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Professional Development
Professional Development:
El Pueblo Integral provides the following professional development services to schools and school districts throughout the country who are seeking to transform their schools into powerful learning communities:
Staff development and retructuring support to districts and schools to support the conversion to small, powerful learning communities.
- EPI-TLC is an affiliate of the Coalition of Essential Schools and uses the CES Ten Common Principles in its work with schools and districts.
- EPI-TLC staff provided consulting services to principals and district personnel in Lima City Schools as part of a district-wide school restructuring effort.
- EPI-TLC staff provided monthly coaching support to schools within KnowledgeWorks Foundation's Ohio High School Transformation Initiative from January 2003 to June 2010.
- EPI-TLC staff provided coaching services to the principal of MC2 Stem High School in Cleveland Metropolitan School District during its 2008-2009 inaugural year.
- EPI-TLC staff co-facilitated (1997-2002) the conversion of Manual High School into three small schools (one of the first, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded, 'large high school' conversions nationally).
- EPI-TLC staff have provided coaching/consulting services to schools that are undertaking restructuring in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, New Mexico, Michigan, Oregon, and Texas.
Middle school restructuring support and staff development using the New American Schools Design approved 'Turning Points' model.
- EPI-TLC is the southwestern United States regional center for Turning Points providing middle schools with structured support for improving teaching, learning and assessment; building leadership and a professional collaborative culture; data-based inquiry and decision-making; creating a school culture to support high achievement and personal development; networking with like-minded schools; and developing district capacity to support school change.
- In 2005-2006 EPI-TLC opened the Paulo Freire Freedom School in Tucson, Arizona as a demonstration site/laboratory school for this powerful middle school reform model.
Critical Friends Group training and support to schools and school districts wanting to create powerful and transformative learning communities within their faculties and among their students.
If you or your school/school district would be interested in discussing with us any of these services, please contact us.