Avoid Summertime Burnout
2023-06-22 | NY
Summer burnout is a real thing! Although it’s sunny, warm, and fun in the summer, some of us experience summer burnout. Have you or your staff been experiencing exhaustion, lack of motivation, poor performance, negative attitudes, or absenteeism? These are classic examples of burnout. This seminar will:

Help identify burnout in yourself and others
Provides strategies to decrease and/or eliminate summer burnout
Ways to be proactive to avoid burnout

This is a virtual event held on Zoom. The Zoom link will be available to you through email and on this page after you register.

Webinar: Infusing SEL through Literacy
2023-05-31, 2022-11-22
How can you foster SEL through Literacy? This workshop will teach you how to blend SEL and Literacy for students with various emotional needs. Participants will learn how to develop SEL skills through literacy activities. This workshop is designed for educators who want to be better prepared to support the needs of their students in in-person classes, remote or hybrid learning environments.

Webinar: Lesson Planning
2023-05-24
What is effective lesson planning? This workshop will teach you how to create lesson plans that support students with various learning needs. Participants will learn how to create well-constructed lesson plans that engage students and facilitate learning. This workshop is designed for educators who want to be better prepared to support the needs of their students in in-person classes, remote or hybrid learning environments.

Webinar: Creating Comics for Creativity, Entrepreneurship & Literacy
2023-05-19
One of the best pathways to literacy, creativity, and self-discovery is through a focus on entrepreneurship, where youths plan, develop, and even launch original businesses (comic book companies, music record labels, slam poetry festivals, and more). This workshop highlights the relationship between literacy and entrepreneurship through practical strategies for youth-generated businesses. This includes reading for background research, writing business and marketing plans, developing marketing tools and social media plans, and summarizing the results of a campaign. Dr. Bitz will present no-cost literacy-based entrepreneurship activities and strategies that programs can implement as clubs. Mr. Jade, a former participant in Dr. Bitz’s Youth Music Exchange and now a professional musician and artist, will share his personal experiences as an entrepreneur, self-promoter, and working artist and musician.

Webinar: Classroom Management
2023-05-10, 2022-12-01
What is good classroom management? This workshop will teach you how to establish and sustain an orderly classroom environment. Participants will learn how to create an inclusive environment that fosters appropriate academic behavior and encourages student leadership. This workshop is designed for educators who want to be better prepared to support the needs of their students in in-person classes, remote or hybrid learning environments.

Webinar: Differentiated Lessons for Multilingual Learners
2023-05-05
How can you adapt lessons for Multilingual Learners? This workshop will teach you how to make sure that all the students in your class are capable of completing the tasks you have assigned them. Come learn how to understand the different levels of literacy of your students and how to plan lessons that take that into account. This webinar is designed for educators who serve multilingual learners and want to be better prepared to support their unique learning needs.

Webinar: Identifying and Supporting Multilingual Learners
2023-04-28
Who are the Multilingual Learners and how can you support them? This workshop will teach you how English Language Learners are identified in NYC and how you can support them. Come learn how diverse their background is and some important concepts of second language acquisition. This workshop is designed for educators who serve English Language Learners and want to be better prepared to support their unique learning needs.

Webinar: Scaffolding Literacy for Struggling Learners
2023-04-26, 2022-12-13
What can you do to help students who are falling behind in literacy skills? In this workshop, you will learn a variety of instructional techniques that you can use to support your students’ learning process. You will receive a toolkit that you can use to support students in grades K-8. This workshop is designed for educators who want to expand their knowledge on how to foster literacy.

Webinar: Creating Comics for Literacy, Creativity and Youth Development
2023-04-19
This workshop presents skills and strategies for helping youths to write, design, and publish original comic books. Based on over two decades of work with the Comic Book Project, Dr. Bitz will highlight comic books created by youths as examples of the power of comics as learning and motivational tools. Through examples of his own work, Mr. Anderson will highlight the ways in which instructors can inspire youths to plan, write, and design their comics. The workshop will cover a framework for creating comics and provide participants with no-cost, web-based resources that can help them lead their own comic book clubs, either in person or online.

Pathways Fellowship - Trauma-Informed and Healing Centered Practice
2023-03-18
Attendees will learn the effects of trauma on youth and youth development workers. Strategies for integrating healing practices into youth development work will be offered.

STEM Educators Academy: Culturally Relevant STEM "201"
2023-03-14
Dig deeper into how STEM activities can investigate inequities in our society. Learn alongside our partners at the New York Hall of Science as they explore the ways that race, socioeconomic status, and other factors show up in STEM.

Pathways Fellowship - Self and Community Care for Youth Workers
2023-02-20
Attendees will learn the importance of self-care for people who serve others. Being well and full is a necessity, especially when engaging in positive youth development. The practice of care can extend to the communities you serve. This session will define what is meant by self- and community- care and give strategies to use to balance life and work responsibilities.

STEM Educators Academy: Culturally- Relevant STEM "101"
2023-02-15
Learn alongside our ExpandED Schools team as we highlight examples of lessons that reflect a wide range of diverse people who have contributed to STEM and activities that are related to the lived experiences of the youth in our programs.

We The Youth
2023-02-07
An opportunity to hear and learn from the youth of today, to inform and deepen our approach to creating leaders of tomorrow.
This is a virtual event held on Zoom. The Zoom link will be available to you through email and on this page after you register.

SEL Data Analysis Best Practices
2023-01-24
Learning the benefits of analyzing SEL data to enhance afterschool programming.
This is a virtual event held on Zoom. The Zoom link will be available to you through email and on this page after you register.

Trauma Informed Learning
2023-01-10
Learn the effects of trauma on youth and families and how to integrate supportive and healing practices within a school community.
This is a virtual event held on Zoom. The Zoom link will be available to you through email and on this page after you register.

Educator Series - Session 3: Differentiating Instruction with E-tools (Webinar)
2022-12-16
What does differentiated instruction look like in your class? This workshop will teach you how to use e-learning tools to differentiate instruction. This workshop will teach you about strategies you can use to differentiate instruction and how e-learning tools can be used to support it. You will learn how to select strategies and e-learning tools based on your students’ needs. This workshop is designed for educators who want to be better prepared to use technology in in-person classes and meet the needs of students in remote or hybrid learning environments.

Relationship Building
2022-12-15
Learning to engage students and create a positive SEL-friendly environment through techniques of relationship building.
This is a virtual event held on Zoom. The Zoom link will be available to you through email and on this page after you register.

Webinar: Creating Comics for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
2022-12-12
Social and emotional learning (SEL) helps youths understand how to set and achieve positive goals, establish positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. This workshop presents SEL learning in the context of youth-developed comic books. Dr. Bitz and Dr. Mulholland, who have been working together for over 10 years, will present the SEL framework developed by Sanford Harmony, a no-cost SEL program. Then they will highlight tools and strategies that promote SEL through the process of writing, designing, and publishing comic books. The workshop will provide participants with no-cost, web-based resources that can help them lead their own comic book clubs with a focus on social and emotional learning.

Educator Series - Session 2: Teaching with Padlet (Webinar)
2022-12-09
What does brainstorming and collaboration look like in your class? This workshop will teach you how to use e-tools for student collaboration. Participants will learn how to create and add collaboration tasks to their lesson plans using Padlet. This workshop is designed for educators who want to be better prepared to use technology in in-person classes and meet the needs of students in remote or hybrid learning environments.

Webinar: Building Literacy in STEM Activities
2022-12-08
Is there room for literacy in STEM activities? The answer is yes! In this workshop, you will learn how to include literacy strategies in STEM lessons. Participants will leave with completed lesson plans for their club or activity that feature high-impact literacy-infused learning! This workshop is designed for everyone interested in learning more about literacy strategies that work in STEM activities.

Purpose, Not Power: Culturally-Relevant Behavior Management
2022-12-07
Learn how to proactively set students up for success, defuse potentially disruptive situations, and use collaborative and inclusive techniques to promote joyful engagement. The session uses a lens of social and emotional learning and social justice.
This is a virtual event held on Zoom. The Zoom link will be available to you through email and on this page after you register.

Webinar: Infusing Literacy into Clubs
2022-12-06
Did you know that any afterschool club can also feature powerful literacy learning? If you didn’t, now you do! Attend this workshop to learn how to infuse literacy (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) into any club or activity at your program. Participants will learn about strategies such as paired texts, writing for multiple purposes, purposeful discussion, critical questioning, and more. Participants will leave with completed lesson plans for their club or activity that feature high-impact literacy-infused learning! This workshop is designed for everyone interested in learning more about literacy strategies that work across different programs and clubs.

Educator Series - Session 1: Teaching with Kahoot (Webinar)
2022-12-02
Who said that learning couldn’t be fun? This workshop will teach you how to use Kahoot to create online games that increase engagement and learning. Participants will learn how to create games aligned with learning goals. You will also learn how those games can improve student learning and boost literacy skills. This workshop is designed for educators who want to be better prepared to use technology in in-person classes and meet the needs of students in remote or hybrid learning environments.

Educator Series - Session 4: Strategies for Building Background for Multilingual Learners (Webinar)
2022-11-30
Have your multilingual learners ever looked like they simply had no idea about what you were talking about? Come learn how you can make learning easier for your students. In this webinar, you will learn concepts of second language acquisition and strategies you can use to help build background for your students. You will receive a toolkit with strategies that you can use to build background whenever introducing new topics for your students. This webinar is designed for educators who serve multilingual learners and want to be better prepared to support their unique learning needs.

Collaborating with Youth in your STEM Program
2022-11-29
Wondering how you can share decision-making power with youth in your STEM programming? In this session, we will explore techniques to support authentic collaborations with young people and strategies that make more space for youth voice and participation.
This will be an in-person event held at ExpandED Schools Office:
11 West 42nd Street, 3rd Floor,
New York, NY 10036

Educator Series - Session 3: Creating Comics for English Language Learners (Webinar)
2022-11-16
Comic books have a powerful potential to help English language learners (ELLs) become more adept at reading and writing in English, and more engaged in books and reading in general. This workshop brings together Dr. Bitz and Dr. Leathers, who have worked together in numerous literacy-based environments, to present a workshop focused on the process and results of comics created by ELLs. The workshop establishes guidelines and a framework for working with ELLs, and the presenters introduce skills and strategies for helping youths to plan, write, design, and publish original comic books with a focus on English acquisition. The workshop will provide participants with no-cost, web-based resources that can help them lead their own comic book clubs with additional supports for English language learners.
