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Registration Closed.
Last Date to Register: 2/6/2017 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 2/5/2017 12:01 AM
Agency: CESA 10
Agency Assistant: Shari Owen 715-720-2060
Audience: Principals, Speech/Language Pathologists, Early Childhood Teachers, SOARING Grant district participants
Location: CESA 10
725 West Park Avenue
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
Facility: Conference Center (Rooms 1-2-3)
Date/Time:
2/7/2017 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Books Build Better Brains:  How Promoting Literacy is Key to Early Brain and Child Development

Presented by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria

February 7, 2017
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
CESA 10 Conference Center, Chippewa Falls

 

Morning Session (8:30 am-12:00 pm):

The focus of this session will be:
Child Health Advocacy (including advocacy training for health professionals and social media use in advocacy)

  • Screen Time (including electronic media)
  • The Role of Libraries (both public libraries and medical libraries)
  • Social Media and Web 2.0 Technologies

Afternoon Session:  (12:30-3:30 pm):

Educators involved in the SOARING Grant will work as teams.

 

Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He practices primary care pediatrics at Access Community Health Center. He is the founder and director of the Pediatric Early Literacy Projects at the University of Wisconsin, and is also the founding medical director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin. With respect to education, Dr Navsaria is the director of advocacy training for the pediatric residency, and is frequently involved in medical student and physician assistant education from the clinical arena through myriad small group and lecture formats. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the Pediatric Interest Group and is the director of the MD-MPH program at the University of Wisconsin.

 

Target Audience:  Principals, Speech/Language Pathologists, Early Childhood Teachers, SOARING Grant district participants

Cost:  No charge to CESA 10 CSPD (Comprehensive System of Personnel Development) member school districts; $25 to non-member districts.

Registration deadline:  February 3, 2017
Registration is done electronically through MyQuickReg (www.myquickreg.com)