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Virginia Hansen
The annual SOE Virginia Hansen Speaker Series and the Hansen Curriculum Room located
on the 5th floor of the Kellogg Library (KEL 5106), is made possible by Virginia Hansen who dedicated her life to being the best teacher
possible for the children in her care. The Virginia Hansen Endowment fund was established
in the School of Education through the generosity of Mr. Victor Hansen. It is intended to honor the work and
memory of Mrs. Virginia Hansen.
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Virginia Hansen Speaker Series
We are proud to hold Virginia Hansen Speaker series during the academic year. We invite educators, innovators, and leaders to share their experiences and knowledge with our students, community partners, and the campus. Our speaker series include presentations and workshops that are relevant to K-16 teachers and leaders.
Our events are held on Saturdays between 10 am and 12pm PST via Zoom.
| Presenter | Topic | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Alma Sanchez |
High Engagement Academic Language Acquisition and Literacy Strategies for Multilingual Learners Participants will engage in ways to target and promote language skills, academic achievement,
and cross-cultural skills in the classroom with multilingual learners. |
Sept. 7 |
| Traci Jackson |
Introduction to Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics Join an engaging, interactive virtual workshop designed to introduce educators to a framework for transforming mathematics classrooms into a place of problem- solving rather than students mimicking a set of steps. In breakout rooms, participants will experience dynamic learning through collaboration while engaging in thought-provoking activities. This workshop equips educators with specific strategies to create their own thinking classrooms. |
Sept. 21 |
| Colleen Carter Ster |
Creating Global Changemakers and Resilient Students: A Worldwide Health and Well-being Initiative Come learn about The Resilience Game Plan: The Playbook for Developing Cognitive,
Communication, and Mindfulness Life Skills Training—a groundbreaking health and well-being
intervention curriculum created with Harvard schooling and Professional Development
constructed through The University of Oxford’s Evidence-Based Health Care program.
In this session, educators will learn to identify at-risk students, thus improving
students’ short- and long-term well-being outcomes.
The intervention techniques in The Resilience Game Plan will help students instill resiliency and learn tools—providing their brains a protection barrier as they encounter life difficulties. This workshop teaches common sense life skills that work cohesively with the public, private, UWC, and four International Baccalaureate programmes. The qualities below are discussed and integrated throughout The Resilience Game Plan. After completing the playbook, students will have newly gained skills as:
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Oct. 5 |
| Dr. Michelle Pledger |
LIBERATE! An Appetizer Workshop for LIberatory Learning This interactive session integrates self work and culturally responsive-sustaining pedagogy to support educators' ability to internalize and operationalize liberatory practices. It introduces educators to the "what, why, and how" of liberating their Consciousness, Classrooms, Curriculum, Cognitive Capacity Bias, Communication, and Conduct Constructs through a "taste, test, transform" trajectory. |
Nov. 2 |
| Jennifer Roberts & Erika Wanczuk |
AI Classroom Synergy: Empowering Teachers, Inspiring Learners Transform your teaching and prepare your students for an AI-driven future. This virtual session, led by two classroom teachers, combines educator empowerment with student- focused AI integration. We'll explore how AI tools can streamline your workflow from planning to feedback, while also diving into engaging ways to introduce AI concepts in your classroom. We'll tackle pressing questions: How can AI enhance your teaching without losing the human touch? What hands-on activities can demystify AI for students? You'll leave with practical ideas to boost your productivity, foster students' digital literacy, and promote responsible tech use. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by technology or excited to innovate, this workshop will equip you to thrive in the AI era. Join us and revolutionize your classroom – for yourself and your students! |
Dec. 7 |
| Jostin Grimes, Soundtrap for Education |
Amplifying and Empowering Student Voices Through Podcasting Join Jostin Grimes, Soundtrap for EDU Enterprise Success Manager, as he showcases the multiple studio features and content to help with student voice, creativity, and supporting with speaking and listening. |
Feb. 1, 2025 |
| Angela Stockman |
Building Better Writers: Lesson Architectures for Sophisticated Meaning- Making, Language Development, and Expression Writing is a richly multimodal experience that results in the development of dynamic products. Savvy writing teachers know how to build better writers by leveraging their visual, aural, spatial, gestural, and haptic modes of expression in service to the production of sophisticated print. Structure matters here, and so does loose parts play, drawing, and performance. When writers understand how to block a form and build it bit by bit using modes of expression and materials other than written words, they lower the load on their verbal working memory. This makes space for them to generate and express more sophisticated ideas. When teachers understand how to engage writers in foundational skill development at the word, sentence, and discourse level and they dose that practice with careful intention, the transposition of meaning-making and the transcription of ideas into written words is playful and highly productive. Participants in this session will translate essential research findings into tangible practices that will enable them to build better writers by reframing comfortable lesson architectures. |
Mar. 15, 2025 |
| Lindsey Fuller |
Stress Resilience Balance your nervous system with multiple somatic/mindfulness practices woven throughout an engaging session mapping our stress cycles against the Human Function Curve. Learn to read your unique “body cues”, “behavior cues”, and “communication cues” such that you can engage in connected communication with colleagues and mindfully shift yourself/your nervous system back into homeostasis in the work environment. Additionally, you’ll consider the ways in which implicit bias is perpetuated at higher rates by individuals who are stressed and burned out; at The Teaching Well, we believe that to be truly anti-racist, one must also center wellness. |
Apr. 12, 2025 |
Hansen Curriculum Room
Upon entering the Hansen Curriculum Room you will notice that the materials in that room are arranged differently than in the rest of the library.
Curriculum can be referred to as “what” is taught, while instruction is “how” it is taught. Together they assist the process of learning and help to achieve the learning goals. Curriculum is the totality of teaching and learning resources and the organization/arrangement of resources and human capacities that shape students’ educational experience. Curriculum is not just a collection of materials or a course of study. Curriculum can include core principles, values, programs, events, clubs, technology infrastructure, and even how time and space are utilized.
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Hansen Curriculum Room (KEL 5106) Hours
Please contact your SoE/SLP instructor to make arrangements to use the workroom. Only SoE/SLP faculty can checkout the key to use the room; students are not permitted to check out the workroom key.
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