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Arizona
California
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August 3-7, 2009
Location: San
Francisco |
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 |

Equity Centered
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 learn and practice 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 centered professional learning
communities (called 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.
Recommended for small school teams.
For more information,
email SF-CESS or call 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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October 22-25, 2009
Location:
Estes Park |
Powerful Design:
Multiple Designs |
Provider:
Colorado Critical Friends Group
Facilitators: Scott Murphy &
Dave Schmid, support from ERS staff |
ADVANCED FACILITATIVE LEADERSHIP SEMINAR
In a beautiful
Colorado Rocky Mountain setting, school leaders will
collaborate with each other in applying the
essential components of facilitative leadership to
the work of improving your schools. Our group will
draw from the core tenents of culture, change,
facilitation, and moral commitment as a way to
ground ourselves in the challenges of this style of
leadership. As a network of school leaders, we will
use the lens of facilitative leadership to deeply
explore your own school and then design actionable
steps toward creating a school culture that is not
only committed to student achievement, but also the
essential factors of trust, equity, community, and
collaboration. We will be staying and working
together at Eagle Rock High School in Estes Park,
where we will incorporate the school, the local
environment and the extended time to truly
collaborate in achieving a powerful vision for your
leadership and your own school.
Download flyer.
For more information,
email
Stevi.Quate@ucdenver.edu
or call
her at
303-882-3670.
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Cost: $425 - includes
seminar, materials, lodging and most meals (payments are non-refundable); AFTER
Sept. 20, $475
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Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
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July 20-24, 2009
Location:
Goshen |
Powerful Design:
Multiple Designs
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Provider:
Center for
Intercultural
Teaching and Learning |

Teaching for Education Equity
(TFEE) Seminar
This is a five-day residential
seminar for K-12 teachers and higher education faculty.
Participants are supported to critically reflect and
learn more about the process of teaching for
transformation toward equitable schools and classrooms.
What will I learn at the
Teaching for Educational Equity Seminar?
- Analyzing curriculum and
pedagogy to enhance instructional delivery
- Assembling
resources—articles, websites, and other media—for
your personal growth and professional work that help
identify and confront inequitable practices in your
school context
- Gaining or expanding
understanding of the role of emotional intelligence
and the process of emotional release and healing in
transforming attitudes and beliefs
- Building community both
across differences and among affinity groups
- Developing the necessary
personal awareness required to effectively
teach/lead for educational equity
- Engaging, sustaining, and
deepening the capacity to build relational trust and
alliances across and within race, class, gender,
role, and other forms of difference for the purpose
of identifying and eliminating inequitable practices
and polices in educational settings
What will a participant walk
away with?
- A resource book combining
resources we have provided and resources you have
assembled.
- An analysis of curriculum and
teaching methods that promotes closing the
achievement gap
- A plan for developing a
network of support to sustain transformative
practices
- Increased self-awareness and
knowledge about issues of systemic oppression
- Skills to facilitate teaching
and learning
- Strategies for engaging in
deeper dialogue about instructional practices,
student achievement, and equity
Graduate credit is available
through Goshen College for an additional fee.
Download flyer.
For more information,
Email Ross Peterson-Veatch
or call him at 574-535-7504
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Cost: $1250.00 for suite-style accommodations (shared common
area with private bedroom). This includes seminar costs,
lodging, food, Recreation/Fitness center on campus and
materials for the 5 days.
PLT MEMBER
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$150 off
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BILLING INFORMATION select
defer payment
option (pay by check or cash)
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SUBMIT.
- Mail
your discounted payment to: Ross Peterson-Veatch,
AD 13 & Union Building, CITL Suite, 1700 South Main
Street, Goshen, Indiana 46526
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Kansas
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
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July 6-10, 2009
Location:
Marlborough |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
National
School Reform Faculty
Facilitator: Gene
Thompson-Grove and additional NSRF Facilitators |
NSRF Critical Friends Group Coaches Institute
The creation of
learning communities is complicated work, requiring
a commitment by administrators, teachers and
coaches. Schools are notoriously private places,
begging to be opened up for examination of
practice. When educators allow thoughtful critique
of their practice by others, the hard work begins.
They often need to learn skills and habits that
enable them to ask one another questions that
challenge assumptions, to examine student work
together as a way to improve their practice, and to
create collaborative cultures in their schools.
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
further develop the skills necessary for creating
and sustaining effective professional learning
communities.
The seminar begins
each day at 8:30 AM, and ends at 4:30 PM every day
except Friday, when the ending time is 3:30 PM.
Please plan to be in attendance for the entire
seminar.
Credit: 3 Salem State
graduate credits are available for $250.
Download brochure.
For more information,
email
Gene Thompson-Grove
or call her at 508-566-6664.
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Cost: $750 for NSRF members;
$825 for non-members (includes a $75 membership)
There is no registration fee for Public Schools of
Brookline educators.
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: PLT members pay the same price as NSRF members |
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price,
PLT must verify your membership.
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verification. |
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July 13-17, 2009
Location:
Devens
(Parker Essential Charter School) |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
National
School Reform Faculty
Facilitator: Gene
Thompson-Grove,
Teri Schrader, Beth Graham, and
Ruth Whalen |
NSRF Critical Friends Group Coaches Institute
The creation of
learning communities is complicated work, requiring
a commitment by administrators, teachers and
coaches. Schools are notoriously private places,
begging to be opened up for examination of
practice. When educators allow thoughtful critique
of their practice by others, the hard work begins.
They often need to learn skills and habits that
enable them to ask one another questions that
challenge assumptions, to examine student work
together as a way to improve their practice, and to
create collaborative cultures in their schools.
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
further develop the skills necessary for creating
and sustaining effective professional learning
communities.
The seminar begins
each day at 8:30 AM, and ends at 4:30 PM every day
except Friday, when the ending time is 3:30 PM.
Please plan to be in attendance for the entire
seminar.
Credit: 3 Salem State
graduate credits are available for $250.
Download brochure.
For more information,
email
Gene Thompson-Grove
or call her at 508-566-6664.
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Cost: $750 for NSRF members;
$825 for non-members (includes a $75 membership)
There is no registration fee for Public Schools of
Brookline educators.
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: PLT members pay the same price as NSRF members |
Register online!
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
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August 3-7, 2009
Location:
Marlborough |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
National
School Reform Faculty
Facilitator: Gene
Thompson-Grove,
Teri Schrader, Beth Graham,
Frances Hensley |
NSRF Critical Friends Group Coaches Institute
The creation of
learning communities is complicated work, requiring
a commitment by administrators, teachers and
coaches. Schools are notoriously private places,
begging to be opened up for examination of
practice. When educators allow thoughtful critique
of their practice by others, the hard work begins.
They often need to learn skills and habits that
enable them to ask one another questions that
challenge assumptions, to examine student work
together as a way to improve their practice, and to
create collaborative cultures in their schools.
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
further develop the skills necessary for creating
and sustaining effective professional learning
communities.
The seminar begins
each day at 8:30 AM, and ends at 4:30 PM every day
except Friday, when the ending time is 3:30 PM.
Please plan to be in attendance for the entire
seminar.
Credit: 3 Salem State
graduate credits are available for $250.
Download brochure.
For more information,
email
Gene Thompson-Grove
or call her at 508-566-6664.
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Cost: $750 for NSRF members;
$825 for non-members (includes a $75 membership)
There is no registration fee for Public Schools of
Brookline educators.
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: PLT members pay the same price as NSRF members |
Register online!
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
New
Hampshire
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July 13-17, 2009
Location:
Keene |
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 13-17, 2009
Location:
Keene |
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,
Email
Laura Thomas
or call
her at 603-283-2302.
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Cost: $800 per person
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $200 off the stated per-person price |
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price,
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July 13-15, 2009
Location:
Keene |
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.
Financial aid is available.
For more information,
Email
Laura Thomas
or call
her at 603-283-2302.
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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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price,
PLT must verify your membership.
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verification. |
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July 20-24, 2009
Location:
Keene |
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 |
Inquiry-Driven Science: A
Critical Friends Institute for Science Teachers
The 2008 science NECAP results
have awakened science educators from across the
region to a real issue that needs our attention. The
results strongly indicate that students do not have
very well developed critical thinking and problem
solving skills as part of their science learning.
This institute will focus on
the utilization of the Critical Skills Classroom
model specifically in the science classroom. The
Critical Skills Classroom is a proven and highly
successful model that builds critical thinking,
creative thinking, problem solving, and
collaboration skills along side the acquisition of
science content knowledge.
Participants in the institute
will study and develop science curricula based on
student centered, experiential, problem based
learning. This curricula will utilize the most
rigorous science domain frameworks across the
disciplines (earth, life, and physical sciences).
Over the five days of the
institute, educators will explore methodologies and
the integration of experiential, problem-based,
collaborative, and standards-driven learning,
focusing on the role of teacher in designing
curriculum, guiding student understanding, and
assessing performance. Teachers will also develop
the capacities to build and advance their classrooms
as dynamic, collaborative, science learning
communities.
For more information,
Email
Laura Thomas
or call
her at 603-283-2302.
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Cost: $800 per person
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $200 off the stated per-person price |
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price,
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verification. |
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August 10-14, 2009
Location:
Keene |
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 |
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
August 21-23, 2009
Registration not guaranteed after
June 15, 2009
Location: New
York |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group
Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
NSRF/NY @ NYU
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Facilitative Leadership Seminar in School Reform
Participants will learn skills, tools, and protocols to
enhance their ability to facilitate meetings of all
kinds.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
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Cost: $850 per person; $765 group of 5 or more (Registration
fee
includes a one year membership in NSRF.)
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT:
$100 off
the stated price
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price,
PLT must verify your membership.
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verification. |
TO REGISTER:
Please
email
the following information to Natalie Rodrigues
or call
her at 212-998-5107
Name:
Address:
Phone Number:
Email:
Organization:
Payment-Check, PO, Course Credits
How did you hear about this seminar?
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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North
Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
July 27-31, 2009
Location:
Portland |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Center
for Equitable and Effective Leadership |
Critical Friends Group Institute (CFG
Coaches Institute)
The CFG
Coaches 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 ongoing support to new
coaches provided as needed.
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.
Credit
Options: 1 to 2 semester credits are available, both
degree applicable and non-degree applicable. See
registration form for more details.
For more information,
Email Kim Feike
or
view flyer.
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Cost: $650 per person
PLT MEMBER
DISCOUNT: $100 off the stated price |
To
Register:
Download and complete the
registration form and fax (503-768-6045) or mail it
to Center for Equitable and Effective Leadership.
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Texas
Tennessee
Vermont
Virginia
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August 18-19, 2009
Location:
Richmond, VA |
Powerful Design:
Mentoring
Curriculum developed
by the New Teacher Center
at the University of California-Santa Cruz |
Provider:
VCU Center for
Teacher Leadership
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Introduction to Instructional
Mentoring
To
support mentors in responding to each new teacher’s
developmental and contextual needs and promote the
ongoing examination of classroom practice
Download flyer
For more information,
E-mail
Dr.
Therese A. Dozier
or call her at
804-827-0102.
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Cost: $415 for individuals,
$365 for teams of 3 or more
*
Cost includes materials fee for formative assessment
tools.
PLT MEMBER
PRICE: $365 for individuals
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
Download registration form
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August 20, 2009
Location:
Richmond, VA |
Powerful Design:
Mentoring
Curriculum developed
by the New Teacher Center
at the University of California-Santa Cruz |
Provider:
VCU Center for
Teacher Leadership
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Setting Professional Goals
To deepen mentors'
understanding of the role of formative assessment
through goal setting based on student standards and
professional teaching standards
Download flyer
For more information,
E-mail
Dr.
Therese A. Dozier
or call her at
804-827-0102.
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Cost: $230 for individuals,
$205 for teams of 3 or more
*
Cost includes materials fee for formative assessment
tools.
PLT MEMBER
PRICE: $205 for individuals
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
Download registration form |
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October 6-7, 2009
Location:
Richmond, VA |
Powerful Design:
Mentoring
Curriculum developed
by the New Teacher Center
at the University of California-Santa Cruz |
Provider:
VCU Center for
Teacher Leadership
|
Coaching and Observation
Strategies
To assist mentors in
collecting and sharing classroom observation data
aligned with professional teaching standards to help
new teachers improve their instructional practice
Download flyer
For more information,
E-mail
Dr.
Therese A. Dozier
or call her at
804-827-0102.
|
|
Cost: $415 for individuals,
$365 for teams of 3 or more
*
Cost includes materials fee for formative assessment
tools.
PLT MEMBER
PRICE: $365 for individuals
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
Download registration form |
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November 10-11, 2009
Location:
Richmond, VA |
Powerful Design:
Mentoring
Curriculum developed
by the New Teacher Center
at the University of California-Santa Cruz |
Provider:
VCU Center for
Teacher Leadership
|
Analysis of Student Work,
Differentiation, and Lesson Planning
To provide mentors with tools and
strategies for helping beginning teachers identify
student needs, plan for differentiated instruction,
and ensure equitable learning outcomes
Download flyer
For more information,
E-mail
Dr.
Therese A. Dozier
or call her at
804-827-0102.
|
|
Cost: $415 for individuals,
$365 for teams of 3 or more
*
Cost includes materials fee for formative assessment
tools.
PLT MEMBER
PRICE: $365 for individuals
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
Download registration form |
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February 16-17, 2010
Location:
Richmond, VA |
Powerful Design:
Mentoring
Curriculum developed
by the New Teacher Center
at the University of California-Santa Cruz |
Provider:
VCU Center for
Teacher Leadership
|
Designing and Presenting
Professional Development
To deepen mentors’ understanding
of principles of adult learning in order to design
and promote meaningful learning experiences for
beginning teachers and others
Download flyer
For more information,
E-mail
Dr.
Therese A. Dozier
or call her at
804-827-0102.
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|
Cost: $370 for individuals,
$320 for teams of 3 or more
*
Cost includes materials fee for formative assessment
tools.
PLT MEMBER
PRICE: $320 for individuals
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
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verification. |
Download registration form |
Washington
|
August 17-20, 2009
Location:
Burien |
Powerful Design:
Critical Friends Group Critical Friends Group and CFG are trademarks
of
The
National School Reform Faculty. |
Provider:
Coalition
of Essential Schools Northwest
|
Beginning Critical Friends Group Coaching
This is a 4-day workshop that will prepare
teachers, administrators and other school staff to
coach or participate effectively in a Critical
Friends Group. CFG's help bridge the professional
isolation that too often prevents us from using the
wealth of knowledge that exists in our own
colleagues to help students learn. This workshop will present the
research base and philosophical goals for CFG's then move on to the
practical ways to operate and structure CFG's in your
school. You will leave
with a toolbox brimming with protocols and activities and a plan
for starting CFG's at your site.
For more information,
E-mail
Holli Hanson-Moore.
Download flyer.
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Cost: $550 per person.
Groups of 5 or more discounted to $500 per person
PLT
members qualify for the same discount offered to CES
members. |
Register online!
For you to receive the reduced
price,
PLT must verify your membership.
Request membership
verification. |
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