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April 26, 2018

Find Your Happy Place: 8th Annual Conference

Over the weekend, faculty members from all 13 of our corporate locations (and as far as Florida!) gathered at Samuel’s Grande Manor in Buffalo, NY, for a day filled with professional development, appreciation, motivation, silliness, celebration and fun! This year’s early childhood conference, Find Your Happy Place, was our eighth annual. The event hosted over 200 Doodle Read More »

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March 27, 2017

A Day of Celebration, Appreciation and Professional Growth: 7th Annual Conference

Over the weekend, faculty members from all 12 of our corporate locations (as far as Florida!) gathered at Samuel’s Grande Manor in Clarence, NY, for a day filled with professional development, appreciation, motivation, silliness, celebration and fun! This year’s early childhood conference, Follow the Doodle Bugs! Way, was our seventh annual. The event hosted over Read More »

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March 27, 2014

Duck, Duck…Tablet? Using Technology to Learn and Play

Our 2014 Doodle Bugs! Conference, “Engaged!,” gave me an opportunity to collaborate with a very talented preschool teacher, Sara Barham from our Cheektowaga location, to build a presentation that shared lots of fun ideas for incorporating our new technology into many different areas of the classroom. For those of you that requested resources from our Read More »

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October 30, 2012

Doodle-DOs and lollipop moments

It started as a funny little comment and evolved to become the key takeaway from my conference session, “You either Doodle-DO or you Doodle-DON’T.”  I didn’t realize how meaningful that statement was until later, when teachers started sharing examples of the many, many ways that they clearly “Doodle-DO.” It is humbling and inspiring to work with people Read More »

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