AGENDA: - Announcements & community updates - Review - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

The Supervisors’ Professional Learning Community is an opportunity for program leaders to come together to exchange ideas, contribute perspectives, ask questions, and make meaning

• f new ideas, information, and resources. Participants will engage in a facilitated dialogue

model in small groups thinking through the lens of the Supervisor as a pedagogical leader for their team.

Welcome to our FIRST VIRTUAL Supervisors’ Professional Learning Community!

April 8, 2020

AGENDA:

• Announcements & community updates
• Review agreements & online etiquette
• Wellness check in
• COVID-19 resources
• How have you been connecting with families and educators?

Supervisors’ Professional Learning Community Agreements & Zoom Etiquette

The Supervisors’ Learning Community brings leaders together as a community of learners. As a community, we have committed to a model of learning that is emergent and recognizes the value of learning together in the context of our role as leaders. We believe we are each strengthened by our connections and relationships within the community. We have committed to the process of maintaining, reviewing, and refining a set of agreements that have been developed by the learning community. The following “ways of being” establish a shared understanding amongst all participants and allows us to engage in ongoing reflection of the practices we wish to see within our PLC.

Welcoming

• We will welcome all participants and value the diversity of their

experience and the programs each represents.

• We will take personal responsibility for creating the inviting

environment we seek.

• We value accessibility for those who participate.

Trust

• We will foster a climate of trust by ensuring a safe environment.
• We will seek clarification without fear of judgement.
• We will contribute honest feedback.

Respect

• We will respect the uniqueness that each person brings.
• We will work collaboratively to stay on task during group discussion.
• We acknowledge that healthy conflict is okay.

Open Communication

• We will engage in active listening and ensure that everyone has a voice.
• We will share our experiences with an awareness of our personal “air

time”.

• We will embrace the value of multiple perspectives.

ASCY & Community Updates & Professional Learning Opportunities

• At this point in time, ASCY locations are closed until April 14, 2020.
• Notices regarding closure are posted on www.ascy.ca.
• All of our teams are working remotely, exploring and developing resources.
• Resource sheets for parents, caregivers, and educators are posted on our

website.

• ASCY PLCs are working remotely and can be contacted for facilitation of

professional learning and for consultation via their email address.

• HEYQP - template submission has been extended to April 25th, and ASCY

PLCs are available to consult upon request.

• Thank you for the tremendous response to our recent survey. Online formats

for book studies and Communities of Practice are taking place, or under development in response to interests.

ASCY Resources/Activities for

Families and Caregivers

https://ascy.ca/educators/hamilton/professional-learning-opportunities https://www.hamilton.ca/parks-recreation/recreation/recreation-home-activities

Wellness Check-In

How are you being mindful?

Take A Mindful Moment

WAKE UP · EAT · PAUSE · WORKOUT · DRIVE

Resources for Caregivers

Headspace for meditation (temporarily free option) https://www.headspace.com/covid-19 Website for managing anxiety during COVID-19 https://www.virusanxiety.com/

A Message From Dr. Stuart Shanker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2LhNF3Splw&t=7s

COVID-19 Resources How to Talk to Children about COVID-19

SOME QUICK TIPS:

• start the conversation by getting to their level and asking questions about

what they understand about the current situation (COVID-19)

• encourage children to ask questions and share with them that you might

not know all the answers and that together you could research them

• acknowledge that it’s okay to not have all the answers
• do not provide more information than what the child is looking for
• use simple and correct language, be honest, children have a right to

information about COVID-19

COVID-19 Resources How to Talk to Children about COVID-19

SOME QUICK TIPS:

• use this as an opportunity to talk about germs, viruses, handwashing,

cleaning/sanitizing, gloves, and masks

• share why everyone is worried about COVID-19 (that we don’t have a cure

yet or haven’t built up an immunity and that there are no vaccines, but scientists and researchers are working very hard on this)

• talk about what the following terms mean: symptoms, pandemic, state of

emergency, physical/social distancing ***be sure to limit exposure to media

Website Resources on Talking to Children About COVID-19

• From Ryerson University “5 Ways to Help Children Cope During a Pandemic”: https://www.ryerson.ca/news-

events/news/2020/03/5-ways-to-help-children-cope-during-a- pandemic/?utm_source=Ryerson+Today+Contacts&utm_campaign=a0c3fad78d- 20200330&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4843a7a799-a0c3fad78d-53367927

• The Daily (Podcast): “A Kids’ Guide to the Coronavirus”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/podcasts/the-

daily/kids-coronavirus.html

• Dr. Dan Siegel's "Connect & Redirect" refrigerator sheet:

https://www.drdansiegel.com/pdf/Refrigerator%20Sheet--NDD.pdf

• PBS's “10 Tips for Talking With Your Kids About COVID-19”: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/10-tips-for-

talking-about-covid-19-with-your-kids

• “A Kid’s Book about COVID-19”: https://akidsbookabout.com/pages/covid-19
• Brainpop's video explaining COVID-19 to children:

https://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/coronavirus/

• The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention's suggestions on managing stress during this time (for self and

children): https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/managing-stress-anxiety.html

• A CNN article by Kate Bolduan “What I'm Telling My Kids About COVID-19”:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/opinions/telling-my-kids-about-coronavirus-bolduan/index.html

Resource from the World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/docs/default- source/coronaviruse/helping-children- cope-with-stress-print.pdf

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HOT TOPIC DISCUSSION

(use chat and raise hand function)

How have you been connecting with families and educators?

Examples of connecting: Facebook, YouTube, storytelling and songs with children, using Digital Apps (i.e. Hi Mama) for sending resources, Zoom meetings LESLIE & NANCY Please use the chat box or raise hand to share any other ideas---give a few minutes

FEEDBACK

Please share ideas and feedback for future Zoom SPLC meetings

MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE BI-WEEKLY Please take a few minutes to the use the chat box to share any ideas on:

• format for future SPLC (option for breakout rooms to have small group discussion)
• topics to consider
• length
• presenters

If you have any other questions or comments, please feel free to contact Nancy Baverstock nbaverstock@ascy.ca or Leslie Busija lbusija@ascy.ca.

REMINDER

Your Professional Learning Consultants (PLCs) and Professional Resource Library staff are working remotely and are reaching out to our program sites and members to connect and provide support. We encourage you to reach out by email to your PLC to see how we can support you during this unprecedented time.

If you do not know who your Professional Learning Consultant is, please contact Liz Soyka, Manager of Professional Learning and Resources at lsoyka@ascy.ca or ascy@ascy.ca and she will connect you to your PLC. Please visit our website, Facebook, and Twitter pages as we will be updating professional learning

• pportunities regularly.

We will also be extending all library loan items until our return.