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Early Childhood Social Emotional Learning: What, How & Why

We all have feelings! Join us to learn ways and resources to help kids develop a strong emotional toolkit and enable them to better able to handle the ups and downs of life. Anxieties and insecurities affect the wellbeing and ability of our young learners to focus and learn. Featuring content from KET, PBS KIDS and others, this session will focus on media tools that can be used to teach the youngest learners skills like patience, dealing with frustration, and how to understand and manage their feelings.

Integrating Social Emotional Learning: Why and How, for Educators and Students At School and At Home

Alongside the stressors and difficulties students experienced in their pre-pandemic lives, they must still deal with disruptions and worries as the pandemic continues. Regardless of the cause, anxieties and insecurities affect their wellbeing and ability to focus and learn. In this workshop, we will begin with the need for SEL in traditional and non-traditional educational settings then focus on how to integrate specific lessons into existing curricula. Many NEW free multimedia resources, with suggestions for their use, will be offered.

Media Literacy in Early Childhood

Young children are regularly engaging with media in a variety of settings. The TEC at the Erikson Institute issued their Media Literacy in Early Childhood Report to help offer a way to support and develop young children’s media literacy skills. Join us as we discuss ways to help young children find reliable information in a world of misinformation.  

PBS KIDS EdCamp

Join KET for PBS KIDS Edcamp! This professional development opportunity is a FREE participant-driven experience for all educators, childcare providers, and community members invested in education. This exciting “un-conference” is a great opportunity to connect with other professionals in your field. You’ll have the chance to learn about topics important to you, and to share your own expertise. 

KET Young Writers Contest: What’s New for 2022!

For decades, young authors have turned to the KET Young Writers Contest to share their work. As the needs of young writers, their parents, and their teachers change, so too, does the YWC. What once was a contest intended only for kindergarten, first, and second graders has blossomed to be inclusive of students in preschool […]

Crash! Pow! Bang! Zoom with Author and Illustrator Sarah Giles

Sarah Giles is an author, illustrator, and experimenter-in-charge at the Big Fab Story Lab on YouTube. When she’s not writing, drawing, or filming, she loves visiting classes to share her best story-building tips and tricks with kids! Sarah loves to create stories that tackle the tricky parts of growing up with empathy, encouragement, and many […]

Crash! Pow! Bang! Zoom with graphic novelist Jarrett Lerner

Author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner is the creator of the EngiNerds series of Middle Grade novels, the Geeger the Robot series of early chapter books, the activity books Give This Book a Title and Give This Book a Cover, and The Hunger Heroes series of graphic novel chapter books. Jarrett is also the creator of the forthcoming illustrated novel in verse A Work in Progress, a forthcoming […]

Informational Text with Molly of Denali

Informational text is any text created for the main purpose of providing information and can be created using written words, oral language, visuals, or a combination of these forms. PBS KIDS Molly of Denali uses informational text to navigate her world and solve problems with the help of books, online resources, field guides, historical documents, […]

PBS KIDS Edcamp

This exciting “un-conference” is a great opportunity to connect with other professionals in your field. You’ll have the chance to learn about topics important to you, and to share your own expertise. The session topics are determined by YOU! Target Audience: Educators and caregivers for children PreK-12th grade Register here 

Crash! Pow! Bang! Zoom with comic artist and animator Erica Henderson

Erica Henderson is an author and artist best known for her work on Marvel’s The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Archie’s Jughead. She’s been working on, writing about and teaching comics for over a decade. Target Audience: 4th-7th grade Register

Crash! Pow! Bang! Zoom with artist, author, & illustrator David Wayne Chiu

David Wayne Chiu is Brooklyn-based sequential artist who’s done work across variety of mediums, from comics to infographics to instruction manuals to storyboards. He’s the author of author/illustrator of Create Your Own Graphic Novel: A Guide For Kids and artist for The Golden Pups. Target Audience: 3rd-7th grade Register 

Developing Media Literacy Skills in Young Children

Children are regularly engaging with media in a variety of settings. The Erikson Institute Technology in Education Center’s Media Literacy in Early Childhood Report, they define Media Literacy in Early Childhood as the emerging ability to access, engage, explore, comprehend, critically inquire, evaluate, and create with developmentally appropriate media. Join us as we explore activities […]

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