Workshops: 11:00am - 3:00pm
Workshops are geared towards parents, principals, educators and education organization employees.
11:15 – 12:00
Engineering Kids Design Challenge by Iridescent & Cooper Union
Parents, kids and teachers are invited to learn about bird flight by designing, testing, and redesigning gliders. Fun for the whole family!
12:15 – 1:00
Behavior Management by Ramapo
This workshop provides practical and strategic techniques for managing children’s behavior and minimizing misbehavior. Learn skills that enable the practitioner to change behavior by leading positively; building relationships; teaching strategically; structuring situations; and intervening actively when required.
Teaching Financial Literacy Everyday by Cents Ability
Young adults are being bombarded with a slew of credit card offers that they don’t currently have the tools to vet. Financial literacy is critical to life success, but it is constantly overlooked as an integral part of the school curriculum. Our goal is for you to walk away from this discussion with a better idea of how you can bring financial literacy into your classroom in the most effective, interactive way.
1:15 – 2:00
Choose the Right School for Your Child by Dirk Tillotson
With an ever growing number of school choices, both within the traditional public schools and charters, it is important that families use available information and work to find the right school for their child. This session will highlight the different public school choices families have available and resources and effective practices for making good choices for their children.
The Importance of Non-Teaching Jobs in Charter Schools - and How to Get Them by Raj Thakkar, Charter School Business Management
Interested in working at a charter school, but you're not a teacher? Many types of staff members are needed to help a school run smoothly. Find out about opportunities available right now, skills you'll need, and where to look for vacancies.
2:15 – 3:00
Navigating the System by Walter DaLuz
The wealth of resources directed at educating children in New York City can make it either a incredibly daunting or richly rewarding responsibility. In this workshop we will discuss specific needs children have and the resources available to meet them, as well as begin an inquiry into how to find the things that we don't know are there.
Performances (for all ages)
Children are invited to participate in fun yoga, theater and dance activities:
11:00am The Story Pirates
While many children’s theater troops tell stories to children, the Story Pirates believe that every child has a
story to tell. Come and laugh as your sons and daughters invent monsters, aliens or giant dancing bugs, and watch as the Story Pirates bring their ideas to life.
12:00pm Little Flower Yoga
Join Little Flower Yoga for an engaging journey into literature. We will bend, stretch, sing, laugh & READ.
1:00pm Tap City Youth Ensemble
The Tap City Youth Ensemble gives intermediate and advanced tap dancers ages 11 to 19 the opportunity to work with professional choreographers to learn classic and contemporary tap repertory.
February 2011 Education Organizations
- Tutor Doctor
- American Tap Dance Foundation
- Arts Horizons
- ASVAB Career Exploration Program
- Center for Architecture Foundation
- Cents Ability, Inc.
- Common Goal Systems
- East Harlem Tutorial Program
- FoodFight
- Harlem RBI
- Harlem Village Academies
- Henry Street Settlement
- Iridescent
- Kumon
- LinkEducation
- Little Flower Yoga
- Making Books Sing
- New York Road Runners
- Oasis Children's Services
- Partners in Education
- Ramapo For Children
- Striking Viking Story Pirates
- The Boys' Club of New York
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