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Free to Learn Trainings
Training & Materials are offered in six whole-school component
areas. Please call CYC at (916) 228-2322 or e-mail cpce@scoe.net
for more information.
Plan & Structure
Same-Page Dialogues: Strategies for Collaboration
Character-based approaches call for school staffs to work differently,
with an emphasis on getting agreement on vision and strategies.
In this session, participants will work through a model for initiating
“same page dialogues.” With lessons and approaches borrowed
from business, this session will help participants begin to identify
an action plan for moving forward, past the things that often get
in the way of change and reform.
Leadership: Teaching for Change
Today, the increased expectations for achievement and results require
people, as well as institutions, to change. Fortunately, teaching
is all about change…change in students’ knowledge, skills,
and achievement. But teaching for change also means looking at our
own leadership and initiative and the way we work together as adults.
This workshop session challenges participants to take a look at
change through the lens of character. Participants will be challenged
to clarify the current conditions and symptoms of change, learn
what change requires of us individually and collectively and identify
how we go about “walking the talk.”
School Climate & Culture
The Context of our Character: Refocusing the Over-Indulged
Child
Participants will gain understanding of the characteristics of the
over-indulged child and resulting behaviors/behavior patterns, as
well as understanding of the concepts of “setting limits”
and consequences as a character-based approach to discipline. They
will also gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of their
own discipline tendencies.
School-Site Culture: Building Respectful Relationships and
Collaboration Through Effective Communication
This session examines elements that contribute to school site culture
and the skills and strategies to address one of them: effective
communication. Participants will gain an understanding of the tremendous
power of listening and will explore how their own communication
style and skills can impact character, strengthen agreements, enable
constructive conflict resolution, and further collaboration at their
own school sites.
Managing Conflict and Change with Character: A Scenarios and
Strategies Clinic
In this session, participants will check their assumptions about
change and look at how their perspectives affect results for their
school in the area of school climate and culture. A hands-on “clinic”
experience, this workshop will provide participants with an opportunity
to move through a series of common “conflict” scenarios
that school staff face, and gain skills that can help them to work
differently in the future.
Curriculum & Instruction
Reading Takes Character ~ Curriculum Connections
Participants will be introduced to the Reading Takes Character ~
Curriculum Connections, learn how the CPCE Six Core Character Traits
fit into the Open Court curriculum, and learn additional methods
for integrating character into their classroom.
Teaching Character: Classroom Instructional Strategies
Participants will gain instructional strategies that can help build
character throughout the day in their classroom or school site.
Assessment & Accountability
Evaluating Character-Based Approaches
In this session, participants will be introduced to approaches for
evaluating character-based approaches. Presentations will include
strategies for student self-assessment and the classroom as well
as a project/system-wide plan for comprehensively assessing school-wide
implementation and group results for students.
Leadership Development
The Power of Positive Leaders
Participants will learn the importance of positivity and how to
reframe negative language with positive words and phrases, as well
as understanding of the connection between teaching character and
modeling positive leadership.
Leadership: Teaching for Change
Today, the increased expectations for achievement and results require
people, as well as institutions, to change. Fortunately, teaching
is all about change…change in students’ knowledge, skills,
and achievement. But teaching for change also means looking at our
own leadership and initiative and the way we work together as adults.
This workshop session challenges participants to take a look at
change through the lens of character. Participants will be challenged
to clarify the current conditions and symptoms of change, learn
what change requires of us individually and collectively and identify
how we go about “walking the talk.”
Outreach & Connections
Schools, Families & Communities: Building Character Bridges
for Student Achievement
Transforming our school communities to include character-based citizenship
is not the work of educators alone, however it is school staff that
are often called upon to take leadership and show initiative in
developing partnership strategies with parents and other key community
stakeholders. This workshop takes a closer look at one of the six
school-wide components for a character-based approach: Outreach
and Connections. The session will guide participants in gaining
an understanding of how the bridging of student, staff, parent and
community relationships relates to achievement and good citizenship
and will identify model strategies for effective communication that
promote successful partnerships.
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