Specialized+Trainings


 * [|ASSISTments.org] (Rocky Mount, NC)
 * [|Common Core] (Raleigh, NC)
 * [|Conflict Resolution] (Rocky Mount, NC)
 * [|Crucial Conversations] (Rocky Mount, NC)
 * Data Day: [|__EVAAS__] [|__ACRE__][|__Metametrics__][|_NCWise__] (Raleigh, NC)
 * [|Facilitative Leadership] (Rocky Mount, NC)
 * [|Federal Education Policy Institute] [|Institute for Educational Relationship] (Washington, DC)
 * [|Llano Grande Digital Story Telling (Nags Head, NC)]
 * NC DPI: Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Children, AG, Teacher Evaluation, Positive Behavioral Supports (Rocky Mount, NC)
 * Response to Intervention (Rocky Mount, NC)
 * NC Public School Funding (Rocky Mount, NC)
 * NCSU and National Content Specialist: Primary Focus on Math and ELA (Rocky Mount, NC)
 * [|Ruby Payne Training] (Raleigh, NC)
 * Social Justice Training (Raleigh, NC and Rocky Mount, NC)
 * The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning Administrative Professional Development (Roanoke Rapids, NC)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">[|The Flipped Classroom] (Rocky Mount, NC)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">[|Understanding By Design] (Rocky Mount, NC)

media type="custom" key="13675854" align="right" <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">Social Justice <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Lynda Tredway, University of California at Berkeley, facilitated a multi-day workshop on issues of race and equity. The work included personal, organizational and institutional development as well as tools to engage in this work as school leaders. As a part of this training, Cohort Fellows explored the impact that our students (from Northeastern North Carolina) have had on us as educators and as people in general. We also had "Courageous Conversations" about our backgrounds, race and our experiences. In addition, we explored equity traps that educators fall into that prevent real social justice from occurring and ways to have discussions with people to help schools meet the needs of racially diverse students.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">The video highlights the students who have impacted me the most as an educator. Shy students are often unintentionally overlooked, but I wanted to show the strengths of these students.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">I also wrote an "I am from" poem that focuses on my upbringing and the country life that helped to shape my character:



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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="custom" key="12317012" align="right" width="110" height="110" <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">Community Learning Exchange in San Marcos, Texas <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Community Learning Exchange (CLE), funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is a gathering of diverse people all with a passion for the betterment of their communities. Group members meet in various places across the United States to exchange ideas and strategies focused on building and sustaining healthy communities. The CLE that I attended in San Marcos, Texas in early January 2012 was a transformational experience for me. There were people there from Hawaii, New Mexico, Florida, Texas, New York, Colorado, Wisconsin and four NELA fellows and their professor from North Carolina. I was introduced to the concept of "Gracious Space" a sense of belonging and an appreciation of the diverse backgrounds from which people come to the group. We participated in activities like Digi-Hunts, where we toured San Marcos by foot to collect images that represented or symbolized concepts like an act of power, dignity, etc. We ended with a meeting in our NELA group to create a plan to take these newly learned strategies back to our communities. To meet so many people from different backgrounds and cultures and find that we share common experiences and interests was powerful.

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">media type="custom" key="12545370" align="right" width="132" height="132" <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Llano Grande Digital Storytelling in Nags Head, NC <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Llano Grande Digital Storytelling retreat, held in November 2011, was a focus on the art of capturing the stories of the six districts in which NELA Fellows live and work. The retreat was led by a team from the Llano Grande Center. Teams of fellows worked together to create a digital representation of words, images and personalized expressions of those from these Northeastern rural counties. Fellows Sean Murphy, Melissa Richardson, Shelley Williams and I worked together to tell the story of Halifax County. We gathered artifacts and interviews about Halifax County District, but we did not use much of the artifacts. They did not capture the stories we really wanted to tell about our community. With guidance from the Llano Grande team, we decided to tell about the community we valued in the past and what we want for our community in the future. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">[] media type="flickr" key="75702993@N05" ARG0="&lang=en-us&format=rss_200" width="450" height="450" align="center"

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<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">2011 Federal Education Policy Institute

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">The Federal Education Policy Institute, organized by the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), was an excellent opportunity for NELA fellows to meet and hear from numerous education policy makers. During this trip to our nation's capital in September 2011, we gathered information on topics that included: the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Act, student achievement and accountability, financial aide for post-secondary education, family and community engagement, and the implementation of common core.

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