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Sequatchie Valley Head Start

25 Septiembre 2007

The Stetson Effect

One of the great things about being a child is sometimes what children mostly miss (and adults usually miss entirely): the opportunity to work toward …

Modificada 26 Septiembre 2007 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

15 Septiembre 2007

Drawing Trolls

When I became an adult (wasn’t that just last year?), I put away childish things so I could become the person I thought I wanted to be. It never occ…

Modificada 26 Septiembre 2007 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

15 Julio 2007

The Head Start Moment

Life has moments that, somehow, stamp themselves into you: catching water bugs in the shoals of a mountain lake on a cool June day; the surprise of a …

Modificada 25 Octubre 2007 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

22 Marzo 2007

The Mom Factor

Across this nation (and certainly here in our own little Head Start program) a majority of our children come from single-parent households, and nearly…

Modificada 22 Marzo 2007 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

27 Octubre 2006

Diligence

The real truth of the matter is that it’s easy to forget how it was to be a child, and to do child-like things: learning to tie shoes, for example. Th…

Modificada 30 Octubre 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

6 Octubre 2006

Life Lessons at Head Start

Let’s face it: one of the most important things to learn in life is how it feels to be embarrassed – and how you’re going to respond. At Head Start,…

Modificada 5 Octubre 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

26 Septiembre 2006

The Girl in the Box

What makes life good is different for everybody. We’re a lucky bunch here at Head Start because we get to see – every day – the different things that …

Modificada 23 Septiembre 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

29 Agosto 2006

The Children Up the Road

Every day, when many of our teachers get out of bed, they're in the communities where they work. They come, most commonly, from the same backgrounds…

Modificada 20 Septiembre 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

23 Agosto 2006

What We Do

When Brenda Pickett came to work Wednesday morning at Head Start -- the morning of her ninth wedding anniversary -- she never thought about what mig…

Modificada 16 Marzo 2007 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

7 Julio 2006

Success Is Easier with a Good Head Start

By Madonna Fajardo Kemp     When I became a mother ten years ago, I decided to give up my career in property management and focus on m…

Modificada 5 Julio 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

16 Junio 2006

Little Successes, Every Day

Children who learn how to do things for themselves are nearly always happier children: more confident, more outgoing, and ever more ready to take on…

Modificada 16 Junio 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

15 Junio 2006

Becoming

Sometimes, we’re the first place children learn about how different they can be – and how that’s really OK. At Head Start, we know that a girl can b…

Modificada 16 Junio 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

12 Junio 2006

The Quality of Caring

Whether it’s a playground scrape or something horrifyingly worse, we like to think our teachers and family workers are ready to respond: capable of …

Modificada 12 Junio 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

9 Junio 2006

The Math Connection

If you’ve ever felt math-o-phobic – or even been just blind-sided by numbers – you’ll appreciate what many of our staff people feel when faced with …

Modificada 8 Junio 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

8 Junio 2006

Love and Children

Our most seasoned teachers at Head Start – some of whom have taught children in the same little community for 30 years and more – tell us (repeatedl…

Modificada 8 Junio 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

7 Junio 2006

The Discovery of Eating

Among the most delightful things we learn to do in life is eat – some of us delighting in it more than others, still others delighting more than we …

Modificada 8 Junio 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

6 Junio 2006

Learning to Leap

Life isn’t always easy, and many of our children (unfortunately) know that already. But one of the things we here at Head Start watch them learn to …

Modificada 8 Junio 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

5 Junio 2006

Measures of Success

Success comes in many forms, and at Head Start we often find the best successes – the ones that mean the most – are the small ones that come every day…

Modificada 6 Junio 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start

4 Junio 2006

Small Towns and Head Start

One of the great things about living in small towns like South Pittsburg, Tennessee (or Jasper, or Whitwell, or Griffith Creek, or any of a dozen li…

Modificada 31 Agosto 2006 por Sequatchie Valley Head Start