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Stefanie Kessen

Stefanie Kessen

Stefanie Kessen, M.Ed, founder of The Online Itinerant, has over 25 years of experience working with students with hearing loss and building relationships with the team that supports those children. Her roles have included Teacher of the Deaf, Community Interpreter, Education Specialist, and Family Advocate.

In 2017, she recognized that the key to changing the lives of the children was to support the adults who work with them. Through this epiphany, the vision of the Online Itinerant, an online portal that would create a community of support and provide for Professional Development needs and beyond, was born. The Online Itinerant currently supports nearly 1,000 professionals and family members or children who are deaf or hard of hearing, by building a community, providing professional development, and giving access to tools and resources through an online platform. To learn more, go to www.TheOnlineItinerant.com.

Presentation(s)

Blooming in a Dry Place - Maintaining your Grit Within the Desert

Let's face it. This job is hard! You may feel like you are living life in the desert with no water as far as the eye can see. But even in the driest of places, there is joy, life, and restoration. Find refreshment and learn how you can continue to bloom even in the toughest of conditions.

Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to identify 3 things that lead to burnout
  2. Participants will be able to identify 3 preventative measures to prevent burnout
  3. Participants will be able to identify at least 2 action steps they can take immediately enhance their working conditions to provide them with new motivation and joy for their job

Itinerant Hacks to Lighten the Load

Being an Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf often leaves you feeling like you are living on the run! With your car as your office and your phone as your primary communication tool, this Meet-Up will show you some secret hacks to help you go paper-less and impact-more.

Bring your computers to this hands on session. 

Objectives:

  1. Inservice teachers all year long on the needs and progress of your student/s
  2. Easily send follow-up emails letting people know what happened during DHH sessions
  3. Send automatic reminders to teachers about DHH service visits.
  4. Keep lesson plans, records and important info easily organized and easily accessible through a paper-less system