Antioch Center for School Renewal

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Programs & Services

The Antioch Center for School Renewal provides a broad range of programs and services for schools and educators, including:

Leadership Coaching

Leadership Coaching is a collegial relationship between a current school leader and a personal coach with experience and knowledge regarding educational leadership. Coaching is the act of listening and reflecting back to the individual what is being said and helping the individual find her/his own solutions to the challenges leaders face. School leaders have many tasks and coaching can provide the leader with an unbiased view and questions to answer to maintain and positive direction in the school.

“As a first time principal I’ve appreciated the support from other administrators. However, what was missing was a more in depth relationship with an experienced administrator. Beginning administrators need a confidant, someone who they can talk with freely without being judged. Through coaching I’ve come to appreciate the differences in our respective school cultures and learn that each site has its own issues, but there are many common themes that can be identified and discussed with the help of a coach. Of benefit is having scheduled, uninterrupted time to meet with an experienced colleague to talk about the daily challenges of the principalship. It’s not the answers the mentor provides, but the questions asked that help a beginning principal view a situation from many perspectives and assist in decision making and other leadership issues.”
—A.S., principal in Vermont

Systems Change and School Coaching

Effective school change encompasses the whole education system and involves all constituencies. The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) offers an approved and tested model of comprehensive school reform.

The Coalition Center provides a full range of coordinated services for teachers, administrators, students, and the community to work toward sustained, substantive, results-oriented change in schools. Our experience in schools as educators, researchers, and evaluators helps schools assess current and future programming and assists in all stages of systems change. We can connect you to the resources of the entire CES network, with more than twenty schools regionally and six hundred schools nationally.

“CES is the most progressive, forward—thinking, reform—minded organization in the country. Your work with our school has been inspirational. You have combined your hands—on experience with your intimate knowledge of CES principals and molded them to the needs of our school. There is no cookie—cutter approach here. We receive honest, direct, and insightful feedback that empowers us to make changes we see fit.” —Michael Livingston, Assistant Head of School, The Sharon Academy

Job Embedded Professional Learning

ACSR offers a complete range of professional development services that provide on-going support for sustainable school improvement. Job Embedded Professional Learning opportunities focus on specific areas of school improvement efforts. We offer engaging, learner centered, customized, on-site workshops on topics including:

Classroom Management & Instruction for Paraprofessionals
Creating Advisories that Matter
Engaging Students as Partners in the Redesign Process
Creating Independent Learning Plans for Diverse Learners
Building Lessons that Push the Envelope and Engage the Learner
Beyond Character Education: Supporting Students' Academic and Social Development
Creating and Assessing Extended Learning Opportunities Bringing the Real World into the Regular Classroom
Creating and Using Formative Assessments
Reflection as a Tool for Learning and Assessment
Using the Cycle of Inquiry to Improve Teaching and Learning
Leadership Coaching
Teachers as Learning Facilitators
Teachers as Coach: How, Why, and When
The Learner Centered Classroom
Redesigning Curriculum
Professional Learning Communities
Critical Friends Group Coaches Training
Critical Friends Group Coaching

Last Updated: 11/10/08