Hello Colleagues,
Please check out the five upcoming PL opportunities below. All are included in our EARCOS and GOA memberships and can be self-registered. Please see Kasson with questions or for more information if you are interested.
- Translanguaging: Designing Equitable Multilingual Spaces with Ceci Gomez-Galvez. Saturday, September 4th 10:00am-5:00pm Nanjing-time. Ceci is a great presenter and an L2 @ NIS alum. This session is sponsored by Korean International School and Liz Cho (a rockstar in her own right!). Summary: “The purpose of this session is to provide a translanguaging toolkit for not just EAL teachers, but ALL teachers, leaders and coaches who work and design learning experiences for multilingual learners in international schools. Join me for a weekend of building a translanguaging toolkit that will serve as the foundation for valuing multilingualism and nurturing a culture of equity in your school.” August 31st registration deadline.
- GOA Designing for Equity: Learning Environments. August 23-27 Summary: “We invite you to join us as we work through modules focused on Self, Equitable Design, Facilitation, and Community, all in the interest of designing learning environments that cultivate and foster belonging. Each day, participants will choose from two design challenges that are intended to support and challenge participants towards responsibly designing, facilitating, and fostering equitable learning environments by translating intention into concrete action. You’ll leave with practical applications and ongoing considerations to influence your practice going forward.” GOA courses are asynchronous, but now have an optional synchronous session during each week.
- GOA Designing for Equity: Content September. 20-24 Summary: “In this course, we will seek to equitably curate and deliver content that is aligned to student learning outcomes. You’ll leave with practical applications and ongoing considerations to influence your practice going forward. We invite you to join us as we work through modules that prioritize intentionally equitable content curation, delivery, and alignment to and for learning outcomes.”
- GOA Designing for Equity: Assessment. October 18-22 Summary: “In this course, we will design assessment systems and structures that disrupt barriers and built-in inequities in order to design for all learners to have access and opportunity to show and share their learning. This course offers an opportunity to commit to a more equitable educator practice alongside a global community of educators. We encourage you to engage with these varied perspectives and adapt and transfer what you can to your own specific context.”
- GOA Designing for Online Learning. Now offered as a self-paced course. Ask course alums Amanda L, Angela F., Iryna K., Kasson, Laurie, Ruth, Sarah M., or Seth for more information. A great primer or refresher on online pedagogy. Geared to grades 4/5 and up. It’s GOA most popular course, ever!