Workshops

Presenter: Ann Levett

Title: Over Easy, Scrambled, and Sunny Side Up: "Eggzamining" How Leaders Communicate Parents' Hopes and Students' Dreams

Now that you know how to connect what you do with supporting parents' hopes and students' dreams, what do you do? How do you start? Through the use of interactive activities, including illustrations and powerful dialogues, this session will challenge the assumptions, beliefs, attitudes, and practices often associated with the limited options we use for communicating and interacting with all members of our school communities - internal and external. Participants will explore ways that school leaders and schools share the hopes and dreams that can be classified as over easy, scrambled, and sunny side up! This workshop will allow participants to move from heart strings to action! Come prepared to learn and share.

Presenter: Dr. Claire Crane

Title: Complementary Learning: Creating Connections...Bridging the School-Family Gap

• Participants will learn how to develop partnerships within their community.
• Participants will learn how to make a community school effective and how to overcome barriers.
• Participants will learn what happens when a community school is effective.

Presenters: Keith Frome & Christopher Brown

Title: College Summit’s Writing Team Methodology

This session provides educators with an overview of College Summit’s Writing Team Methodology, the approach to essay-writing that is implemented by volunteers at summer workshops and by school counselors during the school year. Participants will learn how this method has proven successful with so many students and receive tips on implementing it to strengthen college-going culture throughout a school. College Summit has learned that students really want and need a space to express themselves. They strive to be heard and to be understood. When we give them that space and that permission, as we do in the writing process at College Summit, hope will blossom.

Presenter: Lenore Pureser

Title: Addressing the educational needs of homeless children through partnerships with advocates, educators, parents and service providers

Main focus will be on informing principals of the strong network out there which can inform - support, provide materials, resources and connections for their homeless students and families. I believe that "what they don't know about the existing homeless population in their schools is really hurting them" so this workshop will help them identify this population, access information, attain free resources and implement programs for parents and students alike which will have a great effect on academic achievement for their students.

Presenters: David Banks & Yvette Crespo

Title: The Eagle Academy Story: The school with the Greatest Level of Parent Engagement in New York City