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	Opening the Windows: Using Documentation as a Tool to Show How Children Learn Featured Fall Management Institute Documenting children's work can be a powerful tool for communicating what children are learning in your program. Documentation can help you meet the demands for accountability, educate your community to the value of active, engaged learning experiences and enhance the professional image of your program. Many of the ways you already communicate through newsletters, displays, notes home, parent manuals, and web sites can also be enhanced by incorporating elements of children's work. This workshop will provide you with effective documentation strategies gleaned from the fields of journalism, museumology, communications, and marketing. Who Should Attend This institute is designed for center directors, assistant directors, curriculum coordinators, principals, teachers, and other early childhood profesionals interested in enhancing their knowledge and skill in the area of documentation. What You Will Learn At the institute you will learn different types of documentation materials, supplies, and equipment needed to make documentation happen ways to motivate and support staff in collecting and analyzing children's work ideas for involving children in using emergent literacy skills to document their work how to use documentation to enhance parents' understanding of literacy development how to create documentation panels that look professional how to take and use phottographs to enhance documentation how to use documentation in other ways - newsletters, bulletin boards, brochures Dates and Location Training will be held at the Center for Early Childhood Leadership's training facility on National-Louis University's Wheeling, Illinois Campus, located 20 miles from O'Hare International Airport. The training schedule is: Friday, October 8, 2004, 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Saturday, October 9, 2004, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Fees and Accomodations Registration before September 1, 2004 is $199 (after September 1, $225). This fee includes full participation in training, texts, handouts, and meals. The registration is due upon enrollment. For additional information, please contact Eileen Eisenberg at (800) 443-5522 or eeisenberg@nl.edu. \| Training for Directors \| Lift Them High \| Request for Exhibit \| Exhibit Comments \| Open Door 2007 \| Young Children \| \| Return Home \| Our Philosophy \| What's New \| Services Resources \| Contact Us \| Download Page \|