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Replenishing, Rebuilding, and Rejuvenating

September/October 2008
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Replenishing, Rebuilding, and Rejuvenating:
The Early Childhood Community Celebrates Together

In August of 2005, a Category Five hurricane named Katrina came ashore near New Orleans devastating the entire Gulf Coast region. On June 7, 2008, Exchange magazine and over a dozen of its talented authors stormed into New Orleans to give back to our early childhood colleagues in the area.

Over 400 teachers, administrators, directors, and family child care providers from the Gulf Coast region joined us for a day of professional development, replenishment, and fun, sponsored by Lakeshore Learning Materials, Bright Horizons, Teaching Strategies, and Sandra Duncan.

We replenished our enthusiasm for the work we do every day with relaxation activities, rebuilt and enhanced our professional skills with stimulating workshops, and rejoiced in the resiliency of the Gulf Coast early childhood community’s spirit with a rockin’ group of local New Orleans musicians led by Eric Bolivar.

Exchange Magazine authors including Kay Albrecht, Pam Schiller, Paula Jorde Bloom, Tracey Ballas, Renatta Cooper, Nancy Alexander, Luis Hernandez, Kevin Carnes, Roger Neugebauer, Karen Stephens, and Debra Sullivan, along with Teaching Strategies’ Cate Heroman and Carol Aghyan, and Andy Wichlinski and his wife Dana, and Lakeshore’s Darryl Thomas, Ron Mohle, and Sue ...

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