Early Childhood
Workshops, Study Sessions, and Focus Seminars
Workshops: 1-to-2 hours | Study Sessions: 1/2-day
Focus Seminars: a series of sessions scheduled strategically over a designated period of time or in a full-day format, featuring keynote speakers and breakout sessions. Perfect for district-wide summer institutes or inservice programs during the school year.
Cross-Curricular Instruction
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Fostering Young Children's Thinking
and Talking-
Examine explicit, developmentally appropriate classroom
practices aligned with early learning standards. Participants learn
how to use a variety of teaching strategies that connect with their
young students’ interests and abilities and encourage oral language
development.
Family Math and Literacy
Involving Families in Math and Literacy Learning-
Build a practical framework for effective home-school connections
aligned to NCLB mandates for Early Reading First and NCTM Standards.
Educators receive valuable support for conducting family involvement
programs, including take-home backpacks of developmentally-appropriate
materials, that will motivate parents and other family members to
take an active role in the development of children's literacy and
math skills.
Constructing Math Concepts Through Hands-On Instruction
Math Success: Go Right to the First Source!-
Explore how manipulatives can be used effectively to address the
development of early mathematical thinking in PreK. As educators
refresh their math content knowledge, they discover the value and
flexibility of manipulatives through hands-on lessons that can be
used to differentiate instruction and construct a bridge from the
concrete to the abstract. Every participant receives practical strategies
and manipulatives they can take back to their classrooms!
Early Reading
Instruction
What Good First Teaching Looks Like-
Guide the design, planning, and implementation of initiatives for
building literacy skills in early childhood settings based on the
research and work of literacy expert Miriam P. Trehearne. Recommendations
for assessments, instructional strategies, school and classroom organization,
classroom resources, and literacy benchmarks are shared.
