Session IV (Friday, March 2 @ 3:45 – 5:15)
Challenges and Benefits of a Multi-Aged Classroom
The one-room schoolhouses of the past provided a rich opportunity for different ages of children to interact with one another. Now, many homeschools, teaching cooperatives and small charter schools are recreating that kind of environment, and the advantages far outweigh the struggles! Salmon Creek Community School is a tiny, rural, independent school serving students K-5. We will share experiences and concerns from working in a classroom that integrates several grades for all or part of the day. The pros and cons of peer-teaching, differentiated learning and widely varied social skills will be discussed. Anyone who works with more than one student is encouraged to join in!
Presenter: Kathy Fraser
English Language Reality
This event is an interdisciplinary discussion of the English language and its impacts on culture and the environment. The foundation for the discussion is based on the structural attributes of the English language for example its noun based framework. The discussion will follow with an exploration of the ramifications this structure has on the thought patterns and personal attributes of its speakers with a focus on the attitudes towards the environment, fellow humans, and the self.
Presenter: Corey Lewis
National Gallery of Art: Teacher Resources
This session will include an introduction to the National Gallery of Art teacher resources available through McKinleyville High school. The collection meets national standards in the visual arts for kindergarten through twelfth grade, explores a variety of artists, subjects, techniques, and styles, and contains related activities and discussion questions. This session will provide many examples of ways these resources can be incorporated into your curriculum.
Presenter: Justine Smith
Service and Volunteerism in Schools: Building Your Community Toolbox
Participants will: increase their knowledge of resources available to support students serving in their communities and community members volunteering in schools. Learn tips for effective volunteer management.
Presenters: Pam Zeutenhorst, Karen Diers, Stacy Becker
Some will rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen: Teaching social justice using the songs of Woody Guthrie and Ani DiFranco
"A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.” --Joe Hill, November 29, 1914, in a letter written from the Salt Lake City jail. This session explores stories of injustice, social action, and social change through the lens of folk songs written and performed by Woody Guthrie and Ani DiFranco. The songs can then be used to de-construct taken-for-granted knowledges about people and the world and can serve as scaffolding for the development of alternative policies, ethics, relationships, and ways of living in the world. Woody and Ani render visible the many ways in which oppression operates through technologies of power, highlighting issues of ecological awareness, tolerance, poverty, militarism, patriarchy, nationalism, and immigration.
Presenter: Ronnie Swartz
Student Led Parent Conferences
Help your students take responsibility of their own learning via student led conferences. This workshop will teach you how to have your students conduct their own parent conferences from planning, practicing, and scheduling conferences to the actual conference itself. These conferences provide a venue for students to show their parents not only what they are learning in school but what they are learning about themselves. You will leave this workshop wanting to use this method for your spring conferences.
Presenter: Mary Lynn Bryan
Teaching “Queer Across Cultures”
Why are we interested in “queer” identities and practices across cultures? What assumptions and desires do we bring to this exploration? This interactive workshop will raise critical questions about the study of sexual and gender identities and practices in cross-cultural context. Through discussion of the course syllabus for “‘Queer’ Across Cultures”, I will argue for the politics and ethics of situating this study within the context of colonialism, nationalism, and transnationalism. Such an approach dismantles simplistic oppositions of tradition versus modernity, non-Western versus Western, and backward versus progressive. It also problematizes a desire to “consume” queer diversity, and instead asks us to examine the power-laden constructions of self, desire and identity.
Presenter: Kim Berry
Video On-Demand Enriches Classroom Experiences (Part 2)
A hands-on exploration of on-demand video resources from United Streaming as well as other sources. See how easy it is to use these rich media resources available 24/7 for learning experiences from elementary grades through high school. You may already have access to the resource FREE through the Humboldt County Office of Education library/media contract. (6-12 Focus)
Presenter: Cathy Dickerson
What is YAP? – Creating and Sustaining Effective Youth-Adult Partnerships
This youth and adult led, interactive workshop will introduce participants to the concept of youth-adult partnerships (YAPs), examine personal experiences and beliefs, explore the challenges and benefits of YAPs, understand how to create positive outcomes, and practice the implementation of effective YAPs with youth 12 and older in classroom and community group settings.
Presenters: Pam Hydock Gunn, Sandy Sathtrum, Emily Christensen
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