About Session
Facilitators: Nadia Jaboneta and Deb Curtis
Join us as a member of a reflective team to observe and study children’s natural approaches to learning through play, movement, and social interactions and learn how these are powerful tools for brain development. You can bring dilemmas from your own practice or support others in a process of collective thinking and processing.
Goals:
Teachers will understand the current research on the developing brains of young children and other learning theories and how they can apply this information to their daily practices with children.
Teachers will develop observation skills to see the details of children’s competence and the role teachers can play to enhance children’s brain development and learning.
Teachers will study early childhood environments and materials and the impact they can have on children’s brain development and learning.
Teachers will articulate through reflective discussions and presentations their understandings and specific ways their teaching practices enhance children’s brain development and learning.
Teachers will pause and marvel at the children they spend their days with and enhance their joy and pride in teaching.
Dates & Times
Six sessions | 90 mins per Session
Tuesdays at 7:00 pm Eastern
(6:00 Central, 5:00 Mountain, 4:00 Pacific)
January 14, 2025
January 28, 2025
February 11, 2025
February 25, 2025
March 11, 2025
March 25, 2025
Cost: $400
Virtual Meetings via Zoom
About the Facilitators
Deb Curtis has spent over 40 years working with children and teachers in early childhood programs, observing and studying children and child development. Along with teaching children Deb has worked with early childhood educators in college settings, and seminars and institutes all over North America, New Zealand and Australia.
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She has also been working as a toddler mentor teacher for the past 15 years. She is the co-author of 10 books related to working with young children. You can learn more about these resources at redleafpress.org or childcareexchange.com.
Nadia Jaboneta lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and 3 children. She is a Pedagogical Leader at Pacific Primary Preschool in San Francisco, California. She has 26 years experience in Early Childhood Education teaching young children, training teachers, consulting and facilitating workshops. She is passionate about social justice and is proud to have immigrant parents from Lima, Peru.
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Nadia attended San Francisco State University for both her Bachelor's and Master's degree. She has written numerous articles for the magazine Teaching Young Children, focused on the anti-bias education practices she uses. She also is the author of the book You Can’t Celebrate That: Navigating the Deep Waters of Social JusticeTeaching and co-author of Children’s Lively Minds: Schema Theory Made Visible. Most recently, Nadia was one of the featured teachers in the film “Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action: The Early Years.”