Developing Educational Strategies for At-Risk Students
There are many factors that may place students at-risk and contribute to their decision to drop out of school. These include school, community, and family related factors. In many cases, no one factor leads to a student's decision to drop out, rather it is a combination of factors. This intense workshop explores the factors that place students at-risk and explores strategies to retain students and meet them where they are in real-time with services and programs designed to meet their unique needs.
Critical Thinking Strategies for Millennials
Critical thinking is an organized and systemic process used to judge the effectiveness of an argument. Knowledge is acquired only through thinking, reasoning, and questioning. Knowledge is based on facts. In a time where studies indicate millennials make quick decisions, with little empirical data, this workshop is designed to develop knowledge, prediction, inference, analysis, visualization, monitoring and summary skills students need for life and academic success. Participants leave with a tool-kit of differentiated strategies they can utilize to ensure success applying.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Instructional Leaders
A powerful session for administrators and instructional leaders focusing on research concerning the achievement gaps, elements of effective instruction, content area literacy, and Georgia Milestone supported effective instruction on campus, the four types of teachers, strategic conversations, and peer-coaching models that promote a culture of collaboration, instructional responsibility and data driven instruction that boosts student achievement.
Boosting Student Achievement and Closing the Gap
This powerful seminar focuses on the need to move beyond the restructuring of schools to the re-culturing of education to fill gaps that affect student learning. There is no denying gaps in academic achievement exist among students by race, economic status, and culture. The challenge of the modern educator is to find effective ways to bridge gaps through both traditional and non-traditional methods as educators must often meet student needs outside the classroom to ensure success within the classroom.
Fostering a Collaborative and Positive School Culture
School leaders model and actively foster the critical attributes of trust necessary for achievement, respect, integrity, competence, and personal regard for others. Thus, fostering a collaborative and positive school culture takes a top down approach where school leaders intentionally model effective instructional practices on all levels. This dynamic seminar critically analyzes your current environment and looks at ways to improve and create an optimal environment for educators and students through best practices and intentional, guided actions.
The Beloved Community: Cultivating Social Responsibility
Dr. Martin Luther King popularized the notion of the “Beloved Community” when he envisioned a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one’s fellow human beings. Today the development of social awareness, proper communication, and a sense of global responsibility are at the core of developing school environments that are socially aware communities filled with respect and productivity. In this unique workshop students explore effective communication, social responsibility, and the consequences of their actions in an engaging format that incorporates a variety of empirical and enlightening data.
Millennial Leadership 101
This fast-paced session focuses on how the brain has changed in the last 3 decades and powerful and engaging strategies to use to grow competence and confidence using both the Maslow, Bloom, Dupree, Kouzes and Posner to prepare students for modern leadership and success using traditional thought. This session explores the latest research demonstrating how the brain of a leader differs from that of a follower, and specific characteristics and strategies utilized by the most innovative leaders of our time – both notorious and endeared.