GENDER EDUCATION
in 7 steps
Doc Holliday Educational Consultants (DHEC)
Presentation #1: Boys: Transitioning from Athletic Aggression to Academic Affirmation on a Shoestring Budget
Time: 2-6 hours
Interactive technology and small group work
Participants will:
1. Review, analyze and discuss what is happening psychologically to boys within many American public school systems today
2. Review, discuss and understand the new value system that prevents boys from engaging in most things academic
3. Review, research and discuss the dramatic decline in the number of boys graduating from high school and college and strategies that are working to stem this tide
4. Review new cutting-edge ideas and changes that must be embraced before we can bridge the growing communication gap between us and them
Presentation # 2: Gender-Based Approaches to Improve Academic Performance
Time: 2-6 hours
Interactive technology and small group work
Participants will:
1. Review the success of at-risk, low-performing minority students who have been transformed into academically-engaged, high performing boys and girls
2. Examine the keys to successful implementation of gender-based classes
3. Examine the need for retraining teachers, parents and students regarding gender-based classes
Presentation # 3: Parent Workshops: “Get Off the Sidelines and Into the Game”
Time: 2-4 Hours
Interactive technology and small group work
Participants will learn how to:
1. Better understand how the 21st Century Schools Operate
2. Support your child at home and at your school
3. Develop a positive relationship with your child’s teacher
4. Develop academic (Academic Booster Clubs) support for your school
Presentation # 4: Mentoring for the 21st Century Student
Time: 2-4 Hours
Interactive technology and small group work
Participants will learn:
1. Adult Do’s and Don’ts of interaction with 21st century students
2. Boundary Setting for Mentors and Mentees
3. Mentoring Roles and Responsibilities
4. Ice Breaking Activities and Building Relationships
Presentation # 5: Creating a High-Performance Learning Culture
Time: Half day up to 3 days
Interactive technology and small/large group work
Participants will learn how to:
1. Recognize/define a toxic school culture
2. Develop a school culture where all students learn at high levels
3. Develop the skills, knowledge, and commitment that creates and sustains high-performance learning cultures
4. Reculture their school to change the way your school operates
5. Cultivate a belief system that produces high performance learners
Presentation # 6: Change/Leadership—Can’t Have One without the Other
Time: 1-4 hours
Interactive technology and small/large group work
Participants will learn:
1. The dos and don’ts of successful change
2. How to develop a strong leadership team
3. Why some individuals fail and others succeed?
4. What leadership styles work best in what settings?
Presentation # 7: African American/Latino Students: Bridging the Cultural Gap before Closing the Achievement Gap
Time: 2-6 hours
Interactive technology and small group work
Participants will be able to:
1. Dispel academic myths regarding children of color
2. Review cutting-edge research and common-sense approaches that work with African American students
3. Clarify challenges and map out instructional strategies to close the achievement gap of African American students in public schools
Presentation # 8: Developing Visionary Student Leaders and Leadership Programs
Time: 1-4 hours
Interactive technology/ role playing/large and small group work
Participants will be able to:
1. Identify and train student leaders
2. Teach student leaders how to network with other and adults
3. Empower students to take control of their own lives and& education
4. Teach students and adults how to better understand the hip-hop culture and how it can better assimilate into mainstream society
Presentation # 9: Using Data to Lead Change:
Time: 2-6 hours (1-3 days)
Interactive technology and small group work
Participants will be able to identify:
1. How data can improve students’ and school’s performance
2. The types and sources of data commonly available to school leaders
3. The pitfalls and barriers to successful data use
4. How data can be used to help students, teachers, school leaders and systems
Presentation # 10: 21st Century Student Discipline that Works!
Time: 2-6 hours
Interactive Technology and small group work,
role
playing
Participants will:
1. Examine why students misbehave
2. Review and discuss the current national data
3. Discuss promising ideas that seem to be working
4. Discuss the dos and don’ts of positive classroom management
5. Examine the characteristics of effective teachers
6. Examine how to best discipline poverty and/or minority students
7. Learn how to teach the implementation of a school wide discipline plan format
Presentation # 11: Response to Intervention/Differentiated Instruction for Special
Needs Students.
Time: 2-6 hours
Interactive technology and small group work
Participants will discuss and review:
1. Differentiated instruction and why it is needed
2. What the research says about poverty
3. Gender-based strategies that work for at-risk boys
4. ESOL teaching strategies that works
5. Georgia performance standards
6. How to work for accuracy and authenticity
7. The implementation of curriculum mapping
8. The concept of understanding by design
9. Mapping via “the pyramid” Pyramid Model for Differentiated Instruction (systematic formatting, rubrics, methodology/application)
Example Lesson: Civil War Generals Higher-Order Thinking: Compare and Contrast. Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Mid-Level Learner: Write about the lives of three generals.
Lower-Level Learner: Identify the three generals
Presentation # 12: Infusion of 21st Century Technology to Meet the Needs of the Diverse, Differentiated Classroom
Time: 2-6 hours
Interactive technology and small group work
Participants will be able to:
1. Close the achievement thru technology
2. Understand Digital Natives (students) and Digital Immigrants (teachers)
3. Train teachers how do design curriculum that makes use of weblogs for use by the students
4. Understand how young writers and readers will benefit from weblog use as a creative and technologically-savvy way to share information and present their writing
Presentation # 13: Coaching to Improve Academic Performance (for beginning principals, superintendents and other central office and/or local leadership)
Time: 2-6 hours
Interactive technology and small/large group work
Participants will learn how to handle:
1. Academic audit report reviews
2. Assisting in professional presentations
3. Open houses
4. PTSA events
5. Teacher meetings
6. Retreats
7. School-improvement document creation
8. Classroom management presentation and training
9. New teacher institute program development
10. Closing the cultural gap before closing the achievement gap
11. Curriculum mapping
12. Creating a school business plan (pursue new partners in education)
13. Designing professional brochures
14. Developing a foreign language component (international visiting educators in Chinese and Spanish)
15. Electronic mentoring program (up to 4 calls per month for assistance/discussion with particular concerns and issues)
16. Creating a vision statement
17. Developing an academic booster club
18. Developing SAT/CRCT prep classes
19. Grant-writing workshops
20. Personnel retention/recruitment/removal
21. In-depth legal issues (documentation)
22. ESOL program development
23. Creating an international festival
24. Using team building programs
25. Special education by design, differentiated instruc tion, mapping via “the pyramid,” using GPS efficiently, and teaching reading effectively).
26. Developing a positive public relations program
Presentation # 14: Boys: Reigniting their Academic Pilot Lights with Old School Strategies
Time: 1-4 hours
Interactive technology and small/large group work
Participants will learn:
1. About the psychology of boys today
2. Why boys are failing in school and what should be done differently
3. Promising research based strategies that work
4. Programs that are working in schools and how they’re implemented
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