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"Success Stories" is a new feature on our web site where you are invited to share your innovations and creative ideas with the early childhood world.  Susan Twombley from the Infant Toddler Children’s Center in Acton, Massachusetts, shared this staff meeting idea…

"We have been trying to make our monthly staff training sessions more interactive and practical.  At one staff meeting we shared some criteria for creating areas in the room for provoking children's interest and sense of wonder.  Prior to the meeting some of our program coordinators had assembled collections of interesting objects, fabric, and pictures.  Teams were then challenged to transform a corner of their room into a place of wonder.  About half an hour before the end of the training session, each teaching team visited one other classroom.  We had made up a critique sheet which teams used to leave comments and suggestions about the area of the room that had been transformed.

”The next day, energy and curiosity were high as teachers asked each other how the children had reacted to the newly arranged materials.  Because other teams had visited other classrooms, the conversations were rich and specific �" everyone cared about the other's work."

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