Educators

I'm A New Assistant Principal: Now What? 

Musical Pathways

Educational Leadership can be very rewarding as new leaders learn to shape and drive success and innovation. Understanding an Assistant Principal's role will allow aspiring and newly promoted administrators to focus on the strengths that will propel their careers. This program will lead participants through the life of an Assistant Principal and help them identify their personal skills and values that will help them to become successful. Participants will also examine the relationship between Assistant Principals and district stakeholders. 

The Ten Day Film Challenge

The 10 Day Film Challenge is an intense and invigorating 10 school days in which students create an original short film based on requirements given to them on their designated Day 1.  These requirements include a character, backstory, prop, line of dialogue and choice of genres. 

​Learn More Here:

http://www.tendayfilm.org/

Hip Hop 101: How To Reach and Teach Today's Hip Hop Generation

Educators will learn how to use Hip Hop music and culture to reach those students who identify with the culture. This session explores the fundamental elements of the Hip Hop culture and explains how and why students are interested in the art form. Your audience will leave with concrete teaching methods on how to use school appropriate music and culture in the classroom.

Additional Topics Available

- How To Reach Minority Youth In School And In Life
- Strategies For Better Classroom Management
- Data Beyond The Numbers And Differentiated Instruction
- STEM Education and more...

Musical Pathways is an after-school maker-space created by Darlyne de Haan and Damiso Josey using music as the tool for the creative thinking process.  Musical Pathways is for all students; any at-risk student or non at-risk student seeking to express themselves through the use of music.  The teachers are taught the three part series of the program; Writer's Block, Recording and Production, Stage Performance and Public Speaking Techniques. We provide information on the equipment needed to fit all budget levels. This is a must do PD with the intended purpose to not only increase student achievement through an incentive based model, but to aid students in developing the critical thinking processes that are so important to STEM careers.
The curriculum is available to be purchased separately but is not required to implement Musical Pathways in your school or district.

Be A Student Of Your Students

​This program focuses on teen culture including social media, the arts/entertainment and pop/drug culture that is having a profound impact on today’s youth. Strategies will be provided as to how to recognize those elements that are negatively influencing teens and how to use the positive elements to help shape their success. Educators and parents will learn techniques that will allow them to be students of their students (or children) and how to gather data that will allow them to reach the teenager.