This program has been postponed to June 23, 2021.
For more information, visit: https://www.comlib.org/event/stegner-roundtable/
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VIRTUAL – Creating Pathways to Learning for Everyone – Session 2: “Closing the Opportunity Gap”
If you missed this program, you can now view it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGiv-Nrhbkc
Long before schools closed due to COVID-19, there were significant opportunity gaps in our education system. Students who live in lower income areas, students who are Latino, Native American or Black, and students with learning disabilities have been underserved. School closures are likely to worsen this issue unless we act now.
As a community, there are some immediate ways we can address the opportunity gap, but we also need to consider longer term, systemic solutions to ensure that all children have access to a high- quality education.
Tune in to session two of the Lee Pesky Learning Center and the Community Library’s three-part series about learning challenges, the opportunity gap and how we can use evidence-based practices and partnerships to meet the needs of all students.
During session two, Dr. Evelyn Johnson, CEO of Lee Pesky Learning Center, and moderator DeAnn Campbell, Children’s and Young Adult Director of The Community Library, will explain the science of learning, how learning has been compromised for too many students, and discuss both short and long-term solutions for overcoming these challenges.
This second session of the three-part series can be accessed via Crowdcast live stream at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29. The presentation includes a moderated Q&A.
If you’d like to watch the first session, it can be viewed here.
DeAnn Campbell is the Children’s and Young Adult Director of The Community Library, a privately funded public library in Ketchum, Idaho. The Library serves the Wood River Valley through its library services, contemporary programming, and museum resources, and works to bring information, ideas, and individuals together to enhance the cultural life of the community.
Dr. Evelyn Johnson is the CEO of the Lee Pesky Learning Center and professor in the Early and Special Education Department at Boise State University’s College of Education. Lee Pesky Learning Center is a non-profit, based in Boise and in Hailey, that works with students, families, schools and communities to understand and overcome obstacles to learning.
VIRTUAL – Creating Pathways to Learning for Everyone – Session 3: “Reaching All Learners this Coming School Year”
If you missed this program, you can now view it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGiv-Nrhbkc
We often think about learning only in terms of instruction that is missed, and how that affects academic skills. But there is so much more that happens during a school day to help students become independent, resilient, and self-regulated learners. Social-emotional learning is critical, especially during these stressful times.
Tune in to Lee Pesky Learning Center and The Community Library’s three-part series about learning challenges, the opportunity gap and how we can use evidence-based practices and partnerships to meet the needs of all students.
During session three, Dr. Evelyn Johnson, CEO of Lee Pesky Learning Center, and moderator Martha Williams, Program and Education Manager of The Community Library, will examine the data and predictions for the impact of school closures on classrooms, discuss what classrooms will need, and what solutions are available to support.
This third session of the three-part series can be accessed via Crowdcast live stream at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 13. The presentation includes a moderated Q&A.
If you’d like to watch the first session, it can be viewed here.
Martha Williams is the Programs and Education Manager of The Community Library, a privately funded public library in Ketchum, Idaho. The Library serves the Wood River Valley through its library services, contemporary programming, and museum resources, and works to bring information, ideas, and individuals together to enhance the cultural life of the community.
Dr. Evelyn Johnson is the CEO of the Lee Pesky Learning Center and professor in the Early and Special Education Department at Boise State University’s College of Education. Lee Pesky Learning Center is a non-profit, based in Boise and in Hailey, that works with students, families, schools and communities to understand and overcome obstacles to learning.
VIRTUAL – Creating Pathways to Learning for Everyone – Session 1: “Learning Challenges & the Opportunity Gap”
If you missed this program, you can now view it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGiv-Nrhbkc
School closures have widened the already existing opportunity gap in education. If we do not address these inequities full-on, there will be lifelong consequences for children who struggle.
Forecasts based on historical data from summer loss and previous school closures during natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina suggest that students will return to school this fall at about 65% of where they would have been. That is the average impact – it will not be felt equally. Students who were already struggling will fall further behind as students who were performing near the top will likely accelerate their learning.
The good news is that as a community, we can change this.
Join us for the Lee Pesky Learning Center and The Community Library’s three-part series about learning challenges, the opportunity gap and how we can use evidence-based practices and partnerships to meet the needs of all students.
During the first session, Dr. Evelyn Johnson, CEO of Lee Pesky Learning Center, and moderator Dr. Jenny Emery Davidson, Executive Director of The Community Library, will explain the widening opportunity gap for students with learning challenges, and how short-term set-backs can result in a lifetime of lost potential for students from underserved populations.
This first session of the three-part series will be streamed on Crowdcast at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14. The presentation includes a moderated Q&A.
Dr. Evelyn Johnson is the CEO of the Lee Pesky Learning Center and professor in the Early and Special Education Department at Boise State University’s College of Education. Lee Pesky Learning Center is a non-profit, based in Boise and in Hailey, that works with students, families, schools and communities to understand and overcome obstacles to learning.
Dr. Jenny Emery Davidson is the executive director of The Community Library, a privately funded public library in Ketchum, Idaho. The Library serves the Wood River Valley through its library services, contemporary programming, and museum resources, and works to bring information, ideas, and individuals together to enhance the cultural life of the community.
VIRTUAL – Tech Class with Paul: “Exploring the Apple Watch”
Join our tech expert Paul Zimmerman for his July class, which will explore the Apple Watch. Paul will be using a special camera to make the working of the Watch larger as he walks us through the device’s functionality and potential. A moderated Q&A will follow his presentation.
The virtual presentation will begin at 6:00 p.m. on LIVESTREAM.
Questions? Email mwilliams@comlib.org.
Photo courtesy of iMore.com.
“Hemingway’s Sun Valley: Local Stories Behind His Code, Characters, and Crisis” with Phil Huss
Join The Community Library on Thursday, July 21 to celebrate the release of the new book, Hemingway’s Sun Valley: Local Stories Behind His Code, Characters, and Crisis by local author Phil Huss. Huss will share unpublished stories about Hemingway’s adventures in Idaho, and discuss principles of the author’s “Heroic Code.”
This event will be held outdoors on the Library lawn. **FACE MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING ARE REQUIRED.** No reservations are needed, and space around the site will be available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 5:30. Books will be available for sale following the presentation. All books will be pre-signed to limit handling.
We are hoping to record this program if you are interested in watching from home at a later date. Thank you in advance to all attendees for following our requests to make this event possible!
In this new book, Huss delves into previously unpublished stories about Hemingway’s adventures in Idaho, with each chapter focusing on one principle of the author’s “Heroic Code.” Huss interweaves how both local Idaho stories and passages from the luminary’s works embody each principle. Readers will appreciate Hemingway’s affinity for Idaho and his passion for principles that all would do well to follow.
Huss writes, “It was a cold, ‘windless, blue sky day’ in the fall of 1939 near Silver Creek—a blue-ribbon trout stream south of Sun Valley. Ernest Hemingway flushed three mallards and got each duck with three pulls. He spent the morning working on his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Local hunting guide Bud Burdy attested, ‘You could have given him a million dollars and he wouldn’t have been any happier.'” Some of Hemingway’s finest days were spent writing, hunting, and enjoying “the family” of locals of the Wood River Valley. Some of his most challenging days were spent here as well. In his talk, Phil Huss will take us back to the halcyon and harrowing days Hemingway spent in this valley.
Philip Huss is an independent school English teacher and writer from Hailey, Idaho. A teacher for 25 years, he has taught for twenty years at Sun Valley Community School. Phil teaches a course on Hemingway at SVCS and has published articles related to his research on Hemingway in Sun Valley Magazine and BigLife Magazine. He is a frequent speaker and discussion leader at the Ernest Hemingway Seminar held each September at The Community Library. At the Tugboat Institute in Ketchum, Phil has also presented to business leaders on how the Hemingway heroic code can serve as a platform for codifying core principles of a company. Phil graduated with a BA in English from Amherst College and a MA in English from Boston College.
