Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/success-stories/5017203/
Exchange celebrates the creativity of early childhood programs in creating solutions to everyday challenges. We invite you to share your ideas with the readers of Exchange magazine.We are looking for all sorts of ideas, both big and small. It could be a technique you use for training staff, a fundraising idea, a fee collections tip, a public relations idea, a financial management tool, a program evaluation approach, a paperwork organization method, or anything that makes your program work better.
Go to www.ChildCareExchange.com and click on “Success Stories.” Identify the challenge or problem you faced; your solution to this problem; and some details about this solution so others might follow in your footsteps. Be specific! Thank you for your willingness to share your innovations with Exchange readers! Read on to learn about three real life success stories.
Nancy Kaczrowski, ERF, Savage, Minnesota
As we are gearing up for new children to enter the classrooms in the fall, I remind staff to make the environment safe for all children and their parents. To do so I use the “stop/go” light with a black piece of construction paper and red, yellow, and green circles glued on to fashion the stop/go light. I then challenge staff to think ...