We have three grown children and two grandchildren, who live in Sioux Center, Prince Edward Island and Reno, NV. We moved to Sioux Center in 2010 when my husband took a corn research position at Corteva (formally Pionee HiBred) in Orange City. My husband and I lived in Indiana for four years and then raised our three children in Central Iowa. Peter, MN, graduated from Hillcrest Lutheran Academy, and attended Dordt College. Some of our favorite family activities include sit-down meals, telling funny stories, and going on road trips together. Oh, and food almost any kind of food! My wife and I have four children. My thoughts on classroom management are expressed in my book, Beyond Control: Heart-Centered Classroom Climate and Discipline.Īside from teaching and learning, I love thunderstorms, congregational singing, dark coffee with real cream, sumac in the fall, and the call of the red-winged blackbird. Regarding Christian teaching, I believe that our approach to classroom management exerts nearly as much influence in faith formation as the perspectives we share in our subject areas. I work to find those special gifts in young people-and put them to use in our learning community. Equally as much, I love the challenge of helping students to enjoy learning.Įach child was imagined and designed by a loving Creator, and each comes to the classroom with something unique to offer. I’m the odd bird you’ll see absorbed in a book (the kind with paper) at the park or in the shopping mall. Anyone concerned about early childhood education, and about young children in general, should read and discuss this important new book.Learning is my life it’s like breathing for me. Such are the revelations by Iorio, Parnell, and colleagues in Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education with its collection of original analyses that not only reframe how we ought to think about teaching children, but also showcase innovative approaches to doing so. Viewing readiness from the perspectives of teachers, children, and parents, each chapter gives us new insight into this important educational policy issue." - Nicola Yelland, Professor and Director of Research in the College of Education, Victoria University, Australia"The rhetoric and so-called 'reforms' of education for our youngest children are deeply problematic, but insidiously so when the goals, narrowly defined as what makes children 'ready' for school, are based in deficit-laden concepts of childhood and learners. The chapters encourage critical review of long-held assumptions and encourage new ways of reconceptualizing from a strong theoretical base. "In assembling a dazzling array of international authors engaged in rethinking readiness in early childhood education, Iorio and Parnell stimulate readers to re-imagine readiness that includes all its complexities, ambiguities, and paradoxical nature. In doing so, it compels its audience to reassess the aims of early learning experiences as well as the extent to which diverse learners and their needs are valued and addressed.” (Rebecca Blazar Lebowitz, Harvard Educational Review, Vol. “Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education offers readers the chance to reflect on traditional notions of what it means to be prepared for kindergarten. Pinedo-Burns, Columbia University, USA Elizabeth Quintero, California State University, Channel Islands, USA Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State University, USA Ristyn Woolley, USA Suzanna So-Har Wong, University of Alberta, Canada Recchia, Columbia University, USA Heather J. Sheri Leafgren, Miami University, USA Joanne Lehrer, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Julie Nicholson, Mills College, USA Joanne O'Mara, Deakin University, Australia Karen Ortiz, Helios Education Foundation, USA Bob Perry, Charles Sturt University, Australia Lacey Peters, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA Susan L.
Friedman, USA Jennifer Weiss Friedman, La Escuelita, USA Michelle Grant-Groves, USA Koeun Kim, Northwest Missouri State University, USA Linda Laidlaw, University of Alberta, Canada.
William Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Robert Bastien, Public Health Agency, Canada Anne Bauer, Aquatic Park School, USA Dana Frantz Bentley, Buckingham Browne and Nichols School, USA Marianne Bloch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Lynn Cohen, USA Sue Dockett, Charles Sturt University, Australia Tonia Durden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Lorraine Falchi, La Escuelita, USA Dana E.