Continuing Education Courses

Lowcountry STEM Summer Institute

K-12 Educators

Spark your imagination and ignite your passion for STEM. Join us for an enriching STEM learning series designed to explore, elevate and experience STEM instruction.

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Cognitive Coaching℠
8-Day Foundations Course

K-12 Educators
Instructional Coaches
Administrators

Learn how this powerful practice of increasing cognitive processes can enhance your professional practice of instruction.

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Supporting Teacher Growth 3-Day Course

Instructional Coaches
Administrators

Learn the skills needed to support teacher growth and development using the SC Teaching Standards 4.0 Rubric.

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Lowcountry STEM Summer Institute

Overview
This flexible multi-day series allows participants to choose their focus, number of days, and location. Each day will be focused on one of the following four "STEM" topic areas:

Session Details

Each day participants will participate in a PreK-8 general session followed by differentiated grade level break-outs.
Our facilitators tailor each session to maximize your learning experience.
All materials and handouts will be provided. Lunch is not provided.
Participants will receive a certificate of completion after the session - 4/hours per day, 16 hours for the entire week.

Designed with flexibility in mind, you'll choose your days AND location. Register to attend one day, multiple-days or come for the entire 4-day series and save $25 off registration.

Two Locations
USC Salkehatchie East, 807 Hampton St, Walterboro, SC 29488

MONDAY, JUNE 24: Engineering
TUESDAY, JUNE 25: Technology
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26: Science
THURSDAY, JUNE 27: Mathematics

Berkeley CSD, Men Riv ED Park 1 Men Riv Dr, Goose Creek, SC 29445

MONDAY, JUNE 24: Mathematics
TUESDAY, JUNE 25: Science
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26: Engineering
THURSDAY, JUNE 27: Technology

Registration
Registration is $50/day or $175 for the entire series. Register to attend one day, multiple-days or come for the entire 4-day series and save $25 off registration. You may attend individually or with a school group. Space is limited, so groups are encouraged to register early!

Cognitive Coaching℠ 8-Day Foundations Course

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Overview
The 8-Day Foundations Course is a year-long leadership training course designed for administrators and instructional coaches. Participants learn the skills needed to support and enhance teacher thinking processes.

The mission of Cognitive Coaching℠ is to produce self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for excellence both independently and as members of a community. Research indicates that teaching is a complex intellectual activity and that teachers who think at higher levels produce students who are higher achieving, more cooperative, and better problem solvers. It is the invisible skills of teaching, the thinking processes that underlie instructional decisions, which produce superior instruction. Cognitive Coaching℠ is a research-based model that capitalizes upon and enhances teachers' cognitive processes.

Learning Outcomes
Meeting once per month for a total of 8-days, participants will learn to:

build trust by developing physical and verbal rapport.
develop an identity as a mediator of people's thinking.
utilize three mediative maps for planning, reflecting and problem resolving.
facilitate self-directed learning through reflective questioning.
develop teachers' autonomy and sense of community.
develop higher levels of efficacy, consciousness, craftsmanship, flexibility and interdependence.
distinguish four support functions: coaching, evaluating, consulting, collaborating.
practice coaching interactions to differentiate for individual needs.
utilize the coaching toolkit of pause, paraphrase, and pose a question.
apply coaching skills that enhance the intellectual processes of instruction.
distinguish between the five categories of feedback.

Cost
$1,000/participant
Materials and lunch are included.

Courses beginning this summer. Details coming soon!

Hear from Gloria Brown, 6th Grade Math Teacher at Colleton County Middle School on her experience with Cognitive Coaching℠.

Supporting Teacher Growth 3-Day Course

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Overview
Participants will learn to navigate pre-conference coaching conversations, to collect observation data to support refinement and reinforcement plans, to provide meaningful feedback, and to conduct growth producing post-conference coaching conversations.

Learning Outcomes
Day 1: "Understanding the 4.0 Rubric and the Pre-Conference"

Understand high quality teaching as defined by the SC. Teaching Standards 4.0 Rubric.
Identify methods to collect classroom data to support the SC Teaching Standards 4.0 Rubric.
Increased craftsmanship in coaching skills during pre-conference conversations with teachers (listening for understanding).

Day 2: "Meaningful Feedback"

Recognize how four support functions (coaching, consulting, collaborating, evaluating) promote teacher growth.
Differentiate between coaching feedback and evaluative feedback.
Use classroom data to provide meaningful feedback and determine refinement and reinforcement plans.

Day 3: "The Post-Conference and Next Steps"

Recognize strategies for increasing teacher consciousness and self-directedness around refinement and reinforcement areas.
Increased craftsmanship in coaching skills during post-conference conversations with teachers (questioning to support growth).
Understand how to develop professional growth plans to support teacher refinement areas.

Cost
$450/participant
Materials and lunch are included.

Group Pricing is available for District or Consortium Hosted Courses. Contact us for details.

Courses beginning this summer. Details coming soon!