Creating a Thriving Community with Families
A Summer Intensive Workshop with Lynn Turner and Leslie Wetzonis Woolverton
August 3-5, 10am- 1pm CT
Developing a strong class and family community is essential to your successful school year. Please join us to learn how to begin and deepen this ongoing work of collaboration and trust with parents, families and caregivers. In each of our stand alone sessions, we will explore and expand what is needed now and how to implement these best practices when building strong foundational relationships with the families of the children you care for everyday. You will learn new ways of working with parents that will enrich and inspire your work and your school community.
Program Details:
Each day we will meet live over Zoom with Leslie and Lynn. Participants should also anticipate spending time outside of the workshop on some activities to integrate the content more deeply.
In order to cultivate a sense of togetherness and active participation, we warmly insist that your video be turned on. Please do your best to make arrangements so this is possible.
Themes that we will explore:
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Day One: Building relationships centered on trust and warmth
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Day Two: Honoring family celebrations to deepen and renew school festivals
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Day Three: Crafting meaningful parent meetings throughout the school year AND Planning successful parent-teacher conferences
A certificate for 9 hours of Continuing Education can be earned with full participation in the course. A very brief survey is required.
Tuition
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$90 per day / $270 for all three days
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**This workshop has a minimum enrollment number of 10 students by July 31. If enrolled by this date and the course is canceled, refunds will be issued to those registered.
About the Facilitators
Lynn Turner
Lynn Turner (she/her) is a native Washingtonian, wife, mother of two children. She is of mixed heritage and the proud descendant of enslaved African American people. She has been a culturally responsive early childhood educator, teacher trainer, and leader in the movement of Waldorf Education in Northern America for over fourteen years. Lynn holds a BA in Fine Arts, and an MAT in Early Childhood Education, and received her Waldorf Early Childhood Teaching Certificate in 2017. She is a Biography Worker, currently completing her third year of training in Biography and Social Art.
Lynn has been published in Gateways and Kindling Magazines and has been a workshop presenter and keynote speaker at WECAN conferences. She was the Director and Core Faculty member of the Great Lakes Waldorf Institute, Early Childhood Training Cohort from 2020-2023. She currently serves on the Board as Social Art Board of Directors.
Leslie Wetzonis Woolverton (she/her)
For more than twenty years, Leslie Wetzonis Woolverton has taught Waldorf Parent-Child and
Nursery classes at Acorn Hill Waldorf Kindergarten & Nursery School located in Silver Spring, Maryland. Currently, Leslie is a member of the WECAN Early Childhood Research Group (Two recent WECAN Publications), and works also as a WECAN Site Visitor and Teacher Trainer for several Teaching Institutes in North America.
As a third generation Anthroposophist, Leslie brings a broad scope of wisdom and knowledge to Waldorf Early Childhood Education from her own early childhood. Now out of the classroom, Leslie loves her work with adults as a teacher trainer, mentor and evaluator, visiting many schools and new teachers across the country.
Leslie is also a skilled textile artist and interior designer for close to forty years. Leslie enjoys writing and compiling early childhood stories that reflect the world in the interest of advancing inclusion, diversity, equity, and access by creating puppetry to bring classics, cultural tales and her own new stories to life.
When not working, Leslie spends time with her family and friends at her beloved beach home in Chincoteague Island, Virginia.
To register for the class please click on the button and fill out each form below based on which day(s) you are interested in attending.
