Join us for a conversation about two powerful new books all teachers of young children will want to have on their bookshelves: Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers and Pursuing Bad Guys: Joining Children’s Quest for Clarity, Courage and Community. About Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers Story Workshop is an approach to supporting literacy in the early years that prioritizes meaning-making through immersion in play, the arts, and sharing stories. This approach, first developed in pre-K and primary grades classrooms at Opal School in Portland, Oregon, USA, has since found unique growth in fertile grounds of teacher-research in schools around the world. Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers, published this year by Heinemann, involves teachers in thinking about how the approach might inspire experimentation and innovation to build on and expand a strong image of all children. The book offers new support for your effort to create post-pandemic learning environments that meet children where they are to connect and create new worlds. About Pursuing Bad Guys: Joining Children’s Quest for Clarity, Courage and Community Children are on a quest to understand what it means to be human, and their dramatic play and stories are rich explorations of ethical human truths that are exposed in the confrontation between good guys and bad guys. Pursuing Bad Guys is a story of courage as Donna King brings the reader along on her year-long commitment to stay present to - and curious about - the bad guy play of the children she is working with, in all its noise and fierceness and running and yelling and tackling and battling. Pursuing Bad Guys is the most recent entry in the Exchange Press Reimagining Our Work Collection. This free conversation will be held between authors Susan Harris MacKay and Donna King, thoughtful reader Ann Pelo, and you. Susan Harris MacKay began developing the story workshop approach as a classroom teacher exploring the question, What is the relationship between literacy and the arts? Her work as a teacher, author, and professional development leader has focused on strengthening relationships between play, beauty, and justice. Having formerly anchored work at Portland Children’s Museum and Opal School, she now leads Center for Playful Inquiry and Story Workshop Studio. In 1990, Donna King partnered with a group of teachers and parents to launch a small, non-profit early education program in Durham, North Carolina. Since then, “Children First” has been a close-knit, lively community where children are seen and celebrated as unique individuals, spend lots of time outdoors developing a deep connection with nature, communicate their feelings and thoughts through many expressive languages, and where their development as creators, thinkers, citizens, and friends is documented. Ann Pelo is a pedagogical guide and author whose primary work focuses on reflective practice, social justice and ecological teaching and learning, and the art of mentoring. Her books include From Teaching to Thinking: A Pedagogy for Reimagining Our Work and The Goodness of Rain: Developing an Ecological Identity in Young Children. She is a Convening Member of the Reimagining Our Work Initiative. Whether you’ve already devoured these books, just begun to leaf through their photo-rich pages, or only just started by reading the previews on the publishers’ websites, we hope you’ll join us for a rich (free!) conversation about these important new titles.   WEBINAR DATE: 12th of November 2021 TIME Dubai 6:00 am | India 7:30 am | Beijing 10:00 am | Sydney 1:00 pm which corresponds to San Francisco 6:00 pm | New York 9:00 pm on the 11th of November 2021. This session will be recorded. Please register with the link below.   Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctdu2spz0oH9anTbF2UOKAu_5Fa2vNLNm-   Emails: shonal@chaptersinternational.com admin@chaptersinternational.com chaptersinternational@gmail.com www.chaptersinternational.com +91-9818362535