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"Instructional Coaching with the End in Mind"
Dr. Stephen G. Barkley
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Steve Barkley's concept of "backwards planning" shifts the process of teaching practices, coaching, and professional staff development in significant and comprehensive ways. In this workshop, Dr. Barkley will share his research which suggests that teachers don't cause student achievement; students do, when armed with the right learning behaviors taught and modeled by others. From those behaviors, they become lifelong learners. Receive guidance and insights into specific coaching skills, questioning strategies, and ways to work with principals. The result ensures that teachers are fully supported in the highly complex and challenging world of education.
Stephen G. Barkley, executive vice president of Performance Learning Systems, began his career in education 30 years ago as an elementary school teacher. For the past 20 years he has served as a consultant to school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges throughout the United States and Canada. He has spent the last 27 years working and learning with teachers, principals, educational leaders throughout the United States, Canada, and recently in independent schools around the world. As Executive Vice President for Performance Learning Systems, Steve weekly presents, observes, studies, reads, and learns about teaching, learning and leading in K-12 schools.
Barkley has been a keynote speaker and presenter at state and national conferences. He has presented for the European Council of International Schools, the Mediterranean Association of International Schools, the Near East South Asian Council of Overseas Schools, Aruba Institute of Pedagogy, and Enka Schools of Istanbul, Turkey. He has also worked in London, Geneva, and Dubai. Recently, Steve has concentrated his efforts on working with several districts in leadership training, coaching skills, and teacher growth. With the publication of his recent books Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching, WOW: Adding Pizzazz to Teaching and Learning, Tapping Student Effort: Increasing Student Achievement, and his newest publication, Questions for Life: Strategies That Guide Critical Thinking, due out later this year, Steve stands out as an authority on developing and sustaining quality school mentoring and coaching programs.
"Leading Educational Change in Today's Schools: Strategies to Bring Everyone on Board"
Dr. Todd Whitaker
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
This workshop provides a step-by-step approach to successfully implement any change that you would like to occur in your organization. Leading School Change is perfect for leadership teams, individual leaders, or any combination of people who are interested in successfully leading change throughout their school or district.
Included will be information on which people you have to start the change process with, how to make sure the first exposure is great, and how to diminish the influence of the resistors. The hands on activities will enable you to develop a plan specifically for you and your group. Whether it is a change you hope to make or a new mandate you will learn how to bring everybody on board.
Dr. Todd Whitaker has been fortunate to be able to blend his passion with his career. Recognized as a leading presenter in the field of education, his message about the importance of teaching has resonated with hundreds of thousands of educators around the world. Todd is a professor of educational leadership at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, and he has spent his life pursuing his love of education by researching and studying effective teachers and principals.
Prior to moving into higher education he was a math teacher and basketball coach in Missouri, and still holds a school record for most wins in a season at one of the high schools where he coached. Todd then served as a principal at the middle school, junior high, and high school levels. He was also a middle school coordinator in charge of staffing, curriculum, and technology for the opening of new middle schools.
One of the nation’s leading authorities on staff motivation, teacher leadership, and principal effectiveness, Todd has written 24 books including the national best seller, What Great Teachers Do Differently. Other titles include: The Ball, Dealing With Difficult Teachers, Teaching Matters, Great Quotes for Great Educators, What Great Principals Do Differently, Motivating & Inspiring Teachers, and Dealing With Difficult Parents.
"Intercultural Competence and Educational Equity for Students' Academic Success"
Dr. Dolphus Weary
Thursday, June 14, 2012
In this day long interactive workshop, Dr. Dolphus Weary will share cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate teaching and learning in a variety of cultural contexts. Such meaningful engagement requires educators to identify their own cultural patterns, then compare and contrast them with others in order to effectively and meet students' needs. Dr. Weary will engage participants in discussions that heighten awareness of cultural rules and biases - boundaries within which one operates in order to feel a sense of belonging to the school community based on the values shared by members of the school community, whether it's students or staff.
Dr. Weary was one of the first black students ever to attend and graduate from the all-white Los Angeles Baptist College with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Biology in 1969. In 1971, he received a Masters of Religious Education Degree (M.R.E.) from Los Angeles Baptist Seminary in 1971. Later on Dolphus received a Masters in Educational Administration (M. Ed) from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1978. He returned to Mississippi to work with Voice of Calvary/Mendenhall Ministries, a multi-faceted Christian Community Development ministry, where he served from 1971 through 1997. In 1973, Dolphus was ordained to the ministry, and in 1997, he received a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS.
For over thirty years, Dolphus has spoken on college campuses, in Churches, Seminaries, and Conferences around the country. "I believe that God has given me two passions, a passion for racial unity in the Body of Christ and to minister to those who are poor in America and around the world." Currently Dolphus serves as the President of Rural Education and Leadership (R.E.A.L.) Christian Foundation (A foundation connecting Economic and Technical Resources with Rural Christian Ministries) and as a consultant for Mission Mississippi (a racial reconciliation ministry that encourages unity within the Body of Christ.)
Dolphus has received four honorary Doctoral Degrees including one from Belhaven University in Jackson, MS and Waynesburg College in Waynesburg, PA. In 2006, he received the distinguished Meritorious Leadership Award from Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, MS and sought after to speak with the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. Recently, Dolphus was selected and featured in Image Publishing Inc.'s - Proud to Call Mississippi Home, the National Publication of Who's Who in Black Mississippi and inducted into Alumni Hall of Fame at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Dolphus and his wife Rosie are the parents of three children: Danita, a pediatrician who lives in Natchez, MS; Ryan, a Communications Graduate of Belhaven College; and Reggie, who went home to be with the Lord in June of 2004. Additionally the Weary's have the privilege of imparting wisdom and knowledge into one grandson, Reginald Malik "Lil Reggie."
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