Oakland Community After School Alliance

July 23rd, 2008

Region 4 Kickoff Conference & Two-Day ASSETs Summer Institute

REGION IV ASP
2008-09
ASES and 21st CCLC Grantees
Kickoff Conference & Two-Day ASSETs Summer Institute
Hs Lordships • 199 Seawall Drive, Berkeley

Tracks for Kickoff Conference
August 12, 2008 • 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
$25 per person
Administrators and Coordinators
• Program Orientation for NEW 21st Century Elementary & Middle School Programs
New Directors, Coordinators and Program Staff
• Nuts & Bolts of After School – “Leading the Way”
Site Coordinators and Line Staff
• ADHD or just active? Learning disability or just unfocused? How do I help?
• Parents as Partners: the key to strengthening your afterschool program
Line Staff
• Math Standards as applied to Thematic Activity Approaches in After School
• Academic Language Standards as applied to Thematic Activity Approaches in After School

Tracks for Two-Day ASSETs Summer Institute
August 11-12, 2008 • 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
$50 per person
(for all Site Coordinators, high after school staff, teachers,
and community-based organizations)
Day I — Monday, August 11
• Steps to a Strong Partnership
• Youth Step Up: Youth Speakers & Reps
• Strive, Jive and Thrive: The Staff Team that Works
Day II — Tuesday, August 12
• Introduction to High School Academics
• Youth At the Table

Register online at www.acoe.org  or by mail or fax.
Click on Training and Professional Development; then click on Announcements and scroll to ASSETs High School Institute or Region 4 After School Annual Kick Off Conference

July 23rd, 2008

SAVE the DATE 8.14.08 ACHCS & ACOE Joint Meeting

August 14, 2008, 9:00am – 2:30pm
Preservation Park
668 – 13th St.
Oakland, CA 94612

The Alameda County Health Care Services and the Alameda Office of Education will be co-hosting a joint meeting. This year’s theme is IT TAKES A VILLAGE: Building strong Partnerships to Support the Total Health & Wellness of Children.

  • Broaden conventional definitions of health to utilize a comprehensive health approach to include both physical and mental well-being
  •  Discover a common system of language to bridge education & comprehensive health services
  •  Hear different people speak about their experiences with integrated health and education models
  •  Learn how to implement an effective program that supports the needs of each child
  • Participate in discussions focusing on strengthening school & community partnerships, best strategies around site coordination, and achieving the best outcomes for students.

For more information and/or to RSVP, please contact Julie Wong by phone 510.618.2015 or
email at julie.wong@acgov.org

July 23rd, 2008

BayCES Coaching for Educational Equity Institute

When: August 6-8th 8AM-4PM
Where: Downtown Oakland

Who should attend:
• Principals
• Teacher Leaders
• Central Office Administrators
• Instructional and Operational Coaches
• Support Providers or Coaching Organizations

Why Coach For Educational Equity?
The BayCES CFEE Institute is a professional coaching skills training
program for educators interested in learning a coaching approach to
addressing educational inequities in their schools and districts.
Coaching for Educational Equity focuses on building the leadership
skills and will necessary to create and sustain equitable schools.

Principals and Teacher Leaders: Build your instructional leadership.
Develop a clear theory of action for addressing inequity in your
school. Learn how to provide constructive feedback to your staff to
improve teaching and learning in your school. Improve the leadership
capacity of your teacher teams, and your ability to lead equity
centered professional learning communities.

District Leaders and Administrators: Gain critical skills to
effectively lead for educational equity, facilitate meetings well, and
provide critical feedback to your staff. Increase trust and
collaboration across roles in your district. Learn how to integrate
Coaching for Educational Equity into your district.

Instructional and Operational Coaches: Learn how to structure and
manage the coaching sessions you facilitate and how to analyze your
own coaching performance. Practice the essential skills, techniques
and processes used by professional coaches.

Support Providers or Coaching Organizations: Develop key coaching for
equity skills to lead your own organization and build the capacity of
those you coach. Access coaching tools and protocols that can be
immediately applied in your coaching contexts.

At the CFEE Institute you will:
• Explore coaching stances, beliefs, and critical questions: What
stances do you hold as you do your work? How do your beliefs
influence in your coaching practice?
• Learn how to do a thorough assessment and develop an
equity-focused Theory of Action.
• Practice real-time coaching interventions focused on skill
development and practice.
• Engage in key coaching interventions in one-on-one and group
coaching sessions, receive corrective feedback from highly experienced
BayCES Coaches.
• Learn the key methodologies that Coaches For Educational Equity
employ to organize their work.

The Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools (BayCES) CFEE curriculum
draws on a wide range of research in school reform, leadership
studies, organizational change, critical race theory, emotional
intelligence, and more, including the research and practice of
Garmston and Costa’s Cognitive Coaching work and John Heron’s Helping
the Client and The Complete Facilitator’s Handbook. It is also
informed by twelve years of experience working with over fifty schools
and districts to dramatically improve school climate, staff relations
and cultural competence, and student achievement.

Cost: $1,000 per participant, group rate may apply. Cost includes:
• Training by highly experienced BayCES Directors and Coaches
• Binder of materials including coaching tools, templates, and
articles
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks each day
• One-on-one attention and small group sessions

Past CFEE Participants say:

“This program has made me a better classroom teacher, as well as a
better leader.”

“I feel empowered to address and attack the problems that I see at my
school. For the first time, I have been provided with a tool that can
support me while I support others.”

“I am extremely impressed with the quality of presentations,
resources, facilitation – I am walking away with some very concrete
skills and a greater capacity for thinking, asking questions, and
reflecting.”

“I wish I had been exposed to BayCES sooner and that more districts
would make use of your services. I’ve been a high school teacher for
eight years, and I’m positive that if I had been coached by someone
who followed your model, I could have been a much better, much more
confident teacher.”

Visit www.bayces.org to register or contact Sara Brown at
sara@bayces.org or 510-208-0160 x315 today.

July 23rd, 2008

SAVE the DATE OCASA Member Meeting 9.18.08

Hello OCASA Community!

Please plan on attending (and bringing other staff members from your
organization) the OCASA member meeting on Thursday September 18th. The
meeting will be held from 9AM to noon.

We will have a panel on the changing landscape of youth development in
Oakland and will discuss how we would like to influence the
institutions that shape the landscape.

We will send out a formal invitation in the coming weeks.

Thank you,

Liz Johnson
Program Associate
Urban Strategies Council
510 893 1377
lizj at urbanstrategies.org

July 18th, 2008

Time is running out to Inform Statewide Technical Assistance Efforts


From CalSAC: July 18, 2008Last Chance: Time is running out to Inform Statewide Technical Assistance Efforts

Inform CDE Technical Assistance Planning!
Take the TA Survey The California Department of Education (CDE) is soliciting field input to inform after school technical assistance efforts for 2009-2010. Field input must be offered by July 18, 2008. To inform the Department’s Technical Assistance efforts by taking an anonymous 2-minute online survey, click here.

July 8th, 2008

POSTPONED: OCASA MEMBER MEETING

Hello OCASA Community,
The Steering Committee has decided to postpone the member meeting until early September to further develop action items for your consideration at the meeting.  Please keep an eye out for future save the dates.

Thanks!

Liz

Hello OCASA Community!Please plan on attending (and bringing 2-3 others from your
organization) the OCASA member meeting on Tuesday, August 19th. The
meeting will be held at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 685 14th
St, Oakland, CA 94612 from 9AM to noon.

We will have a panel on the changing landscape of afterschool in Oakland
and will discuss how we would like to influence the institutions that
shape the landscape.

We will send out a formal invitation in the coming weeks.
Thank you,

Liz Johnson
Program Associate
Urban Strategies Council
510 893 1377
lizj at urbanstrategies.org

July 3rd, 2008

Reminder: Registration for the Regions 1 & 4 After School Summer Institute is now open!


The Institute will take place August 6-8 at the Napa Co. Office of Education in Napa, CA.

Register On-line at:  http://calserves.org/rlc/

 

Please register as soon as possible as space is filling quickly.

 

Thank you.

 

 

Freddie Hendrix

Program Assistant

Alameda County Office of Education

313 West Winton Avenue

Hayward, California 94544

Voice: (510) 670-4175

Fax: (510) 670-3175

fhendrix at acoe.org

 

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