#ECOOearlyYears

New Directors join the ECOO Board

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ECOO is pleased to welcome two new mid-term appointees to the ECOO Board of Directors. Following a Call for Nominations that closed on March 5th, 2021, the ECOO board reviewed the nominees and confirmed the appointments to two vacant Director-at-Large positions. The Board welcomes Klara Redford of Peel DSB and Valentina Krasteva of Toronto DSB.

Klara has been a teacher for over 15 years at the Peel DSB and has spent the majority of that time in the early years classroom, and now, as a teacher-librarian supports students and staff across all grades. Klara looks forward to championing a new #EarlyYears initiative for ECOO. She and Michelle McKay co-presented The AMAZING Kindy Makers at #vBIT21 Bring IT, Together! in February, and are now co-leading a 4-session series as part of the ECOO Support Series – Spring 2021 entitled #ECOOearlyYears: Building a Maker Mindset in the Early Years Learning Environment.

Valentina has been a Computer Science and Technology Teacher since 1998 and an Assistant Curriculum Leader since 2012. She is currently Assistant Curriculum Leader of Computer Science and Technology Department at William Lyon Mackenzie CI in the Toronto DSB. Valentina and a team of students from the Mackenzie Collegiate Programming Team ran the online 2020 ECOO Programming Contest, and will again be convening the event this year. The 2021 ECOO Programming Contest is open to all secondary students in Ontario and will take place on May 1st from 11 am to 2 pm.

The ECOO board looks forward to working with Klara and Valentina as the #ECOOearlyYears initiative and the #ECOO_ProgrammingContest unfold this spring. Our new directors can be contacted at kredford@aforgrave.ca and vkrasteva@aforgrave.ca.

Time to do things we love to do. Part Three.

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ECOO is grateful to all involved to be able to launch the third and last of the 20/21 Support Series, a series of support for you, the educator and person.

The ECOO Spring Support Series is not about learning all new skills. It’s about wellness and self-care. It’s about finding the joy in making again, with your students, for yourself and as a family. It’s about building a community in the newly launched #ECOOEarlyYears platform for Early Years teachers, a place to call home.

We hope that you find some if not many outlets that you can explore in this series. It’s your time.

Time to do things we love to do. Part Two.

ECOO is grateful to all involved to be able to launch the third and last of the 20/21 Support Series, a series of support for you, the educator and person.

We hope that you find some if not many outlets that you can explore in this series. It’s your time.

Time to do things we love to do. Part One.

Educational Computing Organization of Ontario Blog, ECOO News #Arts, #EarlyYears, #ECOOearlyYears, #ECOOSpringSupportSeries, #SelfCare, #SpringSupportSeries, ECOO, family, front, Support Series, Wellness

ECOO is grateful to all involved to be able to launch the third and last of the 20/21 Support Series, a series of support for you, the educator and person.

We hope that you find some if not many outlets that you can explore in this series. It’s your time.

ECOO Support Series Spring Klara Redford _ Michelle McKay #ECOOEarlyYears

#ECOOearlyYears Series: Building a Maker Mindset in the Early Years Learning Environment

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4 Sessions (Register once, attend all four sessions)

~~Tuesday, April 6, 2021 7-8 pm ET~~ (session recording below)
~~Tuesday, April 20, 2021 7-8 pm ET~~ (postponed)
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 7-8 pm ET
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 7-8 pm ET

Description: Dedicated to Early Years educators, this multi-session support series will begin with a look back at the joyful journey that many Kindergarten students undertook this past year as part of their exploration and inquiry into “Making” in the Kindergarten virtual learning environment (VLE).

Sessions will rotate bi-weekly between speaker presentations and sharing sessions. Speaker presentations will be focused on sharing information about getting started with making in a virtual Kindergarten learning environment and extending opportunities for children to make while learning online in a responsive way. During sharing sessions, you will have the opportunity to collaborate and discuss with other educators your experiences and plan next steps that can be used within your practice. Our last session will focus on how we can continue as a community to support one another in our maker journeys, and beyond! #ECOOEarlyYears

60-minute sessions
Tuesday nights (7:30 – 8:30 pm)

April 6th: Setting Sail with Making in the Virtual Kindergarten Classroom
Mentor texts, technology and artifacts of student learning will be shared to exemplify and amplify student voice and choice as our learners planned, created, innovated, failed up, persevered, collaborated and communicated their ideas and maker journeys – an example of the sincere JOYS of learning while at home! Educators will be invited to integrate some of this new learning into their current practices and share their experiences during the next session, April 20.

April 20th – Reflection/Chat/Community Building

May 4th: Cruising with Creating in the Early Years Classroom

This session will follow-up on educator experiences in Session #1 and 2 and how we can extend our understanding of making and the maker mindset through cross-curricular experiences. We will look at deepening our understanding of how ‘making’ naturally links to computational thinking and all of the math processes. Student examples of ‘making’ linked to coding and spatial reasoning will be shared. Educators will be invited to integrate some of this new learning into their current practices and share their experiences during the next session, May 18th.

May 18th – Reflection/Chat/Continuation of Community Building

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