SPECIALIZED TRAININGS
Topic |
Date |
Description |
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People |
May 2018 |
Dale Carnegie shares fundamental techniques in handling people, making people like you, and winning people to your way of thinking. He also shares leadership strategies on changing people without giving offense or arousing resentment. |
Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People |
May 2018 |
Stephen Covey provides seven principles which produce consistent, purpose-driven choices and achievement of desired results. This is accomplished through self development, interdependent relationships, and renewal. |
Flipped Classroom |
May 2018 |
Lodge McCammon’s Flipped Classroom model encourages teachers to turn live lectures into video lectures, which saves time and allows teachers to engage students in more meaningful learning activities. |
Understanding by Design |
June 2018 |
Understanding by Design is a framework for creating curriculum based on establishing the desired results you want to see, determining the forms of acceptable evidence, and the learning experiences that will occur. |
Literacy |
June 2018 |
Literacy is the foundation of students’ ability to function, develop, and achieve in society. Attention to student learning needs, implementation of a school literacy plan, and application of UDL strategies continuously produce student growth and achievement. |
Crucial Conversations |
June 2018 |
Kerry Patterson offers techniques that create a safe space for crucial conversations when opinions differ, stakes are raised, and emotions are high. Application of these skills are sure to preserve positive relationships when making decisions and problem solving. |
Restorative Discipline |
June 2018 |
A practice that incorporates school staff building relationships with students that lead towards students owning their actions. |
Poverty |
June 2018 |
Increasing understanding of, and impactful pedagogy with, students living in poverty is the objective of this important topic. Using guidelines from research-based texts to develop practical and proven strategies for individual schools will effectively meet the unique needs of this growing population in our county. |
Teach Like a Champion and First Days of School |
July 2018 |
Lemov provides 62 refining techniques to strengthen instruction to support engagement and establish a positive and effective school culture. Additional topics addressed include rigor, data, and social-emotional classroom culture. Wong’s instruction of establishing structure and procedures provides an excellent prerequisite for Lemov’s techniques. |
BB&T Leadership Training |
July 2018 |
BB&T Leadership Training supplies the tools to analyze strengths, beliefs, and triggers when things are going well and in conflict. This framework aids in replacing ineffective beliefs, behaviors, and emotions with strategies that lead to success. |
Madeline Hunter's Mastery Teaching |
July 2018 |
Madeline Hunter’s time-proven lesson planning framework forms the basis of effective instruction that is needed to build upon with advanced techniques to address varied student needs. |
Emotional Intelligence and Myers-Briggs |
July 2018 |
Emotional Intelligence and Myers-Briggs focus on how one balances self-regulation and social skills and adjusts how one sees the world through the eyes of others. |
Make it Stick |
July 2018 |
Peter Brown and his co-authors use brain research to explain what’s wrong with the ways we have been taught to learn and share strategies that are most effective for making information stick. |
Racial Equity Institute |
August 2018 |
The Measuring Racial Equity: A Groundwater Approach presentation by REI engages its participants in data proving that racial inequity looks the same across systems, socio-economic differences do not explain the racial inequity, and that systems contribute significantly to disparities. The presentation makes the participants consider whether we are spending our time focusing on fixing the fish or if we are digging deeper and fixing the water. |
Equity and Social Justice Retreat |
Sept 2018 |
The Franklinton Center at Bricks, a former slave planation that eventually became one of the first accredited schools for African Americans in the South, conducts retreats focused on developing an understanding of social justice and equity in the United States. |
Professional Learning Communities |
Fall 2019 |
This course focused on understanding the essential components and roles of a Professional Learning Community in a high performing culture and reviewed best instructional practices and their relationship to PLCs. |
Maxwell Training |
Feb 2019 |
This training focused on learning our purpose or why. Why are we doing the work that we are doing and how can we help others connect back to their why? We discussed the power of humility when telling our own story. |
LGBTQ Training |
April 2019 |
Equity issues impact students beyond race. This training focused on analyzing current policies that effect LGBTQ-identifying students. We also discussed the power of language when working with all students. |
NC School Improvement Project |
June 2019 |
This two-day training provides administrators with an overview of the following courses: Math Foundations, Reading Research to Classroom Practice, Co-Teaching, and All Leaders Understand and Collaborate to Support Evidence-Based Practices. |
AEI School Policy |
June 2019 |
This conference in Washington, D.C. provided us with an opportunity to hear from those who set educational policy. This think tank provided strategies to expand human capital. |
NCEES |
July 2019 |
This training provided an insider's look at how an administrative team uses NCEES and how to prepare for an school-wide evaluation matrix. |
Student Due Process |
July 2019 |
This training provided an overview of the Wake County Public School System Due Process handbook. This is a required training for administrators to be aware of new updates in student due process. |
LEA Administrator |
Nov 2019 |
This training provided an overview of how to LEA an effective IEP meeting and shared information about laws and requirements that must be followed. |
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention |
Dec 2019 |
This training provided practice of the restraints and holds that can be used to ensure student and staff safety. |