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Sonia Nieto and Alicia Lopez present "Teaching and Writing Through Trauma and Grief for Restorative Healing: Using the Personal to Inform Our Practice as Teachers"
Date: 7/6/2022
Time: 10:00-11:30am PST Over the past two years, people throughout the world have suffered because of the pandemic and many other traumatic events. Sonia and Alicia, co–authors of “Teaching, a Life’s Work: A Mother Daughter Dialogue,” have recently lost their beloved husband and father, respectively. They are, as a result, living through the grief of this monumental personal loss. At the same time, Alicia’s students have faced the trauma of immigration and family separation, along with the isolation that came with remote instruction. In this webinar, Alicia and Sonia draw on their experience to suggest strategies and perspectives for using writing to help educators and their students deal with trauma and loss and use writing to heal.
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Sonia Nieto is a member of the National Academy of Education, Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her teaching has spanned early elementary through doctoral education and her research has focused on multicultural education, teacher education, literacy, and the education of students of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She has written or edited 13 books, including a memoir, Brooklyn Dreams: My Life in Public Education (2015). The first edition of her classic text, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education (1992), was selected for the Museum of Education Readers’ Guide as “one of the 100 books that helped define the field of education in the 20th century.” Dr. Nieto has received dozens of awards for her scholarly work, teaching, and advocacy, including 9 honorary doctorates.
Alicia Lopez is a middle school ELL teacher. Her 27 years in the classroom span 2 states and 3 subjects (French, Spanish, ESL). She is also a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a lecturer in the ESL Licensure program in the Professional and Graduates Education program at Mount Holyoke College. Alicia has been involved with her local National Writing Project site, the Western Mass. Writing Project, for over 12 years. She has been honored with several teaching awards, including being one of 2 finalists for the 2021 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year. She is the co-author with Sonia Nieto of Teaching: A Life’s Work, A mother-daughter dialogue (Teacher’s College Press, 2015). Since 2014, Alicia has been reflecting on her teaching through her blog, Maestra Teacher (http://maestrateacher.com/).
Alicia Lopez is a middle school ELL teacher. Her 27 years in the classroom span 2 states and 3 subjects (French, Spanish, ESL). She is also a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a lecturer in the ESL Licensure program in the Professional and Graduates Education program at Mount Holyoke College. Alicia has been involved with her local National Writing Project site, the Western Mass. Writing Project, for over 12 years. She has been honored with several teaching awards, including being one of 2 finalists for the 2021 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year. She is the co-author with Sonia Nieto of Teaching: A Life’s Work, A mother-daughter dialogue (Teacher’s College Press, 2015). Since 2014, Alicia has been reflecting on her teaching through her blog, Maestra Teacher (http://maestrateacher.com/).
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Jerry Craft presents "Writing for Restorative Healing: Strategies and Activities to (Re) Energize Educators and Students"
Date: 7/13/2022
Time: 10:00-11:30am PST What would it mean to create world, or even a classroom, in which all young people can see themselves in the pages of a book? In this webinar New York Times best selling author Jerry Craft will discuss what it means
to grow up in a "protagonist desert" and why he makes the books he wishes he had when he was a kid. Educators will receive resources to complete a classroom library survey and ideas for using Craft's graphic novels New Kid and Class Act in their classrooms. Jerry Craft is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the graphic novels New Kid and Class Act. New Kid is the only book in history to win the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature (2020). |
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Georgia Heard presents "Writing from the Heart: Tools to Heal and Restore"
Date: 7/20/2022
Time: 10:00am-11:30pm PST Georgia Heard will share ways teachers and students can use different modes of writing to heal hearts and stir voices as a catalyst for expression and self-discovery.
Georgia Heard is a founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project in New York City and currently presents school-wide workshops and staff development throughout the United States and internationally. She is the author of 19 books including: Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School which was cited by Instructor Magazine as one of the “10 Books Every Teacher Should Read,” and Heart Maps: Helping Students Create and Craft Authentic Student Writing about which she was invited to give a TEDX talk: Mapping Your Heart: https://bit.ly/3MF6HEe. Her newest books are A Field Guide to the Heart: Poems of Love, Comfort & Hope, a poetry book and journal for adults, and a children’s book entitled My Thoughts Are Clouds: Poems for Mindfulness.
www.georgiaheard.com twitter:@georgiaheard1 |
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Tracey Flores presents "Remedios: Stories from the Heart to Heal & Thrive
Date: 7/27/2022
Time: 10:00-11:30am PST Dr. Tracey T. Flores invites teachers and students to find healing, comfort, and strength in the
lessons and wisdom of their personal stories and histories. In this interactive session, we will engage in storytelling, art, and writing activities to discover the remedios that reside in sharing your personal story. Dr. Tracey T. Flores is an assistant professor of language and literacy at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches Language Arts Methods and Community Literacies in the EC-6 ESL/Generalist teacher certification program. Dr. Flores is a former English language development and English language arts teacher, working for eight years alongside culturally and linguistically diverse students, families, and communities in K-8 schools throughout Glendale and Phoenix. Her research focuses on Latina mothers and daughters’ language and literacy practices, the teaching of young writers in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, and family and community literacies. She is also the founder of Somos Escritoras/We Are Writers, a creative space for Latina girls (grades 6-12) that invites them to share and perform stories from their lived experiences using art, theater, and writing as a tool for reflection, examination, and critique of their worlds.
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