Rock and Roll Curriculum

04/03/2008

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Public Education Network Weekly NewsBlast for March 14, 2008 carried this story...

"Children’s voices filled the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s main floor, where cars from U2’s Zoo TV tour and Phish’s giant hot dog dangle overhead. The 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds were there to take part in the Toddler Rock program. While the museum devotes a lot of attention to honoring legendary artists, the Toddler Rock program helps fulfill an education necessity, reports Joe Milicia for the Associated Press. The program provides inner-city children with lessons in music and literacy in an environment that they otherwise wouldn't experience. Letter recognition, rhyming, and alliteration are crucial to developing reading skills and thusly comprise important parts of the program. Many of the participants live in housing projects and share stories with instructors about the violence they have seen. The hope is to give children a reference for something better as they have already witnessed more than anyone should."

Exchange's Many Resources on Challenging Behavior

Exchange has a number of extremely helpful resources for supporting teachers in dealing with children with challenging behaviors:

Our book, Behavior, has 24 articles written by experts in the field on how to deal with challenging behavior.
Ten Out of the Box Training Kits on "Positive Discipline" provide directors with all the resources you need to conduct in-house training sessions.
An Exchange CEU course on Managing Challenging Behavior provides credit for reading 10 Exchange articles on the subject.
Exchange's newest resource, the DVD Facing the Challenge, is an expertly crafted video training tool.

Web-Based Child Care Management System
As the only fully integrated web application of its kind, LMN-Tree organizes your accounts receivable, billing, payments including online bill pay, immunizations, birthdays, attendance, bus schedules and so much more into one easy to use application anytime, anywhere.

For more information about Exchange's magazine, books, and other products pertaining to ECE, go to www.ccie.com.