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Title I Parent Keynote Video
There are "No Excuses" Video Clip
Presentations are carefully prepared in a way, which best meets the needs of your school, school district, or organization.
We believe that the presentations should be based on pertinent data; provide strategies; engage participants; and support
the mission/vision of our client.
Keynote Addresses and School Opening Convocations
Keynote addresses represent unique opportunities to share a message with large groups. Effective
keynote addresses should share information, provide humor, connect to the audience, and provide a catalyst for the audience
to pursue an action. Keynote addresses should not be taken likely nor should the opportunity to reach so many people be squandered.
Staff Development
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| Engaging in Strategic Discussions |
We
have a set of core values and common beliefs, which guide our approach to staff development:- We believe that staff development
should be engaging
- We believe that staff persons should participant in strategic discussions that lead to operational strategies
- We believe that staff development
is a core obligation of professionals to invest in their own learning
- We believe that staff development should be framed by national achievement
data and driven by disaggregate student achievement data unique to the school or school district
- We believe that staff development is too important of
opportunity to be squandered
Parent Workshops
Our philosophy for presenting parent workshops is to share information, which
we ourselves, would want to know as parents and to learn strategies that would help us to help our children to be successful.
Clearly the research indicates that students living in poverty and students of parents who are not college graduates are at
risk. According to the U.S. Department of Education Report, “The
Condition of Education: 2008”:
- Only 33 percent of Black high school graduates go on
to 4-year colleges and universities
- Only 24 percent of Hispanic high school graduates go
on to 4-year colleges and universities
- 46 percent of students whose parents DID NOT go to
college, are projected, not go to college
- 79 percent of Black students’ parents DO NOT have a
college degree
- 85
percent of Hispanic students’ parents DO NOT have a college degree
Our parenting seminars help parents understand
the unique issues and obstacles confronting their children and provides simple strategies that parents can support their child's
K-12 success and get their child onto the kindergarden to college pathway.
Increasing Black Male Achievement
Based
on the book, "Empowering African-American Males to Succeed: A Guide to Increasing Black Male Achievement" this presentation
examines Black male achievement as a demographically
identifiable subgroup with unique gender and cultural issues. The session
further examines Black male achievement data and why schools and school
districts continue to struggle in their efforts to increase and sustain their
Black male achievement efforts. According the latest projections, only 5 out of every 100 Black males entering kindergarten
are projected to graduate from college.
Working with Demographically
Identifiable Subgroups
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Each school community is challenged with gathering, analyzing, and being strategically responsive to
its disaggregate student achievement data. Through the analysis of such data schools are able to identify achievement gaps,
albeit socioeconomic gaps, gender gaps, cultural gaps, or language gaps. This session not only assists schools in identifying
such gaps through a variety of means, i.e., grading distribution patterns, discipline infractions, special education placement,
gifted and talented identification, and course enrollment, but leads staff persons through the type of ongoing strategic discussions
necessary to close such gaps.
Ten Steps to Helping Your Child Succeed in School
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Download Parent Worksheet
Based on the book, "Ten Steps
to Helping Your Child Succeed in School" provides parents with practical commonsense strategies for increasing their child's
academic success, creative, and social development. Parents learn strategies that they can immediately implement to better
prepare their child for academic success in the classroom and for success on standardized testing as part of a long college-readiness
plan.
Dekalb County Public Schools (GA) Parenting Workshop Video
Norfolk Public Schools Parent Workshop Video
Follow Your Dreams: Student Workshop
Based
on the book, "Follow Your Dreams" this instructional training and student demonstration session is designed to be presented
to teachers and counselors or to be presented directly to students. Subsequently, participants learn by observing Mr. Wynn's
interaction and engagement of students or through a training session where participants learn the strategies and techniques
for tapping into the intrinsic motivation of students as a precursor to inspiring students to pursue academically rigorous
coursework and higher levels of academic achievement.
College-Planning Workshop
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Based on the
College Planning materials, this workshop is designed to be an instructional session for teachers
and counselors or as a demonstration lesson with Mr. Wynn working directly with
students. Participants learn how to develop a four-prong comprehensive college-bound plan. This session is also designed to
become a component of a comprehensive transition strategy for elementary to middle school and for middle to high school.
Norfolk Public Schools 6th Grade Presentation Video
Opening
the College Pathway for Latino Students
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This workshop assists Latino students and parents in understanding how to navigate the K-12 U.S.
Public Education system in preparation for college. How to explore the variety or college options, i.e., trade schools, community
colleges, and four-year universities and how to develop college-bound plans, which reflect their unique interests, aspirations,
and family circumstances.
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