Contact Us!
Top Posts & Pages
-
Recent Posts
Recent Tweets
My Tweets
Author Archives: D.C. Enthusiast
Early Childhood Education Resources
Welcome! Parents, caregivers and early childhood educators have a wealth of resources available to them online, but it can be overwhelming to sort through and find what is well researched and actually helpful. As part of a class for my … Continue reading
Posted in Early Childhood Education
Tagged everyday, Northern Virginia, preschool, resources
Leave a comment
The Care and Keeping of Museum Professionals
The museum field is full of amazing, thoughtful, creative people. I’ve been working to bring their insights into a book. I jokingly call it “part self-help book, part group-memoir” because there are topics that can meet you where you are … Continue reading
Learning Through Play: A Flow Chart
Sometimes I’m asked how “just playing” can POSSIBLY lead to learning. Especially “real” things like reading or math. Well, allow me to show you. As a class we read “I Want to Be In A Scary Story” by Sean Taylor. … Continue reading
Posted in Early Childhood Education
Tagged books, learning through play, Literacy, pre-reading, pre-writing, reading
Leave a comment
“The Revolution Will Not Be Won Without Childcare”
Hot Brown Honey said it best, for things to really move forward…we need childcare. We need it affordable and accessible so people can go to work, and we need it at conferences and professional development opportunities so that one more … Continue reading
Posted in Early Childhood Education, Museum Education, Uncategorized
Tagged AAM, Affordable childcare, childcare, conferences
Leave a comment
Independent Museum Professionals Network
Are you a member of the American Alliance of Museums? Are you working as a consultant…freelancer…independent professional…contractor…holding-down-multiple-jobs-at-different-institutions? Well, we finally have a “home” just for you! The Independent Museum Professionals Network is brand new and officially part of the Professional … Continue reading
The Purple Bucket
I’m working on some research on how trauma effects children. It is easy to get caught up in the “big” traumas. Abuse, neglect, separation from family. In our adult eyes those are the ones that matter, while things like a … Continue reading
Posted in Early Childhood Education
Tagged everyday, learning through play, Parents, teachable moments, tough topics, trauma
Leave a comment
Promoting Gun Safety: Sharing Knowledge of Child Development to Support Informed Decisions
Published in “Young Children” a journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children As I stir vegetables in a hot pan, I see my 2-year-old daughter about to pull on the handle of the cabinet under the … Continue reading
They Aren’t Doing it Right
Exhibit designers and museum educators work very hard to create experiences. Everything that goes into an exhibit or a program is thought through to support the core theme and help learning take place. So, it is understandable that they get … Continue reading
Posted in Kids in Museums, Museum Education
Tagged hands on learning, learning through play, letting go, tough topics
Leave a comment
Can You Make Them Get Off Their Phones?
I had a chance to work with a stellar group of docents the other week. They are at a hands-on, play based, children’s museum and were brushing up on their skills for working with young children and their grown-ups Hands … Continue reading
Museum Visitors are Incredibly Brave
As museum professionals I think we forget sometimes to step back and look at things from a visitor’s point of view. Our visitors are incredibly brave. They come up to a a strange building, with rules that they don’t know, … Continue reading
Posted in Museum Education
Tagged hands on learning, Museum, museum education, tough topics, visitor needs
Leave a comment
Cabinet of Curiosities LLC 