Now available as a self-paced
Online Course
or a real-time, live
Virtual
Classroom Course.
The term Smaller Learning Community refers to houses and
schools-within-schools, magnet programs, career academies, charter schools, and
small learning communities. Research and experience have led advocates of
small learning communities and small schools to a shared, basic understanding of
small unit schooling:
An interdisciplinary team of teachers shares a
few hundred or fewer students in common for instruction, assumes responsibility
for their educational progress across years of school, and exercises maximum
flexibility to act on knowledge of students' needs. (Oxley, Dec. 2005)
This workshop will draw on research and practice accrued to date
to identify strategies that support key elements of smaller learning
communities.
We will examine best practices in five interdependent areas:
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Interdisciplinary
Teaching and Learning Teams
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Rigorous, Relevant
Curriculum and Instruction
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Inclusive Programs
and Practices
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Continuous Program
Improvement
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Building/District-level Support for SLCs
You will:
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Learn a seven-step cycle of continuous program improvement
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Identify more
specific best practices. These are supported by research which identifies
these practices as having positive effects on student achievement.
In short, we will
examine the question, "What constitutes optimal small learning community
practice?"
Join us for this one-day
introduction and overview of designing and implementing Smaller Learning
Communities.
Las Vegas - June 24, 2008
You may also register to take this
course as a self-paced
Online Course,
or in our
Virtual Classroom (live, real-time, collaborative class you take from home,
office or anywhere).
Register
Email us at
SLC_ws@21stCenturySchools.com
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Smaller
Learning Communities Workshop
