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LEVEL GUIDE
Teacher Career Pathways: Creating a Clear Career Ladder
Rethinking Student Discipline to Strike the Right Balance Lead
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INTENSIVE
18 D
Research has found that far too often a disproportionate number of African American students are suspended and expelled from school. A robust approach to achieving educational equity should include a dialogue between students, families, and a school’s leadership about discipline policies, as well as a thoughtful look at discipline data. This interactive session will give you the tools you need to address disparities and rethink discipline in your school or in your charter sector.
Operate
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Once you’ve found and hired the right people, the real work to support their growth and retain them begins. In this session, you will examine the research on and practice of retaining top teacher talent and investigate IDEA Public Schools’ Teacher Career Pathways model to identify changes to your approach to teacher retention and development. Audrey Cisneros, Sam Goessling, Leticia Molina, Melissa Scheinfeld, and Natalie Tyrell, IDEA Public Schools
Amber Audrain, The Mind Trust; Tomeika Bowden, DC Public Charter School Board; Mike Jacobs, Center City Public Charter School
3:30pm – 4:45pm
School Daze: Navigating the Facility Financing Maze Operate
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INTENSIVE
19 A
INTENSIVE
19 B
Is your school planning a construction or renovation project? Join us to learn the key elements of planning a successful facilities project. A panel of experts will introduce the critical elements of project planning and creditworthiness. Following the panel, we will guide you through estimating project costs, calculating what your school can afford to spend, and comparing financing options. You will walk away with the tools to plan a successful facilities project.
Connecting Dots and Aligning Visions: HBCU and Charter School Partnership Advocate
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Hilton Salon F
Join us to think through the need to explore data and research that speaks to the long-term success of African Americans attending HBCUs. We will amplify the current relationships between CMOs and HBCUs and speak to the overlap of supports offered by schools to best serve low-income, first-generation African American students.
Dru Damico, Building Hope; Anand Kesavan, Charter Impact Fund; Molly Melloh, Reinvestment Fund; Sara Sorbello, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Sekou Biddle and Michael Lomax, United Negro College Fund; Khalia Murray, DC Prep; Kathryn Procope, Howard University Public Charter Middle School of Mathematics and Science; Kevin Rome, Fisk University
Sentence Crafting: Art of the Sentence and Sentence Expansion
Empowering Students to Reach for College
Educate
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INTENSIVE
16 B
Join us for some of Teach Like a Champion’s newest work! Sentences are the fundamental building block of writing, yet instruction often focuses on the paragraph or essay level. Learn and practice two approaches for developing students’ syntactic control through the Art of the Sentence and Sentence Expansion. Embedded in rich content, these two techniques improve students’ reading, writing, discussions, and thinking. Dan Cotton, Kim Griffith, and Hilary Lewis, Teach Like a Champion
Educate
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12 A/B
Charter schools and families don’t need to go it alone when preparing students for college and careers. Join the College Board in exploring free online resources available through its digital opportunity pathway—from official SAT practice on Khan Academy, to college search and planning tools available on Big Future and career exploration available through Roadtrip Nation. This session will equip participants to support student access and success in college. Aaron Lemon-Strauss, The College Board
2018 National Charter Schools Conference | ncsc.publiccharters.org
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