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Stephanie Slobotkin Leen

Early Learning School - Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center Denver
Judaic Specialist - Early Childhood Educator
Denver, Colorado
Early Childhood Education using Jewish lenses to enhance developmentally appropriate practices that inspire curiosity, creativity and critical thinking.
Sunday, May 5
 

5:00pm CDT

Welcome to the Conference! Feinberg Theater

5:30pm CDT

Family Mission Statements, Storytelling, Rituals, and Agile Development: Fresh Ideas to Empower Today's Families to Thrive Feinberg TheaterBruce Feiler

6:45pm CDT

Dinner Crown Family Great Hall

8:00pm CDT

Break

8:15pm CDT

Teaching as Love: Unpacking the Anatomy of Contextual Curriculum Room 711AStephanie Leen • Lauren Weatherly

9:30pm CDT

Dessert Reception Landing on 2nd Floor
 
Monday, May 6
 

7:45am CDT

Breakfast Landing on 2nd Floor

9:00am CDT

Atelier Exploration 10th Floor Atrium Teaching as Love: Unpacking the Anatomy of Contextual Curriculum Room 711ALauren Weatherly • Stephanie Leen

10:30am CDT

Break Networking: Family Buy-In Landing on 2nd Floor Networking: Infant and Toddler Educators Unite! Landing on 2nd Floor

11:00am CDT

A Morning with Wendy Mogel Feinberg TheaterWendy Mogel

12:15pm CDT

Networking: Chicago Teachers Project (A Laboratory for Jewish Early Childhood Education) Landing on 2nd Floor Networking: JECELI (Jewish Early Childhood Education Leadership Institute Landing on 2nd Floor

12:30pm CDT

Break

12:45pm CDT

Lunch Crown Family Great Hall

1:00pm CDT

Sewing Circle Landing on 2nd FloorTurhan Karabey

2:00pm CDT

Havdalah with Wakefield Workshops The Jewish Depot (9th Floor)Wakefield Workshops

3:30pm CDT

Break Networking: Building Leadership Capacity Landing on 2nd Floor Networking: USCJ-Affiliated Early Childhood Programs Landing on 2nd Floor

4:00pm CDT

Lag B'Omer with Wakefield Workshops The Jewish Depot (9th Floor)Wakefield Workshops

5:15pm CDT

Break

5:30pm CDT

Dinner Crown Family Great Hall

6:45pm CDT

Transportation to Celebration and Dockside Experiences In Front of Spertus Institute

8:00pm CDT

5th Annual Paradigm Project Celebration on Lake Michigan Off-Site
 
Tuesday, May 7
 

7:45am CDT

Breakfast Landing on 2nd Floor

8:30am CDT

Art Institute Art Institute (Meet in the entrance vestibule for Spertus Institute)Turhan Karabey

9:00am CDT

Atelier Exploration 10th Floor Atrium Tu B'Shevat with Wakefield Workshops The Jewish Depot (9th Floor)Wakefield Workshops Using Jewish Learning Stories as a Curriculum Framework That Includes Families Room 723Lyndall Miller

10:30am CDT

Break Networking: Recruiting and On-boarding New Staff Landing on 2nd Floor

11:00am CDT

Beloved are People…Pirke Avot 3:14 Landing on 2nd FloorLyndall Miller Classical Music Appreciation Through Art : Classical MATTARS The Jewish Depot (9th Floor)Ethyl Treatman Emergent Curriculum Room 723 How Tot Shabbat can help you be a Family Ambassador Room 711CMaxine Handelman The Role of Early Childhood Educators in Forging a True Partnership with Parents: An Interview with Parenting Expert and Family Physician Deborah Gilboa Feinberg TheaterDr. Deborah Gilboa “We are Family”: Rethinking Family within an Anti-Bias Framework Room 423BIlana Dvorin Friedman

12:15pm CDT

Break

12:30pm CDT

Lunch and L'hitraot! Crown Family Great Hall