Olivia Mulcahy
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Storytelling for Strong Communities
Webinar & Asynchronous Learning ActivitiesRegister Now Date: Friday, February 18, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: Two (live session only - Part A) and Three (optional reflection/application - Part B) Event ID: 225503031 Storytelling for Strong Communities Telling our stories is powerful. It helps us learn about ourselves. It helps us connect with others. It helps us process ideas and make meaning of the world. Participants are invited to engage in a live online session and asynchronous learning activities in which we will: Explore community writing, book making, poetry and story slams, and other ways to create spaces for sharing stories in [...]
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Translanguaging in Schools: Taking A Dynamic Approach to Biliteracy in the Dual Language Classroom
Webinar & Asynchronous Learning ActivitiesRegister Now Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: Two (live session only - Part A) and Three (optional reflection/application - Part B) Event ID: 225503032 Translanguaging in Schools: Taking A Dynamic Approach to Biliteracy in the Dual Language Classroom Dynamic bilingualism and translanguaging refer to the fluid language practices that are common and natural in bilingual communities. Dual language programs can embrace dynamic bilingualism and include translanguaging practices as part of their strategic use of languages to support multilingual learners’ academics, affirm their bilingual identities, and deepen their biliteracy. Explore the concepts: What is [...]
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Translanguaging in Schools: Taking a Dynamic Approach to Help Bilingual Kids Bloom in Any Classroom
Webinar & Asynchronous Learning ActivitiesRegister Now Date: Thursday, May 5, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: Two (live session only - Part A) and Three (optional reflection/application - Part B) Event ID: 225503033 Translanguaging in Schools: Taking a Dynamic Approach to Help Bilingual Kids Bloom in Any Classroom Together we will explore, brainstorm and plan for supports to help bilingual learners flourish: The languages and cultures of all of our students are not always visible and audible in the learning environment--let’s explore ways to create a more lush multilingual & multicultural ecology in our schools so everyone’s learning is enriched! The knowledge [...]
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Who Cares? Centering Care in Our School Culture and Curriculum
Webinar & Asynchronous Learning ActivitiesRegister Now Date: Sunday, May 15, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: Two (live session only - Part A) and Three (optional reflection/application - Part B) Event ID: 225503034 Who Cares? Centering Care in Our School Culture and Curriculum How we define and enact care in our school communities is critical if we truly expect our students to thrive and find success. Together we will: Consider what it means, looks like, and sounds like to firmly center care in schools Explore the realms of social emotional learning, discipline and safety, trauma-informed practice, as well as curriculum and instruction [...]
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Welcoming & Well-being: Co-Cultivating a Healthy Multilingual Classroom Culture
WebinarRegister Now Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503003 Welcoming & Well-being: Co-Cultivating a Healthy Multilingual Classroom Culture Explore approaches, activities, and tools for the beginning of the school year to: Collectively develop classroom agreements to promote healthy interactions and collaboration Embrace community practices that affirm and sustain all your students’ identities and ways of knowing Create a vibrant multilingual ecology that reflects and nurtures all the languages of your community Listen to and leverage the translanguaging corriente of your classroom TARGET AUDIENCE: K-12 Educators
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Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
WebinarRegister Now Date: Sunday, August 28, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503004 Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice Are you a teacher who enjoys writing? Are you a writing teacher who wants to explore your own writing process? Are you an educator craving creative space where you can connect, generate, and share ideas with a community of colleagues? Are you hungry for ideas and inspiration to enhance teaching and learning in your culturally and linguistically diverse classroom? Join us for one, some, or all of the Free Write [...]
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Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
WebinarRegister Now Date: Sunday, September 25, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503005 Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice Are you a teacher who enjoys writing? Are you a writing teacher who wants to explore your own writing process? Are you an educator craving creative space where you can connect, generate, and share ideas with a community of colleagues? Are you hungry for ideas and inspiration to enhance teaching and learning in your culturally and linguistically diverse classroom? Join us for one, some, or all of the Free Write [...]
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Flujo and Flow: Writing the Translanguaging Corriente
WebinarRegister Now Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503006 Flujo and Flow: Writing the Translanguaging Corriente “We use the metaphor of the translanguaging corriente to refer to the current or flow of students’ dynamic bilingualism that runs through our classrooms and schools. Bilingual students make use of the translanguaging corriente, either overtly or covertly, to learn content and language in school and to make sense of their complex worlds and identities.” With this metaphor from Ibarra-Johnson, Garcia, Seltzer (The Translanguaging Classroom, 2017) in mind, we will focus in on how [...]
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Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice
WebinarRegister Now Date: Sunday, October 30, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 2 hours Event ID: 235503007 Free Write: Conversations, Connections & Compositions to Nourish Our Teaching Practice Are you a teacher who enjoys writing? Are you a writing teacher who wants to explore your own writing process? Are you an educator craving creative space where you can connect, generate, and share ideas with a community of colleagues? Are you hungry for ideas and inspiration to enhance teaching and learning in your culturally and linguistically diverse classroom? Join us for one, some, or all of the Free Write [...]
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Supportive Space: Workshopping Your Free Writing
Webinar & Asynchronous Learning ActivitiesRegister Now Date: Sunday, November 6, 2022 Presenter: Olivia Mulcahy ECPD Credit Hours: 3 hours Event ID: 235503036 Supportive Space: Workshopping Your Free Writing Have you participated in one, some, or all of the Free Write sessions so far? Do you want some protected time and space to continue your writing? Are you interested in contributing to an IRC collection of teacher writing? This session is a virtual space for you to meet up with the Free Write series facilitator, Olivia Mulcahy, and other “free writing” teachers to: Continue your piece of writing quietly, but with supportive peers at [...]
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