Summer Learning Lenses Course for NYC Educators

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• The Hidden Sparks Learning Lenses curriculum will help you learn how to observe, reflect and plan for all students in your classrooms.
• Using multiple lenses and real-life case studies, you will learn to understand student strengths and challenges, and identify strategies for all learners, including those who struggle academically and present challenging social-emotional issues. 
  • Neurodevelopmental Lens: A neuro-developmental understanding of learning  including topics such as attention, memory, social skills, language, higher order thinking and sequencing.
  • Ecological Lens: the ways in which the child’s home life, classroom culture and community impact their experience.
  • Temperamental Lens: identifying, understanding and celebrating components of a child’s innate personality.
• You will expand your instructional and conceptual toolboxes to improve student achievement.

• The four-day course  will run from 9am-4:30pm on July 9th-12th in Midtown Manhattan. 
• A certificate of course completion for 34 hours of coursework will be provided upon completion of the course. (Hidden Sparks is authorized by the New York State Department of Education to provide Continuing Teacher and Leader Education.)
• Strictly kosher dairy lunch included in registration fee.

Hollis Dannaham, M.Ed., is a Senior Hidden Sparks Coach. She has been empowering complex learners for 30 years as a learning specialist, special educator, administrator, and consultant in public, private, and charter schools. Hollis created Transform Boundaries, an organization dedicated to helping schools create programs for reaching their complex learners, served as the Director of Academic Intervention at Explore Charter School, co-created the Carmel Alternative High School for at-risk teens, and worked as a learning specialist at the Student Success Center of All Kinds of Minds. She was recently published in Jewish Educational Leadership Journal and  Education Update.

Elizabeth Fox, Ed.M., Director of Education, joins Hidden Sparks after having served as a professional development advisor for the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET) at Columbia University Teachers College. She is currently a doctoral student in English Education there. In those dual roles at Columbia, she was able to apply cutting-edge research to the problems of school culture, curriculum, instruction and assessment faced by a wide range of public schools, thereby applying research into practice. Ms. Fox has held numerous positions in which she designed and facilitated workshops on various components of comprehensive school reform, to present at national conferences, to create structures and systems within schools that would improve their culture and efficacy, to develop and implement experiential learning programs for high school students throughout the city, and to start an organizational development program for school leaders.

For further information about the course, please contact:

Director of School Services
212-767-7707
sara@www.hiddensparks.org