Tuesday, June 12, 2012

I would just like to thank everyone for their support, ideas, and encouraging words. I learn a lot from my colleagues, and I believe my presentation went as well as id did, was because some of your ideas, and encouragement. I just want to say Thank You very much all you have done was greatly appreciated.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

I would like to wish everyone good luck on their advocacy effort. We have worked hard, and now it is time to present and put all our hard work into action. I hope everyone continue with their advocacy effort after their presentations, and have great success!

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The one question I have is for my feedback, I wanted to do a short survey after my presentation. Are there any more suggestions on getting feed back. The resources I found helpful are: www.takepart.com/article/2011/06/06 , www.nabe.org , and Thomas, W.P.& Collier, Vap (2003) The multiple benefits of dual language educational leadership.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Advocacy Action Plan

My inspirational quote regarding the role of advocacy that can play a role in the lives of young children are their families is, "I am only one, but still I am one, I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do."  Edward Everette Hale

What inspires and excites me me most about my advocacy plan and being an advocate is seeing families received educational and developmental services, and children needs are being met.

The challenges i have targeted in this advocacy effort is if my colleagues feel this will put more work on them and they don't want to put in that extra work and effort, I need them to do.

What would be most effective in helping me to overcome my emotions, and challenges in presenting and implementing my Advocacy Action Plan would be the support of my colleagues, coordinator, and director. I feel we would all need to be on the same page to make this work. I believe my coordinator and director will agree with me because they put the Bilingual immersion Program in place, and I know they should want it to be implemented properly.

I believe we can all encourage each other, by letting each other know how important it is to be an advocate for young children and their families, and reminding each other that we are all advocates for young children in one way or another, and it is really great to see how much effort and work my colleagues are putting into their Advocacy Action Plan, and continue to keep up the good work.