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    The document announces a workshop on March 19, 2010 in Meriden, CT presented by Augusta Mann on using culture to improve educational outcomes for underperforming students, focusing on strategies for phonics, vocabulary, and accelerating reading skills, with the goal of helping educators incorporate culture into literacy instruction. The workshop is for PreK-3 educators and will provide .7 CEUs for full attendance and application of learning.

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    Date, Time, Location:

    Friday, March 19, 2010


    9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
    Four Points by Sheraton, Meriden, CT

    Presenter:
    Augusta Mann
    Education Consultant
    Successful Teachers’ Use of Culture in Achieving Educational Excellence Phoenix, Arizona
    for Underperforming African American and Other Students
    Audience: Grades PreK-3
    One hundred (100) general and special
    “Touching the Spirit” offers practical strategies to ensure that linguistically and culturally educators, literacy specialists, and
    diverse students improve their reading skills quickly. These methods are particularly administrators
    useful for teachers and literacy coaches in Connecticut, where the Scientific Research-
    Based Interventions (SRBI) framework suggests that educators master certain skills CEUs: .7
    Includes:
    of effective instruction in order to teach these students successfully. This workshop
    Full Attendance
    will help participants acquire these strategies by defining culturally relevant, culturally Post-Activity Application of Learning
    centered instruction and presenting explicit models of how educators can put this
    philosophy into practice during literacy instruction. It will offer valuable guidance Registration Fee:
    specific to the needs of individual participants, who will: $90.00 per person
    Payable to Rensselaer at Hartford
    Payment is due prior to the session upon
    • explore instructional strategies for confirmation of participation.
    phonics and vocabulary;
    Questions/Special Needs:
    • view demonstrations of methods to Contact: Leticia Garcia Guerra
    Education Services Specialist
    accelerate students’ reading skills; and
    (860) 632-1485, ext. 233
    [email protected]
    • discuss a framework for incorporating
    culture into instruction. Register By:
    Friday, March 5, 2010

    Augusta Mann’s workshops and classroom demonstration lessons focus on African


    American and other students who need several years’ worth of reading skills
    development in a much shorter timeframe. Ms. Mann has been a classroom teacher,
    reading teacher, and reading staff developer in public schools across the country and has
    held leadership positions in the New York Urban Coalition’s Center for Educational
    Leadership and San Francisco State University’s Center for Applied Cultural Studies
    and Educational Achievement.

    Register online at www.ctserc.org and follow the links for


    Professional Development and Registering Online.

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