Learning Stories in Practice-10 Part Series

Join one of the founders of Learning Stories in this series of 10 webinars on the book, Learning Stories in Practice. Series includes a summary to start, overviews of each book chapter, and closes with a special session with Margaret Carr.

Learning Stories Beginner Series (3 hours)

This series includes 3 of our best courses for beginners, each from the perspective of our variety of instructors. Enjoy and learn at your own pace.

Learning Stories to Support Families Navigating Foster Care

In this session, social worker, Kaite Scott, will share how she has incorporated Learning Stories into her work with children in foster care, to support them in maintaining a connection with their families.

Bolstering Anti-Bias Practices with Learning Stories

Learning Stories can serve as a powerful tool support an Anti-Bias teaching approach. In this session, we will explore the 4 goals of Anti-Bias Education and how our Learning Stories can support them.

Learning Stories to Support STEM with Infants and Toddlers

Infants and toddlers are natural STEM learners. They approach the world with curiosity and wonder. This session will discuss using Learning Stories to support and make visible infants' and toddlers' explorations, discoveries, and learning.

Using Learning Stories to Support Transitions

Transitions between classrooms can be a time of big emotions for young children, their families, and their teachers. Learning Stories can serve as a powerful tool to support and guide us through this time of changes.

Provocations Using Learning Stories as Agents of Agency

Learning Stories can be agents of agency, provocateurs of pro-action. Observation. Provocation. Collection. Action. Reflection. A cycle of Learning Stories expands the child’s agency in her own. Zach explains.

Lifting Others With Learning Stories

How can we give back to teachers using Learning Stories? This session will cover writing stories as a supervisor and coach, documenting teaching practices, and using Learning Stories as a language of appreciation and gratitude.

Strengthening Resilience in Young Children using Learning Stories

Join Santa Clara University’s Barbara Burns to deepen your understanding of the importance of resilience skills in early childhood. Learn to create your own ‘resilience-building lens’ in Learning Stories and share them with children and families.

Modeling Behavior for Children by Sharing Learning Stories About Colleagues, Zach Bernstein

Writing Learning Stories about our colleagues in ECE can deepen all of our relationships and enrich all our learning experiences. Sharing these Learning Stories with the children lets them see their teachers walking the walk.

Writing About You, a Way to Practice Learning Stories

A great way to learn is by working with the familiar. In writing, that is writing about yourself and what's going on in your life. This webinar shows how to build your Learning Story writing skills doing just that.

Introducing Families to the Virtues of Learning Stories

This session will dive into ideas on introducing families to story-telling and how to point out the virtues of Learning Stories. From there, how to partner with families when creating stories and portfolios and supporting the families’ voice.

Learning Stories as a Tool to Work Through Challenging Behaviors

Since Learning Stories always focus on strengths, it is often assumed that they cannot serve as a tool to address challenging behaviors. But, Learning Stories can, in fact, help us reflect on and devise strategies to support challenging behavior.

Play & Learning Stories Series 3: Learning Dispositions and Social-Emotional Skills

This course will help you to both see opportunities in play and then use Learning Stories to reflect on appropriate responses to support learning dispositions and social-emotional skills.

Authentic Learning Stories that Engage

Learn what should be included in a quality learning story, making connections to lenses for learning, Te Whariki, and journeys of discovery.

Learning Stories-An Introduction

Learn about the origins and thinking behind Learning Stories, and their structure, with examples.

Build Relationships Using Learning Stories

Allyson Montana talks about how to use Learning Stories to build connections with children, families and teaching peers. Parents understanding their child's learning builds trust and authentic collaboration.

Writing Learning Stories in Bilingual Settings

Many communities are bilingual, and Learning Stories offer unique opportunities to engage families with different home languages. Learn approaches to connect with children and their families, even though you may not speak the home langage.

Share Your Teaching & Yourself in Learning Stories

In Learning Stories, the teacher is part of the story, as opposed to being an invisible bystander. This webinar is about how to include your own struggles, wonderings, and learnings. And how to weave your philosophies into your stories.

Building Your Learning Story from What You Capture

This course will walk you through how to use the pictures and videos you take throughout your work day to serve as the foundation of your Learning Stories. Bring your stories to life with strong images!

Play & Learning Stories Series 1: Observe to Guide Intentional Teaching

This course will guide you through the Notice, Recognise, Respond process: noticing and recognising the learning in the play and planning how best to respond to these observations in meaningful ways.

Play & Learning Stories Series 2: Math Concepts and Language Skills

In this webinar, we'll learn how to recognize math concepts and early language opportunities in play, and then how to use those insights in your teaching response.

How Learning Stories Capture Play-Based Learning

Many services embrace a play-based approach, but they use assessments that do not truly capture the learning growth of their approach. Many also struggle to communicate the value of play. Kelly Goodsir explains how Learning Stories achieve that goal.

Transitioning a Center to Learning Stories

This session aims to help those in leadership roles get started with Learning Stories in their programs.Elements covered could include generating staff and family buy-in and enthusiasm, supporting staff with beginning to write and developing comfor