Summer Learning 2022
Book Study
Sponsored by Genesee Region & Tri-County Teacher Centers
If you register by June 14th you will have books delivered, after that you will need to pick up your book from a central location
Mentoring Matters (Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman)
Dates-June 27- August 21
An invaluable reference for mentors of beginning teachers, this guide offers structures, strategies, and tools for developing expertise in teaching and launching a career of continuous learning. The updated and revised Third Edition adds new tools for time-efficient, effective learning-focused conversations, including templates for problem-solving conversations that balance support with learning. You’ll find tons of tips for maximizing time and attention and extensive resources for understanding and supporting each phase of a new teacher’s first years.
Details
- Asynchronous
- 12 CTLE Hours
The Vanishing Half (Britt Bennett)
Dates-June 30-July 30
“A story of absolute, universal timelessness …For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be….” – Entertainment Weekly
From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?
Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.
As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
Details
- Blended Format-synchronous dates July 14 & 28 11:00-12:00
- 10 CTLE Hours
Effective Classroom Management- The Essentials Dr. Tracey Garrett
Dates July 7-August 24
Join us in exploring the essentials of classroom management, using the book by Dr, Tracey Garrett and additional resources. Dr. Garrett will host a question and answer synchronous session on Wednesday, August 17th at 10AM. We will journey through the essentials to create your personal classroom management plan. The course will explore the physical design of the classroom, routines and procedures, relationships, managing instruction and addressing discipline issues. The culminating project will be to develop your own classroom management plan.
You will be expected to post comments to discussion prompts and to build a learning community by replying to other participants' comments.
Details
- Blended with Schoology and Zoom
- 12 CTLE Hours
Getting Things Done the art of stress-free productivity( David Allen)
Audience-Appropriate for all grade levels
Dates-July 11- Aug 7
David Allen’s premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective results and unleash our creative potential. Getting Things Done will teach you to apply the ‘do-it, delegate-it, defer-it, drop-it’ rule to get your inbox empty, reassess goals and stay focused in challenging situations, plan and unstick projects, overcome feelings of anxiety and being overwhelmed, and feel fine about what you’re not doing.
- Engage in discussions on each chapter’s topic to acquire the skills necessary to organize your ideas, lesson plans, and future plans.
- Learn to help your students plan and unstick projects.
- Explore Allen’s premise that our ‘ head is for having ideas - not for holding them.’
- Use proven techniques to overcome feelings of anxiety and being overwhelmed by work-related goals.
- Increase awareness of precisely how to stay focused in the ever-changing world we live in today.
Details
- Asynchronous with Schoology
- 15 CTLE Hours
What Happened to You (by Oprah Winfrey & Dr. Bruce Perry)
Dates-July 18-August 15
Have you ever wondered "Why did I do that?" or "Why can't I just control my behavior?" Or we may judge our students and think, "What's wrong with them?" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and our students to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking different questions. Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.
Engage in discussions on each chapter’s theme to acquire the skills necessary to gain an understanding of trauma in your classroom.
Learn to help your students self-regulate through insights into the brain parts: cortex, limbic, diencephalon, and brainstem.
Explore precisely how trauma can affect students biologically, and the divide between physiology and psychology can be difficult to separate.
Emphasize the importance of community and professional support communities in helping teachers process trauma in their students and in their work in the classroom.
Details
- Asynchronous with Schoology
- 15 CTLE Hours
Authentic Materials Myths – Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching, authors: Eve Zyzik and Charlene Polio
Facilitator Beth Slocum
Dates-July 13-October 31
How do you use authentic materials in instruction? What reservations do you have? How do you respond to colleagues who are hesitant to embed authentic resources in their instruction? Join with colleagues from around the region for an in-depth book study.
Details:
- Book study and a deep dive into the role of #authres in the World Language standards revision process".
- Blended Format with Schoology and online sessions July 13 & 27, August 17 & 31, September & October TBD
- 15 CTLE Hours
The Nurtured Heart Approach Book study: Transforming the Intense Child
Dates-August 1-August 12
This book by best-selling author and child psychotherapist Howard Glasser is about a time-tested, highly effective approach for successful parenting. This approach, also highly effective for educators and therapists, has an evidence base that is building fast. It is being successfully employed in thousands of homes, classrooms, therapy and coaching practices, and a growing number of schools and treatment programs across the U.S. and overseas.
In learning the Nurtured Heart Approach, you will discover that the intensity that has gone awry in the difficult child is an energy source that can be tapped and directed. With a method that works at the level of energy, this intensity can blossom into greatness. The more intense a child is to begin with, the more powerful this force of greatness can be when parents have the right tools. A child who isn't challenging also possesses vast stores of greatness that can be activate
Details
- Asynchronous with Google Classroom
- Participants must use a personal Gmail account, school accounts will not work
- 8 CTLE Hours
Teaching That Changes Lives 12 Mindset Tools For Igniting the Love of Learning (Marilee Adams, PhD)
Dates-August 15-November 14
Teaching That Changes Lives is a transformational and practical guide that will enable teachers to make an authentic difference with their students and avoid succumbing to the myriad pressures and challenges of their jobs.
Using the storytelling format that proved so successful in her previous book, Adams tells how Emma, a sixth-grade teacher on the verge of quitting her job, learns to cultivate what Adams calls the “Learner Mindset”— having the discipline, curiosity, and courage to consistently ask growth-oriented, open-minded questions of oneself and others—and to avoid the close-minded and critical “Judger Mindset.” Emma transforms her classroom, her relationships with her colleagues, and, most importantly, her students’ eagerness for learning and achievement.
Teaching is more than imparting facts and skills—it’s preparing students for the test of life. Featuring an innovative, easy-to-follow workbook and access to a Learner Mindset online mini-course, this inspiring book will ensure that teachers and students alike become creative, resilient problem solvers, bridge builders, and lifelong learners.
Details
- Asynchronous 6 sections over 14 weeks
- 9 CTLE Hours
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