tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49421922119941548262024-03-13T18:19:21.044-04:00Tadpoles BlogConnecting Parents and Child Care ProvidersAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170608137241156720noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942192211994154826.post-49814758964297365742013-03-21T11:26:00.004-04:002013-03-21T11:26:44.840-04:00Simple Wifi
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Having good wifi coverage in your center is helpful to ensure all data is uploaded promptly. After a teacher records information about a student whether attendance, photos or daily reports you'll want to have visibility to that in real-time. Tadpoles completely works offline if the device is not in coverage whether outside or on a field trip, but sometimes large centers may have areas with no wifi coverage. </div>
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We'd like to help provide some ways to track down why you might see an "offline" message in Tadpoles and ways to remedy that. The most common wifi challenges we've at our customers are:</div>
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Depending on the size and materials used in the building your wifi network may not cover the entire building. The first thing to check is whether wifi is connected in suspect areas by taking a device into that area. You can see the signal strength at the top of the device. It will show between 0 and 3 curved bars. Ideally, you will see 3 bars but 2 should be ok. If you see 0 or 1 it would indicate a wifi upgrade might be necessary. We'll provide some options down below that are really cost effective.</div>
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You will also want to check the speed of your wifi and internet connection in those remote areas. We really like the Speedtest.net app available for your device. You can download it from the app store here: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/speedtest.net-mobile-speed/id300704847?mt=8"><span class="s1">https://itunes.apple.com/app/speedtest.net-mobile-speed/id300704847?mt=8</span></a></div>
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The most important stat is the upload speed not the download speed. Ideally you'll see something greater than 1 Mbps but 500 Kbps would suffice. If you are uploading lots of photos and videos a smaller number will just take longer for those to complete. Tadpoles will always store information to upload and will show you a number of items remaining in your outbox. </div>
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One issue that can be tricky to detect is whether your access point is not allowing all devices to connect at the same time. Some home routers and older access points may only allow 5 devices at once to connect. In a large center with 20 to 30 devices then you would have a problem. If you can see the wifi network but not connect to it that's often an indication that the router is maxed out on the number of connections. The easiest solution is to replace the router/access point with a new access point that will support more connections. The Airport Express is a good option which we'll highlight below.</div>
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What if you need to extend your wifi network because the building is larger than what one access point can support? To solve that problem you will need multiple access points or wifi extenders within your building. The Airport Express also provides this capability.</div>
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We really do like the Airport Express from Apple: <a href="https://www.apple.com/airportexpress/"><span class="s1">https://www.apple.com/airportexpress/</span></a></div>
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At $99 it provides a lot of features normally found in more expensive devices. We've had many customers upgrade their wifi using this device to solve the problems above with great success. It supports up to 50 devices at once but also provides a wifi-extension capability. If you add a second or third Airport Express within range of the main Airport Express you can link them together and extend your network very easily without any wires (except the power cord). It's also really easy to setup right from your iPod or iPad. Just go into Settings -> Wifi and you'll see the new Airport Express waiting to be setup.</div>
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Hopefully some of these suggestions will help you provide a simple and reliable wifi network for your childcare center!</div>
Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170608137241156720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942192211994154826.post-91631864262040484492012-11-01T21:12:00.002-04:002012-11-01T21:12:44.144-04:00New Parent App!Today we are launching an exciting update to our Tadpoles Parent App. We took a lot of feedback from parents and providers and wanted to redo the entire app based upon our new learnings. As parents that use Tadpoles for our own children we agreed with all of the feedback and worked furiously to provide this update.<br />
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One of the biggest requests was a way to filter the content. Parents typically receive, photos, videos, notes, daily reports and reminders from their childcare provider. That made looking back at the great pictures much harder to do. <br />
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We also wanted to make it easier for the parents to communicate with their provider. We'll be releasing those changes over the next couple of months but the first that is available now is the ability for the parent to call out sick or on vacation. Each child will have a "card" for their details and you'll see an "out today" button at the bottom. That will save you a phone call and let both the director and teacher know your child will not be in today.<br />
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<br />Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170608137241156720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942192211994154826.post-91947630544698636762012-09-17T16:58:00.004-04:002012-09-17T16:58:58.848-04:00Email based daily reportsPaperless daily reports is one of the big reasons to use Tadpoles instead of using paper daily sheets. We give parents several options to receive those daily reports, but email is by far the easiest for the parent. They don't have to do anything but give you their email address! <br />
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One of the areas we focus on a lot is ensuring parents always receive their daily report and that they can easily read the great information that you share. We do lots of things behind the scenes to make sure those emails don't get caught in spam filters and ensure the presentation depending on the mail client or device used to read the report. We've recently rolled out some changes that hopefully you won't notice at all! We're constantly looking to improve our service to make sure your parents are always receiving any notes, reminders or daily reports that you send them.<br />
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We pushed out a minor update to the attendance detail report available on the dashboard. It now shows the number of hours the child was checked in so you don't have to calculate it yourself. </div>
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If the child hasn't been checked out yet we show the time since they were checked in this morning. With electronic attendance for your childcare or daycare facility you can throw out those paper attendance sheets!</div>
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Eliminate paper forms and experience childcare daily forms via Tadpoles!<br />
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View active "in kids" and select "actions" in the top right hand corner. Tap "daily reports".</div>
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Using the scroll on the left hand side, you can a file a batch report for an entire classroom or an individual report for a child. </div>
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For example, to file a batch report for every child at Amanda's Daycare, select that location on the left hand side. Then, tap the type of report at the bottom of the screen to file the details. Once the type of activity has been described, touch "done" and it will be added to every child's daily report. </div>
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To finish filing a child's daily report, select his or her picture to add information, make changes, and view details. Once it is complete, touch "publish" and the daily report will be saved and sent to parents.<br />
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Start at the homescreen and tap "kids". We are going to file a batch daily report for the toddler class. Touch "actions" in the top right hand corner and select "daily reports". </div>
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A blank childcare daily sheet will appear. At the bottom of the screen, scroll all the way to the left until it shows the classroom you want to file the batch daily report in.</div>
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In this scenario, every toddler napped from 2-2:45 pm and participated in music day! These notes will be filed in every toddler's daily report. If there is an exception to one of these notes (say one child only napped from 2:30-2:45 pm), you can edit it individually in the child's report without changing the entire batch entry. </div>
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In this case, there are kids in the infants, toddlers, and preschool classrooms. The students in the three classrooms can be collapsed into one. Here, you can use the move all of your remaining students in to the "first room". </div>
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With Tadpoles, you can set up <b>quick lists</b> to group different kids depending on food allergies, playtime, interests, etc. In this scenario, we have a new student with a peanut allergy! Follow the steps below on how to add a child to a quick list and view one. </div>
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Here, you can view all of your children that are in attendance at Amanda's daycare. </div>
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Jacob has a peanut allergy, and so does our newest toddler, Brendan. </div>
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To view all of the children in a quick list, click on the yellow tab in the top right hand corner that says "quick lists". Once you click on it, you can then select the quick list you wish to view. I<span style="background-color: white;">n this case, we want to view all the children in Amanda's daycare in the "peanut allergy" quick list.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">After selecting "peanut allergy", the Director's Dashboard is reorganized to show the children that have a peanut allergy. </span><span style="background-color: white;">It shows how many are in, and which rooms they are in. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">From: Lisa </span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 8:24 AM</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Subject: Re: "Hi mommy!!!" - 7:47 AM</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Ok..I love the fact that about 10 minutes after I drop her off SCREAMING she</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">is this happy!! Thanks for sending! I was having a terrible drive into</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">work..traffic lights out, I got stuck following a chicken truck and then my</span><br />
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With Tadpoles, you can record an observation or note, tag the affiliated child, and send it to parents. Very helpful for sending out class reminders! </div>
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Select "parents" for visibility and either activity or incident for the type of reminder. </div>
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Below, record the note. </div>
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<span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would like to personally thank our Tadpoles customers! We love and depend on your feedback. Receiving customer emails or app store reviews is one of the most important pieces in our company DNA. In fact, most of our product features have been at the request of childcare directors or teachers. If you have an idea, question or would like to suggest a feature please </span><a href="mailto:talk.to.us@tadpoles.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">talk.to.us@tadpoles.com</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are fortunate to have so many great customers that have helped us build the Tadpoles solution. As we grow please continue to send us feedback and request on new features or guide us on how we can support you better. A special thanks to Kelly in </span><span style="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schwenksville,</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Liz in San Diego, Pam in Lewes, Kellieann in Olde City, Sue in Meriden, Priscilla in Hawaii and many others that have helped shape Tadpoles vision. We always love to hear stories from Child Care providers on how Tadpoles has helped them. Please share with our Facebook friends your Tadpoles story or refer a friend to start using Tadpoles. </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.tadpoles.com/r/aYSjj8" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.tadpoles.com</a></span></span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
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We recently had a request for a new feature related to doing attendance using tadpoles. Several providers mentioned that sometimes they may not get a chance or forget to checkout students at the end of the day. They would love to have our system automatically checkout students if they didn't get to it. With lots of parents coming to pickup their children at the end of the day we completely understand! </div>
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With auto checkout hopefully you can save time and focus on wrapping up your day. This new feature would help if a teacher or director forgot to upload a daily report since that would automatically be sent once the child had been marked out on the attendance sheet. Parents benefit because we can now guarantee that every daily report will be delivered!</div>
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We're looking for feedback on what time you'd like to have children automatically checked out so its not too early and not too late. Between 7pm and 8pm local time seems about right. We'd also be interested to hear if anyone wouldn't want this feature automatically enabled. So far everyone we've talked to loves the idea. </div>
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Reach out to us at talk.to.us@tadpoles.com about this feature or any other ideas you might have. We live for customer feedback! Special thanks to Cara for requesting the feature.</div>Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170608137241156720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942192211994154826.post-87445356171961285412012-06-22T08:39:00.003-04:002012-07-18T13:41:56.618-04:00New release for visiting<br />
To kickoff your weekend we've got a great new release available for update in the app store this morning. We've also updated our website with several new features.<br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white;">Track vacation and sick days</span></li>
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We added a new option in the child profile screen called "visit classroom". After selecting it you can then select the classroom to move the child into for the day. At the end of the day, when you check the child out they will automatically be moved back to their homeroom.<br />
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We wanted to help providers that allow their younger children to visit older rooms during transition. You can use this same feature for collapsing or combining classrooms at the end of the day. You can move a child to multiple classrooms and they will always be moved back to the original homeroom.<br />
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If you have multiple devices you'll see these changes reflected on each device in real-time. That ensures your counts are always accurate whether you're looking at them on the mobile device or from the web.<br />
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Lastly, the "track vacation" action from the child profile screen allows you to keep tabs on who is scheduled for today or out for the week. You'll see the child on the out screen moved to the bottom and can view your attendance report from our website and click on the specific day to see the details captured from your iPhone or iPad.<br />
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In a follow on post we will walk through several of these new features in detail to help you start using them. Let us know what you think!<br />
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Teachers immediately commented on how simple it was to use the device. Regardless
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confident navigating Tadpoles. As the teachers walked around taking pictures
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customer feedback and apply it to improve the overall Tadpoles experience!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942192211994154826.post-17295163631791073552012-06-17T13:54:00.001-04:002012-06-17T14:23:14.273-04:00Father’s day updates!<br />
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This Father’s day, the dads at tadpoles are excited to provide several new updates. We just rolled out a new web interface called the <b>Director’s Dashboard</b>. Childcare directors now have a real-time view into everything that’s happening at their centers. You can see live room counts, parent communications, reminders and daily schedules right from one spot. What’s really exciting is that you don’t have to refresh the page, any changes automatically load as they occur! <span class="s1"></span><br />
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<span class="s1">We’ve also added a new child portfolio screen so that you can quickly view <b>child observations</b> made from your iPhone or iPad. They can be quickly organized by domain or dimension to help during child assessments. Using tadpoles you can more effectively do observations and increase <b>parent involvement</b> at the same time!</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Another great feature on the website allows you to do <b>attendance</b> from your browser in addition to your mobile device. You can now do attendance in the classroom or from the front desk. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">The last feature we want to mention is <b>Quick Lists</b>. If you open up the child profile screen from the web you can now add custom labels or tags to the child. The labels help you manage special programs or needs that enable you to quickly go back and see which children are part of that group. From the main dashboard you can then use the quick list drop down to filter the list of children who are part of that group. </span><br />
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<span class="s1">We’ve got a lot more great features that will be coming out over the summer. We’d love to hear your feedback on what you like and what you’d love to see next. Feel free to reach out to us at anytime at <a href="mailto:talk.to.us@tadpoles.com"><span class="s2">talk.to.us@tadpoles.com</span></a>. It’s the <b>great customer feedback</b> that we get that helps us continue to add awesome new features!</span></div>
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their learning? The “summer slide” is all of the knowledge kids forget over the
summer before returning to school. In fact, studies have shown that students
can return to school the following fall at least a <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/beyond_schools/2011/06/first_comprehensive_research_on_summer_slide_released.html">month behind</a> of where they were in the spring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take your child to museums—some have free days!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have some more ideas for fun summer activities for kids?
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">We recently released a new update to Tadpoles
in the Apple App store. The new updates will fix bugs and provide overall
enhancements.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Now, with the latest update of Tadpoles, you
can quickly and easily share photos and videos of multiple children. In
addition, we’ve made updating child profile pictures much more simple and
easier to use. There are also new cognitive and emotional categories for daily
reports, allowing you to truly capture the child’s achievements and mood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/childcare-by-tadpoles/id434333524?mt=8">Get the latest updates to Tadpoles</a>. <span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12pt;">In a down economy, everyone is
trying to think about how to fix it—but could the answer lie in early childhood
education? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12pt;">As we approach the 2012 elections,
more and more voters are concerned with education. In fact, two-thirds of
voters in nine swing states stated that education was extremely important to
them personally, realizing the <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-05-02/news/bs-ed-education-poverty-20120502_1_achievement-gap-bad-teachers-quality-education">link between education and the economy</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12pt;">So, what’s wrong with early
childhood education today—is it bad teachers, over-crowded classrooms or
unmotivated students? What’s wrong with early childhood education today is
poverty. Currently, 1 in 5 children live in families with incomes below the
poverty level, and as the economy continues to be stagnant, the <a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/achievement-gap/">gap</a> between wealthy and poor families continues to widen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://qctimes.com/news/local/women-s-leadership-council-names-new-co-chairs/article_70ec60dc-954c-11e1-9e5e-0019bb2963f4.html">Rob Gruenwald</a>, economic researcher, found that for every $1 invested in quality early
childhood daycare and education, the community sees a $16 return on investment
because of less public funding going to law enforcement, prison costs and other
services. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12pt;">Research dating back to the 1960s
proves Grunenwald and other like-minded researchers’ theories, so why don’t
early childhood education programs get more federal and state funding?
Grunenwald believes it’s because results are intangible and unless people have
young children in their lives, they don’t realize the importance of early
childhood education. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12pt;">As the 2012 elections near, we’ll
have to pay close attention to the candidates’ views on early childhood
education, with the hope that the achievement gap can one day, be closed in a flourishing economy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12pt;">Share your thoughts on the
economics of early childhood education by commenting below, or on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/tadpolespro">Facebook</a>
or <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/tadpolespro">twitter</a> pages. <span style="color: #555555;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942192211994154826.post-12954565975271213592012-05-02T17:33:00.000-04:002012-05-02T17:34:45.693-04:00Benefits of Recess in Early Childhood Education<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If its no secret that kids
need <a href="http://www.playworks.org/blog/five-secret-benefits-school-recess">recess</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—then why is <a href="http://www.livescience.com/15555-schools-cut-recess-learning-suffers.html">recess being cut</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> from many elementary schools?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For many adults, recess is a
fond memory of playing outdoors with friends—from the sandbox to dodgeball
games, recess was an integral part of socializing. Today, kids are lucky if
they get 15 minutes of outdoor playtime during the school day. And people
wonder why <a href="http://blog.tadpoles.com/2011/08/can-childcare-providers-help-stop.html">childhood obesity</a> is on the rise. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although recess programs
began to be cutting the late 1980’s, it wasn’t until 2001 when the No Child Left
Behind Act came into play, that urban schools in particular began to lose their
recess time entirely. Recess became a safety issue and was thought to bring
down test scores. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, administrators, believing
their school’s test scores would improve if children spent more time on
schoolwork, began to cut recess. But, while there is no research that suggest
test scores improve by keeping children in the classroom all day, there is a
lot of research proving that <a href="http://naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200909/On%20Our%20Minds%20909.pdf">recess improves both cognitive, social andemotional traits within children</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Cognitive Benefits of Recess</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Children with recess fidget
less and complete tasks more efficiently—even children with disorders like ADHD
benefit<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Recess provides break for
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• There is a relationship
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• A school system that
devoted a third of the day to nonacademic activities (art, music, physical
activity) improved attitudes and fitness and slightly increased test scores, despite
spending less time on academics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Social Benefits of Recess </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• During recess, children exercise
leadership, teach games to one another, take turns, and learn to compromise <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Intervention programs
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Physical Benefits of Recess<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Recess before lunch leads
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Children who are active
during the day are more active after school, whereas children who are sedentary
during the day tend to remain sedentary after school<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Emotional Benefits of Recess</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Teachers rated children’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Teachers get to know the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Time on the playground is a
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With all of the benefits of
recess, its hard to believe recess is still being cut—there must be something
that can be done. The <a href="http://www.ipausa.org/">International Play Association</a> (IPA) has a lot of resources
regarding the positive effects of research. If parents and/or teachers band
together and meet with principals, superintendents, legislators and elected
officials, recess can hopefully be saved for children to enjoy and benefit from
for generations to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Share your thoughts on recess
in early childhood education by commenting below, or on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tadpolespro">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/tadpolespro">twitter</a> pages. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942192211994154826.post-3493341837186102232012-04-25T09:37:00.000-04:002012-04-25T09:37:04.921-04:00Tadpoles App Gets New Updates<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tadpoles took 1<sup>st</sup> place in the Cornell
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On April 19, 2012, <a href="http://www.tadpoles.com/">Tadpoles</a>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Out of 70 entries, Tadpoles
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations to <a href="http://www.socrative.com/">Socrative</a>, the 2<sup>nd</sup>
place winner and <a href="http://www.nanoly.info/">Nanoly</a>, the 3<sup>rd</sup> place winner. A special thanks goes to the Cornell Venture
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tadpoles could not be more thrilled
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Day cheer with their kids.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 100%; "><span ><span style="font-size: 14pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><b>What is Earth Day?</b><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; "><a href="http://www.earthday.org/">Earth Day</a></span><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: white; font-size: 14pt; "> is a special day that occurs annually on April 22, on which 175 countries around the world hold events to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth and nature. 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