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Partnership News: Special Program Announcements
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February 2017
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Greetings of 2017! I am pleased to announce two exciting summer 2017 opportunities for teachers.
Teaching Native American Histories, July 16-28, 2017, and
Doors to the World: East Asia, July 9-14, 2017. You'll find details in the
Partnership Update below.
In these final weeks of winter, I wish you strength, joy, and enthusiasm for the young people you work with. They are indeed the future, but they are also central to our present and what we make of it.
All the best,
Marla Solomon
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Partnership Update Summer opportunities!
We invite preK-Grade 3 teachers, librarians, and literacy coaches nationwide to apply for an extraordinary summer institute to:
- Study diversity and representation in global children's literature about and/or from China, Japan, and Korea
- Consider the histories and cultures of these nations to contextualize selected children's books
- Engage in dialogue with children's book authors and illustrators, and children's literature, culture, and pedagogy specialists
- Design multimodal mini-units offering opportunities for children to engage with the themes, words, and images of the books in classroom inquiry
The Partnership welcomes your participation in or ideas for our work.
Other news Diversifying and strengthening the teacher workforce: The Partnership was invited to the final round of the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts' Innovation Fund competition for a planning grant to support the Diverse Teacher Workforce Coalition: Building Pathways for Black and Latino Paraprofessionals to Become Licensed Teachers. We will know soon about the results of the competition. If funded, this grant will allow us to create grow-your-own teacher workforce development strategies with multiple pathways to help increase the diversity and retention of the teacher workforce in western Massachusetts.
The Western Massachusetts Mathematics Partnership held a Fall Institute October 29, 2016, and is a sponsoring Spring 2017 Professional Learning Community (PLC) hosted by Amherst College, starting February 9.
Doors to the World received a grant from the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts (CFWM) to form a teacher corps to development additional curricular materials for the Doors to the World website, which provides resources for early grades teacher to select and utilize global children's picture books in their classrooms. Thank you, CFWM!
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