Secrets of the Sleeping Brain
The functions of sleep remain largely unknown, a surprising fact given the vast amount of time it takes from our lives. Explore amazing research, featured in an episode of CBS’s 60 Minutes, that suggests that sleep might enhance our memories by remodeling our brains, as well as rebalance our emotional brain activity, to prepare us for next-day social and psychological challenges.
Matt Walker, Associate Professor and Director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory at UC Berkeley, is a Kavil Fellow of the National Academy of Science. His research uses a number of neuroimaging techniques to understand the role of sleep in human brain function. He received a National Science Foundation fellowship in 2002, and has since been awarded numerous National Institutes of Health awards.
DATE: Thursday, February 9, 2012
TIME: 8:45 – noon
PLACE: Head-Royce School, 4315 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland 94602
COST: $50 for Collaborative members; $75 for non-members.
We All Do It: Effective Advising In and Out of the Classroom
This workshop was so successful last year that we are repeating it by special request! It is designed for teachers and administrators who work with students in grades 5-12 to help educators feel more empowered and effective as advisors. Presenters include Mike Riera, Head of Brentwood School; Toby Mickelson, Director of Learning Services at Redwood Day School; Rachel Concannon, School Counselor at Head-Royce School; and Crystal Land, Assistant Head of School at Head-Royce School. Those of you who have heard any of them before know how wise, supportive, and dynamic they are.
Topics include understanding your official or unofficial role as advisor; what to do or not do when you are confronted with difficult situations and behavior; and facilitating effective advising within the classroom and beyond. Participants will be offered frameworks, models, and tools for working comfortably and skillfully with students, even in those moments when one is on the run.
To encourage teams of participants, we will offer discounts for school groups. Everyone is welcome!
Location: Park Day School 360 42nd St. Oakland, CA 94609
Date and Time: January 30 & 31 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM each day. Sign-in begins at 8:30 AM.
Cost: $400 per person for the first three from a school, $350 for each additional.
(Non-members add $100 for each) We will not be able to refund cancellations after Jan. 20th.
Comprehension Through Conversation
How can we help students become more comfortable taking risks and speaking out in a group? Are you interested in new ways to teach and assess comprehension? You are invited to join us for a morning workshop on “Comprehension Through Conversation,” a hot topic in literacy today as we consider the tools the 21st Century learner will need for the future.
The goal of this workshop will be to look at the way teachers can talk with students and lead them in interactive discussions about texts and topics across the curriculum. You will learn strategies for teaching discussion expectations and how to get kids to “dig deeper” in their conversations.
The workshop is appropriate for teachers K through 4 – yes, even Kindergarten!
Erin Murphy is the Primary School Director at Marin Primary and Middle School. She has worked for a number of years in the area of literacy research, specifically in “Teacher Talk”, how teachers facilitate comprehension through conversation. She is currently consulting with a local public school on this topic.
DATE: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 TIME: 8:30 – noon PLACE: The Bay School, 35 Keyes Ave., in the San Francisco Presidio 94129 COST: $75 for Collaborative members; $100 for non-members
Click here to register.
Right From the Start: A Workshop for Teachers in Their Early Years
Understanding school dynamics can play an essential part in determining one’s success as a beginning teacher. What knowledge, dispositions, and skills can we cultivate to thrive in our careers as educators? Please join us for a morning of discussion and sharing of resources; we will address a broad range of topics, including being seen as a professional, establishing good working relationships with colleagues, reading the culture of one’s school, and communicating with precision and accuracy.Your own questions and topics are welcome.
Our guest facilitator is Sue Porter, school counselor at The San Francisco School and a popular presenter for the BATDC. Her latest book is Relating to Adolescents: Educators in a Teenage World.
This workshop is appropriate for teachers and interns at every grade level as well as those who mentor new faculty. Questions? Contact the BATDC at mcgarvey @ batdc.org.
DATE: Friday, October 14, 2011 TIME: 8:30 – noon
PLACE: The Bay School, 35 Keyes Ave., in the San Francisco Presidio 94129
COST: $75 for Collaborative members; $100 for non-members
Easy Techniques to Enhance Students’ Social Development
How can we help students who have difficulty communicating, making friends, or working in groups? Teachers and specialists in grades K – 8 are invited to come to this workshop, which will cover specific vocabulary, activities, and games to enhance and develop a student’s ability to make transitions, communicate, and develop friendships with an emphasis on problem-solving abilities.Through case study and experiential role playing, participants will leave with new ideas to implement with students and parents.
This workshop will be interactive, interesting, and playful! Participants should come prepared with at least two students in mind and one classroom setting they want to work on during the workshop.
Toby Mickelson is Director of Learning Services at Redwood Day School. Kris Neugenbauer, a Speech and Language Pathologist with over 20 years experience, specializes in helping children who have delays in expressive and receptive language.
DATE: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
TIME: 8:30 – noon
PLACE: Black Pine Circle School, 2027 7th St., Berkeley
COST: $75 for Collaborative members; $100 for non-members.
Design Thinking Hands-On: November 10-11, 2011
Lend a Hand: Gestures in Teaching and Learning
What are we missing as we watch our students engage in learning? Recent educational research tells us that the role of gesture in classrooms is only now becoming understood. Gesture can show teachers what a student knows but is not verbalizing. A mismatch between a student’s gestures and verbalization is a teaching opportunity. You are invited to participate in an interactive workshop on the role our hands and gestures play in teaching, learning, and thinking. Nancy Knop, an educational therapist at Summit Center in Walnut Creek and former teacher at Head-Royce School, will discuss recent research in this area. Dr Knop will focus particularly on the teaching of math, showing how our hands provide input to our brains, and how gesture precedes learning and facilitates thinking at all levels.
For more information, please download the flyer and registration form here:
Gesture, Teaching and Learning November 17, 2010 from 8:45 a.m. to noon.
This workshop is appropriate for teachers, learning specialists, and administrators in grades K-12.
PAST EVENTS:
POCIS Workshops
POCIS (People of Color in Independent Schools) presents a conference for middle and high school students, “Marketing Your Message: Whose Message Is It Anyway?” on October 2, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the International High School in San Francisco. The conference will feature a keynote presentation by Michael Benitez, Jr., an activist-scholar, speaker/spoken word artist integrating hip hop pedagogy, academic inquiry and personal experience. For more information, please download the flyer here:
POCIS Conference for Students 10/2/2010
Also on October 2, POCIS will present a workshop for adults entitled, “Moving from Multicultural to Multi-contextual: Increasing Our Competency to be More Effective Youth Allies“. Download the flyer here:
POCIS Workshop for Adults 10/2/2010.
The Narrative of Bad News: Kindness and Honesty
How can we communicate important but potentially difficult information about learning? When is the right time toalert parents to a child’s possible learning issues? Toby Mickelson, Director of Learning Services at Redwood Day School, will lead adiscussion focusing on how to tell bad news with kindness, to work as a team with administration, and to embed factual truth in a meaningful context.
This workshop is appropriate for teachers, learning specialists, administrators, and advisors in grades K-8.
Bad News Workshop Wednesday October 6, 2010 from 8:45 a.m. to noon.
From Carrots to Curriculum: Connecting School Gardens to the Curriculum
A panel of speakers with experience in these areas will lead a discussion on a variety of related subjects. This workshop is of interest both to schools that already have a garden program and to those that would like to establish one, even if their space is limited. Topics covered will include oversight needs, space constraints, funding, and faculty involvement; special attention will be given to connecting the garden with the curriculum. Our panelists will be: Karen Coleric and Mary Rossi, Park Day School; and Simon Hurd, The Berkeley School. This workshop is appropriate for teachers and administrators in grades K-8.
Carrots to Curriculum Tuesday, October 19, 2010 from 8:45 a.m. to noon
October 21, 2010 4:00-7:00 PM
Announcing a Special Opportunity for Heads of School and Board Members
BATDC presents: How do we Lead? A Conversation About Diversity
Join Bay Area independent school Heads and Trustees as they engage Dr. Steven Jones in a thought-provoking discussion on Diversity Leadership in the 21st Century. Dr. Jones will facilitate
a dialog to:
- Examine our local past in this work and begin charting a bold, new course for our collective present and future
- Assess where the Bay Area independent school community is on this continuum
- Interpret the ground-breaking mini-documentary by Mohammad Soriano-Bilal, Bay Area resident, educator, filmmaker and independent school alum
Preview the workshop the Bay Area Teacher Development Collaborative will offer member teachers on Friday, October 22nd at the French American International School.
This session will focus on leadership rather than the fundamentals of diversity. Join us to help pave the way toward a brighter future.
Download the informational flyer here. How do we Lead? A Conversation about Diversity
Friday, October 22, 2010
BATDC presents: Rethinking Diversity, Leadership in Action
Join us as we explore 21st century skills for addressing the broad range of diversity in schools. In this one-day conference we will consider the extent to which there has been a fundamental shift in our understanding of diversity and how, as educators, we can put into action awareness of difference and culture. Facilitator Dr. Steven Jones will lead us as we ask:
- How can we build upon the good work that has been done over the past years to make schools more inclusive and culturally aware?
- What new skills do we need to communicate with others in order to understand, appreciate, and develop the power of difference?
- What are the systems that foster inclusion, social justice, and equity in schools?
- How can we help students develop cultural competency?
The cost of this workshop for BATDC members is $200 for each of the first three participants from a school, and $150 for additional participants from the same school; for non-members, the cost is $250 for the each of the first three participants from a school, and $200 for each participant thereafter.
Understandings of Consequence Workshop
Tina Grotzer, lead researcher in the Understandings of Consequence Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, agreed to come to the Bay Area to conduct a two-day workshop for teachers in grades K-12.
October 21, 2008 – Initiating, Sustaining, and Closing a Great Discussion With Your Students
December 3, 2008 – The Influence of Technology on Learning and Performance: How Should Schools and Families Handle the Effects of Multi-Tasking and Sleep Deprivation?