforce WAEYCs focus on legislative action.
We reviewed Membership Benefits
CAEYC web site and listserve: We discussed the features available on the caeyc.info web site and mentioned the recent addition of our listserve mailing list. Some ideas to improve the quality of the content and usability were offered.
Disaster Survival: Teresa A. brought in a Disaster Kit from her center and demonstrated many of the items within. A specific list of items will be posted soon on the caeyc.info web site. In addition several special PUD phone numbers were given including special needs clients, and the outage status hot line. In addition it was mentioned that Ann Marzano with the Grays Harbor County Health Dept. does give excellent disaster preparedness trainings.
Kindergarten Readiness: We had an interesting and diverse discussion concerning Kindergarten Readiness. We discussed how expectations and practices in preschool have changed over the last few years and how they continue to be shifted between parents, public school staff and ECE professionals. As we had all three of these groups represented, it was obviously an point on which more discussion could be fruitful. In addition, we talked about how developmentally appropriate practices may overlap or come into conflict with some Kindergarten Readiness concepts. We briefly discussed testing procedures and other metrics.
At this point, our meeting time was expired so we did not get a chance to bring up:
In attendance: members Theresa A., Dannielle O., Jeanne W., Lynda S., Chris H. and guest Jennifer T.
Welcome and Introductions
Membership Drive Goals & Objectives: Our current goals include boosting membership to 10 active members and to reinforce WAEYCs focus on legislative action.
We reviewed Membership Benefits
CAEYC web site and listserve: We discussed the features available on the caeyc.info web site and mentioned the recent addition of our listserve mailing list. Some ideas to improve the quality of the content and usability were offered.
Disaster Survival: Teresa A. brought in a Disaster Kit from her center and demonstrated many of the items within. A specific list of items will be posted soon on the caeyc.info web site. In addition several special PUD phone numbers were given including special needs clients, and the outage status hot line. In addition it was mentioned that Ann Marzano with the Grays Harbor County Health Dept. does give excellent disaster preparedness trainings.
Kindergarten Readiness: We had an interesting and diverse discussion concerning Kindergarten Readiness. We discussed how expectations and practices in preschool have changed over the last few years and how they continue to be shifted between parents, public school staff and ECE professionals. As we had all three of these groups represented, it was obviously an point on which more discussion could be fruitful. In addition, we talked about how developmentally appropriate practices may overlap or come into conflict with some Kindergarten Readiness concepts. We briefly discussed testing procedures and other metrics.
At this point, our meeting time was expired so we did not get a chance to bring up:
- 1 & 3 year goals and objectives for WAEYC
- Planning for the Week Of the Young Child
Our next meeting will be Wednesday September 19 at 6:00pm at the Emerson Manner.
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