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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 for Middle School 1 |
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Developmental Designs 1 weeklong workshops (DDMS1) are for grades 5-8 educators who work in a middle school setting. Participants will learn how to implement needs-based, developmentally appropriate social, academic, and behavior management practices that include:
• Developing classroom and school-wide cultures that honor cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control as the context for the development of independent, competent learners
• Meeting young adolescents’ social needs by starting each day with a Circle of Power and Respect or related advisory activity
• Starting the year off right by creating goals and rules (Social Contract) together with your students
• Showing specific examples of the social contract in action through modeling routines, creating “look-sound-feel” charts, using social action theater (Role Play), and other strategies
• Introducing and using behavior-management strategies (Pathways to Self-Control) that help students to act responsibly and with self-control
• Examining language used to reinforce positive behavior, and remind and redirect students; using language that is consistently clear and rigorous but also encouraging and empowering.
MORE ABOUT DDMS1 (formerly known as Responsive Designs or RD)
$695.00
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| Developmental Designs for Middle School 2 |
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Developmental Designs 2 weeklong workshops (DDMS2) are for grades 5-8 educators who work in a middle school setting. DDMS2 reinforces and builds on DDMS1 practices while focusing on how to improve engagement in academics in middle school classrooms. Participants will develop a set of practices that will allow them to:
• Provide appropriate opportunities to meet the developmental needs of middle school students, especially the need for autonomy and competence
• Deepen understanding of Pathways to Self-control, with emphasis on problem-solving behaviors of especially challenging students
• Use POWER Learning, a strategy to maximize student engagement, cognitive growth and achievement. POWER Learning ensures active engagement in every phase of learning: Planning, generating Options, Work, Exhibits of work, and Reflection. POWER Learning works because it meets adolescent needs for competence and autonomy.
• Choose from many other Engaged Learning Strategies to enhance student engagement in both individual and group learning situations
• Play academic-centered games and activities that build community
MORE ABOUT DDMS2 (formerly known as Responsive Designs or RD)
Prerequisite: Developmental Designs 1
$695.00
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| Developmental Designs for Middle School 3 |
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Developmental Designs for Middle School 3 is for educators who have taken DD1 (RD1) and DD2 (RD2). Within a seminar format participants explore practices in depth while focusing on an issue each brings from his/her own classroom.
In Developmental Designs 3, participants will deepen their understanding and expand their skills for engaging students in learning. They will explore, apply, practice, and design lessons using POWER learning, Engaged Learning Strategies, and effective ways to structure a class hour for maximum student interest. Participants will learn to better enrich their advisories with academic elements, and their academic lessons with community-building, so that they are truly integrating social and academic learning all day long.
Problem-solving structures will be addressed with a special focus on especially challenging students via proactive and reactive social conferencing, conflict resolution, problem-solving meetings, and the Conspiracy of Caring.
Participants will also have the opportunity to address “hot topics” of their choosing, and will complete project plans for the coming school year to be executed with support from their facilitator during the year.
$695.00
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| Developmental Designs for Middle School One-day Overview |
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Middle school 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 One-day Overview 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 for Middle School
• 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
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$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 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 One-day Overview, 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.
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$179.00
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| Building Academic Communities Through the Arts (BACTA) |
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In a fun, active week, K-8 teachers practice ideas for integrating storytelling, visual arts, casual singing, movement, storytelling, and poetry into the learning day.
Prerequiste: Responsive Classroom 1 or Developmental Designs for Middle School 1
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$695.00
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| Leadership Institute |
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Participants in the Leadership Institute deepen their understanding of Responsive Classroom (RC) or Developmental Designs for Middle School (DDMS) implementation at the classroom, school-wide,
and adult community levels; broaden leadership skills, especially in the area of structures for good communication and healthy school culture; and
make plans for next steps in the comprehensive implementation of the RC or DDMS approaches.
Prerequisite: RC1 or DDMS1
Registration minimum: 2 participants, including the principal; we recommend no more than 5 from one school
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$750.00
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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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