CLI Summer Webinar Series
Communities of Practice:
Reopening Our Schools & Classroom Communities with Care
TEAM BUILDING
Getting Prepared
Across the nation, school leaders are facing a serious dilemma. How can they ensure a successful start for school in the fall?
Teachers are also facing uncertain times, with transitions to a more virtually-centered teaching model, adjusting student learning and retention expectations, all while continuing and learning new ways to support their students and families. The ripples of COVID-19 and systemic racism have cut deeply across the education landscape.
Children’s Literacy Initiative is here to help!
When we return to school in the fall, leadership will be working to adjust curriculums and programs to account for school closures, as well as attending to the human work of caring for those implementing and experiences these changes first-hand.
We have developed a four-part virtual workshop to guide your thinking for starting school to ensure changes are addressed with care and understanding. During these workshops, we will discuss the mindsets and actions you should adopt to create learning environments where care, trust, strength, and equity are the foundation for teaching young children.
SESSION NO.1
3 Key Mindsets to Establish a Caring School Climate:
School Leaders
SESSION NO.2
3 Literacy Practices for establishing care from the start:
Teachers
In our second session we focused on how educators prioritize care to launch the school year, by getting to know their children – their histories, cultures, strengths, needs, interests, and particularly their experiences in current times. We discussed three literacy practices for getting to know children and for establishing a climate of care.
SESSION NO.3
3 Ways Coaches Can bring Care to the Forefront:
Literacy Coaches
In part three of our four-part series, we focused on three ways that Literacy Coaches can prioritize care in their work with teachers and children. We introduced tools and resources that can be used to develop cultural competence, foster trusting relationships and focus on the SEL needs of children.
SESSION NO.4
What Matters in Early Literacy Instruction, now?
Teams
In our last workshop session, we discussed our learnings about what is most important to prioritize in early literacy instruction – particularly now, when children may have some assumed learning loss and may have experienced trauma in our current landscape. We focused on principles for guiding the planning and implementation of early literacy instruction – so that we are having the highest impact possible on children’s social-emotional and literacy learning.