NYCDOE PRINCIPALS’ INSTITUTE

This three session workshop series designed for Principals will focus on the distinct and unique ways that young children learn and how school leaders can build systems and create infrastructures that support successful pre-k classroom and teachers. Children are taught in the ways that are most effective for them to learn. Families are seen as part of the solution. And Principals provide vision, leadership, and supervision. Information from recent cross-disciplinary research about the early years as well as exemplary practices from experienced early childhood educators will inform each session.

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Session 3: Creating Community in and with Early Childhood Classrooms – Building Strong School/Family Partnerships -Monday, March 23rd, 2015
Family involvement is a critical component of programs for young children. Strategies for building home/school partnerships that support young children’s learning will be shared along with implications for what leaders can do to support teachers to build them. How to create a continuum of learning throughout the school and integrate early childhood classrooms into the learning life of the elementary school will also be addressed.

Please RSVP as space is limited.

 8:00-8:30am            Registration and Breakfast 

 8:30-10:30am         Seminar  

Questions?

Please call us at 718-254-7353 or email us at info@earlychildhoodny.org

 Past Sessions

Session 1: Teaching the Way Children Learn– Friday, December 19, 2014
This presentation discusses the research base for how young children learn and what leaders can do to support teachers to teach in ways that build on the active nature of young children's learning. Implications for how classrooms should look and sound; for the materials/resources that should be in the classrooms, for the kinds of assessments that support children's learning, and for the professional development that can support teachers to be life-long learners about children and their development will be discussed. 

Session 2: Supporting Children’s Language and Literacy and Disciplinary Skills Thursday, January 15th, 2015
How leaders can support teachers to infuse literacy and disciplinary skills - through age-appropriate activities and interdisciplinary studies – into the learning life of the classroom. Implications for curriculum development and materials as well as teachers’ professional learning will be discussed.