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UPDATE: Ellen Galinsky on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams

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January 19, 2012

 Update: The segment on 24-7 child care has been postponed. Check back here for updates on an air date.

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Modern ECE Professional Learning Communities Webinar with Ellen Galinsky. Join us!

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January 18, 2012

On February 1, 2012 at 2pm EST Ellen will be doing a webinar called Modern ECE Professional Learning Communities hosted by Early Childhood Investigations. The presentation draws in part upon lessons learned from Mind in the Making learning communities work. 
Here is the link for more information and to register.

From the Early Childhood Investigations announcement page:
 
"Soon after Ellen’s book Mind in the Making (MITM) was published in 2010, she found that groups were convening around the book in professional learning communities. Webinars and symposiums were being held, book clubs were forming, professional groups were studying the book to apply what they had learned, training was being offered, and Mind in the Making became the focus of conferences, websites, and chat groups.
 
Ellen observed that these Learning Communities have ten characteristics in common. Specifically, Ellen believes these ten common characteristics illustrate the future of Professional Learning Communities. She observes that modern Professional Learning Communities:
  1. Bring new players together.
  2. Seek to reach the most “in need” among us.
  3. Focus on learning from and with each other and share a belief that there is expertise among us all.
  4. Focus on active learning that is experiential  and engages participants in self-reflection and self-discovery.
  5. Use new media to connect in creative ways.
  6. Actively create new curricula based on sound principles of child and adult learning and development.
  7. Focus on assessment, but tie assessment to child development.
  8. Reframe teaching as teaching AND learning together.
  9. Connect policy to practice.
  10. “Play it forward.”
     
In this session, Ellen will share what she has learned about Professional Learning Communities, and show you how your organization can replicate some of these models to use Mind in the Making in your community or organization. The session will also include live testimonials from early childhood professionals who have lead some of these innovative initiatives." 
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Ellen Galinsky has been nominated for a Lifetime achievement 2011 Edublog Award!

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December 06, 2011

Ellen has been nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Edublog Awards competition! From now until December 13, you can vote for Ellen and another winner in every category up to one time per day. See Ellen's listing and have your friends and followers vote at Edublog Awards Blog!

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Some Recent Buzz on Birth to Thrive

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July 19, 2010

Parenting blogger, Paul Nyhan, has written a couple of pieces in the past week featuring Ellen Galinsky's blog post on education reform/transformation and a review of Mind in the Making on Birth to Thrive Online. If you haven't read it before, go check it out.

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Ellen Galinsky on Local CBS News

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June 04, 2010

In case you missed it, watch the video here of Ellen Galinsky and Walter Mischel on WCBS's 11:00 news.

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Here is a list of Mind in the Making researchers and educators filmed to date

Community Schools: “Mind in the Making and Community Schools: Crossing Boundaries and Creating Strong Linkages for Children Birth through Eight and their Families,” is a collaborative project with The Children’s Aid Society’s National Center for Community Schools and the Institute for Educational Leadership. (Read more)

Learning Communities: Throughout the country, groups of parents, educators, and other family support and health professionals have joined together to learn more about the research on children’s learning from birth through the early elementary school years, and about how to use this research to promote better outcomes for children. (Read more)

Learning Modules for Educators: Mind in the Making Learning Modules for Educators is an 11-part, facilitated learning process designed to bridge the gap between research and teaching practice. (Read more)

Seven Skills Modules: We have created new Modules from the book, called the Mind in the Making Seven Essential Skills Modules. (Read more)

Experiments in Children's Learning DVD: This two-volume series of 42 videos take viewers on a series of virtual “field trips” to laboratories in the U.S. and abroad. (Read more)
View a crosswalk of the experiments to the seven essential life skills

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