Antioch Center for School Renewal

Students and teachers benefit with student-centered education.

The Antioch Center for School Renewal has twenty-five years of experience in providing high quality professional development for educators across New England. As the service division of the Department of Education at Antioch University New England, our unique staff of highly skilled, experienced K-12 teacher-leaders and core university faculty are part of an educational institution that dates back to Horace Mann and embodies the values of progressive, student-centered education.

Mission and Programs

The mission of the Antioch Center for School Renewal is to work with schools and communities to make lasting, positive change in the day to day school experiences of students, educators and families through engaging instruction, reflection, collaboration, and research.

ACSR is rooted in four distinctive programs, through which the Center provides a broad range of services for schools:

Outreach Services

To fulfill our mission, the Center provides three main outreach services for schools:

We offer on- and off-site professional development workshops and institutes, customized to meet the unique needs of teachers, schools and communities.
Our School Coaching services create job-embedded professional learning opportunities for teachers that not only adhere to the high standards of the National Staff Development Council, but also represent best practices in adult learning and professional development.
For schools seeking program evaluation services to assess existing programs as a means to improve performance, we provide a team-based and utilization-focused evaluation approach customized to the needs of the individual school client.

Experienced and Innovative Facilitators

ACSR is proud to represent a tradition of "walking our talk" in our programs and services. Our facilitators are able to model pedagogical excellence teaching not only content, but also the process skills needed for instructional success. Our programs are interactive, hands-on, energizing, and unlike any in-service you have experienced before! Meet the faculty.

Meeting the Needs of Our Clients

ACSR clients include the full spectrum of schools: public, independent, and k-12 from all across the geographical, socio-economic, and philosophical continuum. We support schools and districts in need of improvement, schools in restructuring, and schools with very specific needs for change, such as:

instructional improvement
school redesign/ restructuring
schedule revision
service learning
place based learning
professional development master plan creation
integration of 21st Century Skills
assessment
building of professional learning communities
content area coaching

inquiry driven science
arts integration

bullying and harassment response and prevention
visioning
action planning
implementing the common core

Let Us Help Your School

We have worked with thousands of educators from over five hundred schools throughout New England and around the world to support the development of classrooms and schools into strong, dynamic learning communities. Teachers and school administrators turn to the Center for help and guidance, support and resources, coaching and consultation, training and professional development to address their pressing issues and worthy aspirations.

Last Updated: 3/23/12