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1. Organizational Model for Writing to Read in Kindergarten

New Workshop with Julie Lay and Nellie Edge

Saturday, February 13, 2010 - Salem Conference Center (Full)
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - Salem Conference Center - (Registration Open)

Professional Development Credits and Washington Clock Hours are available

Many of you have studied with Nellie Edge and taken the “Writing to Read in Kindergarten” seminar with Julie Lay more than once. You are doing well with writing workshop but are challenged by how to keep the other children doing meaningful literacy activities and “word work” while you conference with individual “kid writers.” This “intimate, hands-on, learn-by-doing” seminar with both Julie Lay and Nellie Edge is for those of you who are ready to make your joyful “writing-to-read” kindergarten even more systematic and powerful.

SALEM

Price: $199.00
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Enroll today for Thursday, July 22, 2010. Limited to 40 teachers.

$199 through June 5, 2010*
$229.00 after June 5, 2010*

If you are registering for others, please respond to the confirmation email with each name, phone number and email address.

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In just one day you’ll learn how to:


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Learn about Elephant and
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by Mo Willems.

2. Favorite New Books and How To Use Them for Literacy and Delight in Kindergarten!

with author and storyteller, Nellie Edge

Saturday April 17, 2010 (Saturday) 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
A small living room gathering in Salem, Oregon

Registration opens January 21, 2010.

WA Clock Hours and Professional Development Credits Available

Get acquainted with some of the books we believe all children deserve to have as friends. These are the books that bring a smile and often a chorus of “Read it again!” They are the books that build a love of reading, the books worthy of “grand conversations” with children. These books also bring a contented sigh and remind us again that “literature is life, and life is literature” as we celebrate our love of sharing wonderful books with children.

SALEM

Price: $159.00
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Enroll today. Limited to 14 teachers.

$159 through February 10, 2010*
$229 after February 10, 2010*

 *Includes resource book, literature gifts, morning refreshments, and lunch.

If you are registering for others, please respond to the confirmation email with each name, phone number and email address.

In just one joyful day, you will:


3. Discover the Magic of Signing Songs (2 Day Seminar)

Presented by Nellie Edge and Diane Larson

June 28 and 29, 2010 - Salem, OR

Professional Development Credits and six Washington Clock Hours are available

SALEM, OR

Price: $299.00
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$299 through June 5, 2010
$399 after June 5, 2010

Includes Resource Sets I & II
(New DVD, beautiful revised literacy manual, ASL handbook, and anthology set)
Enroll today. Limited to 40 teachers.

If you are registering for others, please respond to the confirmation email with each name, phone number and email address.

Magic of Signing Volume 1

(Day 1) The Original Magic of Signing Songs Seminar: Maximizing Language Through the Magic of Signing Songs (PreK-2)

Thousands of Northwest teachers have enriched their classrooms as a result of this seminar featuring brain research, curriculum extensions and favorite children's songs in sign language.

Songs Include:

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Happy Birthday
The Traditional ABC Song
You Are My Sunshine
May There Always Be Sunshine
I Think You're Wonderful
I Love The Mountains (Amo Los Montes)
Goodnight Irene (Buenas Noches Irene)
Rainbow ‘Round Me
I Have A Cat (Yo Tengo Un Gato)
I Can Read Colors (Se Leer Colores)
Sign to Me
Sing Your Way Home

“This is the most fun AND educational seminar I have ever attended!!!”—Denise Luenow, Seattle, WA 

(Day 2) The Magic of Signing Songs: Enhancing All Children's Language and Literacy
(PreK -1)

Magic of Signing Volume 2

Teahers across the country have loved this joyful and multisensory approach to literacy. Learn powerful, research-proven ABC and phonics immersion strategies that work with all children. Discover how incorporating American Sign Language greatly accelerates all language and literacy skills.

Songs Include:

What a Wonderful World
Pledge of Allegiance

America the Beautiful
See Me Beautiful

The ABC Phonics Song: Sing, Sign & Read!
The More We Get Together
(with variations)
This Land is Your Land
L-O-V-E Spells Love
M-O-M Spells Mom, and helpful signs for class management Hola Mis Amigos/Hello My Friend (Spanish and English Greeting and Farewell Songs

4. Writing to Read in Kindergarten: Explore the Power of "Kid Writing"

Presented by award-winning kindergarten teacher, Julie Lay, NBCT

July 4, 2010 - Salem, OR

Professional Development Credits and six Washington Clock Hours are available

Make your kindergarten writing program the best it can be. Learn proven strategies for organizing the kindergarten environment. Let Julie Lay show you why the “Kid Writing” approach is such a powerful way to systematically develop phonics skills through journal writing. Use music, art, sign language, and dance for brain-friendly learning across the curriculum.

SALEM, OR

Price: $199.00
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$199 through June 5, 2010
$225 after June 5, 2010

Includes comprehensive literacy manual, literacy gifts and refreshments.

If you are registering for others, please respond to the confirmation email with each name, phone number and email address.

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In just one day you’ll learn how to:

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5. Begin the Year with Best Practices in Joyful Accelerated Kindergarten Literacy: Proven Strategies that Produce Exceptional Gains

Presented by Nellie Edge

August 2, 2010 - Salem, OR

Professional Development Credits and six Washington Clock Hours are available

What are the most brain-friendly and engaging literacy strategies we can use to create a joyful and challenging kindergarten? Explore exemplary literacy instruction with Nellie Edge as she inspires you to build the oral language and literacy foundations—honoring research—and honoring childhood.

SALEM, OR

Price: $199.00
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$199 through July 5, 2010
$229 after July 5, 2010

Includes beautiful literacy manual with over 70 full-color photos.
Enroll today. Limited to 40 teachers.

If you are registering for others, please respond to the confirmation email with each name, phone number and email address.

In just one day you’ll learn how to:

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A WEB SEMINAR of Ten Best Practices in Joyful Accelerated Kindergarten Literacy is COMING SOON!


6. Parents as Partners in Kindergarten Literacy: Family Connections that Multiply Our Teaching Effectiveness

Presented by Nellie Edge

Salem, Oregon Seminar dates to be announced.

Professional Development Credits and Washington Clock Hours Available

Create a supportive parents as partners program with easy-to-implement strategies that will make a powerful difference in each child’s language and literacy development, social skills and love of learning.

This engaging and practical seminar includes:

“We have a covenant that says we jointly share responsibility for teaching your child.”
—Ernest Boyer


Other Nellie Edge Seminars: Small Saturday Workshops in Exemplary Kindergartens

Spend a Saturday studying in real kindergarten classrooms with some of Oregon’s most accomplished teachers. The following workshops have inspired rave reviews from Northwest educators. Please email info@nellieedge.com if your district or kindergarten support cadre is interested in attending or co-sponsoring any of the following joyful accelerated literacy trainings. Each workshop comes with a full-color comprehensive literacy manual honoring the work of an accomplished teacher.

Literacy Through Literature, Dance, and Song: Developing Skills Within a Love of Language

A Saturday Kindergarten Workshop

Presented by Kathie Bridges with Nellie Edge facilitating

Salem, Oregon

Professional Development Credits and Washington Clock Hours Available

How do we develop a classroom of kindergartners who not only learn to read and write—but choose to read and write? How do we honor the need for socio-dramatic play—and the need for a rigorous literacy focus in a half-day kindergarten? Kathie Bridges' comprehensive and engaging approach to literacy reflects her deep knowledge of children, her love of language, and a systematic, differentiated approach to literacy. With great skill, wisdom, and delight, Kathie demonstrates how to raise the literacy standards and still keep kindergarten a "child's garden."

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Includes:

Art, Literacy and The Kindergarten Child

A Saturday Kindergarten Workshop

Presented by Laura Flocker with Nellie Edge facilitating

Salem, Oregon - Future Dates to be announced.

Professional Development Credits and Washington Clock Hours available

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Laura Flocker, a master kindergarten teacher with a background in Reading Recovery® will share her incredible insights into developing a community of kindergartners who see and express themselves as artists and writers from the first days of school. Learn how to organize the art/literacy classroom, discover practical art techniques and the best of art resource materials. Be inspired by Laura’s classroom, which is alive with animals, growing things, science experiments, puppet plays, curious minds and real-life learning experiences.

Includes:

See Laura Flocker's Kindergarten website
Download images from Laura Flocker’s Art-Rich Kindergarten (PDF)


Joyful and Rigorous Kindergarten Experiences: Celebrate the Imagination and Challenge All Learners

A Saturday Kindergarten Workshop

Presented by Diane Bonica with Nellie Edge facilitating

Tigard, Oregon - Future Dates to be announced.

Professional Development Credits and Washington Clock Hours Available

Discover a treasure trove of meaningful and creative curriculum ideas in Diane Bonica’s exemplary, child-centered kindergarten.  You will be welcomed into “The Chicka-Boom Classroom” complete with a menagerie of giraffes, and a high level of science, math and literacy engagement.  Discover how to truly honor childhood and challenge children to think deeply and love learning. 

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This all-day, “in-kindergarten” workshop features:

Joyful Learning in a Child's Garden: Celebrating Language and Accelerating Literacy

A Saturday Kindergarten Workshop

Presented by Becky Leber and Nellie Edge

Future dates to be announced. Portland, Oregon

Professional Development Credits and Washington Clock Hours Available

This ELL workshop can be presented for your district kindergarten team. Email info@nellieedge.com

How do we raise the literacy standards and still keep kindergarten a "child's garden?" How do we honor the need for socio-dramatic play — and the need for rigorous literacy skills instruction with "at-risk" and English language learners in an all-day kindergarten? Becky Leber's balanced and engaging approach to literacy reflects her deep, deep knowledge of children, her love of language, and her understanding of how to support kinders with a meaning-centered, systematic approach to literacy. With great wisdom, patience, and delight, Becky works with the children who need her most.

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Workshop includes:

This Saturday workshop in Becky's kindergarten classroom in Milwaukie, Oregon is limited to 20 teachers and may fill quickly.


Kindergarten: A Celebration of the Arts With Happy Hearts We Dance and Sing

Presented by Joanie Cutler and Nellie Edge

Future dates may be announced. Eugene, Oregon

Professional Development Credits and Washington Clock Hours Available

How do we celebrate the arts, honor childhood, and connect young children with the natural world outside the classroom? How do we nurture a love of learning in children and their families? Come and meet Joanie Cutler, who has been a mentor teacher to many of us. With her love of music, poetry, art and literature she has created a beautiful kindergarten model that is infused with the arts; nurturing creativity and literacy. When Froebel described kindergarten as a "child's garden," we believe he had a teacher like Joanie Cutler — with her gentle wisdom and uniquely creative teaching — in mind. The beautiful, full-color handbook is only available to workshop participants.

Workshop includes:

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