Our seasonal Parent Workshop Series provide a unique opportunity for enhanced community, connection, and support. Parents are invited to attend sessions that focus on life skills and mindfulness, supporting academic growth, and preparing for transitions. These sessions are facilitated by content specialists and mental health professionals.
SEL
The coronavirus pandemic is stressful for everyone, including parents and children. Fear and anxiety about a disease, especially one that is unknown, can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children. How you cope with the stress and anxiety, however, can make you, your child, your family, and your community stronger. This workshop offers tips for recognizing anxiety across age groups and strategies for dealing with it.
Helps families recognize signs and symptoms of bullying; understand the steps they can take to ensure their children are not involved in bullying –either as perpetrators, targets, or bystanders; and identify ways to support their children if they are involved.
Nurturing a Growth Mindset and Perseverance
In this era of high-stakes testing and increased academic pressures in schools, correct answers are too often valued as the measure of success over the learning journey. As a result, students may become risk-averse, where the learning process is overshadowed by fear of making mistakes. This session explores strategies to help parents foster a growth mindset with their child, where risk-taking, mistakes, challenges, and persistence are not only valued but expected.
Incorporating the IEP at Home: Supporting Your Child with Special Needs at Home
Designed to help you set realistic goals for what you can do at home to support your child’s IEP. We take into consideration that you are not your child’s usual teacher, and your child is not used to you being their teacher. This workshop offers instructional strategies that parents can use to help children with special needs at home; recommend how parents can structure the day for children with special needs; and, provide parents with external resources that will support their child’s learning needs.
The Emotional Mastery Toolbox – Kids Thrive Here
Emotional Mastery Toolbox (EMT) provides lifelong practical strategies and resources to help families nurture their children’s emotional development as they take control of their feelings and their minds. The program teaches the parent or caregiver how to use various techniques with their child and to create an environment where they can speak as a family about any challenges that arise. Emotional mastery is one of the most beneficial outcomes for both children and adults. EMT starts at the very beginning with foundational self-awareness skills, such as how to identify feelings, followed by strategies to focus the mind and alleviate tension from the body, and finishes with ways to improve self-esteem and confidence. Each concept builds on the next and provides real-life, easy-to-implement activities families can use daily as challenges arise.
Transition Back to In-Person School (K-8)
Between virtual, hybrid, and in-person learning due to the recent world pandemic, it is so wonderful that our children are back to in-person learning with their peers and teachers. This presentation will identify for the participants strategies to best support their child as they transition back to the in-person space.
Building Confidence (3-8)
A large part of learning is having the confidence to participate, interact with peers, and dare to take risks when learning. Within this participation, the participants will learn of some strategies to support your child with building their confidence in order to support their growth and learning.
A large part of learning is having the confidence to participate, interact with peers, and dare to take risks when learning. Within this participation, the participants will learn of some strategies to support your child with building their confidence in order to support their growth and learning.
Building Fun and Strong Social Relationships
Gain Relationship Building Strategies for In-Person and Digitally!
Parents Will Receive:
Language and Strategies to build strong and positive relationships for children
Building positive relationships within a digital world–safely
Strong Relationships
In this session, you will learn how to encourage positive social interactions– foster strong social skills, embrace differences, and build empathy.
Early Childhood
How to Support Your Child’s Learning at Home
In this session, you will learn different skills to help support your child in reading. We will explore fun activities that will help boost your child’s confidence and desire to read. Join our workshop to learn some fun and simple ways to build a strong foundation and enthusiasm for reading for your child.
How to Help Your Child with Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is vital for anyone learning to read. Learn all about phonemes and how to practice the seven skills of phonemic awareness through fun, interactive activities to prepare your child for reading.
How to Help Your Child with Phonemic Awareness Part 2
Practice the seven skills of phonemic awareness through fun, interactive activities to prepare your child for reading.
Social Studies Science
How Discovery Education Supports Your Child With Social Studies and Science
The use of instructional technology has opened so many doors for our students’ learning. Through the use of Discovery Education’s online platforms, our students are able to really engage in their learning through differentiated digital curricula. This presentation will support you with understanding how to navigate the platform.
Cross Curricular
Inquiry Based Learning and How it Promotes Deeper Learning
Inquiry-based learning supports our students with their engagement, curiosity, and promotes a deeper level of understanding. Students are encouraged to explore by asking questions and identifying solutions based on what they analyzed in class. This presentation will support your student with understanding what inquiry-based learning is and how it fosters a deeper understanding of their subjects.
Math
Math: Dreambox
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Math: Eureka
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ELA
ELA: Google Classroom
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ELA: SeeSaw
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ELA: My Perspectives/ReadyGen
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Supporting Summer Learning: Reading
Gain Reading Support and Resources that are fun and have Real-World Applications!
Parents will receive:
- Everyday Reading Strategies
- Reading Resources and
- Tools for Parents to Support Reading
- Reading Challenges!
- Reading activities such as reading when at the museum or point and camera activity, and more!
Supporting Summer Learning: Math
Gain Math Support and Resources that are fun and have Real-World Applications!
Parents will receive:
- Everyday math strategies
- Incorporating math with the world around us and real world activities
- Math resources and tools for parents
Technology
Google Classroom Basics
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Boosting Literacy Skills via Google Classroom
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Digital Citizenship and Safety in Digital Spaces
In this session, you will learn about digital citizenship– ways to guide your child in using digital tools responsibly, identify signs and symptoms of cyberbullying and how to prevent/address it, and steps to develop a plan to help your child stay safe on the internet.
Data
Understanding Your Child’s Performance on the MAP Assessment
Just as a doctor has a chart showing the most common heights of people at certain ages, a MAP test measures a student’s performance level based upon their grade level while computing their academic growth over time. During this workshop, we take the time to simplify and interpret sample MAP reports and offer explanations of the MAP data to help you better understand your child’s MAP testing data.
Special Education
Incorporating the IEP at Home: Supporting Your Child with Special Needs
Designed to help you set realistic goals for what you can do at home to support your child’s IEP. We take into consideration that you are not your child’s usual teacher, and your child is not used to you being their teacher. This workshop offers instructional strategies that parents can use to help children with special needs at home; recommend how parents can structure the day for children with special needs; and, provide parents with external resources that will support their child’s learning needs.
External Presenters
Storytelling with Jonathan Kruk
Jonathan Kruk, a long-time artist/educator has a variety of stories to suit any family and time of year.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jonathan Kruk will showcase his mater skills in the story telling of this Halloween classic.
The Snowy Squirrel & Five Senses Story Games
Parents, have a little one who won’t listen? Want some help? Join master storyteller, Jonathan Kruk for a hand’s-on, five senses, lively virtual storytelling experience.
Your children will learn to actively listen. They’ll use their five senses to help find the Snowy Squirrel. This performance workshop also welcomes open imaginations as together you’ll make up a new chapter for this winter tale.
Frozen! The Adventure of the Snow Queen – Family Story-Making
Enjoy the story behind the movie “Frozen!.” The Snow Queen steals a young man taking him to her ice palace, dooming him to figure out a riddle or else he dies. His friend Gerda faces dangers from sleeping flowers to thieves and ice-bees.
Together families will try to guess the riddle to end the mystery, and will learn to make their own adventure tale.
Opportunities to write and sketch along with the story will also be provided!
KiwiCo: Interactive Learning at Home
KiwiCo was created to celebrate kids’ natural creativity and curiosity, while helping parents who want to bring enriching experiences to their children. Kiwico makes learning fun, easy, and delightful for families to spend time building, exploring and creating together. This presentation will support parents with an overview of KiwiCo and how it can make learning fun and interactive.
Request a Workshop
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