Breaking Ranks
Fall Institute
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Location:         Southeastern Regional Education Service Center (SERESC)
                        29 Commerce Drive
                        Bedford, New Hampshire 03110
                        603-206-6800
                        www.seresc.net

Located 10 minutes away from the Manchester airport!

Hotels located nearby. All participants are responsible for their own travel, lodging, parking, and dinner arrangements/costs. Full continental breakfast, snacks/refreshments, and lunch buffet, included in the cost of institute.

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Registration Deadline is October 15, 2007

 Cost:

Workshop:

Individual

Group of 5 or more teachers from same school

Creating Purposeful Advisories

$675.00

$600.00

Coaching Reluctant Learners

$675.00

$600.00

Changing Roles in Breaking Ranks Schools:  October 25 & 26, 2007

$450.00

$400.00

Implementing Successful Freshman Transition

$450.00

$400.00

 Dates:

Creating Purposeful Advisories  –                                      October 22, 23, 24

Coaching Reluctant Learners –                                           October 22, 23, 24

Changing Roles in Breaking Ranks Schools –                  October 25 & 26

Implementing Successful Freshman Transition –             October 25 & 26

 
Changing Roles in Breaking Ranks Schools:  October 25 & 26, 2007
One of the most overlooked and underappreciated variables that significantly contribute to the success and maintenance of program initiatives is role definition.  This institute provides school teams with the tools and practical exercises required to define roles for those who are responsible for implementing change, and for those whose roles change as the result of improvement initiatives, e.g., teachers and administrators.  Teams will understand, identify, and create in detail the following elements and expectations for critical individual and team roles:

• Results/outputs
• Key tasks and processes
• Conditions (under which key tasks must be accomplished)
• Critical contacts (interfaces with others that must be managed well)
• Authority (what a role has the “final say” on)
• Knowledge, skill, and talent requirements
• Expertise and/or training required to meet specific role requirements

This institute also provides an understanding of how role boundaries should be set, and how roles at different levels must be linked for appropriate alignment and the optimization of resource usage.  The major elements of this institute have been extremely helpful in assisting teams to design and implement Breaking Ranks II and Breaking Ranks in the Middle.
 

Creating Purposeful Advisories:  October 22 – 24, 2007

This institute will help school teams of administrators, teachers, and even students create a vision for advisory groups in their own school that is based on theory, research, and field expertise. Teams will develop specific purposes for the advisory program and explore the school procedures and structures that can support or diminish the success of advisory groups. In addition, participants will learn about content and a wide range of activities that can be used for advisory groups, investigate assessment mechanisms, and identify approaches to create long-term sustainability of advisory groups.

 

Implementing Successful Freshman Transition: October 25 & 26, 2007

This institute addresses the key CSSR/Breaking Ranks components that ensure a successful freshman transition aimed at increasing ninth grade success.  It introduces twelve proven best practices that yield measurable results in student achievement, and presents “high-yields designs” and mistakes to avoid in each practice.  The components build in both difficulty of implementation and the likelihood of producing a successful result for all ninth graders.


What Works and What Doesn’t in 12 Freshman Transition Practices:

  1. Collaborative 8th-Grade Actions and Data Analysis
  2. Freshman Orientation
  3. Summer Bridge Program
  4. Increasing Extracurricular Opportunities and Participation
  5. Student-Led Conference and Personal Plans for Progress
  6. Proactive Tutoring and Concurrent Support
  7. Teachers as Advisors and Advocates
  8. Freshman Academy
  9. Guaranteed & Viable Curriculum and Instructional Consistency
  10. Teacher/Student Teams and Professional Learning Communities
  11. Freshman Support Class – Catch-up Courses
  12. Staffing and Scheduling for Ninth Grade Success

Participants will have the ability to redesign existing programs to increase results, as well as learn which components they should be addressing if they want to increase student achievement.  Each participant will receive a 175-page guide that permits concrete and deeper follow-up, plus 200+ pages of examples, research, resources, and school samples.

 

Coaching Reluctant Learners:  October 22 – 24, 2007

How do you get more students to pay attention and work harder on higher-level work???  Come learn concrete strategies for engaging the brain and heart of today’s students in a practical framework for classrooms that personalize learning WITH students, instead of FOR students. 

In this CSSR Institute, you will apply techniques necessary for motivating and improving student learning to an actual unit you are teaching this year:  BRING UNIT MATERIALS (text, assignments, quizzes, unit test, etc.) for a unit you would like to improve!  You will also leave with the skills to apply this framework to future units and other courses.  

The Coaching Reluctant Learners Institute will provide you with sample materials, strategy sheets and examples, results-oriented research, next steps to “spread the word” to other staff, and plenty of proven and practical practices that work with today’s challenging and challenged students.

Each participant will receive a copy of the book, Coaching Reluctant Learners: A Practical Framework for Classroom Success, Greenleaf/Donegan

 
 

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