Registration Open for Two Virtual Professional Development Opportunities

 The Play Make Learn Conference is coming up August 5-6, 2021.What's this conference about?

The Play Make Learn Conference promotes high-quality learning opportunities for educators, researchers, developers, designers, foundation leaders, policy makers, museum and library professionals, and school leaders who are dedicated to promoting making, gaming, and playful learning. We aim to engage our audience in cutting-edge learning science ideas and experience; communicate state-of-the-art design, education, and research; demonstrate new and upcoming games and technology; and network to spark new projects.

 Learn more and register here.

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Also coming up on August 5 is the Reading Picture Books with Children Through a Race-Conscious Lens webinar from the Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL). What's its scope?

This webinar will introduce participants to tools from the Whole Book Approach, a co-constructive (interactive) method of sharing picture books with children, which educator and children’s literature expert Megan Dowd Lambert developed in association with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She and writer and educator Hannah Gómez, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, will talk about how using the Whole Book Approach can support kids’ critical engagement with picture book representations of race through art and text. Participants will gain insight into how to guide children to picture books with positive racial representations, while also supporting them in resisting or reading against problematic, racist content. 

Register here and a Zoom link is provided; this webinar will also be recorded.