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SUMMARY:Deepening the Picture of the Whole Child: Integrating Waldorf Wisdom with Current Sensory Integration Research
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: This workshop is now full and registration is no longer being accepted. You are welcome to put your name on our waiting list in case of cancellation. \nAn online workshop series consisting of five two-hour Saturday sessions occurring from November through May for Waldorf early childhood and early grades teachers  \nBackground\nAt the 2023 Waldorf World Teachers’ conference held in Dornach\, Switzerland\, Dr. Karin Michael\, pediatrician and co-director of the section for anthroposophical medicine at the Goetheanum\, participated in a panel discussion of children’s developmental needs in our times. Questions were asked about children’s overall health in general and particularly what children need from educators in our post-pandemic world. Dr. Michael stated that children need intensified\, active physical movement to develop sensory health not only in the kindergarten years but up through grades 1\, 2\, and 3. The pandemic deprived children of many social\, sensory\, and movement experiences that they cannot “make up” without our help. \nWorkshop Description\nWaldorf education works with a picture of 12 senses. Mainstream research validates 9. Both streams include senses that tell us about our internal state\, senses that tell us about the external world\, and senses that we use in social interactions. The goal is that the senses will work together\, which is described as “sensory integration.” When there is disruption\, children will show their distress through perplexing and often challenging physical and social behaviors. In this 5-part workshop series\, designed for early childhood educators\, grades 1-3 teachers\, and others interested in deepening their understanding of how children grow into the world\, Sunbridge’s Early Childhood Teacher Education program co-director Nancy Blanning will serve as guide for an exploration into sensory development\, focusing on how the two streams of Waldorf education and mainstream research complement and confirm each other\, and how we can use this knowledge to better help the children in our care.  \nThe content of our sessions will concentrate on the body senses of touch\, self-movement\, and balance as foundation for physical\, academic\, emotional and social development to come. We will consider the gifts each sense brings to the child as well as what can be seen when the senses are not serving the child well. Our main focus will be in how to encourage typical development in general and to respond in supportive action to distressed sensing\, with the final session opening up a very introductory consideration of neurodiversity. We will look at how understanding of the senses can inform how we respond to and support children whose sensing systems and neurology are different. \nSession Topics \nNovember 2: The Landscape of the Senses—How does each sense help us live in the body\, in the external world\, and in the social world with other people? We will look at how we support the Life Sense/Interoception to assure comfort and a sense of security in the body. \nJanuary 4: Tactile/Touch Sense—Exploring hyper (extra reactive) and hypo (under reactive) responses as extreme edges of sensing touch. How do we recognize these and respond to these extremes? \nFebruary 1: Proprioceptive/Self-movement (Limbs\, muscles\, nerves\, and body-geography)—Exploring the balanced and extreme edges as shown in behavior. How can we offer invitation to strengthening this sense?  \nMarch 1: Vestibular/Balance—Orientation and security of the body in the three planes of space. How can we offer enriched opportunities to grow more secure balance? \nMay 3: Neurodiversity—A very beginning look at this increasing phenomenon in our children. How can what we learn about the senses help us in responding to these children with differences? \n  \nFacilitator \nNancy Blanning has co-directed Sunbridge’s Early Childhood Teacher Education program since 2015 and has served on its faculty since 1994. Now retired from a nearly forty-year career at The Denver Waldorf School\, where she served as a kindergarten teacher and member of the educational support staff\, Nancy’s main focus is therapeutic education with a special emphasis on developmental movement as supporting young children’s physical incarnation and sensory development.\n \nA frequent keynote speaker and presenter at national and international early childhood conferences and workshops\, including serving as a faculty member at Denver’s Nurturing the Roots Therapeutic Course\, Nancy’s writing credits include serving as contributor and editor of Gateways (the publication of WECAN); regular columnist for Lilipoh magazine; contributor to “You’re Not the Boss of Me” (WECAN publication)\, editor of WECAN’s First Grade Readiness; and co-author\, with Laurie Clark\, of Movement Journeys and Circle Adventures\, a collection of original movement imaginations for the classroom. Nancy holds a BA in English from the University of Colorado\, with teaching credentials. She also earned a certificate as Extra Lesson provider and therapeutic educator from Gradalis Seminars\, where she attended the four-year anthroposophical therapeutic/remedial training in Extra Lesson and supplementary therapies and academic support strategies. \n\nPrerequisite\nThis workshop is taught with the understanding that participants have a basic familiarity with the 12 senses as described in Waldorf education. Required reading preparation is the WECAN publication\, Nurturing the Senses: The Importance of Authentic Sensory Experiences in Early Childhood\, which can be purchased for $9.00.  \nAdditional recommended reading includes: \n\nWilli Aeppli’s Care and Development of the Human Senses\n\n\nSharifa Oppenheimer’s With Stars in Their Eyes\n\n\nSally Goddard Blythe\, The Well-Balanced Child\n\nTitles are available from online booksellers. The first two are carried by Steinerbooks.com \n  \nSchedule\nSessions take place over Zoom from 1:30 pm–3:30 pm (Eastern/NY Time) on the following Saturdays:\nNovember 2 / January 4 / February 1/ March 1 / May 3 \nSessions will not be recorded. \nCost \nEarly Bird pricing (register by October 25 and save $25!): $370\nRegular pricing (register after October 25): $395\nPrices includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee \nNote: This workshop is presented as a series; individual sessions may not be signed up for separately. Refunds will not be issued for sessions not attended. See registration form for full refund policy.  \nRegistrants who sign up for both Deepening the Picture of the Whole Child as well as EC Insights\, our workshop series held earlier in the day on many of the same Saturday dates\, will receive a discounted price ($700 Early Bird\, $725 regular) for both. Participants choosing this option may not apply any other discount\, with the exception of CAD payments. \n\nAvailable Discounts\n25% off for: \n\nSchools sending 2 or more participants\nSunbridge teacher education program graduates\nPayments made in Canadian dollars\n\nDiscounts may not be combined. Qualification for discounts will be verified by Sunbridge staff.  \nIf you are a Sunbridge Early Childhood program student and wish to attend this workshop\, please contact Nancy for information before registering.  \n  \nNOTE: This workshop is now full and registration is no longer being accepted. You are welcome to put your name on our waiting list as in case of cancellation. \n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact Barbara Vitale\, admissions and summer coordinator\, at info@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \nWe reserve the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy. \nSunbridge is a New York State Education Department Approved Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (NYSED CTLE)\, enabling teachers of any background to choose Sunbridge for their CLTE/CEU professional development credits. Check to see if your state honors our status.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/deepening-the-picture-of-the-whole-child-integrating-waldorf-wisdom-with-current-sensory-integration-research/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute Remotely\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Early Childhood,Featured,Grades
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SUMMARY:Calling It Like It Is: Uncovering and Dismantling Racism in the Waldorf Movement
DESCRIPTION:A workshop for educators\, administrators\, Board members\, and staff \n  \nBackground \nIn spring 2020\, following the murder of George Floyd\, American society underwent a racial awakening. During this time\, the Waldorf movement was also awakening to the undeniable fact that racism exists within Waldorf education. Conceived of against this backdrop\, Calling It Like It Is: Uncovering and Dismantling Racism in the Waldorf Movement was presented that September in the goal of taking on the work of recognizing and eradicating racism from our classrooms in order to truly educate our children (and ourselves) toward freedom. \nThe response to that groundbreaking 2020 event proved to be so widespread\, the workshop has been repeated several times since to new audiences of Waldorf professionals. We are pleased to present an encore presentation of that original–and essential–DEI workshop. \n  \nDescription  \nOver the course of three one-and-a-half-hour sessions taking place virtually in real-time on Friday evening and Saturday morning and afternoon\, this workshop: \n\nDefines and articulates the ways many Waldorf school curricula center whiteness and set it up as an ideal\, to the detriment of all;\nUses the frameworks of racial identity formation and biography work to better understand how we become who we are in a racialized society and how that impacts our engagement with the children in our care;\nShares practical tools\, resources\, and success stories with the goal of dismantling racism in Waldorf schools and communities.\n\nRegistrants will be sent advanced reading material. \nFacilitators \nKeelah Helwig is currently an early childhood educator and chair of the Early Childhood program at The Waldorf School of Garden City (her alma mater). Keelah has served as chair of WSGS’s College of Teachers and is a founding member and chair of its Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion Committee. She is proud to be a founding member of the Sunbridge Diversity Fund Scholarship Committee and is also a Board trustee of Sunbridge\, AWSNA\, and WECAN. A skilled facilitator\, mentor\, evaluator\, and shepherd\, Keelah is passionate about motivating school communities and inspiring lasting and meaningful change. Following her WSGS graduation\, Keelah earned a BA in theatre from Spelman College and her masters in early childhood education from Sunbridge College. \nVicki Larson served as director of communications and marketing at Green Meadow Waldorf School from 2011-2021 and is a founding member of Sunbridge’s Diversity Fund Scholarship Committee. Vicki\, who has been involved in anti-racism initiatives and community organizing for social justice for more than 20 years\, has been a consultant to Waldorf schools across the US since 2014; she has also held positions in publishing\, resource development\, translation and interpretation (English/Spanish)\, international women’s human rights\, and diversity\, equity\, and inclusion. She graduated with honors from the University of Florida in Gainesville with a major in English and minors in religion and women’s studies. \nHeather Scott is currently a core faculty member of Sunbridge’s Waldorf High School Teacher Education program and until recently was pedagogical director of the Waldorf School of Lexington. Prior to moving east to join the Lexington faculty in 2023\, Heather worked at The Waldorf School of San Diego for 17 years\, where she taught high school humanities and graduated two eighth grade classes. She also spent time teaching at The Community School for Creative Education\, a public\, Waldorf-inspired charter in Oakland\, CA. Heather’s interests are in diversifying Waldorf middle- and high-school curricula. She is passionate about supporting anti-racism through a grounding in history and biography and has a decades’ long interest in African-American culture and literature\, especially attuned to Black women writers. Heather earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA from The University of New Hampshire\, Durham. \nAll three presenters are members of Alma Partners. \n  \nSchedule \nThis workshop takes place in live Zoom sessions. Sessions will not be recorded. \nSessions\nFriday evening\, November 15: 7:00pm-8:30pm Eastern (NY) Time\nSaturday\, November 16: 10:30am-12:00pm and 1:00-2:30pm Eastern (NY) Time \nNOTE ON ATTENDANCE: Due to the sensitive nature of these discussions and because each builds on the next\, we strongly encourage registrants be able to attend all three Zoom sessions. In order to receive a Certificate of Completion\, you must attend all three sessions.  \nCost \n$210 includes a $25 non-refundable registration fee and your reading material \nDiscount options  \n25% off for \n\nSchools sending more than one participant. NOTE: In order to equitably serve as many schools as possible\, this event is limited to ten (10) attendees from the same school. Should you wish to exceed this cap\, please contact Admissions Coordinator Barbara Vitale (info below)\nSunbridge teacher education program graduates\nPayments made in Canadian dollars\n\nDiscounts may not be combined \n\nFree for current Sunbridge program students in good standing (plus a $25 non-refundable registration fee)\n\nREGISTER\nQuestions?\nPlease contact Barbara Vitale\, admissions and summer coordinator\, at info@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nWe reserve the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy. \nSunbridge is a New York State Education Department Approved Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (NYSED CTLE)\, enabling teachers of any background to choose Sunbridge for their CLTE/CEU professional development credits. Check to see if your state honors our status.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/calling-it-like-it-is-uncovering-and-dismantling-racism-in-the-waldorf-movement-4/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute Remotely\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Early Childhood,Featured,Grades,High School,In Process,Weekend Workshop
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