This is an online webinar offered by Charter Support Unit

Today’s teaching candidates have more choice than ever on where they can teach and work. In this hands-on session, reflect on how recruiting teachers has radically changed for school districts in the last five years, uncover what candidates are seeking, and discover how a year-round, multi-stakeholder, and multi-channel recruitment system is attracting a new pool of teachers to districts across the country. Join us for this informative webinar presented by Jill Nyhus, VP of Communications & Public Policy at Insight Education Group, to learn more about what your charter school can do to attract the most effective teachers to your school.

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The theme of this year’s Educator Summit is Redefining Quality: Teacher Inputs that Lead to Student Outcomes. This event is an opportunity for educators to network with peers, develop skills, and build knowledge to bring back to their classrooms. In addition PD credit is available to use in re-certification. Workshop strands will connect directly to increasing student outcomes and cover leadership development, best practices in academics, understanding student behavior, supporting exceptional students, and much more.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in the Leadership Summit’s two general sessions taking place that day.

Hosted by Training for Change, this workshop is for white people who want to challenge the racism around them — and in their own heads and hearts — and who are searching for a way to strengthen their work for racial justice.

It’s for white folks who already do anti-racism work but want to develop their skills and deepen their approach. And it’s for white folks who want a better understanding of how white privilege and racism operate in society and inside of them.

This is an online webinar offered by Charter Support Unit

Cross-sector leaders from the District of Columbia and Boston, MA, will share information about collaborative initiatives they have undertaken to increase access to school choice options and improve students’ educational experiences and outcomes. The initiatives include a common application and lottery system, a cross sector task force, cross-sector professional development for teachers and leaders, and sharing best practices across sectors. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with the panelists to learn about their successes and challenges. Participants will then learn about a framework for facilitating cross-sector collaboration and will spend time applying it to their own communities.

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Workshop offered by RootsConnectED at Community Roots Charter School

How can we as educators strive to push ourselves beyond the comfort zones of our own disciplines? How do we use Social Justice as a theme to connect across disciplines?  We often wonder how we can create curriculum that connects deeply with what’s going on in other classes, as well as to what is happening outside of school. In this session participants will consider a middle school case study as a lens for how to develop interdisciplinary work with colleagues that is meaningful and strengthens their content area, through using social justice as the common lens. We will share our process of how we created interdisciplinary projects in our Spanish and Art classes and how we connected that with students’ studies in Humanities.  Participants will leave with ideas and some time to think about developing social justice focused interdisciplinary work as it connects to their own school settings. This workshop aims to encourage teachers to develop curriculum that is conducive to making connections across disciplines and actively approaching learning through relevant, engaging, yet rigorous projects that connect to social action.

The 3^rd annual DC Charter School Conference, hosted by FOCUS, will bring together public charter school leaders, administrators, board members, and stakeholders to dive into topics including advocacy, data, development, communications, equity, leadership, operations, and more. Conference participants will spend the day:

• Learning from experts about issues facing DC’s public charter schools.
• Sharing innovations and best practices that are driving student outcomes.
• Inspiring each other to engage in advocacy that strengthens our movement.  
• Building our voice so that together we can strengthen quality public school choices for all DC families.

The conference will feature interactive workshops, inspiring speakers, timely content, and opportunities for discussion and collaboration. Attendees will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of substantive sessions that fit their individual needs, as well as to learn together about issues that the entire DC charter sector faces.

Workshop offered by RootsConnectED at Community Roots Charter School

So often we are asked, aren’t they too young to talk about their identities, particularly race, power, and gender in early elementary school? What we have found is that K-2nd grade students are not only open to these conversations, but that, when addressed at a young age, they are able to continue these conversations as they get older and have a deeper understanding of how their identities impact their experiences. In this workshop we will look at how an anti-bias lens allows for these conversations to be embedded into every day lessons and conversations. Participants will learn from sample lessons that address these issues and have an opportunity to think about the implication in their own lessons, units, and/or read alouds.

Workshop offered by RootsConnectED at Community Roots Charter School

A large part of learning and growing stems from our choices, and children, in particular, are making choices every day. However, what do we do when the choice causes harm? We can either ostracize the child from the community by way of detention or suspension or figure out ways to separate the deed from the doer to allow for a depth of learning from these choices. In this workshop we will dive deeper into what discipline looks like, with particular emphasis on grades k-8, by using a restorative justice framework. This work will be done by considering how race, class, gender, and other intersecting identifiers affect patterns of discipline and how restorative practices can help to create whole communities. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the fundamentals of restorative justice practices, have time to self reflect on the type of practitioner they would like to be, see an example drawn from the experience in a school and its perspective and rationale behind developing a restorative school community, and consider the implications for their own practice.

Join the Coalition of Public Independent Charter Schools at the 2019 Independent Charter School Symposium from November 17-19, 2019 at the Hotel Albuquerque as the organization articulates a collective vision for the direction of the charter movement and all public education. This groundbreaking event will convene school leaders, social visionaries, and policy-makers from across the country in a three-day conference to continue what was started almost two years ago.

The National Summit on Education Reform, organized by ExcelinEd, convenes the nation’s leaders in education policy to share what works, what doesn’t and what’s next in education reform. Join chairman, Governor Jeb Bush, along with more than 1,000 legislators, state superintendents, policymakers and advocates at the 2019 National Summit in San Diego, California.

Institute offered by RootsConnectED at Community Roots Charter School

The New Leaders Institute creates space for leadership teams to be immersed in strong inclusive and integrated  school culture at Community Roots in Brooklyn, New York. Leadership teams will then be guided to use what they see and experience to think about and design for  their own communities and school sites.

The New Leaders Institutes provides 1-1 coaching, coupled with theory and practice in order to meet the needs of its participants. We ask for two school leaders to attend the Institute together in order for everyone to have a thought partner to consult and plan with. Below is the tentative agenda for the New Leaders Institute.

Save the date for DCSC’s 2020 Annual Convening! 

Registration opens in September

Member schools can book hotel rooms now at the Eaton Hotel.

Identify yourself as a member of the DCSC Annual Convening Group in order to receive the DCSC group discount!