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Listed below is an abbreviated list of conference presentations and staff development workshops that Jeanette Toomer designed and facilitated.
She has worked as a consultant, trainer and facilitator for several organizations including the Morningside Center for Social Responsibility, New York City Department of Education, Visions Vacation Camp for the Blind, LEAP and the Association of Black Educators of New York.
Presentations and Workshops
Upcoming Workshops
Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012
"Empowering Black and Latino Youth Through Culturally Relevant Literature" - Workshop I -10:30 AM ABENY Annual Education Conference Facilitator: Jeanette Toomer, DDL
Frederick Douglass Academy 149th St. and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., New York, NY
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Tuesday. Nov. 19, 2012
"History Behind The Bluest Eye: Connecting to the Research Paper" CEL Conference at MGM Grand Hotel Las Vegas, Nevada For more information, visit www.ncte.org
Presenter: Jeanette Toomer, DDL
Previous workshops:
"Drama, Discovery and Learning," Creative Drama Panel Presentation
National Black Theatre Network Conference
August 6, 1993
Winston-Salem, NC
“Stop the Violence: Youth Working it Out”
Drama-in-Education and youth video project
Grand Street Settlement, Manhattan
June 1994
“LES Community Action Project: Claiming the Hood”
Drama-in-Education sessions and youth video project
Grand Street Settlement
1994-1995
“Resolving Conflicts and Waging Peace”
Youth on Violence Conference
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
March 30, 1996
“Drama and Conflict Resolution”
NYC Board of Education
Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP)
Institute on Conflict Resolution
April 27, 1996
“Exploring Racism”
This workshop explored the social and cultural foundations of racism and how it continues to impact us today. This session involves participants in problem-posing and small group work and drama strategies.
RCCP Second Annual Citywide Institute
May 3 and 4, 1997
School for the Physical City, Manhattan
“Conflict Resolution and Drama”
NYSTEA Share Your Drama Power Conference
March 27, 1999
“Resolving Conflict and Affirming Diversity”
Summer Staff Professional Development Workshop
Visions Vacation Camp for the Blind
July 2000 and June 2005
“Preventing Sexual Harassment” Training
Community School District 19, Brooklyn
Board of Education/Guidance Counselors
January 2001
“Disabilities Diversity Training: Affirming Diversity and Building Community”
All Staff--Three-Day Professional Development Series
Visions Vacation Camp for the Blind
June 27, 28, July 1st, 2001
Child Abuse Staff Training – Awareness and Reporting
Harlem Youth Enrichment Center, Manhattan
June 28, 2002
New Teacher Orientation
NYC Department of Education, Four Day Training for New Teachers
Washington Irving High School, Manhattan
August 20-25, 2007
“Motivating Reluctant Readers and Writers Through the Power of Poetry.”
ABENY (Association of Black Educators of New York) Education Conference
Frederick Douglass Academy, Harlem, New York
Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011
Ms. Toomer will share how she inspires and “ignites” student learning through the power of poetry. In her workshop, the presenter will demystify poetry by sharing instructional practices designed to engage students in creative thinking and interpretation of poetry, as well as ways to create their own poetry. In the process, students’ life experiences are used as the basis for student writing.
“Mining Gold: The Writer, the Story and the Storyteller”
Co-presenter: Andrene Bonner
NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) National Convention, Chicago, IL
Palmer House/Adams Room, 6th fl.
Saturday, November 19, 2011 1:15-2:30 p.m.
Writing Tips for Teachers
Recommended by Jeanette Toomer
You can do this by either writing it as a model during the mini-lesson before the work period, or distribute copies of a it (for example, a summary) and read it aloud with the the students showing how it captures the main idea, key words, topics and important details.
In your mini-lesson use underlining or circling to teach students how to mark important facts, reasons, examples or details that they use as textual evidence when they write about the article or textbook passage.
and/or write opinions about what they’ve learned in a lesson.
Example of Exit Writes: (Debriefing Tool)
What is one thing I learned today that I’d like to remember?
Why is summarizing a helpful writing skill?
Make writing a group activity.
Have students work together in small groups and have each
student write a paragraph in a five-paragraph essay. Then
they read it aloud with their partners. Have them share with another
group.
Writing takes practice and more practice!
Writing is a craft. To become good at it takes practice.
Incorporate a writing activity in each lesson. Praise their efforts!
how to prewrite in order to develop ideas for writing assignments.
Trouble the Waters
By Jeanette Toomer
This is a riveting award-winning documentary of devastation and emotional trauma of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Filmed by Katrina survivors and novice filmmakers this film captures the damaging effects of Katrina on a black family and community in New Orleans.
Recently, I had the opportunity to view this compelling documentary at BAAD Theater in the Bronx. It disturbed me that so many people, predominantly black citizens, had to struggle to survive in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina flooding New Orleans.
DDL maintains a blog at dramadiscoveryand learning.com/blog.html. Feel free to write in your response to queries or entries.
Join NCTE in Celebrating Literacy Education Advocacy Month
The NCTE Literacy Education Advocacy Calendarlists possibilities, from sharing NCTE positions with your colleagues to visiting your state lawmakers while they're home in April to taking part in NCTE's Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., on April 19.
Using NCTE's 2009 Legislative Platform to Influence Literacy Education
by Kent Williamson, NCTE Executive Director
If there was any doubt that change was in the air on Capitol Hill shortly after the inauguration ceremonies, those doubts were blown away in the first hours of meetings between the NCTE Government Relations Platform Writing Team and key legislative staffers on January 29. After three days of meetings and careful drafting to zero in on the issues where Council action can prove influential, the 2012 Legislative Platformwas ready.
Platform Highlights: The thrust of our platform is to encourage Congress to take a comprehensive approach to supporting literacy learning. It is grounded in the need to provide every student with the kinds of rich learning challenges that will imbue them with the critical communicative and analytic abilities referenced in our definition of 21st century literacies. To accomplish this, it sets out ambitious literacy education reform criteria for Congress and other federal authorities in the areas of
assessment;
an inclusive definition of scientifically valid research;
writing and reading as equal, interdependent components of literacy development;
support for English Language Learners and the youngest literacy learners (those under age five); and
job-embedded professional development.
Making it Happen: With these powerful goals established, there are three primary pillars to our government relations strategy this year:
1. Work with allied literacy groups to put together a bill (either as a component of reform of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or as a free-standing measure) that funds comprehensive literacy planning at the state and district levels.
2. Inform our members and their departments/districts of how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding (stimulus monies) and other sources of federal support can be used to access NCTE resources and other high quality teacher learning materials.
3. Build broad support for a congressional measure to establish October 20, 2009 as the National Day on Writing.
For more information on the National Council of Teachers of English literacy education platform and activities, visit their website at ncte.org. Their annual conference is scheduled for mid-November in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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