Rapidly evolving technology has provided children with unprecedented access to information from all over the world. But the sheer volume, rate of change, and staggering number of sources of information have created a whole set of new challenges for students, teachers and parents. What's true? What's safe? Is the source of information providing a service or seeking profit? How do we stay focused, and when do we stop searching? What do we do with all this information?

In this online course, will guide parents and teachers through an Internet-based research project just like those their students are expected to do, introducing innovative web tools and strategies along the way. Online students will discover a host of powerful resources designed to filter and catalogue information as well as tips for mining the "deep web" -- the rich layers beneath those exposed by popular search engines.

Dov Campbell, BA, currently works as a technology integration specialist for an independent school outside of Philadelphia where he also teaches digital literacy to students grades 5-8. Mr. Campbell serves as a Learning Fellow for Powerful Learning Practices, a professional development model that allows educators to learn and own the literacies of 21st Century learning and teaching. He has also recently presented Strategies and Tools for Successful Video-basedProjects at the Diverse Conference in Aberystwyth, Wales UK. He earned a BA from University of Colorado in Environmental Science.

Shoshana Wolfe, MA, began working in NYC public and independent schools in 1994. Currently, she works as a staff developer and private tutor in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Shoshana Wolfe is the author of Your Best Year Yet: Purposeful Planning and Effective Classroom Organization and is developing two other books: Raise your voice! Dynamic Oral Reading Experiences for Grades 3 - 8; Images that Teach: Graphic Organizers for Middle Schoolers. She holds a MSEd from Goddard College and a BA in Theater from Skidmore College.

Course timetable: July 5 - July 30
1 CEU: $350 (not offered for credit)
Registration deadline: 6/29

This workshop is geared towards administrators looking to the create environments that foster adult learning as well as parents who want to explore how their own learning impacts their child's learning. The role of experience and learning styles as well as the complexity and transformational possibilities in adult learning will each be considered.

Katherine O'Donnell, EdD, is a long time member of the Bank Street Graduate School faculty, where she has been an advisor, course instructor in Adult Development and Processes of Supervision, Program Director, and Department Chair. She's worked for over ten years with the Primary Teacher Preparation Program, a three institution
collaborative teacher preparation program in Nepal. She has an Ed.D from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Course timetable: July 7 - August 2
1 CEU: $350 (not offered for credit)
Registration deadline: 6/29

Geared towards teachers in their first five years of teaching, this course will create a community of learners to lend additional support during preparation for and the beginning months of the school year. Through discussions and use of developmentally appropriate practice, participants will gain new insights into:

Fostering classroom community;

• Techniques to improve upon established routines;
  
• How to organize time;
  
• How to work with administrators; and
  
• Preparing for the first parent-teacher conferences, including how to have constructive discussions about the students with parents.

The use of videos, interviews, and articles will be employed as strategies within the course to share knowledge. Participants will be encouraged to share ideas using 21st-century social networking tools.

Davia Franklyn, MSEd, MA, is a member of the Graduate Faculty at Bank Street College of Education and is the Director of the Center for Middle School Practices in its Division of Continuing Education. Franklyn has worked with public school teachers, focusing on thematic curriculum and creating positive learning environments. Franklyn was formerly a NYC classroom teacher and holds an MA in Computers and Education from Bank Street College.

Course timetable: August 23 - November 19
1 CEU: $750
Registration deadline: 8/16

Early Number, Addition, and Subtraction (Grades K - 4) TEED650N
How do children develop computational strategies to help them add and subtract? This course explores how children make sense of these operations. Through video clips and student work samples, we'll examine effective, efficient, and accurate problem-solving strategies that children can use to master addition and subtraction. We'll discuss the role of the standard algorithm in a standards-based mathematics classroom and consider the teacher's role in helping children develop computational fluency. In addition, you will examine mathematical ideas central to addition and subtraction, thereby deepening their own mathematical content knowledge.

Julie Broderick, MSEd, teaches at The School at Columbia University. Previously she taught second, third, and fifth grades at the Manhattan School for Children. She regularly teaches math classes at the Bank Street Graduate School, and she leads math workshops in elementary schools throughout the NYC area. Ms. Broderick has an M.S in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University and an MSEd in Math Leadership from Bank Street College.  She has a B.A from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.

July 12 and 14
Monday and Wednesday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1175
Materials fee $30 (includes required text)
Registration Deadline 7/5

Building Computational Fluency: Multiplication and Division (Grades 3 - 6) TEED346N
When teachers understand how children make sense of multiplication and division, you are better able to create strategies that support students in developing computational fluency. Using student work samples and video clips, you will explore how children develop meaningful, efficient, and accurate computational strategies for multiplication and division. We'll examine mathematical ideas central to multiplication and division, thereby deepening your mathematical content knowledge. Additionally, we'll analyze the role of the traditional algorithm in a standards-based elementary mathematics classroom.

Julie Broderick, MSEd, teaches at The School at Columbia University. Previously she taught second, third, and fifth grades at the Manhattan School for Children. She regularly teaches math classes at the Bank Street Graduate School, and she leads math workshops in elementary schools throughout the NYC area. Ms. Broderick has an M.S in Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University and an MSEd in Math Leadership from Bank Street College.  She has a B.A from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.

July 15 and 16
Thursday and Friday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1175
Materials fee $30 (includes required text)
Registration Deadline 7/8

Problem Solving in School Mathematics (Grades K - 8) TEWS676N
How can we teach our students to become competent and confident mathematical problem solvers? In a safe and supportive environment, participants will engage in an exploration of the following through hands-on problem solving, reflection, and discussion:

• the dispositions of successful problem solvers and how can we develop these dispositions in all students;
• creating a safe and respectful classroom environment that allows students to help each other do their best thinking and problem solving;
• problem solving strategies and processes, and how can we effectively teach them to all students;
• helping students effectively communicate and represent their mathematical solutions and reasoning; and
• engaging students in assessing their own growth and progress in mathematical problem solving.

Kathy Ernst is an advisor in the Leadership in Mathematics Education Program at Bank Street College. She has facilitated the implementation of standards-based mathematics curricula in schools throughout New York and New England, and has taught mathematical problem solving to students and teachers for almost 30 years.

July 13
Tuesday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU $265 (not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 7/6

Balanced Literacy for English Language Learners (Grades K - 6) TEWS694N
As more educators embrace a Balanced Literacy approach to reading and writing instruction, it is critical that they are equipped with strategies for making this valuable instruction accessible for linguistically diverse children. Through the use of video, live demonstration, and professional literature, this course will provide specific strategies for modifying our curriculum and delivery for optimum success with English Language Learners. This course is designed to build on the participants' knowledge base on Balanced Literacy, rather than serve as a foundational course.

Marcela Moncloa, EdM, is a literacy coach for Grades K - 4 in the Hackensack Public Schools (NJ). She also serves as a Bilingual and Second Language Education Consultant to the district. Ms. Moncloa has an EdM in Leadership for Educational Change with a focus on Special Education and an MSEd in Reading and Writing, both from Bank Street College of Education. She earned her BA in French and Spanish Language and Literature from City College, CUNY.

July 22
Thursday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
Materials fee $10
1 CEU $395 (not offered for credit)
Registration Deadline 7/15

Foundations of Balanced Literacy: The Reading Components (Grades K - 6) TEWS697N
As more school systems in the nation embrace a Balanced Literacy approach to reading and writing instruction, it is more important than ever that educators obtain clarity around its components and the best practices that make this approach so valuable in the elementary classroom. Through the use of video, live demonstration, and professional literature, this course will provide an overview of the conceptual framework of Balanced Literacy as well as the Reading instructional methodologies that support it.

Marcela Moncloa, EdM, is a literacy coach for Grades K - 4 in the Hackensack Public Schools (NJ). She also serves as a Bilingual and Second Language Education Consultant to the district. Ms. Moncloa has an EdM in Leadership for Educational Change with a focus on Special Education and an MSEd in Reading and Writing, both from Bank Street College of Education. She earned her BA in French and Spanish Language and Literature from City College, CUNY.

July 26
Monday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
Materials fee $10
1 CEU $395 (not offered for credit)
Registration Deadline 7/19

Foundations of Balanced Literacy: The Writing Components (Grades K - 6) TEWS698N
As more school systems in the nation embrace a Balanced Literacy approach to reading and writing instruction, it is more important than ever that educators obtain clarity around its components and the best practices that make this approach so valuable in the elementary classroom. Through the use of video, live demonstration, and professional literature, this course will provide an overview of the conceptual framework of Balanced Literacy as well as the Writing instructional methodologies that support it. This course is designed to complement the course Foundations of Balanced Literacy: The Reading Components, but can be taken separately.

Marcela Moncloa, EdM, is a literacy coach for Grades K - 4 in the Hackensack Public Schools (NJ). She also serves as a Bilingual and Second Language Education Consultant to the district. Ms. Moncloa has an EdM in Leadership for Educational Change with a focus on Special Education and an MSEd in Reading and Writing, both from Bank Street College of Education. She earned her BA in French and Spanish Language and Literature from City College, CUNY.

July 27
Tuesday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
Materials fee $10
1 CEU (not offered for credit)
Registration Deadline 7/20

Streamline your approach to your classroom. Make sure the lessons learned from each year of teaching inform and inspire the years that follow. Whether you are new to teaching or an experienced teacher trying to get more organized, this workshop will guide you in creating flexible, clutter-free systems that make your job less overwhelming--while helping to build classroom community. Among the topics explored in this workshop:

• Designing classroom systems that encourage student responsibility and independence;
• Creating a classroom space that suits your style, goals, and values;
• Creating planning and record-keeping systems that are flexible and adaptable;
• Balancing long-term and short-term goals.

Teachers will be provided with materials for preparing customized binder systems described in the workshop.

Shoshana Wolfe, MSEd., is the author of Your Best Year Yet! Purposeful Planning and Effective Classroom Organization (Scholastic, 2006) and is at work on a new book about reading aloud to older students. She began her classroom teaching career in 1994 and has been a head teacher at Brooklyn Friends School, Little Red School House, and Public School 89 in Battery Park City. Now the mother of two small children, she works exclusively as a private tutor in Brooklyn.  Ms. Wolfe has an MSEd from Goddard College and a BA in Theater from Skidmore College.

July 21
Wednesday, 9:30 am - 4pm
1CEU $395 (not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 7/14

Spend more time teaching and less time arbitrating! Learn the strategies and skills necessary to develop non-violent resolutions to conflict. Through small-group discussion and role plays, you will analyze the four main building blocks of conflict resolution:

• Activities that develop a strong sense of group;
• Communication skills that promote active listening, speaking, and observing;
• Exercises that increase self esteem;
• Techniques for problem solving, conflict management, negotiation, and mediation.

This course addresses NY State English Language Arts Standard E3.

Nino Nannarone is a trainer and staff developer in New York City public schools. In addition, he is an instructor in the summer Principals Academy at Teacher's College, Columbia University. He is a certified mediator with the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, NY. Previously, he was a senior trainer with Educators for Social Responsibility, was the Director of the Children's Storefront in Harlem, NY, and taught in the New York City public schools for 10 years.

August 2 and 3
Monday and Tuesday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1175
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 7/26

Routines, rules, and transitions may be thought of as providing the framework for the daily life of the classroom. The way in which they are constructed and carried out strongly affects the social, moral, and academic atmosphere in the setting. What does democracy mean in relation to routines, rules and transitions? How can children have a voice in determining them? The ultimate goal is not simply to create order but also to encourage the development of  both autonomy and a caring community. Topics to be considered are views of the nature of the child, developmental appropriateness, flexibility, the meaning of resistance, and how routines and transitions relate to academic learning and the various curriculum areas, particularly social studies. Teachers will examine and analyze the structures in their own and each others≠ classrooms. 

Ann Hurwitz, MA, is a retired faculty member from the Graduate School at Bank Street. She has been an adjunct at both Borough of Manhattan and Kingsborough Community College She taught children from age three through ten for many years and directed early childhood programs in the Bronx and Manhattan. Ms. Hurwitz received her MA from Teachers College in Early Childhood, and her BA from Columbia (School of General Studies) in Philosophy/Sociology.

July 20th
Tuesday, 9:30 - 4 pm
.6 CEU $265 (not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 7/13

This course offers the opportunity to examine a wide selection of recently published children's books in order to develop and refine your selection criteria. We will identify key developmental themes and discuss how to incorporate them into the language arts class and interdisciplinary studies. New books from the Bank Street Bookstore will be available for review. For librarians, teachers, and reading specialists.

Lisa Von Drasek, MLIS, is the Children's Librarian at Bank Street College of Education and serves as the children's literature specialist for children, parents, faculty, and graduate students. She wrote and edited the New York State Summer Reading Manual Discover 2000 Read and, in 1999, was named a Library of Congress American Memory Fellow. In addition, she served on the 2003 Newbery Committee. Ms. Von Dresek earned an MLIS from Pratt Institute, her BS is from Skidmore College. In addition, she has taken post-graduate courses at Bank Street College.

July 6 and 8
Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
1 CEU $395/ 1 credit $1175
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 6/29

This workshop is designed to teach educators a unique, engaging, and effective program that helps early learners in both regular and special education classes acquire phonemic awareness, listening, early literacy, vocabulary, and articulation skills through the use of body movements. The program has been shown to be beneficial to children who are English Language Learners, and students who qualify for Title 1 schools. Attendees will learn body movements for 40 phonemes, along with techniques for teaching developmental listening and language skills.

Frances Santore, MA, CCC-SLP has been a Speech-Language Pathologist for over 40 years, and has devoted most of her career to working with children who have communication disorders. Mrs. Santore has lectured and published primarily in the area of developing auditory perception in children and adults. She is a speech-language pathologist at the Horace Mann School in Riverdale , NY, and is the creator of the SOUNDS IN MOTION Program.

August 4
Wednesday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU $265 (not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 7/28

This workshop is geared towards professionals considering SEIT work and those who have been SEIT's for the past couple years. Topics to be discussed include; what is a SEIT's schedule like, the perks and downfalls of SEIT work, interacting with The Board of Education, negotiating your relationship with the classroom teacher, is SEIT right for every child, and working at home with a child versus working in a classroom setting. At the end of this workshop, current SEITs will be better prepared for the coming school year, and you will understand whether this kind of work is right for you.

Pamela Wheeler-Civita has been a SEIT with the Bank Street Home and Community Based Program for the past three years. She was a mixed-aged classroom teacher for four years prior to that, at the Bank Street Family Center. She is a traveling teacher in Manhattan, Westchester, and Putnam County.

June 30
Monday, 5 - 8 pm
.3 CEU $160 (not offered for credit)
Materials fee $10
Registration Deadline 6/23

This workshop will explore the complex dynamics of working as a team in an early childhood classroom. Head you will learn techniques for building a strong, dynamic teaching team; how to be an effective mentor; how to work collaboratively; and how to delegate responsibilities. We will discuss techniques that create the successful teamwork that benefits both children and teachers.

Jean Schreiber, MSEd, is an early childhood educational consultant who, for over two decades, has developed and directed early childhood programs and parenting centers. She earned her MS in Early Childhood Education from Bank Street College of Education where she is an instructor in the Continuing Professional Studies Program. She was honored to be a Featured Speaker at the 2009 NAEYC annual conference in Washington, DC. Ms. Schreiber serves as a consultant to a wide variety of early childhood and elementary school programs and provides guidance to parents in both individual and group settings.

July 19
Monday, 9:30 am - 4 pm
.6 CEU $265 (not offered for credit)
Materials fee $15
Registration Deadline 7/12