Dr. K's Ramblings on Education, Girl Scouts, and Life: April 2011

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Volunteer Appreciation

Today marks the start to National Volunteer Week, April 17th starts Girl Scout Volunteer Appreciation Week, and April 22nd is Leader Appreciation Day.

What ideas do you have for showing your appreciation for your Girl Scout Volunteers?

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Badge Work

This Saturday, my friend/co-leader and I are hosting a Brownie Try-It Day where 42 Brownies and second year Daisies will be rotating through stations to earn 3 Try-Its. I am so excited and pray all goes well.

Have you participated in or hosted a badge work day or event? What did you do? How did it go?

Saturday, April 2, 2011

April Is Here!

Can you believe it is already April? What plans do your troops have for this month? Will you be participating in Earth 2011? Do you have other Earth related service projects planned?

We began Water Everywhere and Earth Is Our Home Try-Its in connection to our conversation about Earth 2011. It will be exciting to see what our Brownies and Daisy come up with for projects.

Share your ideas with us . . .

Welcome!

Originally, I began this site to assist leaders and share Girl Scout ideas. I will continue to do that, but I have changed my focus to share a little about everything. I will ramble on and on about education, of which I have been a part for the last 28 years, Girl Scouts, which runs deeply through me as I was one from Kindergarten-12th grade, earned my Gold Award, and have led troops for at least 11 years, and life, which I live daily--the ups and the downs.

I have taught Pre-K students through adults in the private sector and through Professional Development. I taught 3rd-6th grades in public school, worked at the District level with K-5th Science teachers, and at the campus level with 6th-8th grade teachers in all content areas. I have worked more closely with the Science community the last 8 years, but I am now going back to my ELA and History roots and working with all three.

Our Girl Scout Troop, which I lead with a BFF, is a Cadette Troop. Over the last few years, we have had 5 girls earn their Bronze Award and 2 earn their Silver Award. We hope to have more in the coming years. Since this, we have combined 4 older girl troops. We now have girls 7th - 11th grades.

Dr. K's Ramblings on Education, Girl Scouts, and Life

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