Words Of Inspiration and Motivation

Discussion Week4:

Hillary Clinton:

Address teacher shortage with salary increases

We’re facing a critical teacher shortage-we’re going to have to recruit more teachers. But I agree with the NEA president that there’s not only a teacher shortage, there’s a respect shortage and a salary shortage as well. There is no way in today’s complicated, information-overdrive world that we’re going to get and keep those in the teaching profession to carry on the tradition of public education, unless [they] receive the salaries that [their] important work deserves. We’re going to have to recruit more teachers. I agree with the President’s proposal that we expand the already successful Troops to Teachers program. We should also provide loan forgiveness to new teachers committed to teaching in hard-to-serve areas. But we cannot lower the standards in this recruitment drive, and I am very much in agreement with the proposal that states be required to phase out emergency certification and improve state teacher certification systems. Source: Remarks to NEA in Orlando, Florida Jul 5, 1999    

Parents are a child’s first teachers. (Jan 2008)  
 “Every child needs a champion.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton
 “First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village 


 Susan Bredekamp:
 -“The fact that not only do you have to consider children as individuals, but you also have to consider children as members of groups with their own cultural identities.”(2011).

 Children benefit most from teachers who have the skills, knowledge, and judgment to make good decisions and are given the opportunity to use them.” – NAEYC, Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 (2009)

 “Children benefit most from teachers who have the skills , knowledge , and judgement to make good decisions and are given the opportunity to use them.”

WEEK 2:
 Louis Dermon-Sparks

"Children are not succeeding because they are not given the tools they need not because they don't have the intelligence."

“The passion was that all children were taught in an environment that truly nurtured their ability to develop and grow.

 

 “It made me feel whole, it made me feel creative. And so, it became my life long work, with early childhood education.” –Louise Derman-Sparks

Raymond Hemanadez:
 became an administrator "because I felt like I'd have a bigger impact on managing programs, to be able to shape programs, be able to look at how you design a program that's going to best benefit not only the children but also the families of the program"-

 "I know I can not save the world, I just have to make a difference in the community around me."

Renatta M. Cooper:

"You've got to take your ego out of it and think about what's best for the child."

Leticia Lara:

 “My passion has been evolving through the years, it is an ongoing process. It’s like a ripple… it grows.”

‘’When I think of the word passion and the meaning to the word passion, what comes to mind are what are my values, what are my beliefs, what are the ideas that lead me to action, what do I do so naturally that perhaps seems natural to me but may be challenging to others.’
Sandy Escobido:
    "We as professionals in the early childhood field have an opportunity to shape a child’s life for the better,and that’s what makes me passionate about this field."
 “When I see parents learning how to share their voice and advocate for their children is what keeps me motivated regardless of the challenges going on.”