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<div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial, helvetica;font-size:10pt;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">WCOAGC is excited to offer January professional development through ZOOM with Dr. Desiree Sharp, Torrance Center Program Coordinator and Dr. Anna Abraham, E. Paul Torrance Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Director of Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development. This offering for using the “Torrance Toolbox” will be in two sessions:</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:transparent;">Session 1:</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> </span><u style="background-color:transparent;">Using the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking for Assessment and Beyond</u></font></span></div>
<div style=""><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">In this Professional Development workshop, the Torrance Center will detail the creativity components measured by the TTCT and how we can use students' performance to inform classroom curriculum development. We also will give PD participants ideas for how to use warm-ups to easily establish a creative learning environment, including suggestions for short-term performance evaluation.<br clear="none"></font></span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">Session 2: <u>A Deeper Look at the Creative Classroom</u></font></span></div>
<div style=""><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2">This second Professional Development workshop offered by the Torrance Center will go deeper into how we design a creative learning environment and address limitations faced by many gifted collaborators and coordinators. Participants in this workshop will be given tools to enhance creativity at the level of the individual student, collaborative group projects, and the overall classroom climate and culture. Many of our tools will be based on Creative Problem Solving strategies.</font></span>
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The WCOAGC Planning Committee</span></div>
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