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Engaging All by Creating High School Learning Communities


What It Is

A 24-hour training exploring the most promising strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement – that of building the capacity of school personnel – “the insiders” – to function as a collegial learning community.

Why You Want It

This training provides the research-based principles and strategies that are essential to prepare today’s students for an entirely different era – The Era of Learning. Participants will implement effective practices that enhance rigor, relevance and relationships to transform the culture, structures and pedagogy of the whole high school system.

As a teacher the interactive training prepares you to…

  • Create a personalized motivational culture throughout all of your classes
  • Design active learning experiences that correspond to how today’s 21st century students best can learn and succeed
  • Engage all students in collaborative learning groups for inquiry, research, creative projects, presentations, self and group assessment and evaluation
  • Work in collaborative teacher learning communities to engage, motivate, and together help all of your students succeed.

As an administrator you will discover ways to…

  • Initiate and sustain a caring and challenging culture throughout the whole school community
  • Build the capacity of the faculty to work together in collegial learning communities to achieve educational excellence
  • Activate the sound principles and improvement practices recommended in the NASSP ground-breaking document “Breaking Ranks II – Strategies for Leading High School Reform” (2004)

How It Works

Participants engage, explore, and experience strategies for learning, creating, and leadership. Included is the newly published book, Engaging All By Creating High School Learning Communities, authored by Jeanne Gibbs and Teri Ushijima, Ed.D., a Certificate of Completion, and the materials to enable you to implement Tribes in your high school learning community.

This professional development can be presented over 4 consecutive six-hour days, or divided into a “two and two” plan to support staff while they learn, experience, and apply the process. CenterSource will work with you to design a training plan that fits your school schedule.

Read what people who have had the course say:

(What is the biggest insight that you have had from participating in this training?): That we need to educate the whole child and not just focus on curriculum…also how to reach other types of learners, not just those that are like me…a perfect student!

Thank you so much for creating a book that is responsive to high school specifically! I can’t wait to implement and continue to learn and collaborate!

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