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Just Announced!
Morning Address, Sheri L. Bishop Founding Board Member of Montessori for Social Justice "Montessori for Social Justice: Where Do We Start?" |
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2017 Conference Sessions
Attendees will choose from the following sessions:
Pre-Coding and Making: Open-ended Problem Solving
George Meadows, PhD
(Elementary)
Engaging Families in Literacy Practices
Christy Irish, PhD
(Toddler, Children's House, Parents)
Supporting Learning & Behavioral Differences: The Administrator's Role
Corey Borgman, MFA
(Administrators)
Reading the Word and Reading the World: Social Justice Teaching through Children’s Literature
Melissa Wells, PhD
(Elementary Guides, Administrators, Parents)
New or Re-Newing: Stay focused and Keep your Montessori Practice Fresh
Jocelyn Bell Swanson
(All Guides, Administrators)
Building a Sense of Community for Toddlers--in the Classroom and at Home.
Alissa McKown & Becca Covert
(Toddler, Parents)
***Earn 7 CEUs for attending***
Attendees will choose from the following sessions:
Pre-Coding and Making: Open-ended Problem Solving
George Meadows, PhD
(Elementary)
Engaging Families in Literacy Practices
Christy Irish, PhD
(Toddler, Children's House, Parents)
Supporting Learning & Behavioral Differences: The Administrator's Role
Corey Borgman, MFA
(Administrators)
Reading the Word and Reading the World: Social Justice Teaching through Children’s Literature
Melissa Wells, PhD
(Elementary Guides, Administrators, Parents)
New or Re-Newing: Stay focused and Keep your Montessori Practice Fresh
Jocelyn Bell Swanson
(All Guides, Administrators)
Building a Sense of Community for Toddlers--in the Classroom and at Home.
Alissa McKown & Becca Covert
(Toddler, Parents)
***Earn 7 CEUs for attending***
2017 Keynote Speaker, Patricia (Tish) Jennings, M.Ed., Ph.D.
Keynote Talk: "CARE for Teachers: A Mindfulness-based Approach to Enhancing the Prepared Environment"
Keynote Talk: "CARE for Teachers: A Mindfulness-based Approach to Enhancing the Prepared Environment"
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Dr. Jennings is an Associate Professor of Education at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. She is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of social and emotional learning and mindfulness in education with a specific emphasis on teacher stress and how it impacts the social and emotional context of the classroom. Dr. Jennings led the team that developed CARE for Teachers, a mindfulness-based professional development program shown to significantly improve teacher well-being, emotional supportiveness and sensitivity and classroom productivity in the largest randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention designed specifically to address teacher occupational stress. Dr. Jennings is leading the development of the Compassionate Schools Project curriculum, an integrated health education program designed to align with state and national health and physical education standards. She is Co-Principal Investigator on a large randomized controlled trial being conducted in Louisville, KY to evaluate the curriculum’s efficacy. Earlier in her career, Dr. Jennings spent over 22 years as a Montessori teacher, school director and teacher educator. She is the author of Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom part of the Norton Series on the Social Neuroscience of Education.
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Join Us!
At the 2nd Annual Virginia Montessori Association Conference on
Saturday, October 21
9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
on the Stafford Campus at the University of Mary Washington.
125 University Blvd, Fredericksburg, VA 22406
Hudson Gates Building (North Building)
At the 2nd Annual Virginia Montessori Association Conference on
Saturday, October 21
9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
on the Stafford Campus at the University of Mary Washington.
125 University Blvd, Fredericksburg, VA 22406
Hudson Gates Building (North Building)
Click on the pdf file below to download a printable flyer
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