Are you concerned about the effects of screen time on your children or students? Would you like to build your skills when it comes to advocating for your child? Are you a teacher looking for supportive strategies for your students regarding maintaining focus, staying calm and managing tasks? In October, Dr. Rona Novick, dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University, and co-educational director of Hidden Sparks will kick off the free Hidden Sparks Without Walls (HSWOW) webinar series for educators and parents with a presentation entitled, “Technology and Resulting Changes in How Our Children Think and Learn: Implications for Parents and Educators.” In the webinar, she will share the latest findings to help parents and educators understand the way today’s children think and learn, and will suggest opportunities for creating healthy habits of technology use and for adapting our adult teaching and parenting strategies to best fit the changing minds of our technologically savvy children. As the year progresses, webinar topics for the community will include, “ABCs of Advocacy: How to Be Your Child’s Best Advocate” and “It’s All in the Timing: Teaching Time and Task Management” among others (see full listing).
Hidden Sparks, a non-profit that offers professional development opportunities for yeshiva- and day school-based educators, provides educational opportunities to parents as well as teachers through the Hidden Sparks Without Walls (HSWOW) webinar series. To date, over 80 webinars have been hosted, enjoyed by over 1,800 people, and have been archived and are available for viewing on the Hidden Sparks Website.
For Debbie Niderberg, executive director of Hidden Sparks, the drive to provide programming for educators and parents across the country has been a major impetus for expanding HSWOW, so that hundreds can now participate in each webinar, “We’re thrilled with the increasing numbers of participants in our webinars. We are happy to announce that now, with the shift to a new platform, we will be able to enable even more teachers and parents from across the day school community to benefit.”
Hidden Sparks Without Walls Webinars 2017-18
All webinars are free of charge and held at 8:30 p.m. EST
Please go to HiddenSparks.org to register.
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Title |
DATE |
PRESENTER |
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Technology and Resulting Changes in How Our Children Think and Learn: Implications for Parents and Educators |
10/24/2017 |
Dr. Rona Novick |
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ABCs of Advocacy: How to Be Your Child’s Best Advocate |
11/1/2017 |
Susan Schwartz, Child Mind Institute |
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It’s All in the Timing: Teaching Time and Task Management |
11/28/2017 |
Sara Ward |
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Making Chumash Come Alive in a Classroom of Diverse Learners |
2/6/2018 |
Etti Siegel |
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Calm: The Teacher’s Guide to Supporting Anxious Students |
2/21/2018 |
Zipora Schuck |
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Focusing In: Strategies for Supporting Students’ Focus |
3/6/2018 |
Mindy Rosenthal |
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Executive Assistant: Building Executive Function Strategies for Reading and Writing |
4/24/2018 |
Hollis Dannaham |
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Cultivating and Supporting Self-Esteem in Children with Learning Challenges |
5/1/2018 |
Amanda Morin, Understood.org |
Past webinars for parents and teachers are archived on the Hidden Sparks website HiddenSparks.org and are accessible through a link on the homepage, where parents and teachers can also add themselves to the Hidden Sparks mailing list and find out more about Hidden Sparks programs. For more information, please contact Sara Diament, director of school services, at [email protected].
By Sara Diament
