Meeting the Challenges:

Working with Your School Leadership Team to Exceed the New Accountability Standards for Student Achievement in Mathematics and Science

A series of 4 two-day sessions, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fee: $1,550*

*Fee: For a team of 2 to 5 people from a campus and/or district: $1,550 per person. For a team of 6 or more people: $1,400 per person. (This series is designed for leadership teams that include at least 1 campus administrator and 1 key math and/or science teacher.)

Audience:

  • School leadership teams consisting of key campus leaders and mathematics and/or science teachers

Content focus:

  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Leadership

Grade-level focus:

  • Elementary school
  • Middle school
  • High school

Houston complete series:

  • Session 1: February 17-18, 2010 (for administrators only)
  • Session 2: March 24-25, 2010
  • Session 3: May 19-20, 2010
  • Session 4: September 8-9, 2010

This institute will provide you with tools and strategies designed to strengthen your math and science instructional programs. As part of this institute, teachers will attend selected Dana Center professional development sessions.

Participating teams will learn how to increase the effectiveness of their school's instructional program. During this professional development series, school teams will work with a Dana Center team to implement some key elements of school redesign for improvement.

In this session, you will:

  • Work as a campus team for about 25% of the time on strategies to strengthen the effectiveness of your instructional program.
  • Learn problem-solving skills and strategies to inform your decisionmaking processes (campus leaders).
  • Draw on and implement lessons from the Dana Center’s resources for K-12 mathematics (mathematics teachers) and K-12 science (science teachers).
  • Work with other content teachers while learning how to deliver effective content that accelerates student interest and achievement (mathematics and science teachers).