Laura Gilchrist, (@LauraGilchrist4) Vice President of ParentCamp (@ParentCamp) shares a few words to welcome you to the experience on Monday, October 26th starting at 1:30 pm.
Date: Monday, October 26th
Time: 1:30 pm ET/12:30 pm CT/11:30 am MT/10:30 am PT
Please plan to arrive by 1:25 pm ET/12:25 pm CT/11:25 pm MT/9:25 pm PT so that we can honor everyone’s time. The event WILL NOT be recorded, so you want to make sure you do not miss it!
Flow for the day:
Your guide for Radical Family Engagement Week, Dr. Melissa Brodowski
1:30 pm ET – Welcome to Radical Family Engagement Week with Melissa Brodowski who will be your guide for the entire week.
1:30 pm ET – Welcome Dr. Debbie Burgeron (@OHS_Director) – Director, Office of Head Start (OHS) (@HeadStartgov) and Early Childhood Development (ECD) (@ECDgov)
1:35 pm ET – Welcome Ruth Ryder – Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Policy and Programs – Formula Grants in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
1:40 pm ET – Explanation of how we ParentCamp! Laura Gilchrist (@LauraGilchrist4), Vice-President, ParentCamp and Julie Pile (@juliepile), President, ParentCamp
1:50 pm ET – Session 1 – Use the Breakout Room options to start one room, feel free to visit multiple rooms!
2:35 pm ET – Half way message to let you know if you wish to change rooms, it is ok!
So here we go….your sessions to choose from….thank you to all of our amazing facilitators! Please click on the links below their images to learn more about them…we guarantee you will want to connect with them! Remember…you can visit as many are as few of rooms which you like. Virtual ParentCamp is about you as a learner, leader and connector! Engage! This experience is all about YOU!
Room 1 – Innovative Early Learning Strategies at Home
Facilitator: Tabatha Rosproy (@TabathaRosproy), 2020 National Teacher of the Year with us this week! Tabatha has been a supporter of Virtual ParentCamp since the beginning and we are thrilled she could join us. Watch a video of Tabatha talking about her experience at Virtual ParentCamp.
The Little Vikes preschool program at Cumbernauld Village in Winfield was thrust in the national spotlight after its teacher, Tabatha Rosproy, was named National Teacher of the Year. A wonderful accomplishment and recognition for the value of this program. Watch this video of the residents talking about and interacting with the kids.
Room 2 – Parents as Talent Developers
Facilitators: Dr. Sheilah Jefferson-Isaac (@7dreamkeepers) and Dr. Brenda Williams Harewood (co-author) (@docbwilliams) lead a discussion of Parents as Talent Developers. Don’t worry – you don’t have to read the book first.
“This book give minority parents (African American, Latino) the tools they need to help their children perform much better in school. Kernels are seeds in the plant world. The kernels on an ear of corn are the seeds needed to grow the next generation of corn. We use this term in the sense that each parental practice that we highlight in this book should be viewed as a seed for a child’s academic growth.”
As a special treat…if you would like to continue these conversations, join the Parent as Talent Developers Voxer Book Chat. Voxer is a free app available on many devices which allows for asynchronous communication. It is another great way to connect with people across the nation. Sign-up for the book chat by Monday, November 9th from the events page on the ParentCamp website.
Watch this video of Doc Brenda talking about her experience at Virtual ParentCamp.
Room 3 – Supporting Foster, Kinship and Adoptive Families
Facilitator: Dr. Kelly Henderson, Executive Director, Formed Families Forward (@FormedFamilies)
This will be a great session to share experiences and resources of Kelly and others in the room. We know there are so many families being formed due to necessities. Thank you for stepping up for children, now it is your turn to be supported. Kelly’s family is formed in part through public foster care and adoption. Her children have a range of learning, behavioral and cognitive disabilities for which they have received early intervention, special education and related services.
Room 4 – Navigating Special Education
Facilitator: Carmen Sanchez (@car_ma_sanchez), Education Specialist at the US Department of Education (@usedgov), Office of Special Education Programs and is an Advocate for Families.
Room 5 – Equity for our Youngest Learners and Families
Facilitator: Duncan Kirkwood (@DuncanKirwood) is a veteran, author, speaker and a social justice and education advocate. He recently wrote Rerouting: Resilience Tools and Tactics
Duncan has been teaching adults AND kids about how to accomplish your goals and reach your intended destination regardless of obstacles through resilience. He is a favorite of Virtual ParentCamp attendees and has honored us by leading collaborative discussions in our equity room series for a number of weeks.
Room 6 – Engaging Fathers
Facilitator: Terris Todd, Executive Director for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans (@AfAmEducation), US Department of Education (@usedgov)
Terris Todd is the newly appointed Executive Director for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. He comes from Battle Creek, Michigan, where he lives with his wife and three daughters.
Room 7 – Families as Partners in Social-Emotional Learning
Facilitator: Dr. Neal Horen, Director of the Georgetown University’s Early Childhood Division at the Center for Child and Human Development (@GUUCEDD) and the Director of the HOYA clinic in the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Horen is the leader in the fiend of early childhood mental health and will lead discussion of families being partners in supporting children during this most unusual times.
Room 8 – The Aftercare-Childcare Part of the Puzzle
Facilitator: Sarah Shaw, Program Coordinator, South Carolina Childcare Inclusion Collaborative, The University of South Carolina (@UofSC), Child Development Research Center
Room 9 – Health and Well-Being in the time of COVID
Facilitator: Dr. Mohamed Soliman, Education Program Specialist, US Department of Education (@usedgov), Office of Special Education Programs, Monitoring and State Improvement Planning Division
Room 10 – Supporting our English Language Learner (ELL) Families
Facilitator: Dr. Alecia B. Walters, Education Program Specialist, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (@ED_Sped_Rehab), US Department of Education (@usedgov), Office of Special Education Programs
Room 11 – Mental Health and Resilience
Facilitator: Dr. Martha Okafor, Regional Administrator, Administration for Children and Families (@ACFHHS) within the US Department of Health and Human Services (@HHSGov)
Will lead a wonderful discussion centering around mental health and resilience. These are our most requested topics at Virtual ParentCamp!