Cutting Edge

Hello!

I am back from my family reunion at a state park in Delaware on the ocean. Found a deer tick on myself this morning and since Delaware is in the area with the highest risks in the country for lyme disease, I am taking antibiotics and had my blood tested. YUK. I hate those things!!

Ok.

We are the cutting edge.

The last of the SEN assertions or values. SEN is cutting edge and so are we.

One way that we are cutting edge is through the Advancing Youth Development Curriculum. This framework and training is what youth workers need to be professional in their work. This is the training that we will be doing the end of this month in Florida. I have been training youth workers in Nashville with it this summer.

Another way we need to be cutting edge is to keep up with new research about youth. For example, there was hardly any research done on the adolescent brain until 10 years ago. Now they are discovering that the teen brain is really not fully formed. The part of the brain that has to do with thinking of future consequences is not formed. It is a biological factor. It is important to learn everything you can about these things.

Another area to be cutting edge in, is technology. This is a SEN blog. That is cutting edge!

So we will start talking about cutting edge subjects from now on....

Till tomorrow...

LA