setting new goals

Some weeks ago I posted a modest list of "things to do". I completed the list this week by posting two proposals to AERA. I sent one to a SIG and one to a division. What i did find interesting about the process for AERA was developing the summary of the proposed paper (up to 2,000 words). it certainly helped to clarify thoughts about an unwritten paper!

so ... what next?

I would like to try to write an article that could inform an early childhood audience but stay true to CA. Peter Freebody and Carolyn Baker wrote a great paper in 1993 along these lines.

Baker, C. D., & Freebody, P. (1993). The crediting of literate competence in classroom talk. The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 4, 279-294.

I am going to spend a bit of time today thinking about possibilities for an article. The second meeting of the Early Career Researchers group is today. maybe that will help.