LAC Workshop CalendarThese professional development offerings are provided through funding from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development and the Literacy Assistance Center.
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LAC Fall Calendar
Fall Cohort Series
(Learn more about all three of our Cohort Series HERE)
Enhancing Students’ Reading and Writing Skills to Achieve Success
Dates: 10.26.2018, 11.9.2018, 11.16.2018, 11.30.18
Overview: This cohort series aims to strengthen ABE-HSE instructors’ ability to teach reading comprehension to enhance students’ reading and writing skills. We will share research on mindset, student engagement, reading comprehension, and new trends in writing instruction. This cohort series has four sessions and participants who attend all sessions will receive a certificate of completion.
Presenters: Be Jensen and Lizelena Iglesias
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
Application Deadline: 10.11.2018
Application Link: bit.ly/abehsecohortapp
This Cohort Series will include the following sessions:
Session 1: Reading Comprehension Strategies that Work
Session 2: Ask the Right Questions and You’ll Find the Right Answers: Challenging Students to Think Before They Respond
Session 3: Making Writing More Engaging for Students in the Digital Era
Session 4: Using TABE Results to Inform Instruction and Improve Learning
Session 1: Reading Comprehension Strategies that Work
Date: 10.26.2018
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Description: Reflect on well-researched comprehension strategies that can be used in the classroom with ABE-HSE students and leave this session with a practical collection of reading strategies that will enhance your practice. This session will be formatted to provide instructional support on these various strategies.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18E
Session 2: Ask the Right Questions and You’ll Find the Right Answers: Challenging Students to Think Before They Respond
Date: 11.9.2018
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Description: During the first part of this session, participants will understand how text-dependent questions help students develop close-reading skills. They will learn to distinguish between Text-Dependent-Questions (TDQ) and Non-Text-Dependent-Questions. They will learn to formulate TDQ to encourage close-reading among their students. In the second half of the session, we will look at the levels of cognitive expectations, or “depths of knowledge” (DOK), that are required for the students to complete a task that is assigned to them or to answer a test question. Participants will learn how to formulate questions at the four levels of DOK to assess students' depth of understanding of the lesson.
Presenter: Be Jensen
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18E
Session 3: Making Writing More Engaging for Students in the Digital Era
Date: 11.16.2018
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Description: During the last session of this cohort we will explore ways teachers can integrate digital literacy into existing writing instruction. We will look at resources and best practices that can help teachers expand and enhance the writing process in the ABE-HSE classrooms.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18F
Session 4: Using TABE Results to Inform Reading Instruction and Improve Learning
Date: 11.30.2018
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Description: In this session, participants will learn to analyze the TABE Reading results to inform their practice and facilitate students’ learning through targeted and focused instruction.
Presenter: Be Jensen
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18E
Workshops
Making Your Content Mobile Friendly
Date: 9.14.2018
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Description: Do you have access to computers in your classroom? Do your students have access to computers outside of class? If you answered “yes” to either of those questions you are in the lucky minority. For the rest of us, the good news is that we can do a lot with mobile phones. Learn how to use Google Forms, Padlet, and YouTube Playlists to bring your lessons to your student's mobile devices.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 18F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://pfmobilecontent91418.eventbrite.com
Reflective Teachers Forum Series
Dates: 9.21.2018, 10.12.2018, 11.2.2018, 12.7.2018
Note: Register once to attend all sessions
Time: 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Description: This series is an opportunity for ESOL teachers to develop their skills by exploring and reflecting on their teaching practice. Through four group meetings, Reflective Teachers will provide a structured forum for teachers to present issues and challenges they are experiencing in the classroom and receive support and guidance from both the moderator and their peers. Attendance at all four session is encouraged, and participants must commit to a minimum of three sessions and must attend the first session.
Presenter: Judy Trupin
Location: WeWork Grand Central, Room 4A, 450 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://reflective-teachers-fall-2018.eventbrite.com
Developing an ESOL Curriculum Series
Dates: 10.3.2018, 10.5.2018, 10.12.2018
Note: Register once to attend all sessions
Time: 10.3 4:30pm - 7:30pm; 10.5/10.12 9:30am - 12:30pm
Description: This series will begin with an overview of the process of creating a curriculum for ESOL classes. Discussion will address such questions as: Where do you start? What are the components of a curriculum? What is the relationship between a coursebook and a curriculum? and What curricula are available on the web? During the second session, participants will have the opportunity to work alone or in teams to draft or expand on their own curriculum. In the final session, participants will share their drafts and receive feedback from the facilitators and fellow participants.
Presenter: Judy Trupin and Will Linn
Location: WeWork Grand Central, Room 4B, 450 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://pfcurriculum-10-2018.eventbrite.com
Facing History and Ourselves: Teaching My Part of the Story
Date: 10.5.2018
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Description: In our world, our communities and, importantly, in our schools, we face a diversity of identities and perspectives. Join us for this workshop to learn about Facing History’s new resource, My Part of the Story. With seven lessons, the resource provides a fresh and engaging way to begin a course in United States history, literature, or civic life. It is more important than ever for all students—regardless of who they are or where they come from—to understand the value of their individual voices in the story of the United States.
In this session, participants will:
Learn about a powerful framework for engaging students in a study of American history, literature, or civic life.
Learn and participate in teaching strategies that build community in the classroom, sharpen students’ critical thinking, and develop their voices.
Acquire new primary and secondary sources that forge connections between the history and literature students study and their current lived experience.
Engage with discussion strategies that support the discussion of current and controversial conversations in the classroom.
Presenter: Juan Castellanos
Location: 150 Broadway #2100, New York, NY 10038
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://pffacinghistorysession1.eventbrite.com
Adult Literacy Principles and Using the LAC’s Investing in Quality Report for Programmatic Self-Assessment
Date: 10.12.2018
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Description: During the first part of this workshop, participants will be provided with an overview of adult learning principles, instructional best practices, and principles of instructional design. In the second half of the workshop, participants will engage in a programmatic self-assessment process guided by the 14 Building Blocks identified in the LAC’s Investing in Quality Report.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias and Ira Yankwitt
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18G
Audience: Instructors, Lead Teachers, Program Managers, Program Directors
To Register: https://pfadultlitprinciplesandiqreport.eventbrite.com
Introduction to BurlingtonEnglish *NEW*
Date: 10.12.18
Time: 12pm - 2:30pm
Description: Are you looking for new tools to help you integrate WIOA goals in your classes? In this session participants will learn about BurlingtonEnglish, an WIOA-focused program that helps your students successfully reach WIOA outcomes. These include: getting and keeping a job, readiness for future job training and further academic study, as well as preparation for the citizenship process.
Even if you are not WIOA focused, but your goals for your students include accent reduction, being able to navigate the community, improve grammar, dramatically improve listening comprehension, boost citizenship knowledge, or any combination of these, then you will definitely want to find out more about BurlingtonEnglish.
Burlington provides the unique integration of real-life language acquisition and a highly engaging learning format that has students excited to learn English. Besides providing students with the opportunity to develop digital literacy, BurlingtonEnglish differentiated instruction also provides teachers with everything they need for a highly interactive classroom: instructor-led projectable lessons, printable worksheets and dynamic in-class activities that will get students engaged and developing contextual oral communication as well.
The session will be delivered in the format of a demo-lesson, this way participants will be able to experience the program in action from the teacher's and student’s perspective.
Participants will leave knowing:
Audience: ESOL Instructors, Program Managers
Registration: https://burlingtonenglish101218.eventbrite.com
NYCCAL Social Media for Advocacy Workshop
Date: 10.16.2018
Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Description: In this workshop we will review the basics of Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as tools for advocacy. We will explore how each best lends itself to advocacy work. Participants will create or log into at least one of these accounts and they will learn how to find people/entities to follow, and how to organize the information they are sharing and receiving.
We will have Chromebooks for people to use but participants are welcome to bring their own devices.
This workshop is for people who identify themselves as novices and have little or no experience using these tools.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 27F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: Instructors, Lead Teachers, Program Managers, Program Directors
To Register: https://nyccalsome101618.eventbrite.com
Everybody Speaks!
Date: 11.7.2018
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Description: In order to be ready for the real world, learners need a significant amount of classroom practice with real-world speaking skills. This workshop will cover a number of classroom-ready speaking activities that maximize students’ talking time as well as strategies for adapting them so that every learner can participate productively. Classroom management techniques for working with overly talkative and shy learners will also be discussed.
Presenter: Will Linn
Location: WeWork Penn Station, Room 9A, 315 W 36th St, New York, NY 10018
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://pfeverybodyspeaks-11-2018.eventbrite.com
Introduction to Digital Storytelling Around Curricular Standards *NEW*
Date: 11.9.2018
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm or 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Note: This workshop is offered twice, once in the morning and once in the afternoon
This Workshop features a new tool – the non-profit initiative, Meridian Stories – that will enable you and your students to create short video and audio stories that communicate curricular substance. Digital literacy – which includes the ability to develop and create meaningful communication digitally – is as important as textural literacy. And it’s a lot more fun, …as well as being creative, collaborative, and designed to enhance critical thinking skills.
Participants will come away from this hands-on Workshop with 1) an understanding of the deep educational value of digital storytelling – value in terms of the delivery of curricular content, common core standards and 21st c skills; 2) clear and practical guidelines for how to integrate this approach in your classrooms; and 3) knowledge about existing curricular challenges and resources that support this approach.
Presenter: Brett Pierce
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 18F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, HSE, and ESOL Instructors and Program Managers
To Register: Morning Session: https://meridianstories11918am.eventbrite.com
Afternoon Session (repeat): https://meridianstories11918pm.eventbrite.com
Practicing Applied Digital Reading and Writing Skills Using Google Docs and Google Slides
Date: 11.9.2018
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Description: WIOA defines digital skills as “the skills associated with using technology to enable users to find, evaluate, organize, create, and communicate information.” In this session, we will dive deep into the use of Google Docs and Google Slides to develop and strengthen reading and writing skills for all levels while also developing and strengthening our digital skills. This session is for people who have little or no experience with Google Slides and Google Docs.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 27F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://pfapplieddigskills11918.eventbrite.com
Facing History and Ourselves: Teaching the Reconstruction Era
Date: 11.30.2018
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Description: Facing History has produced a series of videos and accompanying lessons that will introduce a rigorous study of the Reconstruction era into American history classrooms. Their video series includes interviews with scholars of the Reconstruction era who provide insight into this complex history and address questions of freedom, justice, equality, and citizenship that are at the heart of the Reconstruction.
How does society rebuild after extraordinary division and trauma, when the ideals and values of democracy are most vulnerable?
The study of the Reconstruction Era in American history is essential to the understanding of citizenship and democracy in the United States today. In this workshop, participants will explore this significant period in U.S. history, when Americans were faced with the challenge of restoring a nation amid the social and political upheaval of the civil war.
In this session, participants will:
Discover new interdisciplinary teaching strategies that reinforce historical and literacy skills.
Explore themes such as historical memory, justice and civic participation in a democracy, and learn writing strategies to help support students through the essay-writing assignment introduced in the unit.
Presenter: Juan Castellanos
Location: 150 Broadway #2100, New York, NY 10038
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://pffacinghistorysession2.eventbrite.com
NYCCAL Social Media for Advocacy Workshop
Date: 12.14.2018
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Description: In this workshop we will review the basics of Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as tools for advocacy. We will explore how each best lends itself to advocacy work. Participants will create or log into at least one of these accounts and they will learn how to find people/entities to follow, and how to organize the information they are sharing and receiving.
We will have Chromebooks for people to use but participants are welcome to bring their own devices.
This workshop is for people who identify themselves as novices and have little or no experience using these tools.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 27F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: Instructors, Lead Teachers, Program Managers, Program Directors
To Register: https://nyccalsome121418.eventbrite.com
(Learn more about all three of our Cohort Series HERE)
Enhancing Students’ Reading and Writing Skills to Achieve Success
Dates: 10.26.2018, 11.9.2018, 11.16.2018, 11.30.18
Overview: This cohort series aims to strengthen ABE-HSE instructors’ ability to teach reading comprehension to enhance students’ reading and writing skills. We will share research on mindset, student engagement, reading comprehension, and new trends in writing instruction. This cohort series has four sessions and participants who attend all sessions will receive a certificate of completion.
Presenters: Be Jensen and Lizelena Iglesias
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
Application Deadline: 10.11.2018
Application Link: bit.ly/abehsecohortapp
This Cohort Series will include the following sessions:
Session 1: Reading Comprehension Strategies that Work
Session 2: Ask the Right Questions and You’ll Find the Right Answers: Challenging Students to Think Before They Respond
Session 3: Making Writing More Engaging for Students in the Digital Era
Session 4: Using TABE Results to Inform Instruction and Improve Learning
Session 1: Reading Comprehension Strategies that Work
Date: 10.26.2018
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Description: Reflect on well-researched comprehension strategies that can be used in the classroom with ABE-HSE students and leave this session with a practical collection of reading strategies that will enhance your practice. This session will be formatted to provide instructional support on these various strategies.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18E
Session 2: Ask the Right Questions and You’ll Find the Right Answers: Challenging Students to Think Before They Respond
Date: 11.9.2018
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Description: During the first part of this session, participants will understand how text-dependent questions help students develop close-reading skills. They will learn to distinguish between Text-Dependent-Questions (TDQ) and Non-Text-Dependent-Questions. They will learn to formulate TDQ to encourage close-reading among their students. In the second half of the session, we will look at the levels of cognitive expectations, or “depths of knowledge” (DOK), that are required for the students to complete a task that is assigned to them or to answer a test question. Participants will learn how to formulate questions at the four levels of DOK to assess students' depth of understanding of the lesson.
Presenter: Be Jensen
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18E
Session 3: Making Writing More Engaging for Students in the Digital Era
Date: 11.16.2018
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Description: During the last session of this cohort we will explore ways teachers can integrate digital literacy into existing writing instruction. We will look at resources and best practices that can help teachers expand and enhance the writing process in the ABE-HSE classrooms.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18F
Session 4: Using TABE Results to Inform Reading Instruction and Improve Learning
Date: 11.30.2018
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Description: In this session, participants will learn to analyze the TABE Reading results to inform their practice and facilitate students’ learning through targeted and focused instruction.
Presenter: Be Jensen
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18E
Workshops
Making Your Content Mobile Friendly
Date: 9.14.2018
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Description: Do you have access to computers in your classroom? Do your students have access to computers outside of class? If you answered “yes” to either of those questions you are in the lucky minority. For the rest of us, the good news is that we can do a lot with mobile phones. Learn how to use Google Forms, Padlet, and YouTube Playlists to bring your lessons to your student's mobile devices.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 18F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://pfmobilecontent91418.eventbrite.com
Reflective Teachers Forum Series
Dates: 9.21.2018, 10.12.2018, 11.2.2018, 12.7.2018
Note: Register once to attend all sessions
Time: 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Description: This series is an opportunity for ESOL teachers to develop their skills by exploring and reflecting on their teaching practice. Through four group meetings, Reflective Teachers will provide a structured forum for teachers to present issues and challenges they are experiencing in the classroom and receive support and guidance from both the moderator and their peers. Attendance at all four session is encouraged, and participants must commit to a minimum of three sessions and must attend the first session.
Presenter: Judy Trupin
Location: WeWork Grand Central, Room 4A, 450 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://reflective-teachers-fall-2018.eventbrite.com
Developing an ESOL Curriculum Series
Dates: 10.3.2018, 10.5.2018, 10.12.2018
Note: Register once to attend all sessions
Time: 10.3 4:30pm - 7:30pm; 10.5/10.12 9:30am - 12:30pm
Description: This series will begin with an overview of the process of creating a curriculum for ESOL classes. Discussion will address such questions as: Where do you start? What are the components of a curriculum? What is the relationship between a coursebook and a curriculum? and What curricula are available on the web? During the second session, participants will have the opportunity to work alone or in teams to draft or expand on their own curriculum. In the final session, participants will share their drafts and receive feedback from the facilitators and fellow participants.
Presenter: Judy Trupin and Will Linn
Location: WeWork Grand Central, Room 4B, 450 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10017
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://pfcurriculum-10-2018.eventbrite.com
Facing History and Ourselves: Teaching My Part of the Story
Date: 10.5.2018
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Description: In our world, our communities and, importantly, in our schools, we face a diversity of identities and perspectives. Join us for this workshop to learn about Facing History’s new resource, My Part of the Story. With seven lessons, the resource provides a fresh and engaging way to begin a course in United States history, literature, or civic life. It is more important than ever for all students—regardless of who they are or where they come from—to understand the value of their individual voices in the story of the United States.
In this session, participants will:
Learn about a powerful framework for engaging students in a study of American history, literature, or civic life.
Learn and participate in teaching strategies that build community in the classroom, sharpen students’ critical thinking, and develop their voices.
Acquire new primary and secondary sources that forge connections between the history and literature students study and their current lived experience.
Engage with discussion strategies that support the discussion of current and controversial conversations in the classroom.
Presenter: Juan Castellanos
Location: 150 Broadway #2100, New York, NY 10038
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://pffacinghistorysession1.eventbrite.com
Adult Literacy Principles and Using the LAC’s Investing in Quality Report for Programmatic Self-Assessment
Date: 10.12.2018
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Description: During the first part of this workshop, participants will be provided with an overview of adult learning principles, instructional best practices, and principles of instructional design. In the second half of the workshop, participants will engage in a programmatic self-assessment process guided by the 14 Building Blocks identified in the LAC’s Investing in Quality Report.
Presenter: Lizelena Iglesias and Ira Yankwitt
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004, Room 18G
Audience: Instructors, Lead Teachers, Program Managers, Program Directors
To Register: https://pfadultlitprinciplesandiqreport.eventbrite.com
Introduction to BurlingtonEnglish *NEW*
Date: 10.12.18
Time: 12pm - 2:30pm
Description: Are you looking for new tools to help you integrate WIOA goals in your classes? In this session participants will learn about BurlingtonEnglish, an WIOA-focused program that helps your students successfully reach WIOA outcomes. These include: getting and keeping a job, readiness for future job training and further academic study, as well as preparation for the citizenship process.
Even if you are not WIOA focused, but your goals for your students include accent reduction, being able to navigate the community, improve grammar, dramatically improve listening comprehension, boost citizenship knowledge, or any combination of these, then you will definitely want to find out more about BurlingtonEnglish.
Burlington provides the unique integration of real-life language acquisition and a highly engaging learning format that has students excited to learn English. Besides providing students with the opportunity to develop digital literacy, BurlingtonEnglish differentiated instruction also provides teachers with everything they need for a highly interactive classroom: instructor-led projectable lessons, printable worksheets and dynamic in-class activities that will get students engaged and developing contextual oral communication as well.
The session will be delivered in the format of a demo-lesson, this way participants will be able to experience the program in action from the teacher's and student’s perspective.
Participants will leave knowing:
- how to achieve WIOA success utilizing Burlington
- how BurlingtonEnglish can be incorporated into their existing lessons to help students improve their English language skills.
Audience: ESOL Instructors, Program Managers
Registration: https://burlingtonenglish101218.eventbrite.com
NYCCAL Social Media for Advocacy Workshop
Date: 10.16.2018
Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Description: In this workshop we will review the basics of Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as tools for advocacy. We will explore how each best lends itself to advocacy work. Participants will create or log into at least one of these accounts and they will learn how to find people/entities to follow, and how to organize the information they are sharing and receiving.
We will have Chromebooks for people to use but participants are welcome to bring their own devices.
This workshop is for people who identify themselves as novices and have little or no experience using these tools.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 27F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: Instructors, Lead Teachers, Program Managers, Program Directors
To Register: https://nyccalsome101618.eventbrite.com
Everybody Speaks!
Date: 11.7.2018
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Description: In order to be ready for the real world, learners need a significant amount of classroom practice with real-world speaking skills. This workshop will cover a number of classroom-ready speaking activities that maximize students’ talking time as well as strategies for adapting them so that every learner can participate productively. Classroom management techniques for working with overly talkative and shy learners will also be discussed.
Presenter: Will Linn
Location: WeWork Penn Station, Room 9A, 315 W 36th St, New York, NY 10018
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://pfeverybodyspeaks-11-2018.eventbrite.com
Introduction to Digital Storytelling Around Curricular Standards *NEW*
Date: 11.9.2018
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm or 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Note: This workshop is offered twice, once in the morning and once in the afternoon
This Workshop features a new tool – the non-profit initiative, Meridian Stories – that will enable you and your students to create short video and audio stories that communicate curricular substance. Digital literacy – which includes the ability to develop and create meaningful communication digitally – is as important as textural literacy. And it’s a lot more fun, …as well as being creative, collaborative, and designed to enhance critical thinking skills.
Participants will come away from this hands-on Workshop with 1) an understanding of the deep educational value of digital storytelling – value in terms of the delivery of curricular content, common core standards and 21st c skills; 2) clear and practical guidelines for how to integrate this approach in your classrooms; and 3) knowledge about existing curricular challenges and resources that support this approach.
Presenter: Brett Pierce
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 18F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, HSE, and ESOL Instructors and Program Managers
To Register: Morning Session: https://meridianstories11918am.eventbrite.com
Afternoon Session (repeat): https://meridianstories11918pm.eventbrite.com
Practicing Applied Digital Reading and Writing Skills Using Google Docs and Google Slides
Date: 11.9.2018
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Description: WIOA defines digital skills as “the skills associated with using technology to enable users to find, evaluate, organize, create, and communicate information.” In this session, we will dive deep into the use of Google Docs and Google Slides to develop and strengthen reading and writing skills for all levels while also developing and strengthening our digital skills. This session is for people who have little or no experience with Google Slides and Google Docs.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 27F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: ESOL Instructors
To Register: https://pfapplieddigskills11918.eventbrite.com
Facing History and Ourselves: Teaching the Reconstruction Era
Date: 11.30.2018
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Description: Facing History has produced a series of videos and accompanying lessons that will introduce a rigorous study of the Reconstruction era into American history classrooms. Their video series includes interviews with scholars of the Reconstruction era who provide insight into this complex history and address questions of freedom, justice, equality, and citizenship that are at the heart of the Reconstruction.
How does society rebuild after extraordinary division and trauma, when the ideals and values of democracy are most vulnerable?
The study of the Reconstruction Era in American history is essential to the understanding of citizenship and democracy in the United States today. In this workshop, participants will explore this significant period in U.S. history, when Americans were faced with the challenge of restoring a nation amid the social and political upheaval of the civil war.
In this session, participants will:
Discover new interdisciplinary teaching strategies that reinforce historical and literacy skills.
Explore themes such as historical memory, justice and civic participation in a democracy, and learn writing strategies to help support students through the essay-writing assignment introduced in the unit.
Presenter: Juan Castellanos
Location: 150 Broadway #2100, New York, NY 10038
Audience: ABE, Pre-HSE, and HSE Instructors
To Register: https://pffacinghistorysession2.eventbrite.com
NYCCAL Social Media for Advocacy Workshop
Date: 12.14.2018
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Description: In this workshop we will review the basics of Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as tools for advocacy. We will explore how each best lends itself to advocacy work. Participants will create or log into at least one of these accounts and they will learn how to find people/entities to follow, and how to organize the information they are sharing and receiving.
We will have Chromebooks for people to use but participants are welcome to bring their own devices.
This workshop is for people who identify themselves as novices and have little or no experience using these tools.
Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Location: WeWork, 85 Broad Street, Room 27F, New York, New York 10004
Audience: Instructors, Lead Teachers, Program Managers, Program Directors
To Register: https://nyccalsome121418.eventbrite.com