Specialized+Trainings

Specialized Trainings

Washington, DC ||  Public Policy/IEL Institute is a three- day event in Washington, D. C. IEL’s work focuses on multiple factors that influence child and youth outcomes. Institutional factors, such as effective organizational stewardship and strong professional development; in-school factors, such as principal leadership, teacher quality and rigorous, engaging curricula; and non-school factors, such as family circumstances and community context all require attention. The mission of IEL is to build the capacity of individuals, organizations, systems and communities to work together to prepare all children and youth for post-secondary education, careers, and citizenship. The training starts on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Fellows work with federal leaders to learn about the current trends in education, federal mandates, and financial aid for higher education. || Please note that any video footage that contains images or audio of students must follow school district guidelines on obtaining appropriate permissions. (See Appendix for Video Release Letter.) || (DLP)- Fellows participate in DLP along with their mentor principals once a month during the internship year. In DLP, the fellows and mentor principals are provided models of exemplary school leadership, allowing participants to study the behaviors, attitudes and competencies that define a “Distinguished” school leader. Throughout the year-long experience, participants are led and coached through a proven continuous improvement approach. Fellows engage in a series of authentic activities designed to build the capacity of their schools and their own capacity as “Distinguished” school leaders. DLP uses a blended face-to-face and small-group sharing sessions. Fellows also participate in school improvement activities at their internship site. At the beginning of each session, fellows will share and receive feedback on their efforts to apply proven leadership practices in their schools. || Understanding by Design (UbD)- a tool utilized for educational planning focused on teaching for understanding. The emphasis of UbD is on “backward design” the practice of looking at the outcomes in order to design curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction. ||
 * Public Policy/IEL Institute
 * Digital Storytelling ||  Llando Grande is a non-profit organization that provides a two-day retreat in which the focus is on digital storytelling. Fellows will complete Digital Community Asset Mapping.  ||
 * Social Justice ||  Social Justice- Fellows work with Lynda Tredway to gain an understanding of race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and a sense of understanding one’s self. During the training, fellows will participate in discussion groups, conversations of race and equity, and poverty. Fellows will create “I Am From” poems and a digital story entitled, “The Day in the Life of a Student”. This assignment will be a detailed examination of a child/children in their schools. What does a day in their life look like? One goal of this activity is to allow Fellows to understand the children they are working with. Students should always be at the heart of every leadership decision and our first goal is to understand who our students truly are. This project will be a start to building that understanding. Digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.
 * NELA Literacy Training ||  NELA Literacy Training- Fellows participate in a three-day training that focuses on literacy. The focal point is defining what literacy is. Fellows are introduced to comprehension strategies, word study, making inferences, components of writing, and reading workshop. The training provides fellows with an understanding of the Six T’s of Effective Literacy: Time, Text, Teaching, Talk, Tasks & Testing.  ||
 * Distinguished Leadership in Practice ||  Distinguished Leadership in Practice
 * Distinguished Leadership in Practice ||  Distinguished Leadership in Practice
 * Innovative Technologies in the Classroom ||  Interactive sessions with guest speakers where fellows will engage in discussion around current issues in educational technology.
 * 1)  Technologies for School Principals (Evaluation, curriculum, communication).
 * 2)  Flipped Classroom (FIZZ)- Fellows participate in a one day training with Dr. Lodge McCammon from the Friday Institute on Flipping Classrooms. FIZZ is an innovative approach to getting teachers to use computers and videos to “teach” their students prior to the class period, instead of the traditional “lecture” method. Fellows are exposed to various resources online to assist them with the understanding of the process of FIZZ. Emphasis throughout the training is put on more collaboration between teacher and student, more engagement, and more reinforcement for students.  ||
 * Data Day ||  Interactive sessions with guest speakers where fellows will engage in discussion around current issues in educational technology.
 * 1)  EVAAS (Education in Value-Added Assessment System) - a system that provides a precise measurement of student progress over time and a reliable diagnosis of opportunities for growth that help to identify which students are at risk.
 * 2)  NC Falcon (North Carolina’s Formative Assessment Learning Community’s Online Network )- a network that offers a series of formative assessment professional development modules that support the implementation of formative assessment in North Carolina classrooms and a Professional Learning Community where challenges and successes can be shared with expectations of positive collaboration.
 * 3)  NC Wise (North Carolina Window on Student Education)- a web based program that allows individual schools to manage student information, provides the capability to electronically transmit all student instructional records and demographic information between school districts, between schools within a district and to universities and colleges in North Carolina.
 * 4)  ACRE (North Carolina Accountability Curriculum Reform Effort)- the state’s comprehensive initiative to redefine the SCOS for K-12 students, the student assessment program and the school accountability model.
 * 5)  MetaMetrics - an educational measurement and research organization that developed the Lexile Framework for Reading & Writing and the Quantile Framework for Mathematics.  ||
 * Understanding by Design (UbD) ||  Fellows will participate in a two-day training on Understanding by Design.