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Rising from Challenges to SELutions
Texas’s Inaugural Statewide SEL Conference!
September 15
Hosted by SEL4TX, this virtual event provides a full day of high quality sessions presented by SEL thought leaders from around the nation and across the state. At a time when challenges in education have reached an all-time high, the need for SEL in schools has never been greater.
All education professionals are welcome. The conference is perfect for district, school, and classroom educators who are preparing to implement SEL approaches and programs in the coming school year. This unique and timely conference will leave participants feeling inspired and equipped to Rise From Challenges to SELutions!
Early Bird (before August 1, 2021) – $99
After August 1, 2021 – $119
CEs offered for most education professionals!
- Teachers
- Counselors
- School/district administrators
- School psychologists/LSSPs
- Social Workers
National 2021 SEL Conference Access Pass
August 2 –15
SEL4PA and CPSEL invite you to prepare for back-to-school by viewing recorded sessions from their 2021 National Social and Emotional Learning Conference.
The Center for the Promotion of Social and Emotional Learning’s (CPSEL) National Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Conference Access Pass provides access to 32 video recordings of sessions offered during the conference. Presenters include researchers, practitioners, and other leaders in the SEL field. Sessions focus on a variety of aspects of SEL for teachers and students, building and district leaders, as well as researchers and educators in higher education.
Access open Monday, August 2, 12 a.m. EDT – Sunday, August 15, 11:59 p.m. EDT. Cost is only $100. Learn more and register.
Join the August SEL Showcase Challenge
Share your August 2021 SEL showcase on Friday, August 27th with a social media post using #SELshowcase and tagging @SEL4USA and @caselorg so we can feature you.
August 2021 Challenge
How will you leverage American Rescue Plan Act dollars to advance social and emotional learning? Share one priority area for SEL investment for your school or district.
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We can't wait to see your posts, celebrate SEL with you, and share your showcases on our SEL Showcase Challenge page!
Upcoming Challenge Calendar
Ready to help spread the word about the monthly SEL Showcase Challenge? Check out our Challenge Calendar with topics and prompts for the next few months.
Revisit our SEL Showcase Challenge page throughout the year to see how the SEL community around the world is celebrating SEL. Learn more and sign up today!
“In presenting the sweeping narrative of American history, African Americans have for too long, been cast in minor roles far from events, personalities and themes that become engrained in every student’s memory. In New Jersey, that is all changing ... ”
The Amistad Commission Virtual Summer Institute Professional Development Course
The wait is over! The Amistad Commission - NJ Department of Education is excited to launch our inaugural on-line class, our virtual Summer Curriculum Institute Course for Educators and Administrators. Please join us.
Our virtual professional development course will launch on Tuesday, August 18th - Saturday, August 22nd , 2020
The American Paradox:
An Analysis of Special Topics for NJ Schools on the Legacies of Structural Racism, Systemic Disparities, Self-Government, Enslavement, Native Dispossession,
Democracy, Civil Liberties and Civic Engagement throughout our American Narrative in the Classroom
Course Information and Registration is available now at:
Deadline to register is Sunday, August 16th, 2020
*Virtual Sessions Tuesday-Thursday at 10:00 am and at 2:00 pm*
*Virtual Sessions Friday-Saturday at 10:00 am - 2:00 pm & 6 pm*
*Daily uploads to our YouTube Channel of PD materials for the following day’s lecture preparation*
*Lecture schedule and daily log-in credentials meeting ID and passwords will be emailed to registered participants only- no one will be admitted into the virtual sessions without registering in advance via this event form. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel in preparation for the professional development course - TheNJAmistad Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWAtQ4tbQfgFkSCvtQ5VbQg
We hope that you will join us to learn on August 18th for this free PD opportunity for New Jersey Schools!
Course Description:
August 2019, marked the 400 year anniversary in Tidewater Virginia, where at the banks of the Jamestown River, American democracy and American enslavement emerged hand in hand. That marriage of ideals had consequential offspring, which have provided a complex inheritance for every generation of this nation’s citizens for the last 400 years. 2020 has catapulted our national attention and our family discussions, national news, social media platforms, and timelines have been filled with the remnants of these consequential offspring. We currently find ourselves in conversations involving our current global pandemic with its ever-climbing fatalities and evidenced medical disparities among communities of color; economic upheavals; federal and state’s rights debates and clarifications; constitutional and civics education reviews; political party infighting and polarizations; voting disenfranchisement concerns; questions of medical bioethics; conversations regarding reforms after the witnessing of police brutalities; civil rights and racial injustice; economic upheavals with the possibility of impending foreclosures and evictions; and finally the explications of structural racism, social justice, and policy changes.
This summer our proposed institute topic selection has been identified and abridged based on both our current national and global events. Our current realities and circumstances have created increased inquiries from teachers across the state, to the Amistad Commission for a multitude of areas for historic understanding, resources for students, and suggested learning approaches; most especially with the transition to online and remote learning. In response, we have crafted a late summer professional development session before our Educators begin their school year that will provide content lectures, resources, as well as student engagement and classroom strategies.
Our goal is to assist NJ Educators and Administrators who tackle issues ripped from our headlines that are embedded throughout the NJ Learning Standards and Progress Indicators for Social Studies and district curriculum maps. At this moment, a space has been created for an indispensable teaching moment to educate our teachers and administrators, on the historic legacies at the root of our daily conversations that will no doubt continue to extend to our classrooms. It is a history that is only understood by telling the full story of our often-difficult American narrative. This must be part and parcel of all school curricula and professional development trainings nationwide.
This professional development online course will include virtual experiential learning, primary and secondary resources, lectures, multimedia presentations, curriculum development, and teaching strategies, lesson plan writing and methodology structuring sessions, we invite NJ K-12 teacher, content specialist, administrators, and community stakeholders together for these conversations while enlisting experts scholars in the varied topic areas of each lecture.
#AfricanAmericanHistoryISAmericanHistory
#KnowlegeISPower
#TruthBeTold
Dear MSUNER Members,
Below you will find the Distance Learning Instructional Playbook created by teachers for teachers and shared with us during the ASCD summer conference.
I hope this helps.
Warm regards,
Marilyn
The Distance Learning Instructional Playbook: every Thursday teachers got together from around the world to create this playbook to help teachers. Courtesy of ASCD
Montclair State University's Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project is pleased to invite all MSU students, faculty, staff, alumni, community partners, and K-12 educators to:
Decolonizing the Curriculum
Indigenous Perspectives on Teaching Native American History in New Jersey
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
3:30 – 5:00PM
Free & Online
Registration link: https://bit.ly/DecolonizeMSU
Join Montclair State University faculty and Ms. Trinity Norwood of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation to learn how to revitalize, decolonize, and vastly improve lessons on Native American history and culture. Free and open to the public, please encourage MSU students to attend!
Statewide Conference on Segregation, Education & Opportunity in NJ
Friday, September 24, 2021
September 24 is the anniversary of the day federal troops were deployed to integrate Little Rock High School.
Here in New Jersey, 64 years later, we have the shameful distinction of being more segregated by race and class than almost any state of the former confederacy.
Why is this? is it accidental, coincidence? Is it by choice or just the result of a segregated residential market.
Why should we care? What's the harm? And how does it affect me, my family and my community?
What can be done? Are there solutions? What are they and what can I do?
The conference on September 24 will explore all of these questions with facts, data, history and analysis from experts, practitioners and constituency leaders. And it and it will present a series of proposals for legislative action that can powerfully move us in a different direction in New Jersey.
The event will go from 10:00 to 3:00 PM. Lunch will be included. There is a fee of $75 to cover costs including meals. Discounts are available for members of affiliated organizations, sponsors and students.
Racial segregation in schools is a structure and a system made by people that can be dismantled by people. It is more than just residential segregation and it harms more than just those who are segregated.
It has devastating consequences for the segregated, but it harms us all in a myriad of profound ways, politically, economically and morally,
Friday, September 24 at 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
The Conference Center at Mercer
Mercer County Community College
1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, NJ 08550
PRE-REGISTER HERE: For this live gathering of faith, community, political & policy leaders.
The Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children at Montclair State University (IAPC) is proud to announce three new, important resources for engaging in thoughtful dialogue with children and teens. One is the revival of Thinking in Stories: Reviewing Philosophy in Children’s Literature as an active weblog (https://www.montclair.edu/iapc/thinking-in-stories/). Each post in the weblog summarizes a popular children’s story and reflects on how it raises philosophical questions intriguing to adults and children alike—questions that invite playfully serious, inter-generational dialogue. Thinking in Stories began in 1979 as a column written by the late American Philosopher Gareth B. Matthews for Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children. With support from Montclair State’s College of Education and Human Services, the column has been recreated as a weblog with Dr. Peter Shea as contributing and commissioning editor.
The second resource is the curriculum series Wise Owl: Talking and Thinking about Children’s Literature(https://www.montclair.edu/iapc/wise-owl/) that Matthews developed with educators in Amherst public schools in the 1980s. The series is designed to use children’s literature to provide primary school students the opportunity to explore philosophical questions while developing critical and creative thinking skills. Each Wise Owl packet includes a Teacher’s Guide to the philosophical issues in a children’s book and to facilitating philosophical discussions with young people, along with reproducible Activity Cards with philosophical discussion questions based on the book. Similar guides to other children’s books can be found at Matthews’ Philosophy for Kids website (http://www.philosophyforkids.com/).
The third resource, valuable for researchers, is a webpage about Gareth B. Matthews under the IAPC Fellows rubric(https://www.montclair.edu/iapc/gareth-b-matthews/), which includes links to the above pages, as well as a link to the first-ever complete curriculum vitae of his publications in the three sub-fields he helped to initiate: philosophy in children’s literature, philosophy of childhood, and philosophy for/with children.
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share with you an article and workshop shared at ASCD Virtual Conference last week. Dr. Gorski works with school districts on race matters and recently worked closely with districts in southern New Jersey. While he did not provide a powerPoint he did provide an article of interest. "Avoiding Racial Equity Detours"
"Although racial identities inform cultural identities, race is not culture. Racial inequities aren’t predominantly cultural misunderstandings." - Gorski
I would also like to share the following presentation from the ASCD Virtual Conference: Distance Learning, Online Learning and Students with Disabilities: How Do We Do It? (Powerpoint and Resources)
Warm regards,
Marilyn
TO REGISTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE
9AM - 10:30AM Session Registration
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3PM - 4:30PM Session Registration
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Both free sessions will include the same content.
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Ajamu Kojo’s
Black Wall Street: A Case for Reparations
February 15 – April 23, 2022
Curated by Megan C. Austin, Director, University Galleries
Black Wall Street: A Case for Reparations is Kojo’s ongoing series of large-scale paintings that capture the imagined lives of Black professionals in the Greenwood District before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The community was dubbed “Black Wall Street” for its thriving culture and wealth in spite of strong segregation laws. The portraits present a spiritually uplifting dedication to the people who called Greenwood their home over a century ago. The exhibition is a sanctuary and homage to Black Americans through a reimagining of past lives.
Visit the digital twin of this exhibition, viewable on desktop, mobile, or as an immersive VR experience.
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The Disability Caucus is presenting a session TOMORROW, Pursuing Disability Justice at MSU, as part of the 2020 Diversity Week Summit.
This is an opportunity to learn more about disability justice, and meet some of us involved in the caucus. The registration link is below.
11-11:50 A.M. Pursuing Disability Justice at Montclair State University
Presenter(s): Jessica Bacon, Ph.D, Dr. Alicia Broderick and Dr. Elaine Gerber
Register for Pursuing Disability Justice at Montclair State University presentation.
The Disability Caucus is planning a general membership meeting for November 13th from 1-2pm.
Please save the date!
Hope to see you tomorrow.
“But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dear Teacher Education Program Community,
Looking for a way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the virtual space this Monday? Consider attending the Virtual MLK Day of Service Forum sponsored by the New Jersey Collaboration and Partnership Schools (NJCAPS).
Monday, January 18
10 am- 12 pm
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSWQz70Ws6zZ5ghf5-5rAp_fwl6cwO6bMvJqhda-jp0y4RYQ/viewform
NJCAPS states: For educators around the globe, teaching through a pandemic has been daunting. Even so, stars among us have emerged. In order to showcase and highlight the stellar work of our peers, the is delighted to announce a virtual MLK Day of Service: Progress in a Pandemic. This Day of Service will afford educators an opportunity to enlighten others about their progress in a pandemic as they share classroom success stories.
YOU'RE INVITED TO AN OPEN HOUSE EVENT!
October 25, 2020
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
TO REGISTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE
