NEW THIS YEAR!
Join
colleagues for a Roundtable Workshop in RM. 152!
How a Roundtable Session Works:
A Roundtable
Workshop session is your chance to get exposed to current practice from a wide
variety of experts and to share your experience in dialog with other
colleagues. There is a Roundtable
Workshop offered during each of the session times today.
You may
choose to attend 3 out of 4 different table discussions being offered during
this 90-minute Roundtable Session.
Each table
presentation/discussion is led by a facilitator who will lead the group for
20-25 minutes. At the end of each
presentation, you will move to another table topic of your choice.
Roundtable I 9:45 –
11:15 AM
Including Students
with Special Needs
TABLE TOPICS and DESCRIPTIONS
Helping
Children Develop Friendship Skills,
Alison Stewart, Family Support Network
Many special needs students can benefit from extra
support in learning friendship skills, and we know that inclusive community is
built when ALL students learn & practice these skill together!
Homework
Help for Special Kids,
Christine Strena, Alameda County Office
of Education
Gain tips and handouts for working productively with
students who may have ADHD, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, or other language-based
learning issues.
Kids
Included Together (KIT): Resources and More, Cheri
Chord, After School Assist
An introduction to KIT and its treasury of resources for
you to support your inclusion efforts, shared by a veteran afterschool
expert.
Using
Behavior Expectations to Build Relational Trust,
Grace Cheng, Behavior Analyst SFUSD. Learn about developing and teaching behavior
expectations – the first step in helping students develop self-management.
Roundtable II 12:30
– 2:00 PM
Creating
Culturally Responsive Programs
Culturally Welcoming
Spaces: Setting the Stage for Success, Rosalinda
Mancillas, ACOE
At this table, we’ll
identify and discuss the essential elements in the aesthetic environment of your
physical program space that can enhance both cultural competence and cultural
connection. Meet an afterschool veteran and get new ideas!
Engaging,
Encouraging, and Empowering African-American Male Youth: Afterthoughts of a
King, Earnest Jenkins, OUSD Office of African Male
Achievement
Gain and share knowledge on how to improve interactions
and support African-American Males both academically and emotionally in afterschool
programs.
Introduction
to Samoan Culture,
Faauuga Moliga-Puletasi, SFUSD
Expand your own horizons and learn about working with
cultural group through understanding positionality. Gain tools to better understand
yourself and work with ethnic groups such as Samoan students.
What
is Culturally Responsive Teaching? Aileen Pagdananan, Futurama
An overview of ways to apply culturally responsive strategies and actively respond to youth’s experiences to support
their healing and resistance to oppression.
Roundtable III 2:45
– 3:15 PM
Discover Online Program and Staff Training
Resources
Click2Science:
Staff Training and STEM Resources, CynDee Zandes,
California Dept. of Education, Afterschool Division Click 2 Science is a rich online resource to
help staff deliver hands-on, minds-on science lessons with kids, featuring
clips from real afterschool programs!
Khan
Academy: LearnStorm 2016!
Margaret Watson, Khan Academy
Find out how to involve your Gr 3-12 students in
LearnStorm, Khan Academy’s free math challenge that celebrates progress and
hustle as they learn math skills and earn rewards for themselves and their
program, individually or in teams.
Mouse
Squad Student Tech and Leadership, Colette
Walker, Mouse Squad of California
Combining leadership development with service learning,
the Mouse Squad program takes youth from being consumers of technology to
becoming tech creators and problem solvers.
A
Tour through PBS LearningMedia and Beyond, Almetria Vaba, KQED
Explore resources for integrating media into afterschool
from America's most trusted classroom, PBS. PBS
LearningMedia is a digital learning library of over 87 thousand videos,
interactive games and images.