04/08/2009

Your Views on the Downturn

In January we invited you to tell us how the economic downturn was impacting your program's enrollments. Today we want to follow up and see if things have gotten better or worse. Please help us by providing your input to today's Exchange Insta Poll, "Has Your Program Been Affected by the Economic Downturn?"

Then last month we invited you to participate in the Exchange Stimulus Package by sharing your ideas on how to make change happen in your program and community. You can now view the top 70 articles submitted in the FREE RESOURCES section on the Exchange home page. Last week over 1,500 of you cast votes in the Exchange Insta Poll on the top ten stimulus ideas. The top ten winners listed below receive $1,000 in gift certificates from the sponsors of the Exchange Stimulus Package — Community Playthings, Teaching Strategies, Inc., Kaplan Early Learning Company, and Exchange.

1. Sound Child Care Solutions
   Seattle, WA


2. Early Childhood Center
   Greensboro, NC


3. The Sunshine House
   Greenwood, SC


4. Jewish Community Alliance (JCA)
   Jacksonville, FL


5. Good Shepherd Child Care Center
   Milford, PA


6. Cornerstone Cooperative Preschool
   Denton, TX


7. Heart n' Home Family Child Care
   Milwaukee, WI


8. Bethlehem Children's Center
   Santa Rosa, CA


9. Child Care of Southwest Florida
   North Fort Myers, FL


10. Pink & Blue Child Care & Learning Center
    Helena, AL

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Exchange has packaged six of its practical management resources into a single “Center Manager’s Tool Kit” and is offering the entire set at a 33% discount — separately these resources would cost $175, but we are offering the entire Tool Kit for only $112. Resources in the kit include:

• The Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations
• Managing Money: A Center Director’s Guidebook
• Beginnings Workshops Book #8 - Professionalism
• 250 Management Success Stories from Child Care Directors
• Developing Capable, Creative Teachers CD Book
• Leading People in Early Childhood Settings CD Book

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Toddler Portable Sink: Classroom Solution for HOT & COLD running water. Convenient way to clean children's hands anytime, anywhere. Mention Code: PS0308 for FREE SHIPPING

For more information about Exchange's magazine, books, and other products pertaining to ECE, go to www.ccie.com.

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