Student Engagement, Teaching & Learning challenges our assumptions about how to design learning experiences that are both rigorous and motivating. The science of learning inspires us to create high impact, experiential, cross-disciplinary practices. Exploring new pathways in which students are co-creators of multi-sensory learning spaces that amplify student voice and autonomy moves us to a “post-worksheet” world.
February 1, 2023 6:00 PM Central Time on ZOOM
Writing Books for Children With Author Gloria McDaniel-Hall
In this workshop, you'll explore initial steps to brainstorming ideas from your personal stories, writing, publishing and promoting a book you want to share with the children in your classroom. Dr. Hall will share her methods for writing, as well as one of the books she's written that is based on a lived experience. Additionally, Dr. Hall will discuss the entire writing process she used including creating an initial draft, deciding on the types of illustrations and even how to publish your text. Bring your ideas for books and your questions!
Participants will:
1. Explore methods for writing a story for children
2. Discuss ways to find a publisher
3. Learn how to promote a book for children
Please register here: https://center4success.eventsmart.com/?p=622
Following your registration, you will receive an email from EVENTSMART with a link to join the webinar.
ISBE approved professional development hours are available upon completion of the ISBE evaluation.
Tuesday, January 31 at 6:00 pm
Creating Safe Spaces for PK-12 Youth: Exploring Our Brain
and The Emotional Weather Report
We can create safe spaces for students in many ways. One way is through learning about and engaging in a deeper understanding of the brain and our emotions. In this session, participants will take a deep dive into Our Brain Book with author Kristin Hovious. Kristin will walk participants through the book and show them how she uses the book with students and parents to help everyone understand the connections between social interactions, emotions and the brain. In addition, Kristin will introduce the Emotional Weather Report and show participants how to use this tool in the classroom on a daily basis.
Participants will:
Learn how to use two tools to develop social emotional learning in their classrooms
Develop a deeper understanding of the brain and its connections with our emotions
Rehearse two lessons for use in the classroom the next day
Please register here: https://center4success.eventsmart.com/?p=598
Following your registration, you will receive an email from EVENTSMART with a link to join the webinar.
ISBE approved professional development hours are available upon completion of the ISBE evaluation.
Previous Workshops
November 29, 6 PM CST.
Book Talks for Educators and Education Stakeholders
To register, click here: https://center4success.eventsmart.com/events/book-talks-november-29/
Join educators and education stakeholders as they talk about diverse books and ways to use them to grow as a professional and ways to use them effectively in the classroom. Bring a book to share or listen and find some great books to read as a professional, to read aloud to your class, or to study with a class.
Participants will engage in:
exploring some good books about diversity, equity and inclusion
discussing topics and books that are critical to the work of today's professional educators
sharing ideas about how to use books to engage students in conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion
talking about ways to advocate for students and books and make the world better for teachers and learners in all communities.
Following your registration, you will receive an email from EVENTSMART with a link to join the webinar. These webinars are free.
State approved Professional Development Hours Are Available!
RESOURCES SHARED
Flipgrid for book talks: https://flip.com/4b58127a
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Additional book suggestions from participants:
The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition) by Anthony Ray Hinton
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Where Are you From? by Yamile Saied Mendez
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
The Color of Us by Karen Katz
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho and Dung Ho
I color myself different by Colin Kapernick
More than Peach by Bellen Woodward
Notable Social Studies Trade books for young people database 2000-2019 https://www.librarycat.org/lib/NCSS
The Neuroscience of Belonging will be held Wednesday, November 30 at 6 pm. Here is a link to join: https://center4success.eventsmart.com/?p=514