JOIN US FOR THIS LIMITED 90 MINUTE VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

Teaching Developmentally Appropriate Advocacy Skills to Children

Educators for Peaceful Classrooms and Communities, the leading peace training organization for educators, offers this limited-time free workshop!

Saturday, March 29, 2025, 9:00AM to 10:30AM PDT

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Presentation Available in Spanish

Using Zoom’s Language Interpretation feature, our workshop will be presented in both English and Spanish. Participants can choose their language choice once logged into the meeting. Simultaneous translation services generously provided by Orange County Child Care Association.

About the Workshop

This workshop explores advocacy from a teacher’s perspective, focusing on both self-advocacy skills for educators and strategies to help children confidently advocate for themselves and others.

Peaceful Advocacy is acting with respect, consideration, listening and taking in another person’s perspective, and conflict resolution.

What We Will Cover

Showing children how to peacefully advocate for themselves and others is two-fold. Children see how you interact with people of all ages and how they respond. We model constantly and consciously set a foundation for children to explore and learn advocacy skills. Secondly, advocacy between children is peaceful, agreeable conflict resolution. We will explore how to teach children 2-12 about advocacy and ways to practice in a classroom or group atmosphere.

Meet the Presenters

Gaby Litsky

PRESENTER
Gaby specialty is teaching Peace Education to young children, creating foundations for caring communities of learners. She has the ability to transform philosophical constructs into “on the floor” language, tools and strategies. She is also a fabric and paint artist, experienced singer and dancer.
Marcia Stein

PRESENTER
Marcia Stein was head Teacher/Director, then Executive Director of a childcare center for school aged children for 18 years. She served on the Santa Cruz County Human Care Alliance and the County Human Services Commission. She has had extensive experience in nonprofit management, event planning, graphics, marketing, newsletter publishing, and website management.
Veronica Hernandez

PRESENTER
Veronica has been working in the ECE field for over 20 years. First as a teacher at the Fullerton College Child Care Center and then as a Lead Teacher at the Fullerton College Department Lab School. Her passion lies in the foundations of Peace Education and the Anti-Bias approach to education.