Shift from measurement to a form of assessment that fuels growth. Inspired by Learning Stories and Reggio documentation, this workshop helps you make learning visible, inform practice, empower learners, and build deeper relationships and richer dialogue with children and families.
Walk alongside classroom investigations and explore what keeps meaningful projects alive. We’ll delve into what a vibrant culture of inquiry and collaboration looks like, identifying compelling ideas for ongoing inquiry, while understanding the power of group dynamics and the role of documentation.
Explore the reflective and intentional practice of truly listening to children through a teacher-researcher mindset. We’ll delve into the profound intellectual processes happening within them and their unique ways of making sense of the world.
Examine foundational concepts like the Image of the Child and the role of educators, the Hundred Languages, and Progettazione.
Participants will learn to recognize signs of sensory overload and stress, and understand how to implement appropriate strategies to mitigate these effects.
We will define challenging behavior and its impact as well as understand why children engage in challenging behavior. Participants will learn to identify strategies that will decrease challenging behavior and improve the experience for all children in the preschool classroom.
In today’s society, children receive daily messages about skin color, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, ability, gender and many other categories of social identities.
Conversations across lines of social identity differences can trigger worries that negatively impact the exchange. When people who experience marginalization and people with dominant social identities feel the potential for being misunderstood, there is an increase in emotions and avoidance of topics.
Everyone comes to DEIBJ work from a different place – informed by their lived experiences, education, prior engagement in DEIBJ work, and other factors such as disposition and ways of seeing and being. 1:1 attention will offer a space for processing new strands of knowledge and how best to apply the knowledge in their work with others.
Do you get worn down by dawdling, defiance, or general mayhem? Could you use some alternatives to threats, bribes and punishment?
