Gratitude

2011 has been nothing short of amazing. The entire year was booked with work by October 2010 and I spent the year dividing my time between two contracts, one for instructional design and the other for instructional coaching and training.

Four Favorite Resources of 2011

In the last 18 months I've made 22 trips to four colleges in four states as an instructional coach for Project DEgree and designed 35 2-hr. training modules for Oregon Child Development Coalition's preservice training for new employees. I've done lots of hunting about for both projects and thought I'd share my four favorite resources of 2011, all of which I've used on one or the other (and sometimes both) of my projects this year. All are turn-key ready and three of the four are based in research. If you are an instructional designer, trainer or teacher of adults, you are bound to find something here you can use. Enjoy!

An Evidence-Based Prison Parenting Program Hits the Road

I’m pleased to introduce Mindy Clark, Marketing Director for the Children’s Justice Alliance (CJA), who writes this week’s guest post on The Parenting Inside Out (PIO) curriculum. Mindy came on board with CJA as I was leaving so I greatly appreciate the work she has done in educating others about the curriculum and helping communities and departments of corrections, nationally and internationally, understand how PIO can support justice-involved parents and their families. Here’s Mindy...