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9 - 15 June, 2012

Passageworks Summer Institute

Denver/Boulder, CO

This Institute will offer an in depth experience of the PassageWorks approach to teaching and leading. The Institute begins with our Creating Engaged Classrooms course–a 2 1/2 day intensive that offers practical tools and strategies for sustaining a reflective teaching practice and integrating social, emotional and academic learning into any K-12 classroom. The Institute continues with Transformational Leadership for Educators–a three day course focusing on developing leadership capacities from the inside out. Together, these courses offer powerful, synergistic practices for effectively engaging students and faculties and transforming classrooms and schools.

More information here.

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28 June - 1 July, 2012

Inviting the Edge: Mindfulness in the Writing Classroom and Beyond

Perspectives 2012
Estes Park, Colorado

Featured Speaker: Doug Hesse

This conference will explore how mindfulness can transform our teaching, our learning, our thinking, our writing, and our ways of being in the world. In addition to reflecting intellectually on the conference theme, participants will have opportunities to experience various mindfulness practices.

“Mindfulness” can be a map for exploring “the edge” in meaningful human relations with attention, presence, and awareness. Its practices foster inner and interpersonal harmony, but they can also provide a rhetoric and a politics that mine chaos and discomfort, and negotiate difference and disagreement.

More information here.

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10 - 15 August, 2012

CARE: Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education

Garrison Institute
Garrison, NY

Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions; it can also be one of the most difficult. Growing demands-from the academic workload to working with students impacted by poverty, violence and divorce can add up to a highly stressful environment for teachers. Studies show that helping teachers cope with such stress effectively does more than reduce burnout: it allows them to be role models for healthy social and emotional behavior and improves educational outcomes for students.

The retreat offers 37 hours of training over five days. To register, click the link on the right-hand side of this page. Registration prices include all training sessions, on site housing, meals and the program fee. Partial registration is not available. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be available for an additional cost.

More information at the website or by contacting education@garrisoninstitute.org or by calling 845-424-4800 ext. 131.

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9 - 10 November, 2012

Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum

The Met School
Providence, RI

Join us November 9 and 10, 2012 at the Met School in Providence for our annual, ongoing, Conversation Among Friends. Education policy and practice has been in the forefront of news this year, amidst strong debate regarding NCLB, the place and purpose of standardized testing, and the role and reach of teachers in determining classroom content.

The Forum presents a unique opportunity to come together with other educators to return to a vibrant discussion about what the 10 Common principles mean to us as educators during times of changing administrations and policies. Or, how do the principles anchor us in our daily work? Rhode Island, as are many states, is working through these very struggles, and with its state symbol of an anchor of hope, seemed an apt place to hold that conversation.

More information: http://www.essentialschools.org/events/9

Call for proposals - due June 7