Solution Tree Iowa Training Center
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It has been said that isolation is the enemy of improvement, and yet singleton teachers are too often left alone. Singleton teachers are the only ones at a school who teach a specific course or subject—like a music or art teacher or the only physics teacher—and these teachers often ask how they can effectively participate on a collaborative team at a PLC school (e.g., teachers who teach the same course or subject). Additionally, leaders frequently ask what they should be doing to guide and support these outstanding educators.
This highly interactive two-day workshop lays out a framework for small schools and schools with singleton teachers to collaborate meaningfully to help all students learn skills that really matter. Participants, both teachers and leaders, will be provided clear direction and experience different on-ramps that help singletons engage in powerful and meaningful collaboration. Participants will receive tools and templates they can immediately utilize.
Learning Outcomes
Understand a learning-focused mindset.
Create a concrete and doable plan for meaningful collaboration by examining the Singleton On-Ramps.
Examine skills students need to succeed in the world today that transcend any single content area.
Develop a means for monitoring progress and gathering data.
Develop actionable next steps.
Brig Leane, former principal of Fruita Middle School in Colorado, has over 20 years of experience in education. He has been an assistant principal and has taught at the middle and high school levels in inner-city, suburban, and rural schools. He has also been an adjunct professor at Colorado Christian University.
Under Brig’s leadership as principal, Fruita Middle School’s organizational health index grew from the lowest to the highest levels. As a teacher, Brig learned the power of the PLC learning community process firsthand, as his math team grew students more than any other team, in any grade, in any tested subject in his 22,000-student school district.
Education is Brig’s second career, following his successful service as an officer in the US Coast Guard, having attained the rank of lieutenant commander. He graduated with honors from the United States Coast Guard Academy with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and served as an officer for many years on humanitarian missions around the nation. He was selected as a Troops-to-Teachers recipient and has master’s degrees in business administration and educational leadership from Colorado Mesa University.
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You will receive a certificate of participation within six weeks after the event concludes.
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