Happy Wednesday and Intersession week Klahanie families!
Thank you for fantastic conferences, some really wonderful inquiries and discussions with reflections recorded for our staff and some wonderfully thoughtful ideas percolating on, thank you! Please keep communications flowing as we enter the special winter months together.
Friendly Reminders:
* Back to school Monday December 2
* Submit Thriftway Receipts for our ongoing fundraiser: writing name and phone # at the top.
* Help in the Winter Bake Sale
* Please spread the word we have a spot open in our current 2024-25 school year multiage class for a 3-4yr old friend. Thank you for the help spreading the word!
* Below are some great resources to enjoy, a workshop centering on tricky transition times with children and best support ideas in those moments with Dr. Goloway “Imagine: Transforming Routines and Transitions from Beastly to Beautiful.”
There is also an upcoming parent education evening December 11th through Vashon Youth and Family Services with Amy Lang, a wonderful local educator with information and a link to sign up below.
And finally, if you are seeking some great Thanksgiving time and resources on Indigenous honoring focus, as well as ideas for finding books over the holidays to order, please enjoy what we in class utilize frequently through Teaching for Change organization and resources, affiliated with the Zinn Foundation educating from the voices of the people. Enjoy!
Gratitude for you all and the gems found in life moments each day alongside your incredible young learners, and the fabulous co-teachers/interns who give such love and intuitive knowledge how equity of care sincerely looks and feels like. Celebrations of the kindness and respect we build together, moving towards peace in this fantastic Klahanie School habitat.
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Dr. Goloway presenting: “Imagine: Transforming Routines and Transitions from Beastly to Beautiful”
Deborah Thurber
Early Learning Professional
Owner – All Children of the World
EWFCCA President
Playful Learning Crusader
Scholar of Care Ethics
Provider Advocate & Mentor
509-926-6144
……………………………………………………………………………………………..VYFS is bringing to the Vashon community of parents and educators.
If you’d like to share with others, please do. If you’d like to attend, sign up at the link below.
A sexual health educator for over 27 years, Amy Lang, MA combined her expertise in adult education and sexual health and started Birds & Bees & Kids in 2006. Her mission is to help parents become their kid’s first and best resource for just about everything related to sexuality.
Zoom link:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscOCvqTooGdFU6VCuXlrqZ8pQmTHJzT-w
HOW TO KEEP KIDS SAFER ONLINE
Parents will learn:
Simple, low-tech things you can do to keep kids safer online
The influence of pornography and what to say
Why monitoring and filtering are so important
How sex talks keep your kids safer online
ONLINE
Wednesday, December 11th
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Interpretación en español proporcionada
About Amy Lang, MA
Award-winning author and speaker Amy Lang helps parents of all beliefs turn conversations they dread into a regular (and fun) part of their family lives. Learn more about Amy here.
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| View as Webpage Native American Heritage MonthFor Native American Heritage Month, and all year long, we offer recommended books for pre-K–12 that challenge stereotypes and focus on contemporary Native Americans. Our list is drawn from books recommended by Debbie Reese of American Indians in Children’s Literature. BooklistBanned Books ButtonsWear Teach Banned Books buttons — and share them with your friends — to prompt conversations about the need to actively oppose book bans, teach truthfully, and defend LGBTQ+ rights. Your donation supports the Zinn Education Project’s efforts to provide free people’s history lessons to teach outside the textbook.Donate for Buttons Shop Indie Bookstores Teaching for Change staff and board encourage everyone to support indie bookstores and public libraries.Most of the titles at Social Justice Books are linked to Bookshop.org, an indie bookstore platform. When you find a book there, please purchase from the link we provide. A small percentage from sales through these links — or the purchase of bookshop.org gift cards — goes to Teaching for Change to sustain Social Justice Books selection, reviews, outreach, and more. Our thanks to everyone who purchases books via our Bookshop store. Purchases are private, so we don’t see your names. But your commitment makes a difference. Feel free to let us know if you order from our Bookshop store so we can thank you personally.Social Justice Books Online Bookstore Donate Indigenous Boarding SchoolsDebbie Reese (Nambé Owingeh), of American Indians in Children’s Literature, offered a workshop for educators on Native-focused classroom lessons, resources, and children’s literature on the legacy of Indigenous boarding schools. The workshop was part of the 2023 Native Knowledge 360° Teach-In hosted by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and Teaching for Change. Reese highlighted the importance of using books written by First Nations people, such as the two featured below.View WorkshopComing Home: A Hopi Resistance StoryI Am Not a Number Social Justice Books in the NewsTeaching for Change’s Social Justice Books program was invited to recommend books to accompany an EdTrust article by Sabrina Wesley-Nero on children’s literature. Wesley-Nero noted, “When curriculum and pedagogy are carefully constructed, the most powerful mirrors can magnify, helping students see and define themselves and their communities while gaining a sense of self that transcends time.” The books we recommended include the ones pictured below, and Milo’s Museum.Continue ReadingThat FlagThe Women Who Caught the BabiesMan Up! New EditionIn the face of the increased threats of climate emergencies, deportations, curriculum censorship, and more — young people need to learn skills for organizing and challenging repression. The grassroots history of the Civil Rights Movement provides vital stories of everyday people organizing and working together for social change. This new edition of Teaching for Change’s book Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching and companion website offer free lessons and other resources.Learn More and Buy Book Banned Books ButtonsWear Teach Banned Books buttons — and share them with your friends — to prompt conversations about the need to actively oppose book bans, teach truthfully, and defend LGBTQ+ rights. Your donation supports the Zinn Education Project’s efforts to provide free people’s history lessons to teach outside the textbook.Donate for Buttons |
| Partnership With the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American IndianThis fall we introduced hundreds of teachers to resources from the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) with in-person and online teach-ins. In September, teachers explored the museum exhibits and participated in hands-on workshops. In November, educators across the country engaged in online workshops on resources from Native Knowledge 360°, the Zinn Education Project, and Teaching Central America. This is our 8th annual partnership with NMAI on the teach-ins and Teaching for Change’s 35th anniversary year. Teaching for Change is a responsive, nimble, and powerful organization. They help us in our work and in our future, too, because they listen to teachers and build relationships. They’re a model on how to stay grounded in practice while seeking social justice and change.— Renée Gokey, Teacher Services Coordinator, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American IndianTogether, these events support our mission to amplify voices and histories often missing from textbooks, empowering teachers with resources to inspire students to question, learn, and build a more equitable society.In-Person EventOnline Event Featured Lessons & ResourcesNECESSITY: A Documentary Series on Climate ResistanceLearn MoreTeaching Indigenous Central AmericaLearn More American Indians BooklistBooklist Native Knowledge 360° WebsiteImage above is from the new lesson, The “First Thanksgiving”: How Can We Tell a Better Story?Native Knowledge 360°, by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, provides educational materials, virtual student programs, and teacher training that incorporate Native narratives, more comprehensive histories, and accurate information to enlighten and inform teaching and learning about Native America.Learn More Donate We are a Spur Local Critical Nonprofit, and we received the 2024 Guidestar Platinum Award for Transparency. Are you a federal employee? Donate to our Combined Federal Campaign #25947 |
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