Professional Development | Winter/Spring 2020

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Winter/Spring 2020

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Choose Your Workshop NEW! Pre-K Early Learning

K–5 Handwriting

Explore the new Get Set for School® complete Pre-K program with a full-day workshop.

Learn developmentally appropriate, hands-on lessons for teaching handwriting.

Handwriting Assessment Assess and remediate your students’ handwriting skills.

Explore the possibilities: 1. Find Your Workshop Choose from relevant topics at convenient locations near you, save with early bird pricing, and receive FREE classroom materials.

2. Learn & Practice Developmentally Appropriate, Proven Methodology Through hands-on learning, participate in engaging activities, collaborate with peers, and practice teaching lessons that get to the heart of every letter with the Get Set for School and Handwriting Without Tears curricula.

3. Discover the NEW! Get Set for School Program Experience NEW multisensory workshops that dive deep into proven strategies designed to prepare young leaners for kindergarten by addressing each of the Pre-K learning domains.

4. Score FREE Materials Head back to your classroom with hundreds of dollars in FREE materials to immediately implement into lessons.

5. Introducing: your Virtual PD Hub! Bring curriculum training and professional development straight to your device! With this exclusive online membership, you gain access to video training and curriculum support from our experts for easy implementation and teaching all year long.

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Added Value!

New Year, New Get Set for School, and New Workshops Introducing a Multisensory Approach to Kindergarten Readiness: Through music and movement, puzzles and play, Learning Without Tear’s complete Pre-K Program, Get Set for School® brings the genius of making learning and teaching simple and fun to every child and educator.

Join Pre-K curriculum experts at our upcoming Get Set for School full-day workshop. For more details, see page 2.

Pre-KTT: The Pre-K nteractive Teaching Tool™ A one-stop digital teaching platform for managing and teaching Get Set for School lessons with a variety of multimedia assets including digital letter and number formations, videos, music, and more.

FIND YOUR PERFECT WORKSHOP! 2–3 A Multisensory Approach to Kindergarten Readiness 4 K–5 Handwriting 5 Handwriting Assessment 6–7 Workshop Schedules and Pricing 8 On-Site Professional Development 9 NEW Virtual PD Hub Offerings Follow us on

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NEW FOR 2020 NEW! A Multisensory Approach to Kindergarten Readiness Full-Day Workshop | 6.5 Contact Hours

This active workshop covers implementation best-practices in our new Get Set for School complete Pre-K curriculum. During this full-day, center-based workshop, you will experience how to teach play-based lessons that will build students’ readiness, pre-writing, social-emotional, sensory motor, numbers, math, science, social studies, language, and literacy skills through a variety of child-friendly manipulatives, music, movement, and rhymes, as well as digital technology.

At the end of this full-day workshop, you will be able to:

Participate in center-based breakouts to gain practical experience in using the Pre-K curriculum.

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Pre-K Readiness & Writing

Morning Workshop | 3.5 Contact Hours

During this half-day workshop, you will explore developmentally appropriate activities that teach children about letter formations, body awareness, numbers, sequencing, and sharing in a fun, engaging, and informal setting.

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| 6.5 Contact Hours

Gain the skills and knowledge you need to effectively teach and remediate handwriting. This workshop will help you teach handwriting skills to students of all learning abilities in a fun, engaging, and developmentally appropriate way.

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K–5 Handwriting Full Day Workshop

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At the end of this full-day workshop, you will be able to: Implement, teach, and remediate handwriting using effective, step-by-step lesson plans that incorporate active teaching, multisensory strategies, and differentiated instruction

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Promote independent writing skills beyond handwriting workbook instruction

Use the Handwriting Without Tears® unique instructional approach and stages of learning, and be introduced to our two handwriting assessments (the NEW Screener of Handwriting Proficiency and The Print Tool®) Navigate Handwriting Without Tears digital teaching technology and hands-on resources to facilitate engaging lessons

ONLY $300 with early bird pricing ncludes $1,300 of FREE materials and digital products (shown below) + Virtual PD Hub membership!

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Full Day Workshop | 7 Contact Hours

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At the end of this full-day workshop, you will be able to:

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Join us to learn strategies to assess and remediate handwriting. The Handwriting Assessment Workshop will help you evaluate a range of developmental levels for your students.

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Administer and score the Pre-K Assessments, the NEW Screener of Handwriting Proficiency, and The Print Tool® and choose remediation materials and strategies based on results

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Describe the seven basic handwriting components essential to handwriting success

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Understand different handwriting curricula, discover new handwriting resources, and use The Print Tool with various populations Identify the benefits and process of becoming a certified handwriting specialist for evidence-based practice

Learn more by contacting coordinator@LWTears.com.

ONLY $220 with early bird pricing ncludes $180 of FREE materials (shown below) + Virtual PD Hub Membership!

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Pre-K & K–5 Handwriting Workshop Schedule Kindergarten Readiness: Day One, Full Day (see p. 2 for objectives) Pre-K Readiness & Writing: Day One, Half Day, Morning Session (see p. 3 for objectives) K–5 Handwriting: Day Two, Full Day (see p. 4 for objectives) ARIZONA

ILLINOIS

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Phoenix February 21–22

Anaheim March 20–21 Sacramento March 6–7 San Diego April 17–18 San Francisco January 24–25 San Jose April 24–25

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Washington January 31–February 1

FLORIDA

Ft. Lauderdale March 13–14 Orlando February 7–8

GEORGIA

Chicago February 7–8

Indianapolis March 13–14

IOWA

Des Moines March 6–7

LOUISIANA

New Orleans April 3–4

MASSACHUSETTS Boston March 4–5*

MICHIGAN

Grand Rapids April 17–18

MINNESOTA Minneapolis April 17–18

MISSOURI

Kansas City April 24–25 St. Louis February 21–22

NEW JERSEY Princeton March 27–28

NEW YORK

New York City February 23–24**

NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte March 27–28

OREGON

Portland February 28–29

PENNSYLVANIA

Philadelphia/ King of Prussia January 31–February 1

Atlanta February 28–29

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*Wednesday/Thursday Workshop **Sunday/Monday Workshop

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TENNESSEE

Nashville February 7–8

TEXAS

Austin April 3–4 Dallas/Ft. Worth April 24–25 Houston April 17–18

WASHINGTON Seattle March 27–28

CANADA

Calgary February 28–29 Toronto January 24–25

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Pre-K Full Day

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Pre-K Readiness & Writing

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K–5 Handwriting

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Handwriting Assessment

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Customized Professional Development Whether you’re bringing professional development to your school or center or exploring our NEW Virtual PD Hub, we have the right PD for you. Explore our PD options that are tailored to your needs and relevant to the topics you’re teaching so you can take your teaching to the next level.

On-Site Workshops

Bring PD right to where you’re going to use it: at your district, school, or center.

We offer flexible scheduling to accommodate your attendees and customize the curricula to your organization’s goals.

Top 5 Reasons to Host Your Own Workshop 1. Train your staff all together, encouraging group understanding and collaboration

2. Customize training to your organization’s curricula and goals 3. Get discounts based on purchases 4. Receive certificates of attendance and contact hours for attendees 5. Learn how to take your lessons to the next level straight from the experts

Schedule your on-site workshop today by contacting coordinator@LWTears.com.

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Virtual PD Hub

The NEW Virtual PD Hub is on-demand and customized to meet your specific needs, bringing robust video training and support for easy implementation and teaching all year long straight to your device.  

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Virtual PD Hub + Coaching Receive on-demand training customized to your needs from a team of curriculum specialists and educational experts.

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Workshop Benefits

In-Person Workshop + 1-Year Membership to Virtual PD Hub*

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