Upcoming Member Events

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 3-day Anti-Bias and Social Justice Institute offers teams of 3-5 educators and school leaders the opportunity to share in an exploration of the principles and strategies of the social justice work done at both the elementary and middle school level at Community Roots. The Institute will focus both on building an anti-bias lens to curricula and how to develop staff to be leaders in this work.

Participants will be engaged in interactive learning through capacity building, classroom observations, sharing of resources, reflection, and planning time, as well as panel discussions with educators and practitioners engaged specifically in this work.

***This training will be delivered again in May.***

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.

This is an online webinar offered by Charter Support Unit delivered

A strategic plan serves as an essential foundation and road-map for all your improvement efforts for your school or CMO. It ensures all educators are on the same page and serves as a “”living document”” that is referenced throughout the year to check on progress and to ensure all initiatives are in direct alignment with the plan. Misalignment or lack of alignment between a strategic plan and additional initiatives not in the plan can lead to confusion among staff, extra burdens on teachers as priorities may conflict, and lack of progress towards student achievement. In this webinar, learn how to start the planning process that will get you to a clear plan that:
Identifies the real instructional needs through data;
Invites internal and external stakeholders to work collaboratively to develop the plan; and
Includes a vision, theory of action, assets (what’s working already), big picture goal, and priority goals.

You can view more online webinars offered by Charter Support Unit here.

This event is organized and hosted by Future Leaders Incubator.

This is an online webinar offered by Charter Support Unit delivered by the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition

The public is shining a light on diversity and inclusion in the charter sector. What’s lurking in the shadows is something we’re just coming to grips with – charter school staff don’t always reflect the communities served. How do we begin to change things? This session explores how you can intentionally implement policies that start to crack this nut. We’ll share best practices from other organizations that you can take back to your school to implement tomorrow.

You can view more online webinars offered by Charter Support Unit here.

This event is organized and hosted by Education Leaders of Color.

For more information on this webinar, contact Patrice E. Fenton, PhD, Director of Leader Support & Development: pfenton@edloc.org.

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.

This event is organized by ElevatED Learning Services.

This is a two-day workshop on Friday, December 13 and Monday, December 16, 2019.

Day 1 (Friday, December 13): SCAFFOLDING READING
We take you step-by-step through the process of adapting text by implementing the key scaffolds that allow English Learners greater access to reading. Discover how to strategically embed “good reader” questions into text that promote literacy and engage students in higher-order thinking.

Day 2 (Monday, December 16, 2019): SCAFFOLDING WRITING
We break down the key scaffolds necessary in facilitating student writing and give you the opportunity to apply them with the support of teacher peers. Discover an array of “amplification activities” that concretize student learning around new content and language.

Contact ElevatED Learning Services for more information: michaelsoet@elevatedlearningservices.com and dariawitt@elevatedlearningservices.com

This event is organized by ElevatED Learning Services.

This is a two-day workshop on Tuesday, December 17 and Wednesday, December 18, 2019.

Day 1 (Tuesday, December 17): DEVELOPING LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES
Learn how to assess the language demands of any academic task, thereby anticipating and planning for the linguistic challenges that can impede student comprehension and engagement. We’ll explore the criteria for effective language objectives and provide you plenty of practice in developing them based on a variety of different unit culminating tasks.

Day 2 (Wednesday, December 18): EXPLICIT TEACHING OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
Explore methods for explicitly teaching the different types of academic language that reinforce content – discourse patterns, language functions, new content vocabulary – essential for your English Learner students. You’ll learn how to design activities that ensure your students get the needed multiple exposures and authentic interactions with new words and academic language structures so that they “stick”.

Contact ElevatED Learning Services for more information: michaelsoet@elevatedlearningservices.com and dariawitt@elevatedlearningservices.com

This event is organized and hosted as an independent conference.

The International School Choice and Reform Conference (ISCRC) is an academic conference that gathers scholars who study various forms of school choice, systemic reform and educational innovation. This includes scholarship on how school choice is enacted, the mechanisms that structure school choice programs, and both the individual and systemic outcomes of school choice and reform. To the greatest extent possible, ISCRC includes multiple perspectives. Some of the research is more supportive of various forms of school choice while other research has a more critical stance. Still others favor one form of choice while opposing other forms of choice. They are connected by the goal of using quality research to shed light on how school choice policies actually work.

DCSC will be presenting at the International School Choice and Reform Conference!

If you attend the ISCRC, be sure to attend our breakout during session IV: Charter Schools Join the Fight for Integration: Implementation & Outcomes. This session will feature Sonia Park of DCSC, Priscilla Wohlstetter  of Columbia University, and Sarah A. Cordes  of Temple University.

For more information about the 2019 International School Choice and Reform Conference, please contact Keri Hunter at keri@iscrweb.org or 317-681-0745.

This event is organized and hosted by City Neighbors Foundation.

The Diverse Charter Schools Coalition’s (DCSC) Annual Convening brings together 200 member school leaders and partners from across the nation. With this year’s theme of Intentional Integration, you will deepen the practice of leading your school by learning from experts in the movement, examining real-world experiences, data and strategies, and sharing best practices through networking.