National Black Child Development Institute

National Black Child Development Institute
http://nbcdi.org/blog/category/early-childhood-education/

I have signed up for the news letter from this site, but have not yet receieved anything! I did however go through the website to look at some of the newly added content and found a side note that caught my attention.  One thing that caught my eye was on their page they have an update of "this week in black history", I am a natural history buff and loved that. Interesting facts they post. Another thing that caught my eye was their Parent Empowerment Project. This project reminded me of the Pastoral project in Paraguay. This first line of the desciption was, "PEP is a program that seeks to educate, motivate and inspire parents to excellence as their Child’s first teacher The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) introduces an exciting curriculum for parent education." This is exactly what the Pastoral project was describing that they were trying to accomplish within their communitites. This project sounds wonderful, as there are so many children out there that need a parent. The fact that this site is trying to reach out to the parents to relay that they are their child's first teacher I see as amazing work.
I am eager to get my first newsletter and will keep all up to date on their progress.