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Cancellation Process: If you cancel your registration 7 days or more before the workshop begins, we will refund your tuition, less 10% for processing. Less than one week before the workshop begins, you may 1) substitute another person at your grade level in your place or 2) apply your credit toward an Origins workshop within one year. We will work with extenuating circumstances as necessary.
| Developmental Designs 1 |
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Developmental Designs 1 week-long workshops (DD1) are for grades 5-9 educators who work in a middle or high school setting. Participants will learn how to implement needs-based, developmentally appropriate social, academic, and behavior management practices that include:
• CPR and A+ Advisories—use advisory time to build a strong,
socially-skilled learning community
• Goals and Declarations—help students establish a stake in school
• Social Contract—create group agreements and increase student
endorsement
• Modeling and Practicing—establish and maintain clear expectations
for living by the rules
• Pathways to Self-control—redirect rule-breaking while teaching
students the skills of self-management
• Empowering Teacher Language to reinforce, remind, and redirect
• Power of Play—energize students and bring pleasure to learning
through play
• The Reflective Loop—build the habit of reflection in the midst of
adolescent spontaneity
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$695.00
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| Developmental Designs 2 |
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Developmental Designs 2 week-long workshops (DD2) are for grades 5-9 educators who work in a middle or high school setting. DD2 reinforces and builds on DD1 practices while focusing on how to improve engagement in academics and extend discipline practices to problem-solving discipline issues with students.
The week’s topics:
• Addressing middle-level developmental needs socially and
academically
• Academic learning in advisory
• Collaborative problem-solving for repeat rule-breaking and
structures for students to solve their own problems
• Learning strategies to maximize attention, engagement, and
differentiation
• Empowering teacher language to explore, connect, and reflect
Student planning and reflecting on the quality of their work
• Academic-centered games and activities that build community
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Prerequisite: Developmental Designs 1
$695.00
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| Developmental Designs Responding to Rule-breaking |
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A Developmental Designs 1 (DD1) one-day, follow-up workshop
For educators who have already been introduced to the Developmental Designs approach in DD1, this follow-up one-day workshop clarifies your understanding and enhances your toolbox for dealing with misbehavior in the classroom.
In addition to the usual fun and peer-interaction of any Developmental Designs experience, in Responding to Rule-breaking you will:
• Explore ways to create a good environment for positive behavior and reduced disruptions
• Learn how to “read” behaviors in order to address them effectively
• Polish and add to the tools in your toolbox for handling disruptions with strategies such as “Cut off” and “Check in”
• Reflect on the “you” in the equation—your thoughts and feelings and how they affect your responses to disruption
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| Developmental Designs Sampler, Grades 5-9 Educators |
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In this one-day introduction, middle level educators are introduced to the principles underlying and the key practices of the Developmental Designs approach and learn some practical structures for integrating social-emotional learning into academics.
The Developmental Designs Sampler provides participants:
• An experience of community-building through the Circle of Power and Respect
• An introduction to the Six Principles that guide the work of Developmental Designs
• Insight into the developmental needs of young adolescents and practices designed to meet those needs, both socially and academically
• Demonstrations and a chance to try out several of the practices: the signal for silence; modeling; cooperative game-playing; the Reflective Loop; Engaged Learning Strategies; and a closing meeting
MORE ABOUT the DD SAMPLER OVERVIEW (formerly called, Developmental Designs One-day Overview)
$179.00
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| Responsive Classroom 1 |
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You’ll learn about five of the fundamental practices of the Responsive Classroom approach: Morning Meeting, Rule Creation, Interactive Modeling, Positive Teacher Language, and Logical Consequences. This workshop is a prerequisite for RC2, RC3, Literacy, and BACTA.
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$695.00
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| Responsive Classroom 1, 8-Session Format |
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You’ll learn about five of the fundamental practices of the Responsive Classroom approach: Morning Meeting, Rule Creation, Interactive Modeling, Positive Teacher Language, and Logical Consequences.
You will experience whole group conversations, individual and partner reflections, small group work, and plenty of opportunity to integrate the strategies presented into your planning. You will explore the kinds of activities that build community and increase academic learning.
This workshop is a prerequisite for RC2, RC3, Literacy, and BACTA.
MORE ABOUT RC1
These workshops meet over 8 evening sessions, 4:15-8:30 p.m.
MONDAYS October 11-December 6, 2010
Diamond Head Education Center • Burnsville MN
(Note: no class on October 18)
WEDNESDAYS October 13-December 1, 2010
Harambee Elementary • Maplewood MN
TUESDAYS January 4-February 22, 2011
New City School • Minneapolis MN
$695.00
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| Responsive Classroom 2 |
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You’ll further your understanding of how to use the basic Responsive Classroom practices to connect social and academic learning. You’ll learn about Guided Discovery, Academic Choice, Classroom Organization, and Collaborative Problem Solving and deepen your understanding of Logical Consequences and Teacher Language.
Prerequisite: Responsive Classroom 1 Weeklong Workshop
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$695.00
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| Responsive Classroom 3 |
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K-6 educators explore Responsive Classroom practices in depth in RC3. You’ll be asked to bring an issue you’re challenged by in your classroom or school area. Working with colleagues in a seminar format, you’ll explore ways to use Responsive Classroom strategies and practices to address your issue.
Prerequisite: Responsive Classroom 2
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$695.00
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| Responsive Classroom Sampler, K-6 Educators |
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K-6 educators gain an initial awareness of Responsive Classroom practices. They participate in an adult Morning Meeting, explore the foundational ideas behind the Responsive Classroom approach, and see a video showing the practices in action. They also hear about the Responsive Classroom approach to discipline and learn practical strategies, such as signals, modeling, energizers, closing circles, and greetings, to use in the classroom.
MORE ABOUT THE RC SAMPLER (formerly called the Responsive Classroom One-day Overview)
$179.00
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| Literacy in a Responsive Classroom |
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This workshop applies the instructional approaches of the Responsive Classroom to the language arts curriculum, grades K-6. Participants will discover ways to engage children in active literacy experiences with high levels of accountability. They will discuss and practice techniques, prepare “make-and-take” materials, and plan curriculum and individual lessons in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Prerequisite: Responsive Classroom 1 or Developmental Designs for Middle School 1
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$695.00
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| Responding to Misbehavior |
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Responding to Misbehavior (RMB)
PREREQUISITE: RC1 (or PE1)
Enhance your skill in managing common classroom discipline problems. You’ll tie together strategies you learned in Responsive Classroom 1 and have plenty of time to practice: - Describing problem behaviors
- Articulating ideal behaviors
- Generating theories about children’s misbehavior
- Considering options for intervening
$179.00
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