PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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PACT Professional Development Days (PDD) will  be virtual and in-person in 2023-2024. 

PACT will hold a virtual fall event on both Thursday, October 19 and Wednesday, October 25 with sessions from 3pm-5pm and 7pm-9pm both days.  PACT will also hold an in-person event for the spring on Thursday, March 14 from 9am-1pm.  

Spring 2023-Professional Developmental Day Resource: https://storiesbyhand.com/pact/

"Hands Up! Hands-On!: Active Multicultural Literacy through Signing, Stories, and More” 

by Kathy MacMillian 

Presenter's Biography:

Kathy MacMillan (she/her) is a writer, nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter, librarian, and signing storyteller. She writes picture books, children’s nonfiction, middle-grade and young-adult fiction, and resource books for librarians, parents, and educators. She has presented hundreds of programs for children and families and is the author of the Little Hands Signing series (Familius Press), as well as Little Hands and Big Hands: Children and Adults Signing Together (Hands Up Press) and Multicultural Storytime Magic (ALA Editions). Find her online at www.storiesbyhand.com. 

Presenters

Trainers who would like to present a workshop at a future PACT Professional Development Day, please complete the Presenter's Proposal Form and submit to Bernadine Occhiuzzo and Doreen Bunten