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From: Nina Sazer O'Donnell
Email: nina.sazerodonnell@gmail.com
Date: February 06, 2006

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Hello!

Welcome to our week of dialogue on what research says about how young children learn. Through our work on Mind in the Making (http://Mindinthemaking.org) at Families and Work Institute, we have learned from many diverse researchers around the country how young children learn and how adults can help facilitate their learning as a lifelong passion.

Much of what research tells us will probably not be news to you - that young children learn primarily through the important relationships in their lives, that social, emotional and intellectual learning are an integrated process and can't be neatly separated and that young children learn like little scientists - forming theories, testing and revising them over and over again. We also know that young children need adults to focus on who they are as individual learners and to help build on what they know and can do to "keep the fires of learning alive."

I so look forward to hearing from you!

Nina Sazer O'Donnell