The Balanced Ecosystem: Creating and Sustaining a Classroom Community that Celebrates Literacy and Offers Relational and Affirming Teaching Strategies
This professional development is designed to combine Indigenous literature and literacies with land-based pedagogy. The intention for this training is to offer practical content and strategies that are suitable for all students and to encourage open discussion about how to meaningfully incorporate Indigenous literacy and tenants of land-based pedagogy in diverse learning settings. Upholding a warm and welcoming space for multi-lingual learning and Indigenous languages is a foundational aspect of this offering.
Participants can expect to leave the workshop with a selection of new strategies and prompts, a recursive strategy for classroom use, and suggestions for bringing literature informed by Indigenous languages into the learning space.
This two-hour workshop will fulfill OSPI’s Continuing Education clock hours (2) for all state educators and meets the requirements for ongoing Social Emotional Learning(SEL) for teacher certification.
This course will offer free resources and is suitable for teachers and learners of all ages including adult learners. Writers may also find the content useful.
The intention for this training is to offer practical content and strategies that are suitable for all students and to encourage open discussion about how to meaningfully incorporate multiple, engaging, storytelling techniques in diverse learning settings.
The Balanced Ecosystem: Creating and Sustaining a Classroom Community that Celebrates Literacy and Offers Relational and Affirming Teaching Strategies
- Individual and Collective Growth and Celebration of Literacy
- Offering Feedback and Encouraging Opportunities for Student Reflection
- Creating an Affirming Classroom Community
- Considering Culturally Responsive Approaches to Assessment
- Balancing the Habitat of Classroom Resources and Text Selection Process
This offering centers a culturally responsive classroom environment as a source of strength and affirmation by connecting learning to place and offering new lenses to consider student and teacher growth, text selection, and meaningful assessment. Participants can expect to leave the workshop with a selection of new feedback strategies and prompts, a recursive strategy for goal setting, and suggestions for bringing literature informed by Indigenous languages into the learning space.
This course will offer free resources and is suitable for teachers and learners of all ages including adult learners. Writers may also find the content useful. Please accept my warm invitation to attend or pass this opportunity along to any others you think might find it useful.
This 2 hour workshop will fulfill OSPI’s Continuing Education clock hours (2) for all state educators and meets the requirements for ongoing Social Emotional training for teacher certification.
Register to attend online at the link above. This workshop is free to attend.
Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is Eastern Shawnee. Her first book, Tributaries, was published by the University of Arizona Press and won a 2016 American Book Award. Da’ has held residencies at the Richard Hugo House, Tin House, and Jack Straw. Her newest book, Instruments of the True Measure, is the winner of the Washington State Book Award. Da’ lives near Seattle with her husband and son.