CANCELLED

Vanessa Witherell

Stressed by lesson plans, organization, difficult behaviors and more? Here are ways to help with self-care in and out of the classroom setting. Everyone needs a way to help them to calm and find a stress release. Discover new techniques to bring inner peace into your everyday life.

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

F13 It Starts With UsCreating Early Readers and Writers EPIPHANY

P • K • 1 • A

Amy MacCrindle

Paula Moan

Literacy instruction is crucial to ensuring students are successful as readers, writers, and thinkers. This session will provide you with some simple high-impact shifts to your instruction as well as provide the rationale behind the why it is important. Walk away with ready to implement ideas in the classroom tomorrow!

F12 Centros de Matemáticas que les encantaran / Math Centers They Will Love KNOWLEDGE

K

Maria de Lourdes Buchs

Rocio Torres

Los centros de matemáticas se convertirán en la parte favorita de los estudiantes. Usando diferentes manipulativos, tecnología y juego aprenderán y disfrutarán las matemáticas. Organización de grupos y materiales accesibles es indispensable para facilitar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes. English Translation: The math centers will become a favorite part of the students. Using different manipulatives, technology and games they will learn and enjoy mathematics. Organization of groups and accessible materials are essential to facilitate student learning.

F14 Literacy + Math = WHOAAA! PROSPERITY

P • K • 1 • A

Kimberly Branch

Quynn Johnson

No curriculum? This will help. Need to supplement your curriculum? This will help. Learn how to integrate literacy and math through fun, interactive read alouds. Explore developmentally appropriate literature that will engage, stimulate, and motivate your students. Lessons should never stand alone, but should always be connected to promote lifelong learning. Let’s start connecting!

Thursday, March 2nd - SESSION F: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

F15 Connect, Engage, and Lead Your Students Before Back to School

SERENITY

P • K • 1

Olivia Odileke

Create engaging connections with your students even before they enter your classrooms! How can you do it? Come learn how to create mini-Nearpod activities that can be texted or emailed to parents. Want to say their names correctly, know how they learn, introduce yourself, and build a positive culture that helps students feel safe and be prepared to meet your expectations? Let’s start a conversation that will help you get to know your students and learn how Nearpod can improve your relationship with your students before you ever meet them.

F16 Mindful Art and Yoga

SCHAUMBURG A/B

P • K • 1

Toni Wierig

There are many benefits to Kid’s Yoga and practicing Mindfulness! In this session you will learn mini yoga lessons to use in your classroom and Mindful Art activities to implement to promote mindfulness in every day life.

F17 Charts, Chants and Letters, Oh My!

SCHAUMBURG C

P • K

Tracy Cupolo

This session will provide participants with a fun way to teach the alphabet’s letters and sounds through animal letter construction, chants and movement activities. Participants will be able to use these activities upon return to the classroom. These activities provide a fun, engaging way for children to learn their letters and sounds.

F18 Developmental Writing Centers: No More

Pencils

SCHAUMBURG D

P • K

Tammy Haggerty Jones

Designing Writing Centers independent from your district’s curriculum will focus on differentiation without stigma, building selfconfidence. The Centers will provide fine motor skill activities including cutting/tracing shapes, letters and words. They will offer ideas for drawing/labeling stories, adding letters/ words, incorporating sight words, punctuation, writing prompts and producing student books.

F19 Solving Addition & Subtraction Word Problems

SCHAUMBURG F

K • 1 • A

Jennie Winters

Marian Dowling

Participants will learn how to teach students to model real-world word problems based upon the underlying structures of the problems. Each participant will receive a set of mats that can be duplicated and used with kindergarten and 1st grade students. Participants will also receive a word bank and links to resources for supporing instruction.

Thursday, March 2nd - SESSION F: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

F20 Infusing Elements of Dual Language into Preschool Programming

SCHAUMBURG G

P • K

Lisa Dallacqua

Rita Guzman

East Aurora School District 131 provides district-wide dual language programming for all students in Kindergarten, first and second grades. This session illustrates how our district will begin to infuse elements of dual language programming into our preschools, beginning with a focus on oral language development.

F21 Don’t Bug Out!

SCHAUMBURG H

P • K • 1

Stephanie Hospelhorn

Get Past the Gross with Cool Lessons about the Creepy, Crawly World of Insects, Bugs, and Worms. Insects and worms play a vital role in agriculture and in our environment. These cross-curricular lessons, hands-on activities, and books recommendations will easily fit into your existing curriculum and help students wriggle with excitement as they learn about vermi- composting, various pollinator species, habitats and lifecycles, edible insects, and more!

F22 Teaching Social Skills: A Daily, Structured Approach

SCHAUMBURG EAST

P • K

Jackie Kops

Discover strategies and ideas you can easily embed into your daily routine, classroom practices, and classroom environment to teach and practice social skills every day. In this session, you will reflect on your classroom and what small changes you can make to promote independence, problem-solving, and emotional self-regulation. Find out how to utilize circle time and class meetings using children’s literature to teach various social skills, behaviors, and routines. Research shows that both daily practice and explicit teaching of specific social skills are vital to mastering appropriate social skills and behavior. We will break down the learning stages (skill acquisition, fluency, maintenance and generalization) and then walk-through planning activities to teach specific social skills.

Session numbers are in numeric order; however, missing numbers do not mean missing sessions.

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