Strategies for Sustaining the Responsive Classroom Approach in Your School
Date: TBD
8:30am - 3:30pmLocation:LAPDA Meeting Space, Montpelier, VT
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE
Cost: $225 for LAPDA Members
$275 for Nonmembers
Registration:www.lapdavt.org
Call (802) 224-9110
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Appropriate for Elementary Level Principals and Teacher Leaders
Course Description:
This workshop is for elementary school principals, curriculum coordinators, and other school leaders who have taken Responsive Classroom Level 1 training and/or who have a significant amount of Responsive Classroom teaching practice being implemented in their schools. Participating principals are encouraged to bring along an interested colleague or “RC champion” from their school. The goal of the workshop is to give participants a framework, along with some specific strategies, for sustaining their schools’ ongoing implementation of Responsive Classroom practices.
The workshop will include information about the following:
• New resources, trainings and materials from Northeast Foundation for Children Which support Responsive Classroom implementation
• Recent and ongoing research studies about the positive impact of the Responsive Classroom approach on children’s learning, as well as the connection between Responsive Classroom and the Positive Behavior Support framework
• The “Elements of a Responsive Classroom School” model which includes strong classroom implementation, along with building the adult community, in order to move toward school-wide practices
• Ways to describe a school’s current use of Responsive Classroom and to identify possible next goals, including the use of Surveys and The Responsive Classroom Assessment (guide, tool and CD-ROM)
• The use of the “Four Legs of Professional Development” model in developing a
Responsive Classroom Action Plan:
o Training (week long workshops, graduate credit, follow-up workshops)
o Consulting (different ways to use the services of an RC consultant)
o Sustainability (study groups, staff meetings, useful resources, and more)
o Leadership (training, mediating barriers, supporting reflection, setting goals)
• A case study of one school’s creation of a Responsive Classroom Action Plan
• Facilitated planning time for participants to apply the workshop ideas to their own schools
About the Instructor
Susan Titterton, has worked in schools for 22 years as a classroom teacher, guidance counselor, co-principal, and adjunct faculty member at St. Michael’s College. She has been a Responsive Classroom Consulting Teacher for twelve years and has extensive experience in presenting workshops, in coaching teachers and administrators, and in supporting a broad array of Vermont schools in multi-year Responsive Classroom Action Plans.
