Educator Workshops

See the possibility in every moment.

Hollingworth Preschool is pleased to collaborate with Choose Creativity, Lulu & Leo Fund, in offering Teachers College graduate students a 3 hour workshop on Creativity. 

Choose Creativity is an initiative that empowers children and adults through a curriculum to engage with the 10 Principles of Creativity to build resilience, creative confidence, and social-emotional skills. The 10 Principles serve as stances for educators to embrace to welcome more creativity into their classrooms and lives.

 The 10 Principles of Creativity include: 

Authentic

Resourceful 

Curious

Unconventional

Patient

Expressive

Intuitive

Present

Inventive

Inspired

The workshop will include an introduction to the Lulu & Leo Fund, the Choose Creativity Initiative, and the 10 Principles of Creativity. Through discussion and hands-on activities, educators will learn to apply the Principles to their own lives and with their students focusing on creativity as a mindset. Participants will have the opportunity to practice using the Principles to foster creative questioning, encourage process praise, and make literary connections. The goal for the workshop is for all educators will leave with a deeper appreciation and understanding of their 10 creative superpowers.

In collaboration with the educators from the Monarch Teacher Network, Hollingworth Preschool hosted one and half day workshops focusing on the interactions between nature, science, art, creative expression, and technology. Engaging teachers in the philosophical approaches regarding the role of nature in education, teachers are provided opportunities for rich hands on experiences and activities to directly bring back into the classroom! Workshops are held in the classroom as well as at our local parks, emphasizing nature as classroom and teacher.

Each fall, monarch butterflies from the U.S. and Canada begin a 2,000 mile migration to Mexico. The following spring, their great grandchildren return. 'Teaching and Learning With Monarch Butterflies' is a two-day teacher workshop combining classroom and field experiences emphasizing the journey and life cycle of the Monarch butterfly. Participants are provided with the knowledge, skills, materials and confidence to raise Monarchs in the classroom and create an outstanding learning experience for their students.

A year long celebration, Hollingworth Preschool hosted several educators workshops, teacher reunions, and family events to to commemorate 30 years of Hollingworth Preschool. We also hosted a an educational conference for educators featuring the keynote speaker Peter Gray, Ph.D. who spoke on: The Purposes of Play: Insights from Evolutionary Psychology. The conference included we also offered professional development workshops led by members of the Hollingworth Preschool leadership team on the topics of Intentionality, Respect for Children, and Aesthetics, in addition to offering Open House Tours of the preschool.