PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Professional development workshops are offered for teachers, camp counselors, clergy, mental health professionals and others in helping fields that would like to incorporate expressive writing in their service work. Self-care expressive writing workshops are also offered to support the professional development of those who work in helping fields. I tailor each workshop to the particular interests and goals of the professionals I work with.

 

Examples of past workshops:

 

Giving Voice to Refugee and Immigrant Experience

for teachers of ELL students

 

From Language Arts to Phys. Ed and Everything in Between:

The How’s and Why’s of Incorporating Poetry Across the Curriculum

for elementary school teachers in every field

 

Integrating Poetry in Social Studies for Grades K-12

for poets-in-residence working through a state-wide organization

 

Poetry from Nature’s Perspective:

Incorporating Nature-based Poetry Across the Curriculum

for K-12 educators through a back yard nature advocacy organization

 

Integrating Poetry Across the 3rd Grade Curriculum

for 3rd grade teaching team

 

Integrating Poetry into Middle School Social Studies and Science Curriculum

for 7th and 8th grade teaching team

 

Teaching Creative Writing to Young Writers

panel chair and presenter at an annual conference for Association of Writers and Writing Programs

 

Counting the Omer Through Poetry

for educators at a Jewish day school