Eastern Suffolk BOCES Employees Celebrate Diversity!

GOLETA, Calif. - April 9, 2015 - PRLog -- Eastern Suffolk BOCES employees celebrate diversity with presenter, Ramona Moreno Winner, Monday, June 29, 2015, from 8:30 – 2:30 p.m., at the Instructional Support Center in Holbrook, NY.

Mrs. Winner’s workshop, Planting Seeds of Acceptance, will focus on exploring cultural practices and traditions that drive individuals and whole cultural groups.  Workshop participants will celebrate our diverse population and learn how to promote cultural discussion while meeting core curriculum requirement in Language Arts, Science, Social Sciences and History.  This presentation promotes breaking down barriers of ignorance that can create fear and dissension.

Mrs. Winner’s workshop is not only informative, it is very interactive and provides opportunities for new experiences, such as sampling unusual snacks other cultures find common!

Ramona Moreno Winner, author of award winning titles:  Global Cultural Trivia, Lucas and His Loco Beans, Freaky Foods From Around the World and The Wooden Bowl, has traveled to 14 different countries where she has experienced being a non-speaker of the local language and a minority.  Ramona’s mission is to plant seeds of tolerance and acceptance by promoting learning and understanding of individuals we find as being different from ourselves.  To learn more about how to help individuals embrace their own unique characteristics, visit Ramona’s website at http://www.plantsoa.us