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Join the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project for an interactive and dynamic writing experience designed to inspire educators to empower student voices. This event will introduce a digital choice board featuring a diverse array of prompts rooted in poetry, journaling, and narrative, allowing participants to engage in writing that resonates with them.

Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on texts by Ida B. Wells, John Lewis, Amanda Gorman, Maya Angelou, Brent Staples, Edwidge Danticat, Raquel Willis, and Danez Smith, exploring themes of identity, resistance, and literacy as a tool for power. Writing will be shared in pairs and collectively, fostering meaningful dialogue on student choice, multilingual perspectives, and inclusive representation in the classroom. A collaborative Padlet will serve as a living archive where participants can share their work, whether through text or images, creating a space for ongoing reflection and inspiration.

Whether you attend live or contribute asynchronously, this event offers practical strategies to elevate student voices and integrate choice-driven writing into your teaching practice.

Come write, reflect, and reimagine the role of literacy in shaping empowered learners! Gratitude and appreciation to our WPWP Fellow Hannah Lewis for designing and organizing this convening!

This is a hyrbid event. There is no need to register for the in-person option. Use this link to register for the virtual option:

https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/-DJ3gLsJQKWKIuofqda6PQ

Offered at no cost to Fayette, Greene, and Washington County school districts, Global Learning for a Local Workforce is a professional development opportunity for middle and high school educators, counselors, and administrations who are interested in bringing global learning and future readiness to their students.

Through the program, you will…
* Gain new skills and insights on 21st century workforce readiness
* Form partnerships with local businesses, connect with national organizations, and build networks with other educational leaders
* Engage students in real-world learning to increase relevance to your curriculum
* Apply resources and learnings to create content specific to your subject area or district context

District teams of 2 or more are encouraged to register.

What’s included?
* 4 PD sessions, including 2 site visits with local employers
* Networking opportunities with local businesses, national organizations, and other educational leaders
* Lunch and refreshments
* A $50 Sheetz gift card to offset your travel costs
* Act 48 credit

The program content will be delivered through a combination of 4 in-person and virtual sessions.

Session 1: In-person Kick-off/ Site Visit
* Wednesday, September 25, 9AM-2PM
* Location: DMI Companies

Session 2: Virtual Workshop
* Friday, October 11, 9AM-12PM
* Location: Zoom

Session 3: In-person Site Visit
* Friday, October 25, 9AM-2PM
* Location: Local business, TBD within IU1 footprint

Session 4: In-person Final Showcase
* Thursday, November 14, 9AM-12PM (Tentative, TBD based on input from cohort members)
* Location: TBD within IU1 footprint

Communitopia and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History are proud to be partnering with Climate Generation and NOAA as the hosts of the Pennsylvania Cohort for the Summer Institute for Climate Change Education. Join us for powerful and engaging keynote speakers, meaningful discussions about the intersection of social justice and climate change, and collaborative conversations between a national network of climate change education leaders. Leave feeling reinvigorated for the new school year and prepared to educate your students to be global citizens! Open to both formal and informal educators. College students welcome!

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Join our five-day interdisciplinary workshop and learn the core principles behind artificial intelligence and machine learning through hands-on activities using free and easily accessible computing platforms. Participants will discover the impact of data on machine learning algorithms and debate the social implications of machine learning models. Understanding how this technology works will allow participants to explore its impact on human decision-making in the criminal justice system, public policy, the allocation of scarce resources, and medical diagnoses. In addition, effective strategies for the use of generative AI in the classroom will be addressed. Educators will leave this workshop with a set of teacher-tested units and assignments, ready to be implemented where appropriate into their existing curriculum.

AUDIENCE
Teachers and administrators passionate about incorporating
AI and its societal implications into their curriculum. No prior coding, computer science, or AI background is presumed. Workshop attendees from Pennsylvania will receive Act 48 continuing education credits. Attendees from outside Pennsylvania will receive a certificate of completion after the event.

Learn more about the workshop.

How can you integrate content, language, and support students in their analysis of the world and life experiences through the use of children’s books? Learn more about Carla España’s critical bilingual literacies framework from her co-authored text, En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Teachers. Carla will show sample lessons and unit designs that include poetry, language study, and action plans to design culturally and linguistically sustaining instruction for all children. Carla will also show examples of text collections that include children’s books at different levels for students and educators, helping all of us deepen our knowledge of topics such as identity; place and change, intergenerational connections; migration and immigration; community and connections; and changemakers.

Attend in-person in Cambridge, MA or virtually. Registration includes the speaker’s professional book and 30-day access to the recording. Register for this individual workshop or the three-part series.

Even our youngest learners have questions about race, both historically and in their current lives. As educators we need to be prepared and capable to facilitate conversations around these questions in our classrooms. In today’s political climate that task may feel even more challenging and the fact that we will make mistakes can feel daunting. That does not make this work less important.

Join Jennifer Orr to learn strategies you can employ to set yourself and your students up for success with these conversations and gain pedagogical understandings that can help you plan and navigate challenging conversations well.

Attend in-person in Cambridge, MA or virtually. Registration includes the speaker’s professional book and 30-day access to the recording. Register for this individual workshop or the three-part series.

Critical engagement that centers on matters of importance to children creates a space for them to systematically investigate questions or tensions about the world. This kind of work is generative, culturally sustaining, and allows for the development of new understandings, new questions, and issues of importance that make a difference in the lives of children and those around them. This workshop will share a critical comprehension framework that creates a space for teachers to connect their teaching to their students’ passions and inquiry questions.

Attend in-person in Cambridge, MA or virtually. Registration includes the speaker’s professional book and 30-day access to the recording. Register for this individual workshop or the three-part series.

Join literacy educators for the 34th Annual Literacy for All Conference at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA or virtually, no matter where you are in the world!   

 The Literacy for All Conference is a premier professional learning event designed for classroom teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, interventionists, literacy leaders, administrators and Reading Recovery teachers. 

 Join in on November 3–4, 2023 on Lesley University’s campus in beautiful Cambridge, Massachusetts or virtually for incredible sessions presented by leading experts! Topics from kindergarten through middle school will include early & intermediate literacy, intervention, coaching, phonics, spelling and vocabulary, readers’ and writers’ workshop, and Reading Recovery®. 

Can’t join that day? Saturday sessions will be recorded and available to registered participants until February 1, 2024. 

Don’t miss out! Register at CRRLC.LESLEY.EDU/LFA2023