Early Childhood Education Conference: Our Diverse Classrooms

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Please see the following from our colleagues at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY:

We cordially invite you and your fellow colleagues to the seventh early childhood conference on September 23, 2017 at Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY. Our topic this year is Our Diverse Classrooms: Meaningful Approaches For Early Childhood.

Our country and our classrooms are increasingly more diverse. We work to create inclusive classrooms that support all our children including those who speak home languages other than English, come from varying cultural backgrounds and who have specific learning needs. How can we meaningfully support, and include all students in our classroom communities?

This year’s keynote speaker is María Paula Ghiso, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Ghiso will present her extensive and engaging research on working with young Emergent Bilinguals.

We will have many powerful workshops to choose from including:

  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
  • Storytelling with English Language Learners and Students with Special Needs
  • Diversity in Children's Literature
  • Supporting Young Children with Special Needs
  • Writing with Emergent Bilinguals

And more to come!

To learn more about the conference or to register, visit: www.mville.edu/ecaa.

Your school or a group of teachers/administrators can also register using the link below:
https://www.mville.edu/registration-early-childhood-education-professional-development-conference 

If you have any questions feel free to reach out at any time:
Dr. Victoria Fantozzi, Interim Chair
victoria.fantozzi@mville.edu

Dr. April Grundman, ECE Alumni Co-President
april.fatato@mville.edu
 

Language Series 2017

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Please see the following learning opportunity from our colleagues at Bank Street College:
 

Language Series 2017
Multiliteracies: Exploring Multimodal Pedagogies for Academic Success

November 11, 2017
Bank Street College
610 West 112th Street
New York, NY 10025


Featuring keynote presentation by Detra Price-Dennis, Ph.D., Elementary & Inclusive Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, followed by two rounds of workshops!

Language is nuanced, multi-modal and ever-changing. By language, we mean not just words but all the forms in which communication can be represented. In the 21st century innovative pedagogies impact the way we teach using various ways of accessing content that are reflected in multiliteracies. The Language Series 2017 will focus on teaching methods to better engage students in language and content development: not only digital technology but also explorations, music, sounds, block building, and others.

Workshops

  • The Classroom as a Learning Laboratory: Using Projects as a Tool for Language Development with José Daniel Sandín
  • Fostering Student Agency and Voice: A Critical Multiliteracy Approach to Developing Narrative Skills with Mimi Rosenberg
  • The Many Languages of Block Building: Creating Spaces for Emerging Literacies through Play with Rebecca Burdett
  • Music as a Pathway for Learning at Every Age with Alina Vayner
  • SOUNDS IN MOTION: Using Body Movements to Train Auditory Perception, Language, and Early Literacy with Frances Santore


Registration opening soon with Early Bird discount through October 15!
This may be taken for graduate school credit or available for 1 CEU.
Visit bankstreet.edu/ls for more information.
Inquiries: 212.875.4461 | gadams@bankstreet.edu
 

Building Biliteracy II: Breaking the Code in Dual Language Classrooms

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We are delighted to share the following upcoming professional development event for teachers of Spanish:


Building Biliteracy II: Breaking the Code in Dual Language Classrooms

Saturday, July 8th from 10-2:00 PM
Instituto Cervantes New York
211 East 49th Street, New York, NY, 10017
 

Decoding is an important component of early reading, and students need explicit instruction in this foundational skill. In this session, participants will see a variety of strategies that support phonemic awareness and phonics, explore the concept of skills transfer across languages and design an activity incorporating multiple text types.

Speaker: Patricia Acosta
*Please note: this workshop will be given in Spanish.

This PD session is organized by the Instituto Cervantes of New York and the New York State Department of Education Office of Bilingual Education through the NYS Language RBERN at NYU STEINHARDT METRO CENTER. Sponsored by Santillana, USA.

Sign up for free here.