Workshops

Each year, the Empowering Teachers program is centered around a different theme and unique workshops are organized that are connected to the theme. Below are themes and sessions for the past two Empowering Teachers programs:

2012 Empowering Teachers Program
Bridging Family, School and Classroom Cultures with the Child At the Center

• “Keeping the Child at the Center” 
• Wright Lecture: “Teaching and Learning in a Diverse and Inequitable World”
• Conversation with Wright Lecturer Patricia Ramsey
• “Bringing the Outside World In”
• “Math Meaning-Making in the Classroom: Diverse Encounters”
• “Families and the Classroom Community”
• “Using Creative Movement throughout the School Day and Year: Connecting Bodies and Minds to Learning”
• Film screening of It’s Elementary and discussion
• “Building Communities in Diverse Settings”

2011 Empowering Teachers Program
Each Child and the Curriculum: Finding Multiple Pathways to Meaning-Making

• “Keeping the Child at the Center” 
• Wright Lecture: “Voices of Children Voices of Teachers: Reclaiming the Classroom”
• Conversation with Wright Lecturer Mary Hebron
• “Knowing and Teaching Children through What They Make and Do”
• “Moving, Lifting, Turning: Physics in Childhood”
• “Creating Structures to Construct Meaning”
• “What Draws You In? : Individualizing Classrooms That Work for Children AND Their Teachers”
• “Mindfulness and Teaching: Building Strategies for Calm, Focus and Self Awareness in the Classroom Context”
• Deconstruction Lab
• Squishy Circuits
• “Putting ‘It’ All Together Altogether”