Description of 2019 Workshops
The following sessions are offered as part of the SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union Inquiry and Innovation Professional Learning Series for Teachers. These hands-on and interactive workshops are free of charge to TK-12 Teachers, and each session is collaboratively developed and facilitated by local teachers and faculty members. CEUs are available, and offered free of charge to all SchoolsFirst FCU members.
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Education when meaningful equips students with the tools to become participatory, democratic, and conciencidados de la linguistic and cultural richness existent in their communidades. In this workshop, participants will first investigate what is behind the label Emergent Bilingual to later examine and build practices that support inclusive and brave spaces. Using el arte de translanguaging, we will learn how to design activities that foster communicative actions oriented towards mutual conflict resolution [monolingualism vs. multilingualism] through compromiso. The ideal outcome of such activities would be a community learners willing to transgress education via harmonization and depiction of shared and communal assets, funds of knowledge, beliefs, and values.
Facilitated by Dr. Fernando Rodríguez-Valls, Associate Professor of Secondary Education at California State University, Fullerton; Paola Rosenberg, Science Teacher at Kennedy High School in Anaheim Union High School District; and Rudy Acosta, Director of Gear Up at the University of California Irvine and adjunct faculty member at California State University Fullerton.
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This interactive workshop will focus on strengthening the educational partnership between schools and diverse families, with special attention to equity and empowerment. It will provide participants with authentic and practical assessment tools, such as language and literacy community mapping, and protocols that promote collaborative conversations while sharing school-based experiences to strengthen family engagement. The final hour of the session will provide opportunities for teachers to develop curriculum and resources for use with students and their families.
Facilitated by Dr. Pablo Jasis, Associate Professor of Elementary and Bilingual Education, California State University, Fullerton; Dr. Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis, Professor and Chair of Literacy, California State University, Fullerton; and Dr. George Herrera, Principal and former teacher, Villacorta Elementary School, Rowland Unified School District
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Are you ready to learn new technologies and find out more about virtual reality software? Then this workshop is designed for you. Begin the day with an overview of virtual reality software, and explore how VR is being applied in lessons, training, and in classrooms to engage students in exploring issues of equity and social justice in their local communities. Then, spend some time using a 360 degree camera and learn how to take quality photographs to use in your VR project. Take, export, and format photos to use in your VR project, then learn the virtual reality software. It’s a free web based software that you can use in your classroom with your students. During this workshop, participants will create a VR project from start to finish, with guidance from K-12 and university faculty, and leave with curriculum and resources ready for use in your own classroom.
Facilitated by Dr. Cynthia Gautreau, Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Instructional Design and Technology at California State University, Fullerton; Dr. Shariq Ahmed, Lecturer at California State University, Fullerton and Director of Technology at University of Redlands; and Jennifer Lopez, Teacher on Special Assignment, Santa Ana Unified School District.
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In this workshop, middle and high school mathematics teachers will share their efforts to rehumanize mathematics learning by creating culturally responsive, student-centered classrooms. Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching is a research-based framework that helps teachers to shift instructional practices and improve student engagement in, attitudes toward, and success with mathematics. Facilitators will share specific practices of CRMT and guide participants in analyzing lessons designed and implemented by middle and high school teachers. Participants will learn how to use the culturally responsive mathematics framework to promote equity and student success in their own classroom. The final hour of the workshop is reserved for participants to use the CRMT framework to build curriculum for their own use. Note: This session is designed for middle and high school teachers of mathematics, but elementary teachers are welcome to attend if interested in learning about CRMT in the upper grades.
Facilitated by Dr. Patrice Waller, Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at California State University, Fullerton; and Dr. Mark Ellis, Professor of Education at California State University, Fullerton.
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In this workshop, K-12 teachers will interrogate personal and structural biases within GATE and SPED referral procedures. Through a variety of hands-on activities, participants will deconstruct problematic processes of decision-making that disproportionately affects Students of Color. Throughout the workshop, teachers will work in teams to explore how their own classroom practices reinforce or interrupt bias, and develop classroom-ready strategies for being more just, equitable, and inclusive educators.
Facilitated by Dr. Carolina Valdez, Assistant Professor of Elementary and Bilingual Education at California State University, Fullerton, and Dr. Benikia Kressler, Assistant Professor Special Education, California State University, Fullerton
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Arts Integration is an approach to teaching that is proven to engage students, increase intrinsic motivation, and deepen learning. Join our experts as we share our campus wide strategies for success and see for yourself how visual, performing, and digital arts integration connects all content subjects, provides a catalyst for inclusiveness and equity, inspires universal design, and meets the needs of social emotional learning. Furthermore, learn how the creative process requires the whole brain approach to education, which prompts student reflection, metacognition, and deepens conceptual understanding. Not an artist? You don’t have to be! We will give you all the tools you need to ensure both you and your students are confident in both delivery and execution. Participants will explore their own creative process while being introduced to valuable resources you can begin utilizing right away.
Facilitated by Kristine Quinn, Lecturer Department of Elementary and Bilingual Education, Arts Integration Specialist; Molly Esquival, Ladera Vista Middle School Science Teacher, Arts Integration Specialist; and Randa Schmalfeld, Fullerton School District Retired Teacher, TeachRock Arts Integration Specialist.
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