We will be holding our Winter Training Institute in the Southeast again! For the last two years we’ve received phone calls, emails, and personal requests from many of you that we provide a Winter Training Institute like the one we provided in Tampa, Florida for four years, and like our Summer Institute in June in California. Thank you for requesting it, and thank you to The Lovett School, in Atlanta, for hosting it!
The Winter Training Institute will be held on January 24-26, 2020, with the extra Monday morning session for Trainer Certification on January 27, 2020. Lovett Middle School is a Gurian Model School and provides not only a lovely setting for the conference, but also an institutional passion for educating children successfully–both in academics and social-emotional growth. We hope you’ll join us in Atlanta for this powerful weekend. Check out our website for more information and to register: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2020/.
Over the coming four months, we’ll feature our Winter Training Institute (WI) speakers and presenters in blog posts, so you can get to know them better. Dr. Lakeva Barnes is one of those speakers. She lives in Tennessee and has worked for nearly two decades in schools and school systems to improve children’s educational outcomes. As a Gurian Certified Trainer, she has trained professionals, teachers, and parents. Her work spans most ages and grade levels and includes gifted education. We are honored to have her provide workshops at the WI. Here’s more about her programs.
Engaging, Motivating, and Managing Boys and Girls in the Standards-Driven Classroom, Dr. Lakeva S. Barnes, Gurian Certified Trainer and Gifted Differentiation Coach at Sycamore Elementary School in Collierville, TN. With the multitude of demands placed on teachers to manage large class sizes, plan standard-aligned instruction, and improve student growth-measures, many teachers are burning out–they are just finding it too difficult to balance their work load. This session will address best practices for how to engage, motivate, and manage boys and girls through novelty, a token economy, and August to May routines. These practices and this session help teachers reduce inappropriate classroom behaviors and maximize instructional time while improving student achievement. Dr. Barnes will share her real-world situations and solutions that have impacted students’ motivation and the teacher’s, including her own, ability to manage some of the worst student behaviors.
Communicating with Parents of Boys about their Behavior, Discipline, & Achievement, with Dr. Lakeva S. Barnes. Communicating with parents about boys’ behavior, discipline, and achievement can be difficult for educators and parents. Parents can get defensive when called to meet with school officials because many times it is not their first experience with hearing about issues their child(ren) may be having in school. Sometimes educators are anxious about the thought of communicating their concerns about male students because of past experiences with challenging parents. This session will provide educators with tools for conducting positive and effective parent-teacher conferences and meetings regarding the behavior, discipline, and achievement of male students. Dr. Barnes will share real experiences and methods used to conduct positive and effective meetings with difficult parents.
To learn more and to register, go to: https://gurianinstitute.com/events/gurian-winter-institute-2020/. Thank you.
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