March 21, 2012: Leading Class-Sensitive Schools
Description: This one-day workshop is designed for district level administrators, building principals and assistant principals, counselors, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders to discuss issues related to social class and poverty. In this exciting, stimulating, and practical workshop participants will:
• Learn about the five principles for change to better meet the needs of working-class and poor students;
• Develop strategies for evaluating and coaching teachers with class-sensitivity in mind;
• Design ways to make school improvement plans sensitive to social class; and
• Examine how to make broad district, school, and classroom policies and practices anti-classist and anti-poverty.
Bring along teachers to attend the Reading Turn-Around Workshop which is taking place at the same time! Click here for more information.
Instructor: Dr. Mark Vagle, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education
Cost: $125
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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