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Webinars

April – May 2020

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WORKSHOP CALENDAR AT-A-GLANCE April - May 2020

DATE LOCATION

TIME WORKSHOP TITLE PRESENTER CONTACT HOURS

April 8 ONLINE

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Bring Active Play Indoors: Facilitating Gross Motor Development in the Early Childhood Classroom

Emily Paine 1.5

April 15 ONLINE

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Children, Trauma, and Behavior Paul Clements 2

April 17 ONLINE

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Easy Music for Tough Times Carole

Stephens 1.5

April 20 ONLINE

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Cracking the Code of Early Childhood Misbehaviors: Reflective Practice Related to Social-Emotional

Contexts in our ECE Classrooms Kira Hamann 2

April 22 ONLINE

9:00 am – 11:00 am

Bridging the Social Gap Peg Mazeika 2

April 23 ONLINE

9:00 am – 11:00 am

Inclusion from the Start: Supporting All Learners in Pre-K

Paula Kluth 2

April 27 ONLINE

3:00 am – 4:30 am

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Family Engagement

Pat Chamberlain

1.5

April 29 ONLINE

10:00 pm – 12:00pm

Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment-2: Ironing Out the Wrinkles

Toni Linder 2

May 1 ONLINE

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Supporting Multilingual Learners in Remote Learning Environments

Cristina Sanchez Lopez

1.5

May 6 ONLINE

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Bring Active Play Indoors: Facilitating Gross Motor Development in the Early Childhood Classroom

Emily Paine 1.5

May 8 ONLINE

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bilingual Songs and Activities to Support Social/Emotional Learning, Development and

Management for Young Learners

Alina Celeste Hamlet

Meneses 2

May 12 ONLINE

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Let’s All Try to Find Out Why: Discovery in Early Childhood

Jac McBride 1.5

May 13 ONLINE

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm


Contexts in our ECE Classrooms

Kira Hamann 2

May 15 ONLINE

9:00 am – 11:00 am


Contexts in our ECE Classrooms

Kira Hamann 2

STAR NET Region II NEW Webinar Calendar

April – May 2020


Bring Active Play Indoors: Facilitating Gross Motor Development in the Early Childhood Classroom -

208807104

April 8, 2020

Presenter: Emily Paine

Description: Do you want gross motor ideas that you can do inside your classroom? This webinar will describe the importance of exercise and movement on the developing brain and provide you with activities that align with the Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards. You can do these activities indoors when the weather does not permit outdoor play to keep children healthy and active year round.

Learner Objectives:

Describe the importance of movement on the developing brain

Make connections to the Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards as they relate to gross motor development

Recall normal developmental gross motor milestones for the preschool age child

Develop a toolbox of school based movement games and ideas to utilize in the early childhood classroom

Intended Audience:

Early Childhood Educators, Related Service Professionals and Family Members

Registration is limited to: 40

Gateways Training Stage: 1

Contact hours: 1.5

Training Topic Area: PHY = Physical Fitness

Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (A) Health, Safety and Well-Being

Registration:

4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Workshop: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Location: ONLINE – at your computer or device

WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Children, Trauma, and Behavior - 208807171

April 15, 2020

Presenter: Paul Clements, Ph.D.

Description: This presentation will examine the impact of childhood exposure to interpersonal violence and other forms of psychiatric trauma as it relates to enhanced developmentally appropriate sensitive and targeted assessment and related intervention.

This webinar contains identical content to a webinar offered by STAR NET Region IV on March 26 which was titled: "Brain and Behavior Correlates of Children Exposed to Interpersonal Violence and Other Forms of Psychiatric Trauma."

Learner Objectives:

Examine the impact of trauma on various regulatory regions of the brain

Identify the related behaviors that may be exhibited related to the interaction of trauma and brain

response

Determine developmentally appropriate sensitive and targeted interventions for self-soothing and adaptive behavioral functioning.

Intended Audience:

Early Childhood Educators, Related Service Professionals and Administrators



Contact Hours:

Training Topic Area: HS = Health & Safety RBD = Research & Brain Development

Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (B) Health, Safety and Well-Being

Registration: Workshop: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm


WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Easy Music for Tough Times! - 208807172

April 17, 2020

Presenter: Carole Stephens

Description: Why promote music for EC students and their teachers now? Because we need it! Making music lifts spirits,

encourages engagement, and advances learning skills. “Miss Carole” Stephens of Macaroni Soup will share

songs, fingerplays and active music you can share via online classroom exchanges with homebound families

AND use in your curriculum once we’re back-to-school.

For the workshop: Have a drumming surface handy – a babywipes or plastic storage container or clear a small area on your desktop!

Learner Objectives:

Discuss the importance of music as part of learning both in the home and the classroom

Demonstrate songs, fingerplays, and active music ideas that can be shared with families.

Experiment with ways to make music using common household items.

Intended Audience:

Early Childhood Educators, Related Service Professionals, Administrators, Family Educators and Family Members



Contact Hours:

Training Topic Area: EMUS = Early Music INT = Interactions with Children

Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (F) Family and Community Relationships

Registration: 9:15 am – 9:30 am Workshop: 9:30 am – 11:00 am


WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Cracking the Code of Early Childhood Misbehaviors: Reflective Practice Related to Social-Emotional Contexts

in our ECE Classrooms - 208807144

April 20, 2020

Presenter: Kira Hamann, Ed.D.

Description: Whining? Tantrums? Fighting? Ever wonder, “why is this child doing this?!?!” Participants who attend this webinar will reflect upon challenging behaviors and examine what may really be going on when children engage in these types of behaviors. Learning about how to assess behavior through Dreikurs’ Mistaken Goals and using the 4 Crucial C’s as a guiding foundation provides participants with helpful sleuthing tools that can help to decrease challenging behaviors and support social-emotional learning for children and adults.

Learner Objectives:

Will be able to articulate knowledge about the 4Cs of Significance and Belonging and how this connects to challenging behaviors in the classroom through the lens of Dreikurs’ Mistaken Goals of Behavior and his helpful analysis chart

Will discover tools for cracking codes of behavior using Mistaken Goals and the 4Cs as a guide

Implement these tips and tools within a framework of mutual respect within the ECE classroom

Intended Audience:




Contact hours: 2

Training Topic Area: DAP = Developmentally Appropriate Practice GD = Guidance and Discipline

Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (E) Interactions, Relationships and Environments

Registration:



WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Bridging the Social Gap - 208807174

April 22, 2020

Presenter: Peg Mazeika

Description: This webinar will briefly cover the characteristics of Autism and Related Disabilities and their specific impact on development and use of social skills for young children. Research, supports, concrete examples, and use of classroom materials to promote and strengthen social interaction skills will be presented. Participants will have limited work planning time to organize ideas and action plan next steps for implementation of social skills activities and supports specific to their environment, staff and population.

Learner Objectives:

Participants will understand specifics of the impact of Autism and related dis-abilities on social skills

development for young children.

Participants will gain knowledge of research based supports that are shown to be effective in

supporting social skills development in your children.

Participants will learn how to use visual supports and structured activities to increase social

interaction skills within 1:1 and small group activities.

Participants will plan for implementation of structured play activities for independence and social

interaction.

Intended Audience:

Early Childhood Educators, Related Service Professionals, Administrators and Family Members



Contact hours: 2

Training Topic Area: INT = Interactions with Children


Registration:

8:45 am – 9:00 am Workshop: 9:00 am – 11:00 am


WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Inclusion from the Start: Supporting All Learners in Pre-K - 208807173

April 23, 2020

Presenter: Paula Kluth

Description: Are you a general educator new to teaching students with disabilities? Or a special educator who is seeking ways to create better inclusive experiences for students? Or possibly a speech therapist or occupational therapist who is increasingly providing push-in services in Pre-K classrooms? If you replied “yes” to any of these questions, this webinar is for you.

This session is focused on teacher-tested ideas that are easy to implement, appropriate for young children (e.g., video modeling, AAC for all, planning in reverse) and can be used to plan lessons and provide practice for social and communication skills. Viewers will learn why inclusive classrooms are so powerful for all students and be introduced to ideas that work for children with disabilities (and those without identified needs). Tools that can be used to implement the strategies will also be shared.

Learner Objectives:

Recognize the why of inclusion as it relates to current educational research

Investigate strategies including video modeling, visual supports, and AAC to support positive

behavior, engagement, and social connection.

Use “special interests” as teaching tools.

Recommend effective ways to use paraprofessionals in inclusive classrooms.

Intended Audience:




Contact hours: 2

Training Topic Area: SN = Special Needs/Inclusion


Registration:



WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Family Engagement - 208807175

April 27, 2020

Presenter: Patricia Chamberlain

Description: Family engagement is a foundational component of high quality preschool programs. Engaging families from backgrounds different from our own requires educators to consider our own implicit biases and to understand the linguistic goals that families have for their children. Educators have to create space to integrate the families’ funds of knowledge and languages in meaningful ways in their routines, curriculum and events. During this session, examples will provide a starting place to consider how to refine classrooms and program practices to engage families with an eye on equity.

Learner Objectives:

Analyze family engagement practices using a culturally responsive lens

Evaluate language focused family engagement practices

Expand your classroom and program practices to build upon the assets of the children and the

families with whom you work

Intended Audience:

Early Childhood Educators and Administrators



Contact hours: 1.5

Training Topic Area: DIV = Cultural and Individual Diversity FAM = Family Dynamics and Relationships

Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (F) Family and Community Relationships

Registration:



WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment-2: Ironing Out the Wrinkles - 208807176

April 29, 2020

Presenter: Toni Linder

Description: Are you using Transdisciplinary Play Based Assessment 2 in your program but want to refine your knowledge base on this assessment tool? The most common questions about TPBA2 are related to the use of the Age Tables, play facilitation, timing and teaming. These issues and others will be reviewed in this webinar.

Learner Objectives:

Use the TPBA Age Tables, taking into consideration, language, experience, and culture.

Describe what “follow the child’s lead” actually means in a TPBA2 assessment and how the facilitation links to intervention planning.

Gain information about how to shorten the assessment process when time is issue.

Discover how to maximize the use of team input to provide the most effective and efficient process.

Intended Audience:




Contact hours: 2

Training Topic Area: OBS = Observation, Evaluation and Documentation

Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (C) Observation and Assessment

Registration:

9:45 am – 10:00 am

Workshop: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm


WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Supporting Multilingual Learners in Remote Learning Environments - 208807177

May 1, 2020

Presenter: Cristina Sanchez Lopez

Description: In this 90 min webinar we will explore research and resources related to oracy and literacy for young multilingual learners. Blending and braiding of early childhood content and embedding literacy throughout the routines of the day will be explored. You will leave with resources to better incorporate your students' home languages into instruction.

Learner Objectives:

Review research and resources to support initial literacy with young multilingual learners

View projects and strategies that promote oral language and literacy

Explore resources that can help educators incorporate students’ home languages into instruction

Intended Audience:

Early Childhood Educator, Related Service Personnel, Family Members and Administrators



Contact hours: 1.5

Training Topic Area: EL = Early Literacy INT = Interactions with Children


Registration:

12:45 pm – 1:00 pm

Workshop: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm


WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Bring Active Play Indoors: Facilitating Gross Motor Development in the Early Childhood Classroom -

208807104

May 5, 2020

Presenter: Emily Paine

Description: Do you want gross motor ideas that you can do inside your classroom? This webinar will describe the importance of exercise and movement on the developing brain and provide you with activities that align with the Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards. You can do these activities indoors when the weather does not permit outdoor play to keep children healthy and active year round.

Learner Objectives:

Describe the importance of movement on the developing brain

Make connections to the Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards as they relate to gross motor development

Recall normal developmental gross motor milestones for the preschool age child

Develop a toolbox of school based movement games and ideas to utilize in the early childhood classroom

Intended Audience:




Contact hours: 1.5

Training Topic Area: PHY = Physical Fitness

Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (B) Health, Safety and Well-Being

Registration:



WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Bilingual Songs and Activities to Support Social/Emotional Learning, Development and Management for Young Learners - 208807182

May 8, 2020

Presenter: Alina Celeste and Hamlet Meneses

Description: In this webinar we will provide and teach a list of songs, short stories, rhymes and activities that assist bilingual and predominantly Spanish-speaking young learners with their social/emotional expression and development. Activities to encourage self-soothing as well as activities to aid care-givers in re-direction and transitions will also be covered. You will leave this class with new, easily learnable and teachable songs and techniques to teach caregivers and children in a remote learning environment.

Learner Objectives:

Gain a repertoire of accessible songs, rhymes and activites fo social/emotional development

Learn how to use music and related activities to encourage self expression and emotional develoment in a safe manner

Acquire knowledge of techniques in order to impart their use to caregivers working in a remote learning environment

Intended Audience:




Contact hours: 1.5

Training Topic Area: EMUS = Early Music INT = Interactions with Children


Registration:

9:45 am – 10:00 am Workshop: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm


WEBINAR


April – May 2020


Let’s All Try to Find Out Why: Discovery in Early Childhood - 208807178

May 12, 2020

Presenter: Jac McBride

Description: This webinar is designed to assist teachers with establishing an engaging, active learning science/nature

interest area in the classroom that will spark children’s curiosity. We will examine how to set up the

environment to capture and sustain children’s interest using developmentally appropriate materials and

equipment. A teaching process to engage children in activities and expand their explorations over time with

documentation will be discussed. Examples of preschool activities and science books in the areas of Physical

Sciences, Life Sciences and Earth and the Environment will be shared. This webinar supports ECERS-3

requirements, Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards and appropriate science/nature explorations

that encourage discovery all around us!

Learner Objectives:

Examine classroom environments that invite children to explore and investigate developmentally

appropriate science/nature materials.

Examine strategies to engage young children in science/nature activities and documentation to

sustain their curiosity and expand explorations over time.

Investigate activities in the areas of Physical Science, Life Sciences and Earth and Environment

Sciences and age appropriate books to promote concepts in the classroom.

Clarification of the use of technology in the classroom for exploration and age appropriate

investigation.

Intended Audience:




Contact hours: 1.5

Training Topic Area:

Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (D)

Registration:



WEBINAR


April – May 2020



in our ECE Classrooms – 208807179

May 13, 2020



Learner Objectives:




Intended Audience:




Contact hours: 2


Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (F) Interactions, Relationships and Environments

Registration:



WEBINAR


April – May 2020



in our ECE Classrooms – 208807180

May 15, 2020



Learner Objectives:




Intended Audience:




Contact hours: 2


Gateways to Opportunity Content Area: (G) Interactions, Relationships and Environments

Registration:



WEBINAR

STAR NET Region II

WORKSHOP CALENDAR April - May 2020

Presenters

Alina Celeste Hevia and Hamlet Meneses Alina Celeste Hevia and Hamlet Meneses are both Parents’ Choice Silver Award Winners for their bilingual music. Hamlet has provided bilingual programs through arts and music in the Chicagoland area since 2001, and was also an expert reviewer for the Illinois Early Learning Standards Kindergarten Project Team in 2006. Alina has taught early childhood music and arts classes and conducted workshops for educators on Early Literacy, STEAM Integration and Classroom Management internationally since 2008.

Pat Chamberlain Pat Chamberlain works as a consultant with school districts and agencies on issues related to optimizing the educational opportunities for young culturally and linguistically diverse children and their families. Her most recent projects include working as the co-director of the EC Award for Excellence Project for Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Practices with OECD, developing an EC ESL/Bilingual Credential with INCCRRA, chairing community collaboration organization and working with B-3 rd Grade Continuity Project for ISU.

Paul Clements, Ph.D. Paul Clements is a forensic psychiatric clinical specialist; he is additionally a Certified Gang Specialist and Certified in Danger Assessment. He most recently spent time in Bolivia, working with provincial judges, social services, forensic psychologists, and prosecutors regarding enhanced assessment and intervention with children victimized by sexual aggression and other forms of violence. He has several books including Mental health issues in child maltreatment, and Nursing approach to the evaluation of child maltreatment. He was Inducted as a Distinguished Fellow in the International Association of Forensic Nurses in 2002, and was an inaugural Associate Editor of the Journal of Forensic Nursing from 2005-2012.

Kira Hamann, Ed.D. Beginning her career in Chicago Public School preschools, Kira Hamann, Ed.D. is a veteran early childhood educator and instructional assistant professor at Illinois State University. With a doctorate in Teaching and Learning from ISU, a master’s degree in ECE from the Erikson Institute in Chicago, and her EC teaching degree from ISU, Kira’s research focuses on teacher preparation, classroom management and community building, and new teacher mentorship. She is a certified Positive Discipline Parent & Teacher Educator and leads professional development in the areas of teaching social-emotional skills, problem-solving, co-teaching, teacher identity development, and building family and classroom communities.

Paula Kluth, Ph.D.

Dr. Paula Kluth is a consultant, author, advocate, and independent scholar who works with teachers and families to provide inclusive opportunities for students with disabilities and to create more responsive and engaging schooling experiences for all learners. Paula is a former special educator who has served as a classroom teacher and inclusion facilitator. Her professional interests include Universal Design for Learning, co-teaching, and inclusive schooling. She is the author or co-author of more than 15 books including "Don't We Already Do Inclusion?": 100 Ways to Improve Schools for All, “You’re Going to Love This Kid”: Teaching Students with Autism in Inclusive Classrooms, Universal Design Daily, and "A Land We Can Share": Teaching Literacy to Students with Autism. Paula is also the director of a documentary film titled “We Thought You’d Never Ask”: Voices of People with Autism.

Toni Linder Toni W. Linder consults and presents nationally and internationally on the role of play in assessment, intervention and curriculum. Dr. Linder retired from Mortgridge College of Education at the University of Denver, Colorado in 2011. She has authored books on transdisciplinary play-based assessment (TPBA) and intervention (TPBI). Recently Toni has been working on a project in Hangzhou, China where she helped to develop a large play and assessment center for children from six months to six years of age. Her focus is currently on developing quality assessment and early childhood programs for all children.

Peg Mazeika Peg Mazeika has worked in the field of education for over 25 years, most of it working with children with ASD. She has worked in both regular and special education classrooms working with Early Childhood through High School students as an educator and as a behavior management specialist. Peg has served as a consultant to the IL Autism Project and to many school districts across the state of Illinois and Wisconsin as well as a member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Illinois Autism Society.

Jac McBride Jac McBride is an Early Childhood Resource Specialist for STAR NET Region II. She has a master’s degree in Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and served as a special education educator for 20 years as a preschool teacher and Early Intervention provider. For the past 15 years, Jac has held various special education administrator roles from supervising preschool programs to Director of Special Education in the suburbs of Chicago.

Emily Paine Emily Paine has been a school based physical therapist since 2004 and has worked in the early childhood setting for 8 years. She earned her Master of Physical Therapy degree in 2000. She is also a mother to three active boys.

Cristina Sanchez-Lopez Cristina Sanchez-Lopez is an Education Specialist at the Illinois Resource Center (IRC). She collaborates with educators in the US and Canada on the ELL/LD interface; middle school mathematics; literacy across the content areas; parental engagement, and supporting Pre-K educators who serve Multilingual Learners (MLs). Prior to coming to the IRC, Cristina taught at the elementary, middle school and university levels in the US and Mexico. She is co-author of the book: Special Education Considerations for English Language Learners: Delivering a Continuum of Services. (Caslon Publishing, 2007), and a volume in the Oxford University Press Focus on the Language Classroom series: Focus on Special Educational Needs (October, 2018). Cristina and her husband have raised their daughter bilingually.

Carole Stephens Dubbed "the Pied Piper of children's music", "Miss Carole" Stephens is a nationally renowned music specialist. Her cross-curricular music and guidance techniques instantly invite all audiences from the youngest child to the oldest adult to join in singing, dancing and rhythmic movement. Miss Carole focuses on the how, why, and what behind music and movement to teach classroom management techniques that really work, brain research that supports active music involvement, and developmentally appropriate music and movement activities children love!

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