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UPDATED: Rick Wormeli 2017 MSUNER Summer Conference Keynote 6/26/17
The content of the workshop, Supporting Teachers & Students Behind the Locked Doors: Emotional Preparedness for School Lockdown Drills, has been broadened to encompass other sources of stress in schools. The title of the new workshop is Stress Matters: The impact on student engagement, performance, and behaviors. The date, time, location and price for this workshop remain the same however the URL for the online registration has changed.
Sharing on behalf of the Center for Autism and Early Childhood Health and the MSU School Psychology Program.
To Register Click Here - these events are free to msuner members
Dear Teachers,
We would like to introduce you and your students to the North American Computational Linguistics
Olympiad (NACLO, http://nacloweb.org/).
NACLO is a pencil and paper contest in which students use analytical skills to solve puzzles in
languages that they do not know. In the course of solving the puzzles, students learn something
about the structure of human languages and how computers can process them. The contest introduces
students to possible careers in linguistics, languages, and computer science.
Who can participate in NACLO? The target audience for NACLO is students in 9th through 12th grade.
However, middle school students often enjoy the contest as well, and occasionally win. All students
are eligible as long as they are under 20 years old, do not yet have a high school diploma, and are
not enrolled in a degree program at a college or university. NACLO has no prerequisites and no
registration fee.
What kinds of students are interested in NACLO? Typical NACLO participants enjoy puzzles and
languages. Any students who enjoy the sample puzzles on the attached flyers are good candidates for
NACLO. Good places to start looking for NACLO participants are math classes, language classes,
computer classes, and gifted programs.
NACLO timeline:
1. Registration is now open at http://www.nacloweb.org/register_student.php#
2. The NACLO open round is on January 25, 2018. Details can be found on the web site.
3. The top 100 students from the open round will participate in an invitational round on March 8,
2018
4. Approximately 15 students will be selected for training sessions via teleconference in April and
May.
5. Eight students will be chosen to represent the US at the International Linguistics Olympiad
(http://www.ioling.org) in Prague, Czech Republic, in July-August 2018.
How to Prepare for NACLO: Students can practice with past exams from the NACLO web site.
How to Participate: Please see the 2018 handbook at: http://nacloweb.org/
If you would like a flyer and a poster for advertising, please, contact Anna Feldman
feldmana@montclair.edu.
We hope that you and your students enjoy the contest!
Lori Levin
NACLO general co-chair
Research Professor at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lsl/
Dragomir Radev
NACLO program chair and head coach
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Linguistics University of Michigan
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~radev/
Anna Feldman
NACLO Montclair State University Site Coordinator Professor of Linguistics & Computer Science
Montclair State University
http://www.purl.org/net/fa
Event at Capacity - Click Here to Watch Live Stream on Facebook
“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
TO REGISTER, PLEASE CLICK HERE
Critical Urban Education Speaker Series
Black Lives Matter in Schools Event
Date: Feb 4th, 2021
Time: 5:30-7:30
Registration: https://bit.ly/CUELyiscott
Vision-Driven Justice
Inspired by Dr. J’s TED Talk, 2053, this session will move beyond what it means to fight against social inequities by embracing powerful vision and action around what we are fighting for. Framed by what she has conceptualized as Vision-Driven Justice, Dr. J will share key principles of this orientation in conversation with youth who have been working on their visions for social change.
Speakers: Jamila Lyiscott and Young People from Newark
Host: MSU’s College of Education and Human Services Dean’s Office
Co-Sponsors: Department of Teaching and Learning, Center of Pedagogy, MSU Network for Educational Renewal, MSU’s ADP Center
Jamila Lyiscott aka, Dr. J, is a community-engaged scholar, nationally renowned speaker, and the author of Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is the co-founder and co-director of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research. Dr. J is most well known for being featured on TED.com where her video, '3 Ways to Speak English,' has been viewed over 4.5 million times, and for her commissioned TED Talk, '2053' in response to the inauguration of the 45th occupant of the white house. She has been invited to over 100 institutions throughout the nation where she works closely with youth, educators, and communities to disrupt racial inequities and enact a vision-driven justice.
Dr. Lyiscott will be joined by preK-12th grade students from Newark public schools who have been engaging with her work in their classrooms. All of the students who will be participating have student teachers and mentors from The Newark Teacher Project (NTP) at Montclair State University. NTP is a small innovative teacher education program that prepares antiracist, social justice oriented teachers for the Newark Board of Education.
These events are open to MSU Students, Faculty & Staff and the MSUNER Community
Visit their Events page, for workshop details and registration links.
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To all Teachers and School Counselors:
Please share this with parents, colleagues and friends who might be interested.
Montclair State University's renowned Gifted & Talented Program still has several spots remaining in its Summer Session I (July 5 - July 22) and Summer Session II (July 25 - Aug 12) programs.
Email: giftedmsu@mail.montclair.edu
This high-quality, student-focused enrichment program is one of the nation's oldest and most comprehensive programs. For 35 years, we have been offering a challenging and engaging program that contributes to and supports every student in meeting or exceeding academic standards and experiencing positive social-emotional growth.
Popular courses in our 2, three-week sessions for K-12 students include:
- 1-4 grades Learning Communities:
- Tech Pioneers
- Junior Naturalists
- Budding Performers
- World Explorers
- Future Picassos
- 5-6 and 7-12 grades:
- Einstein's Astrophysics
- Workshops on Writing (WOW!) Series
- Architectural Design Series
- Engineering Design: 3D Printing
- Digital Media Production Series
- RAPs (Robots as Problem Solvers)
- JAVA Programming
- CSI Forensics
- App DevelopmentOnline courses offered (grades 4-8) are Python Programming (Session II) and Wild Weather (Session II).
The program takes place in our state-of-the-art buildings and classrooms at the University, and options are available for half-day, full-day and extended-day programs.
Be a part of this exciting learning opportunity! To learn more, please view our brochure:
http://www.montclair.edu/media/montclairedu/giftedandtalented/documents/Gifted-and-Talented-BrochureWEB_FINAL.pdf
For more information and to register, visit our web site:
http://www.montclair.edu/gifted/
Sharing on behalf of the department of Teaching and Learning....
With uncertainty comes possibility. As educators adjust to current circumstances and take on the responsibility of online teaching, Montclair State University holds true to its rich teacher preparation history by creating a new program to help you define your own tomorrow.
Registration is now available for a new, fully online course, Online Instruction for Students with Disabilities. This course is the first of a two-course series that will constitute the new Virtual Learning for Students with Disabilities program that Montclair State's College of Education and Human Services will be offering soon.* This online program is designed for teachers who are looking to discover new technologies as they redesign curricula and instruction for the virtual learning environment.
We have all been challenged by the abrupt shift to online instruction. Those of us who teach students with disabilities have the added burden of ensuring that students continue to learn and progress, without falling further behind. Montclair State’s new online certificate program will help you take what you know best about how to teach students with disabilities and transfer those skills to a virtual classroom.
Spaces in the initial cohort are limited. Take your next professional development step and apply to start this summer. The first course will run from August 10 to August 27. The second course will be scheduled to start this fall, which will allow you to complete the program before the end of the calendar year and settle into your routine.
To learn more about this program, register for a webinar on Wednesday, July 8 at 1 p.m.
Sincerely,
Jennifer L. Goeke, PhD
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator
Department of Teaching and Learning
Montclair State University
On Thursday October 29, from 7-8:30pm MSU's CEHS and Dept of TLRN are co-sponsoring a virtual panel titled, The 1619 Curriculum, The 1776 Commission, The 1776 Project: A Difference of More Than 150+ Years. The panel will discuss recent actions by the Trump Administration prohibiting coverage of anti-racist and racial sensitivity training in federal agencies, criticizing the 1616 Project and proposing patriotic education. This panel of historians and history educators will share where U.S. history begins for them and recommend strategies for teaching and learning in K-16 remote and actual classrooms.
It would be great if you and your students could attend. This is a FREE public event but seats are limited and registration is required. Attendees may register clicking here or https://montclair.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K2h8r_VBTWehfr3tXN9b7A
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