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Arizona
July 21-23, 2008
September 23, 2008
November 4, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
National School Reform Faculty Arizona Center of
Activity
NSRF national facilitator: Carrie Brennan |
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This institute is offered most summers. Check back for
2008 dates. |
Critical Friends Group
Facilitator Training
IMPORTANT: This is a single
institute that is conducted in three different
settings.
Audience: teacher leaders
professional developers, instructional coaches,
principals, and other administrators
This intensive training gives
participants the background information and skills
needed to coach Critical Friends Groups (CFGs) at
their sites. Participants will learn strategies to
develop, facilitate, and sustain professional
learning communities in their districts and schools,
specifically: protocols teachers can use to examine
student work strategies and activities to build a
learning community among colleagues methods to
document and reflect on teacher and student growth
approaches to conduct peer observation.
Credit: Thirty-five
hours of professional development credit.
For more information,
E-mail
Lisa Caraboa
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Cost: $450 per person
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California
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June 25-27, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
San Francisco
Coalition of Essential Small Schools |
Advisory as an Equity Pedagogy: What should an Advisory
program committed to personalization and equitable &
high achievement look like?
Schools must model a commitment
to equity-centered practices including an Advisory
program aligned with a school’s mission and vision and
focused on personalization and equitable, high
achievement. Participants will learn from the
experiences of advisors, students, and parents from
Leadership High School. After seeing examples of
structures that allow advisors to support students
academically and emotionally, they will explore or
refine their own schools’ advisory program from mission
and vision to signature curriculum—from schedule to
staffing to budget. Participants will create a blueprint
of key assessments and core curriculum. Recommended for
school teams.
For more information,
E-mail Gregory Peters or call him at 415-992-5007.
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Cost: $525 per person ($378 with all discounts).
PLT members
qualify for the all discounts, which otherwise are offered
to only SF-CESS, CES Affiliates, students, and teams of
three or more. |
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June 23-24, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
San Francisco
Coalition of Essential Small Schools |
Student Activities: How can a student activities
program foster school community, develop student
leadership AND encourage more diverse and equitable
student engagement?
This workshop is
co-led by students and provides a model from which
participants consider their schools’ missions and
visions and design thematic, yearlong activities
programs that foster a sense of fun while also
developing community and leaders within it. Teams will
begin developing a plan for the year. Recommended for
Activities Directors and student government rep.
For more information,
E-mail Gregory Peters or call him at 415-992-5007.
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Cost: $350 per person ($252 with all discounts).
PLT members
qualify for the all discounts, which otherwise are offered
to only SF-CESS, CES Affiliates, students, and teams of
three or more. |
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June 23-24, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
San Francisco
Coalition of Essential Small Schools |
Data-Based
Inquiry (DBI): How can we use formal inquiry to identify
and prioritize what matters most within our school’s
achievement gap and foster a culture of shared
leadership and responsibility for our results?
This workshop will
model a formal cycle of inquiry and help participants
explore various ways to use DBI at their own schools to
identify and address inequitable gaps in student achievement. Participants
will use their own student data to understand their own
school better and inform a yearlong inquiry focus.
Recommended for small-school teams.
For more information,
E-mail Gregory Peters or call him at 415-992-5007.
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Cost:
$350
per person
($252 with all discounts).
PLT members
qualify for the all discounts, which otherwise are offered
to only SF-CESS, CES Affiliates, students, and teams of
three or more. |
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June 24, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
San Francisco
Coalition of Essential Small Schools |
Planning Backwards:
How do we design assessment and curriculum that truly is
authentic AND accountable to
state standards?
After exploring how
programs that allow for teacher expertise can
be more equitable, participants will use the planning
backwards process to create departmental and course
outcomes from their schools’ mission and vision, design
an authentic assessment, and identify key curriculum
related to their outcomes while considering state and
national standards. This one-day workshop is a great way
for curriculum design teams to begin or revitalize their
collaboration effort.
For more information,
E-mail Gregory Peters or call him at 415-992-5007.
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Cost: $175 per person
($126 with
all discounts).
PLT members
qualify for the all discounts, which otherwise are offered
to only SF-CESS, CES Affiliates, students, and teams of
three or more. |
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June 25-27, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
San Francisco
Coalition of Essential Small Schools |
Portfolios and
Exhibitions as
Authentic Assesments
This workshop will
provide curriculum examples to demonstrate why authentic
assessments more equitably support students to reflect on and publicly
defend their own learning and progress towards rigorous
outcomes. Participants will see portfolios and observe a
senior exhibition centered on an essential question
before taking time to design a plan to develop their own
authentic assessments that align with their schools’
mission and vision.
For more information,
E-mail Gregory Peters or call him at 415-992-5007.
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Cost: $525 per person
($378 with
all discounts)
PLT members
qualify for the all discounts, which otherwise are offered
to only SF-CESS, CES Affiliates, students, and teams of
three or more. |
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June 25-27, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
San Francisco
Coalition of Essential Small Schools |
Project-Based
Learning (PBL) in the math class
For
many of our students, Project (or Problem) Based
Learning provides a more relevant and meaningful
curriculum and teaching. This workshop will provide an
introduction to PBL with explicit focus on its use in
math classes—even math classes that feel the pressure of
standards-based, standardized tests, including a special
“Story Telling to the Standards” session. This will be a
great place for teams that will collaborate further or
receive coaching throughout the year.
For more information,
E-mail Gregory Peters or call him at 415-992-5007.
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Cost: $525 per person
($378 with
all discounts)
PLT members
qualify for the all discounts, which otherwise are offered
to only SF-CESS, CES Affiliates, students, and teams of
three or more. |
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July 25-26, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
San Francisco
Coalition of Essential Small Schools |
Professional
Development: How do we develop a Professional
Development program with curriculum that is focuses on
equitable student achievement and practices that model
the equity pedagogies we expect to see in our classes?
Participants will practice structures that encourage
diverse voices and encourage equitable participation
within professional development—and classrooms, while
considering how to use PD time to address a focused
effort towards closing achievement gaps within their
schools
For more information,
E-mail Gregory Peters or call him at 415-992-5007.
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Cost: $350 per person ($252 with all discounts).
PLT members
qualify for the all discounts, which otherwise are offered
to only SF-CESS, CES Affiliates, students, and teams of
three or more. |
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August 4-8, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
San Francisco
Coalition of Essential Small Schools |
Critical Friends
Groups Coaches Training: How do we establish and foster
professional
learning communities to build alliances across
differences and improve individual practice?
Participants will practice using formal tools/protocols
to develop community and alliances across differences
through inquiry and reflective practice. Participants
will leave better prepared to participate in and/or
facilitate equity-based professional learning
communities (CFGs or iGroups) focused on improving
individual practice towards equitable student
achievement.
After completing this
seminar, participant names will be submitted as CFG
Coaches for the National School Reform Faculty.
For more information,
E-mail Gregory Peters or call him at 415-992-5007.
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Cost: $1,000 per person ($720 with all discounts).
PLT members
qualify for the all discounts, which otherwise are offered
to only SF-CESS, CES Affiliates, students, and teams of
three or more. |
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Colorado
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June 18-20, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Colorado Critical Friends Group |
ADMINISTRATORS’
SEMINAR
For three days this
summer, administrators will gain experience with tools
and structures to create and sustain a collaborative
school culture. Participants will learn about
groundings, the use of protocols to closely examine
student work and teacher practice, as well as strategies
to tackle issues of equity. In addition, they will study
the logistics and the results of implementing critical
friends groups (CFGs) within their schools.
CU-Denver
credits will be offered.
For more information,
email
Stevi.Quate@cudenver.edu
or call
her at
303-882-3760.
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Cost: $400 (payments are non-refundable); AFTER MAY 31, $450
PLT MEMBER
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June 16-20, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Colorado Critical Friends Group |
NEW COACHES SEMINAR
For five days this summer, educators will join a
critical friends group (CFG) in order to learn tools for
developing collaborative cultures,
protocols to closely examine student work and teacher
practice, and processes to engage with colleagues in
inquiry about their work. At the end of the week, they
will be able to coach their colleagues in their home
settings in working together in CFGs. In addition,
participants who work with other models for
collaborative communities, such as Professional Learning
Communities, will learn strategies and processes that
will deepen their collaborative work.
The goals of the New Coaches’ Summer Seminar are: To provide the tools for collaboration around student
work and teacher practice To develop the disposition for working collaboratively
and for facilitating CFGs To build the capacity within schools to focus and work
together to raise student academic achievement
CU-Denver credits will be
offered.
For more information,
email
Stevi.Quate@cudenver.edu
or call
her at
303-882-3760.
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Cost: $700 (payments are non-refundable); AFTER MAY 31, $750
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $350 off the stated price |
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Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
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June 23-27, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Hoosier
School Reform Faculty
National Facilitator: Kate Kelly |
Critical Friends Group Coaches Seminar
This five-day seminar offers new
coaches and members of Critical Friends Groups — as well
as administrators from their schools and districts — the
opportunity to develop the skills necessary for creating
and sustaining effective professional learning
communities. Each participant will experience the power
and potential of a learning community’s support and will
leave with the will, skill, capacity, knowledge and
on-going support to coach a CFG at his/her school or
district. Virtually every process and protocol practiced
during the week will be immediately applicable.
For more information,
Email Heidi
Vosekas
or call her at 812-330-2702
Download flyer.
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Cost: $700 per person
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT:
$200 off
the stated price |
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Kansas
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
New
Hampshire
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July 7-9, 2008 |
Powerful Designs:
Standards in Practice;
Curriculum Designers |
Provider:
Antioch Center for
School Renewal
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Critical Skills
Institutes-Level 2-Keene
Level 2 Institutes focus on: enhancing design
skills for crafting increasingly sophisticated
challenges using more comprehensive strategies for
assessing student competencies, skills, and
curricular standards examining the role of the
teacher as a facilitator, guiding students through
experiential learning and the reflection process
Graduate credit is available for this event.
For more information:
ACSR@antiochne.edu
or call 603-357-3122 x364
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Cost: $465 per person
($1700 for a team of 4)
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $40 off of the stated per-person price |
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July 7-11, 2008 |
Powerful Designs:
Standards in Practice;
Curriculum Designers |
Provider:
Antioch Center for
School Renewal
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Critical Skills
Institutes-Level 1-Keene
Level 1 Institutes examine
strategies for: developing the classroom as a
collaborative, problem-solving community using the
experiential learning cycle to support student
learning setting and maintaining criteria for
quality work targeting the Critical Skills alongside
the curriculum turning curriculum into different
types of problems to solve that provide a meaningful
context for learning using simple performance-based
assessment tools planning and structuring student
exhibitions of learning guiding student reflection
and debriefing processes
Graduate credit is available
for this event.
For more information:
ACSR@antiochne.edu
or call 603-357-3122 x364
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Cost: $665 per person
($2400 for a team of 4)
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: Fee waived for first person from a new school;
second person pays 50% |
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July 12-15, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Antioch Center for
School Renewal
National Facilitators:
Susan Dreyer Leon and Kim Carter
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Critical
Friends Group Training for School Leaders
A Critical Friends Group is a
professional learning community committed to
improving practice through collaborative learning.
Teacher leaders and administrators in this training
will learn how to facilitate honest and productive
conversations with colleagues focused on improving
student learning and improving teacher practices.
Some of the skills coaches will gain include:
Setting norms for working together Active listening
Understanding guidelines for dialogue Understanding
the dynamics of offering and receiving warm
(supportive) or cool feedback Formulating clarifying
and probing questions Using protocols for examining
student and teacher work, for solving problems,
setting goals, observing peers, and building teams
Graduate Credit is available
for this event.
For more information,
Email
Laura Thomas
or call
her at 603-283-2302.
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Cost: $1200 per person
($4000 for a team of 4)
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $200 off the stated per-person price |
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July 30- August 1, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Antioch Center for
School Renewal |
Experienced CFG Coaches Training
A Critical Friends Group is a
professional learning community committed to
improving practice through collaborative learning.
Teacher leaders and administrators in this training
will learn how to facilitate honest and productive
conversations with colleagues focused on improving
student learning and improving teacher practices.
Some of the skills coaches will gain include:
- Setting norms for working
together
- Active listening
- Understanding guidelines
for dialogue
- Understanding the
dynamics of offering and receiving warm
(supportive) or cool feedback
- Formulating clarifying
and probing questions
- Using protocols for
examining student and teacher work, for solving
problems, setting goals, observing peers, and
building teams
Graduate Credit is available
for this event.
For more information,
Email
Laura Thomas
or call
her at 603-283-2302.
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Cost: $800 per person
($2700 for a team of 4)
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $125 off the stated per-person price |
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August 11-15, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Antioch Center for
School Renewal
National Facilitators:
Susan Dreyer Leon and Kim Carter |
Beginning Critical Friends
Group Coaches Training
A Critical Friends Group is a
professional learning community committed to
improving practice through collaborative learning.
Teacher leaders and administrators in this training
will learn how to facilitate honest and productive
conversations with colleagues focused on improving
student learning and improving teacher practices.
Some of the skills coaches will gain include:
- Setting norms for working
together
- Active listening
- Understanding guidelines
for dialogue
- Understanding the
dynamics of offering and receiving warm
(supportive) or cool feedback
- Formulating clarifying
and probing questions
- Using protocols for
examining student and teacher work, for solving
problems, setting goals, observing peers, and
building teams
Graduate Credit is available
for this event.
For more information,
Email
Laura Thomas
or call
her at 603-283-2302.
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Cost: $1,200 per person
($4,000 for a team of 4)
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $200 off the stated per-person price |
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price,
PLT must verify your membership.
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verification. |
New
Jersey
New York
July 15-17, 2008
Registration Deadline: June 15, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
NSRF/NY @ NYU
Facilitators: Joseph McDonald
and
Marlene Roy |
Learning to Work Together With Data
This workshop will
focus on helping school leaders, including
administrators, teachers, network and parent leaders
gain a richer understanding of school data already
available to them, and learn how to generate still other
data. Participants will learn to devise and maintain
systems for making sense of data, for talking about its
implications, and for taking action based on a continual
cycle of inquiry. The workshop will feature hands-on
immersion in data sets, exploration of the New York City’s Children First Accountability Tools, protocols for
school-based data collection and data-based
conversations, opportunities for peer consultation, and
background readings.
Note: P-Credit,
will cost an additional $235 and includes a 3 hour
follow up session in the Fall and a 6 hour online
discussion component.
For more information,
Email Natalie Rodrigues
or call
her at 212-998-5107
Download flyer.
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Cost: $850 per person; $765 group of 5 or more (Fee
includes annual NSRF membership.)
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT:
$100 off
the stated price
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TO REGISTER:
Please
email
the following information to Natalie Rodrigues
or call
her at 212-998-5107
Name:
Seminar Title:
Email:
Address:
Phone Number:
School:
Title/Position:
Payment must be
by NYU Voucher, Purchase Order, or Check.
Mail payment to: Natalie Rodrigues, 34 Stuyvesant Street,
New York, NY 10003
Note: If you are
sending a voucher or purchase order please fax a copy to
212-995-3778.
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July 24-22, 2008
Registration Deadline: June 15, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
NSRF/NY @ NYU
Facilitators: Steven Strull and
Helena Miller |
Introduction to Critical Friends Groups
Critical Friends Groups (CFGs) provide a way for
educators to create and sustain professional communities
based on regularly shared accounts of practice,
reflective dialogue about practice, and mutual
commitment to improve practice. CFGs use shared norms
and protocols for examining student and adult work
together. They commit to high standards for student
achievement and equity. This seminar will introduce
participants to the norms, tools, and traditions of CFGs,
and discuss opportunities to integrate their use with
schools’ ordinary professional development platforms.
Participants will leave with a “toolkit” of protocols
and practices they will be able to apply within their
school settings – ones that will allow them to
strengthen their professional communities and increase
their students’ achievement. Classroom teachers and
other pedagogical staff including administrators are
encouraged to attend.
For more information,
Email Natalie Rodrigues
or call
her at 212-998-5107
Download flyer.
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|
Cost: $850 per person; $765 group of 5 or more (Fee
includes annual NSRF membership.)
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT:
$100 off
the stated price
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
TO REGISTER:
Please
email
the following information to Natalie Rodrigues
or call
her at 212-998-5107
Name:
Seminar Title:
Email:
Address:
Phone Number:
School:
Title/Position:
Payment must be
by NYU Voucher, Purchase Order, or Check.
Mail payment to: Natalie Rodrigues, 34 Stuyvesant Street,
New York, NY 10003
Note: If you are
sending a voucher or purchase order please fax a copy to
212-995-3778.
|
August 19-21, 2008
Registration Deadline: June 15, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
NSRF/NY @ NYU
Facilitators: Beth McDonald and
Ronni Mann |
Facilitative Leadership
Participants will learn skills, tools, and protocols to
enhance their ability to facilitate meetings of all
kinds: grade-level meetings, network meetings, critical
friends group meetings, study groups, student
performance data analysis meetings, collaborative
problem-solving meetings, faculty meetings, and more.
They will explore protocols for opening and closing
meetings, resolving conflicts, enhancing participation
and engagement, exploring issues of equity, and learning
from texts and speakers.
For more information,
Email Natalie Rodrigues
or call
her at 212-998-5107
Download flyer.
|
|
Cost: $850 per person; $765 group of 5 or more (Fee
includes annual NSRF membership.)
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT:
$100 off
the stated price
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
TO REGISTER:
Please
email
the following information to Natalie Rodrigues
or call
her at 212-998-5107
Name:
Seminar Title:
Email:
Address:
Phone Number:
School:
Title/Position:
Payment must be
by NYU Voucher, Purchase Order, or Check.
Mail payment to: Natalie Rodrigues, 34 Stuyvesant Street,
New York, NY 10003
Note: If you are
sending a voucher or purchase order please fax a copy to
212-995-3778.
|
North
Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
June 23-27, 2008
July 28 - August 1, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Small
Schools Northwest |
Critical Friends Group Institute (CFG
Coaches Institute)
The CFG Institute is designed to train a peer
coach to facilitate and support a group of 6-10 of
their peers throughout the school year. The initial
training is 5 days with a 6th day follow-up in
August or February to provide ongoing support to new
coaches.
We whole-heartedly recommend this institute for
administrators, teacher leaders, and district office
personnel as the skills and tools in the training
are immediately applicable to committee, leadership
and whole staff meetings in addition to teacher
collaboration.
For more information,
Email Kim Feike.
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Cost: $650 per person
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $100 off the stated price |
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Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
April 25-26, 2008
May 9-10, 2008
May 30-31, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
The Education Partnership
NSRF national facilitator:
Kim Carter |
NSRF Critical Friends Group New
Coaches Institute
IMPORTANT: This is a single
institute that is conducted over three weekends.
The creation of learning
communities requires high-quality preparation and
sustained support. An NSRF Beginning Coaches
Training teaches new coaches the skills and habits
that enable them to:
1.
Ask Questions
that challenge assumptions 2.
Examine student
work as a way to improve practice 3.
Create
collaborative cultures in their schools 4.
Create and
sustain
effective professional
learning communities
Our CFG Coaches Training
offers an opportunity to not only learn the
fundamentals of CFG coaching by experience them
firsthand, but also to connect with a network of
like-minded professionals engaged in similar work.
Credit: 35 PD hours for
Rhode Island I-plan. Application in process to make credit
through Rhode Island College available at an
additional cost.
For more information,
email
Donna Braun
or call her at 401-316-8380.
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Cost: $500 per person
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $100 off the stated price |
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Texas
Tennessee
|
July 7-11, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
National School Reform Faculty, Tennessee Center
of Activity |
Educational Collaboration in Practice (CFG New
Coaches Institute)
During the week you will:
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experience the creation
of a professional learning community;
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practice concrete,
practical techniques for developing
collaboration that coaches can share with their
school CFG members;
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try out different methods
for giving colleagues feedback on classroom
processes and on student work; and
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learn how to use
discussion protocols in meetings and in the
classroom.
Although they are constantly
encouraging their students to work in teams,
teachers rarely have the opportunity to collaborate
with each other. A Critical Friends Group (CFG)
brings teachers together in a facilitated monthly
meeting to look at student work in a structured way
and to explore how they can improve their own
teaching practices and their students’ academic
achievement. Talking with peers about instructional
issues is rare, but once teachers experience it,
they realize they’re starving for it. Once they
begin, most CFGs continue indefinitely, sharing
ideas and experiences in an ongoing dialogue
throughout the year about how to improve student
achievement.
For more information,
E-mail
Maelea Galyon.
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Cost: $500 per person
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Virginia
Washington
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June 23, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
“Student
Voices” for
How Listening to Students
Builds Equity and Engagement
“Mentoring”
for
Tools for Mentors and
Coaches |
Provider:
Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest |
CESNW Summer Symposium
This day-long symposium will
begin with a keynote speech by Pat Wasley, Dean of
the College of Education at the University of
Washington. Pat is a former senior researcher for
the Coalition of Essential Schools, and a passionate
advocate for powerful teaching.
The remainder of the day will
consist of sessions developed and offered by
teachers, administrators, and others that illustrate
the very best practices that support the CES Common
Principles. Participants will have the opportunity
throughout the day to work with, learn from, and be
inspired by the work of friends and colleagues.
For more information,
E-mail
Holli Hanson.
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Cost: $75 per person
PLT
members qualify for the same discount offered to CES
members. |
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June 24-June 25, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
“Student Voices”
for
How Listening to Students
Builds Equity and Engagement
“Mentoring”
for
Tools for Mentors and
Coaches |
Provider:
Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest
Facilitator: Joe Hall |
CESNW Service Learning Institute
The Institute is designed to
engage K-12 teachers in the exploration of the
principles of effective service learning practice.
Sessions will include presentations by researcher
Shelley Billig, author Kathleen Cushman, and Quest
High School teacher Kim Huseman, as well as the
opportunity to network with other K-12 teachers and
exchange resources, tools, and lessons learned.
Experienced practitioners, as well as those new to
service learning, are welcome!
To learn more about our Network,
or see examples of service learning projects from
our Network, go to:
http://www.cesnorthwest.org/servicelearningexchange/
For more information,
E-mail
Holli Hanson.
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Cost: $230 per person
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members qualify for the same discount offered to CES
members. |
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June 24-June 25, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
“Student Voices”
for
How Listening to Students
Builds Equity and Engagement
“Mentoring”
for
Tools for Mentors and
Coaches |
Provider:
Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest |
How Listening to Students Builds Equity and
Engagement
These two days of hands-on work
and dialogue will explore how close listening to
adolescent learners can both deepen our own
understanding of equity and also strengthen
students' skills and motivation. We'll uncover
cross-cultural issues that block meaningful learning
(by youth and their teachers) and educational
advancement for low-income youth. And we'll get a
close look at curriculum projects that boost both
literacy and engagement as they stimulate "powerful
learning with public purpose."
For more information,
E-mail
Holli Hanson.
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Cost: $230 per person
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members qualify for the same discount offered to CES
members. |
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June 24-June 26,
2008 |
Powerful Design:
“Student Voices”
for
How Listening to Students
Builds Equity and Engagement
“Mentoring”
for
Tools for Mentors and
Coaches |
Provider:
Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest |
Tools for Mentors and Coaches
Current research in effective
professional development indicates that the best way
to support sustainable change in instructional
practice is through the support of an instructional
coach. Many schools across the state and nation are
utilizing teachers as teacher leaders, coaches,
mentors in a variety of formal and non-formal
coaching positions.
This three-day institute will
help mentors and school-based coaches develop
facilitation skills, learn and practice tools for
looking at student and teacher work, and reflect on
the unique role various teachers have in providing
instructional leadership. Participants will have
multiple opportunities to engage in active practice
with the skills and tools needed to be an effective
instructional coach or mentor.
For more information,
E-mail
Holli Hanson.
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Cost: $345 per person
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members qualify for the same discount offered to CES
members. |
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June 24-June 25, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
“Student Voices” for
How Listening to Students
Builds Equity and Engagement
“Mentoring”
for
Tools for Mentors and
Coaches |
Provider:
Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest |
Using Socratic Seminar
This workshop is designed to give
K-12 teachers the experience of Socratic Seminars
first hand. Participants discover the power of
Socratic Seminars to actively engage students of all
ability levels in close and critical reading of
difficult texts. Participants learn how to use
Socratic questioning techniques and dialogue to
teach students to improve the reading skills of
comprehension, analysis, and interpretation in all
disciplines.
For more information,
E-mail
Holli Hanson.
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Cost: $230 per person
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members qualify for the same discount offered to CES
members. |
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June 24, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
“Student Voices”
for
How Listening to Students
Builds Equity and Engagement
“Mentoring”
for
Tools for Mentors and
Coaches |
Provider:
Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest |
Systems: A View from the Balcony
Imagine looking down at your
school or district as you would a game of chess.
What would you see from that balcony view? How are
the pieces working together? What vital connections
are missing? What can you learn about leadership
from this perspective? Join us in an opportunity to
reflect and consider your "system" as a powerful
lens for decision-making.
You will leave this session with
new tools, frameworks, and critical resources that
can help you see more clearly where the key gaps and
opportunities are to ensure your system's (be it
your school or your district) effectiveness in
significantly improving teaching and learning.
Through this daylong session, we'll provide you the
opportunity to develop a robust picture of how your
system is, or isn't, supporting teaching and
learning. You may be surprised about what you learn!
This session is recommended for
school and/or district leaders. We strongly
encourage the attendance of leadership teams (from
any part of the system) for a more meaningful
learning experience that can be transferred back in
your context.
For more information,
E-mail
Holli Hanson.
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Cost: $115 per person
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members qualify for the same discount offered to CES
members. |
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June 24-June 27, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest
National facilitators:
Holli Hanson-Moore and Ron Jones |
Beginning Critical Friends Group Coaching
This 4-day workshop will prepare
teachers, administrators and other school staff to
coach or participate effectively in a Critical
Friends Group. CFGs are a professional development
initiative that focuses on developing collegial
relationships, encouraging reflective practice, and
engaging in inquiry-based discourse in support of
increased student achievement and equitable outcomes
for all students. This workshop will present the
philosophical goals for CFGs, then move on to the
practical ways to operate and structure CFGs in your
school. Participants will have several opportunities
to facilitate small groups sessions as well as leave
with a set of protocols and activities and a plan
for starting CFGs.
For more information,
E-mail
Holli Hanson.
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Cost: $460 per person
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members qualify for the same discount offered to CES
members. |
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June 26, 2008 |
Powerful Design:
“Student Voices” for
How Listening to Students
Builds Equity and Engagement
“Mentoring”
for
Tools for Mentors and
Coaches |
Provider:
Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest |
Culminating Projects
How can a culminating project be
a rigorous and authentic learning experience for
each student? The culminating project can be a
powerful learning experience for adults and
students. This workshop will provide participants
with an opportunity to examine several examples of
culminating projects and the key/critical
components, as well as strategies, to prepare
students for their demonstration of learning. We
will focus on models that have strong civic
components.
For more information,
E-mail
Holli Hanson.
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Cost: $115 per person
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members qualify for the same discount offered to CES
members. |
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