Nueva Math Circle
Session Calendar and Handouts
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A. P. E.
Advancing Parental Exploration
For Parents of Young Gifted Children
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What is APE?
Advancing Parental Exploration (APE) is an adaptive, evidence-based adult education program for parents of young, gifted children, ages 3-6. It is designed to support these parents as they begin their child's educational and developmental journey. It addresses the unique and typical parenting challenges they face in an integrative manner. Parents' needs and concerns are examined in a way that allows them to construct conceptions, skills, and strategies that match their child's developmental needs, as well as individual and familial values.
All of this in a social, interactive format!
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How do we do it?
A.P.E. offers a Social Practicum series that provides an opportunity for parents to learn the theories about, research on, and practical applications of a given topic related to parenting gifted children. Each session provides a balance of presentation, discussion, and experiential learning, while concluding with a guided discussion of related topics and emergent questions. Social interaction remains a fundamental element of the learning process.
These sessions are open to both Nueva families and families outside of the Nueva community. Registration is required (see registration section).
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| Social-Practicum Dates and Topics
1/5/12: Integrating SEL: Cooperation in Early Childhood
2/15/12: Motivation and Competence
3/15/12: Peers, Playdates, and Pressures
All sessions run from 6:30 to 9:00 PM, in the Nueva Library
Preregistration required. Space is limited.
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| What is The Nueva School?
The Nueva School, located in the San Francisco Bay Area and founded in 1967, is a nationally recognized independent school serving gifted and talented students. Nueva is a child-centered, pre-K to 8th grade progressive school emphasizing integrated studies, creative arts, and social-emotional learning. Nueva offers a constructivist program, project-based learning, and special-area teachers in visual art, reading, math, science, music, physical education, technology, and social-emotional learning. Nueva teachers work in teams to develop thematic curricula for their classes. Our school community inspires passion for lifelong learning, fosters social and emotional acuity, and develops the imaginative mind. Fundamentally, Nueva uses a dynamic educational model to enable gifted children to learn how to make choices that will benefit the world.
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Your Facilitators
Laraine Ray and Mark Garibaldi have worked together for the past 4 years. In addition to working as a teaching team in Kindergarten, they developed the "Train Your Brain" curriculum, a program to foster emotional self- regulation in early childhood. Laraine has over thirty years of early childhood experience and presently teaches kindergarten at Nueva. She has led a variety of parent education workshops and is trained as a SENG parent group facilitator. Mark is a research associate in education, human development, and workforce at American Institutes for Research (AIR). His work focuses on social and emotional development, creativity, peer- mediation, and self-identity formation. He holds an M.A. in developmental psychology from Columbia University Teachers College.
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Click here to register:
Cost:
$25 per session
$65 for the entire series
Refreshments are provided. Space is limited.
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| When: |
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 5:00-7:30 pm |
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Nueva Cafe, Library, I-Lab, and J209
6565 Skyline Boulevard
Hillsborough, CA
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A fun math-filled evening |
Guided by mathematicians and educators, the Nueva Math Circle provides students with opportunities to play with interesting mathematical activities, puzzles, and problems. This year's Math Circle has been expanded to include students in preK to 8th grade, with new sessions specially geared for middle schoolers. Parents are invited to participate with their children in the Math Circle, and are asked to supervise their own children. In addition to Nueva families, the Math Circle is open to the public.
Our Lower School session will be led by two fantastic speakers:
Katherine Cook and Dan Finkel of The Robinson Center for Young Scholars at the University of Washington
Our Middle School session is entitled "Finding The Thing That Does Not Change: Invariants in Math Problems" and will be led by
Dimitri Zvonkine of Stanford University
New Registration Fee: $10 per student (parents free) to help offset the cost of speaker honoraria and related expenses.
Register here!
 Pizza will be available for $7 per person.
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Read more...
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Nueva, as an institution and through its teachers, offers many opportunities for teachers, administrators, and parents to learn more about gifted education in classes, workshops, conferences, institutes, and publications, both print and online. Click on each of the links below to learn more. Should you wish to inquire about having any of the teachers below speak at your school or conference, please
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The Nueva Gifted Learning Conference
The SEL Institute
Common Ground Speakers Series
MS Head Matt Levinson has written:
Matt has been teaching (in workshops and at Tulane and the University of New Orleans) and writing about children's books for more than twenty years. His books are:
- What Else Should I Read: Guiding Kids to Good Books, Volume 1 and Volume 2
- The Children's Book Award Annual, 1998 and 1999.
In the past he was a regular reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and The New Orleans Times-Picayune, and wrote articles in several other journals, including School Library Journal. His reviews currently appear online weekly at Common Sense Media, Disney Family, and his own website, The ChildLit Wiki.
Lower School math specialist Peggy is the author or co-author of fifteen books on teaching math. You can find them on Amazon or at Activity Resources. She also consults and teaches workshops for teachers in schools and districts around the country.
Pre-K teacher Carolee has co-authored several books and articles, and given workshops and presentations locally and nationally, including Mills College, San Francisco State University, Palo Alto and Burlingame Mothers' Clubs, North American Reggio Emilia Alliance, on topics of documentation of classroom work, educational inspirations from Reggio Emilia, Italy, conducting studies with young children, art of the young child, dramatic play of the young child, and forms of children's play which adults find challenging.
Books
Experience and Art: Teaching Children to Paint by Nancy R. Smith (Author), Carolee Fucigna (Author), Margaret T. Kennedy (Author), Lois Lord (Author)
Observation Drawing with Children: A Framework for Teachers by Nancy R. Smith, Margaret Kennedy, Carolee Fucigna, Laraine Cicchetti, Margaret C. Clark
She also recently co-authored an article in Child Care Exchange, a journal for early childhood educators. The full article is in the magazine, not online, but you can see a synopsis and purchase the full article here.
Frequent presenter at science conferences, science teacher Fred Estes has written numerous articles and co-authored a book.
Book
Turning Research into Results by R. E. Clark and Fred Estes.
Papers
"Inquiry Science for Young Gifted Students: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out." Gifted Education Communicator. 38(4).
"Gifted Biology Curriculum." In Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Talent, and Creativity, B. Kerr (ed.). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
"Science Curriculum." In Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Talent, and Creativity, B. Kerr (ed.). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA.
"Evaluating Behavioral and Cognitive Task Analysis Methods for the Design of Training for Technical Troubleshooters." Doctoral dissertation.
"Authentic Educational Technology: The Lynchpin Between Theory and Practice." Educational Technology, 39(6), 5-13. Estes, F. & Clark, R.E. (1999).
"Cognitive Task Analysis for Training," with Clark, R.E. International Journal of Educational Research, 25(5), 403-417. (1996).
"Technology or Craft: What Are We Doing?" with Clark, R.E. Educational Technology, 38(5), 5-11. (1998).
"The Development of Authentic Educational Technologies," with Clark, R.E. Educational Technology, 39(2), 5-16. (1999).
"A Proposal for the Collaborative Development of Authentic Performance Technology," with Clark, R.E. Performance Improvement, 39(4), 48-53. (2000).
Presentations
"What Science Teachers Should Know about Standardized Tests." Presented at 2006 Annual National Science Teacher Association Conference in Anahiem, CA.
"What Parents Should Know about Standardized Tests." Presented at 2004 and 2005 National Association of Gifted Children Conferences.
"Chemistry for Kids: Inquiry-based Elementary Science." Presented at California Science Teachers Association Annual Conferences in 2003, 2004, 2005 and National Science Teachers Conferences in 2004 and 2005.
Fred also co-wrote an article with Nueva science teacher Lisa Dettloff, in Understanding Our Gifted, called "Inquiring Minds: Reaching Gifted Students with Challenging Science." You can order a copy of it here.
Liza's critically-acclaimed one-woman show, American Joe, was performed at the Marsh Theater in Summer 2008, and will be going on the road in Fall 2009.
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