The Things We Carry: A Professional Development Training for Educators
This professional development is designed to offer strategies for critical thinking & deep self inquiry, encourage writing, and foster a sense of resilience by way of writing exercises, idea generators, and utilizing Social constructivist pedagogy as a lens for learning and play.
Participants can expect to leave the workshop with a selection of new methodologies and prompts, a recursive strategy for classroom use, and suggestions for bringing innovative literature 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.
Putsata Reang will focus on calling forth the tangible and intangible things we carry with us and escorting them onto the page. We all carry something, tangible things like that locket from a loved one or the basketball in our backpack, and intangible things like courage in our spine and regret in our minds. Reang will guide participants through the techniques of applying personal narrative writing about the things we carry as both a social-relational and civid imperative, to help create a classroom culture of cohesion and belonging.
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 Learning (SEL) training for teacher certification.
Register to attend online at the link above. This workshop is free to attend.
Putsata Reang is a journalist and author of the debut memoir, “Ma and Me,” (FSG/MCD May 2022). Her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Politico, The Seattle-Times, the San Jose Mercury News, Ms., and the Guardian, as well as anthologized in essay collections highlighting women’s and Khmer voices. She has trained reporters across the globe in conflict and post-conflict nations such as Cambodia, Afghanistan, Thailand and Bangladesh, Putsata is an alum of writers residencies at Hedgebrook, Mineral School and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, as well as the Jack Straw Writing Fellowship program. She has received grants from Washington State Artist Trust and the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship foundation.