One thing I respect most about Head Start schools are acts like this that promote things that are for the best of the children. In fact, it's Head Start's mission to find people who've slipped through the cracks, specifically those at or below poverty level to give each child the best chance to succeed. Viewing parents as teachers, learners, partners, choosers and consumers is a great way to show the parents that you respect and value them, and that you know they have an important job in regards to their child's education. This builds rapport with parents and opens up lines of communication which is so crucial to the child's well-being.

These two sentences motivate me to always think this way. Though royally underpaid and under appreciated, our jobs as teachers are so important. It is our job to understand and value the communities that surround our schools and how those communities effect the children. You generally don't see family and friends in only one context without taking into consideration where they come from and what their lives involve outside of the realm where you normally interact with them, (such as work, church, sports, etc...) so why should we treat our students any other way?

As an infant teacher, I find this interesting, but not surprising. Many people are incapable of seeing infants as people with behaviors, problems, feelings, moods, etc... This makes me want to do more research on if this was ever re-explored.

I think this quote sums up the importance of not only the environment but also the person’s interactions with their environments. Isolating that person from the environment they naturally interact with will most likely create inaccurate results.