Our Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child (CRTWC) May Newsletter opened with us sharing about the ‘why’ behind the creation of the CRTWC Anchor Competency Framework. Since our last newsletter, we had the incredible opportunity to enact our collective "why" through a 2-day ‘in-person’ Kick-Off Retreat with a group of teacher educators in Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS).
In Chapter 1 of “Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens,” Nancy Markowitz and Suzanne Bouffard (2020) present the case for using a social, emotional and cultural lens in teaching. In this newsletter, we would like to take a moment to revisit the ‘beginnings’ of the Anchor Competencies Framework...
The Center for Teaching & Reaching the Whole Child presented our webinar on “RESPONDING CONSTRUCTIVELY ACROSS DIFFERENCES: TOOLS FOR NAVIGATING CHALLENGING CONVERSATIONS” at the end of March. We were thrilled and so appreciative of those of you who were able to attend from across the United States, Canada, and Europe!
The Center for Teaching & Reaching the Whole Child’s Anchor Competency Framework is designed to develop the social, emotional, and cultural lens or mindset of educators through an iterative process that involves: Exploring assumptions and beliefs Modeling Providing Practice Reflecting
View on Mailchimp Subscribe Throughout this next year, the Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child will take you along a journey on how to unpack and consider the development of a social, emotional, and cultural lens. To do so, we started in our last newsletter with examining the...
View on Mailchimp Subscribe We hope you have had an opportunity to visit our newly designed website – a place for us to showcase our work and highlight new developments happening at the Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child (CRTWC). The design has been organic and surely it will continue to...
View on Mailchimp Subscribe TEI Fellows and Friends of CRTWC, You have been in our thoughts! We have deeply appreciated your participation in the Teacher Educator Institutes and your support of our work at the Center for Reaching & Teaching the Whole Child (CRTWC). Our hope is that your commitment...
