NSRF/NY @ NYU

NSRF/NY @ NYU Workshops in School Reform:
Introduction to Critical Friends Groups
Dates: July 22-24, 2008
Location: New York, NY
Critical Friends Groups (CFGs) provide a way for educators to create and sustain professional communities based on regularly shared accounts of practice, reflective dialogue about practice, and mutual commitment to improve practice. CFGs use shared norms and protocols for examining student and adult work together. They commit to high standards for student achievement and equity. This seminar will introduce participants to the norms, tools, and traditions of CFGs, and discuss opportunities to integrate their use with schools’ ordinary professional development platforms. Participants will leave with a “toolkit” of protocols and practices they will be able to apply within their school settings – ones that will allow them to strengthen their professional communities and increase their students’ achievement. Classroom teachers and other pedagogical staff including administrators are encouraged to attend.
Facilitator: Steven Strull, Director National School Reform Faculty.
Contact: Natalie Rodrigues, natalie.rodrigues@nyu.edu

NSRF/NY @ NYU Workshops in School Reform:
Introduction to Facilitative Leadership
Dates: August 19-21, 2008
Location: New York, NY
Participants will learn skills, tools, and protocols to enhance their ability to facilitate meetings of all kinds: grade-level meetings, network meetings, critical friends group meetings, study groups, student performance data analysis meetings, collaborative problem-solving meetings, faculty meetings, and more. They will explore protocols for opening and closing meetings, resolving conflicts, enhancing participation and engagement, exploring issues of equity, and learning from texts and speakers.
Facilitators: Beth McDonald, Master Teacher at NYU/Steinhardt and co-author of the Power of Protocols ; Ronni Mann, East Coast Director of the New Teacher Center at the University of California/Santa Cruz.
Contact: Natalie Rodrigues, natalie.rodrigues@nyu.edu

Seminars will be held at:
New York University
Horowitz Teacher Development Center
34 Stuyvesant Street, Room 501
New York, NY 10003

FEES AND REGISTRATION
Registration Deadline: June 1, 2008

Participant Fee	Group Discount (5 or More)
$850	$765

Fee includes annual NSRF membership.

*Note: P-Credit will be an additional $235 fee.

TO REGISTER:
Please send the following information to Natalie, nr270@nyu.edu or 212.998.5107.
Name:
Seminar Title:
Email:
Address:
Phone Number:
School:
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Payment: (NYU Voucher, Purchase Order, Check)
Note: If you are sending a voucher or purchase order please fax and mail us a copy.
Fax# 212.995.3778, 34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY 10003 ATTN: Natalie Rodrigues