Culture and Language in TK Supporting Teachers, Families and Children May 21, 2013 Agenda Policy Update – Deborah Kong, Vice President of Policy and Operations, Early Edge.
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Culture and Language in TK Supporting Teachers, Families and Children May 21, 2013 1 2 Agenda Policy Update – Deborah Kong, Vice President of Policy and Operations, Early Edge California Communications Update – Molly Tafoya, Senior Communications Manager, Early Edge California Transitional Kindergarten Presentation : “Culture and Language in TK: Supporting Teachers, Families and Children, Pt. 2” – Cheri Reaves, Consultant in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Raji Musinipally, Coordinator in Educational Services Division, Oak Grove School District, and Dorene Williams, Transitional Kindergarten Practitioner, Oak Grove School District. Q&A –Please email all questions to Meredyth González to [email protected] Next Call : June 18, 3:30-4:30pm 3 Policy Update Deborah Kong, Vice President of Policy and Operations, Early Edge California Questions? Email [email protected] 4 Communications Update Molly Tafoya, Senior Communications Manager, Early Edge California Questions? Email [email protected] 5 Support healthy Brain development of young learners through culturally responsive and relevant teaching and learning experiences. ACCESS POINTS Questions? Email [email protected] 6 Culturally Responsive and Relevant Teaching and Learning (CRRTL) Role of the Classroom Teacher: Teacher, learner, and child advocate responsible for making knowledge accessible in a variety of ways to young learners. Role of the Parent/Family: Home teacher, learner, child advocate and partner to the classroom teacher in the education of their child. Parent cultivates child’s cultural linguistic capital through family-child experiences. Role of the Child: Engaged learner, valued contributor to his/her learning process, teacher of educators and peers about his/her language and culture. Questions? Email [email protected] 7 Children arrive at school with backpacks filled with rich cultural capital. Questions? Email [email protected] 8 Cultural Capital Questions? Email [email protected] 9 Children learn a lot from their families. Questions? Email [email protected] 10 Every child’s backpack has a wealth of cultural resources and learning and teaching tools Questions? Email [email protected] 11 Home languages = Love Languages Questions? Email [email protected] 12 Create access points for children and families in the learning environment ACCESS POINTS Alignment of Cultural Context through Engagement, Structure and Support Play Oral Interest Nurturance Touch Story Questions? Email [email protected] 13 Play ACCESS POINT Questions? Email [email protected] 14 Oral Access POINTS TK Classroom Questions? Email [email protected] 15 Oral Access POINTS Kindergarten Classroom Questions? Email [email protected] 16 Interest Access POINTS Questions? Email [email protected] 17 Nurturance ACCESS POINTS Questions? Email [email protected] 18 Touch ACCESS POINTS Questions? Email [email protected] 19 Story Access POINTS Questions? Email [email protected] 20 Alignment of Cultural Context through Engagement, Structure and Support ACCESS Play Oral Interest Nurturance Touch Story Questions? Email [email protected] 21 Support Academic Language development TK classroom Questions? Email [email protected] 22 Support Academic Language development Kindergarten classroom Questions? Email [email protected] 23 Support home language with picture-writing and storytelling. Bridge young learners to academic language using their cultural capital. Questions? Email [email protected] 24 Literature in the TK Classroom Questions? Email [email protected] 25 Developmentally Appropriate Literacy support through CRRTL TK Classroom Kindergarten Classroom Questions? Email [email protected] 26 Developmentally Appropriate Literacy support through CRRTL Think Pair Share Call and Response Songs Storytelling Picture stories Art Questions? Email [email protected] 27 SEL and ELL Learners Standard English Learners and English Language Learners Questions? Email [email protected] 28 Bridge SEL and ELL to Academic English Questions? Email [email protected] 29 Purposeful implementation of CRRTL = Continuity of rich learning experiences in TK and Kindergarten TK Classroom Kindergarten Classroom Questions? Email [email protected] 30 Create a welcoming classroom culture by co-constructing the learning environment with children and families to reflect their strengths. Questions? Email [email protected] 31 Partner with families to bring children’s home cultural experiences into the learning environment in a purposeful way. Questions? Email [email protected] 32 Create TK and Kindergarten partnerships Questions? Email [email protected] 33 Create a school culture where all children thrive. Develop strong CRRTL school districts. Questions? Email [email protected] 34 Culture and Language in TK: Supporting Teachers, Families and Children Part 2 Cheri Reaves, Consultant, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Faculty, San Jose State University Raji Musinipally, Coordinator for Educational Services Division, Oak Grove School District Dorene Willams, TK Teacher, Santa Teresa School, Oak Grove School District