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AFRICAN TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATIONATA

• New Perspectives in Educationwww.africanteachersassociation.com

• No Termination without Due Process

• Increase in number of highly qualified African teachers in various school districts and leadership positions

• Ensure and protect the rights of African Teachers

• Facilitate integration of newly arrived students and parents of African origin into the American school system

• Several unforgettable learning and sharing workshops including cluster/team planning ( teachers to work

cooperatively to build an interdisciplinary curriculum

• Join us for a few days of deep learning and tools on how to transform your school and community for a

sustainable future

Unity-Integration-Justice

Objective1

• Hands-on Understanding of the Compass School Concept & Methods

The Compass Schools program translates the four cardinal compass directions

into the specific working areas of school life, including management,

integration, governance, finances and fundraising, resource management and

consumption, working and learning environment, personal health,

environmental and cultural awareness and action, networking and

participation, and curriculum design and pedagogical development. The ATA

workshop will clearly explain what a Compass School is, and then you will

have the opportunity to experiment with the tools and approaches to see how

they work, as well as provide feedback on improving our idea.

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• Vision

Creating a vision for the future that is creative, compelling, engaging, communicated well,

tangible and ‘shared’ by all.

• Indicators

Identifying, analyzing and interpreting the measurements that make sustainability

meaningful

• Compass School Network

How the network will assist and support schools , foreign educators ,foreign parents, and

change agent teachers and administrators via resources, tools, website and our

expertise.

Objective 1 continued

• Case Study of a Compass School

How the concepts and practice are applied in the classroom and through

Administrative Policy and Operations

• Effective Change Agent

How to help others who manage systems make the essential transition for foreign

educators and parents of foreign students, externally and internally

• Strategy

Going from idea to reality, using our ATA’ model of organizational cultural

change as well as other metaphors and models.

Objective2

• Applying Systems Thinking to School Transformation Whether the school is public or private, urban or rural, large or small, there are three nested systems at play – the classroom, the school and the community; all of which interact in ways that are sometimes hard to see but that shape the priorities and needs of people at all levels. In these workshops, we will explore how to apply systems theory and systems thinking approaches to efforts that foster schools to learn and transform at all three levels.

• Understanding the latest news and trends affecting our profession’s ability to sustain us

Objective3

• Fluency in Education for Sustainable Futures Education (FESF) aims to promote education as a basis for a more sustainable human society and to integrate sustainable development into education systems at all levels. These workshops will equip you with a complete understanding of the vision, ideas and approach taken by ATA

• Explore what is meant by ATA and how it can be integrated into schools and other venues to reorient and transform education as we know it.

Registration for the ATA Compass Schools Workshop

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Registration for the ATA Compass Schools Workshop

• Personal Information• Name ________________________________________________________________________• Title _______________________ __________________________________________________ • Organization /School_____________________________________________________________• Mailing Address ________________________________________________________________• ______________________________________________________________________________• County _______________________________________________________________________• Work phone ___________________________________________• Mobile phone ________________________________________• Fax __________________________________________________• Email _________________________________________________

An unforgettable learning and sharing workshop experience with ATA

SCHOOL-WIDE ASSERTIVE DISCIPLINE

• Teachers must establish an individual classroom management procedure, inform students and parents, and enforce the procedures prior to writing a referral on a student. These management procedures should include strategies and consequences for inattentive behavior, a lack of classroom participation, and/or academic focus that interferes with the learning environment.

• Teachers should cooperatively develop strategies that effectively curtail inappropriate behavior and classroom distraction, provide a structure to promote communication between teacher, parent and student, that allows the teacher to

• retain their authority over their class.

ADMINISTRATIVE REFERRAL PROCEDURES

• ATA ADVISE THE FOLLOWING ADMINISTRATIVE REFERRAL PROCEDURES

The following procedures are required before submitting an administrative referral.• Classroom distractions/Inappropriate behaviors:• First Offense Two to three redirections • Second Offense Parent contact made regarding behavior (i.e. email,

letter via U.S. mail, telephone contact is preferred)• Third Offense 1. Parent contact and/or individual conference (when

appropriate) and/or team conference to discuss strategies and interventions.• 2. Referral to grade level counselor. The counselor is required to:• Counsel student about incident• Advise parents of current session• Issue weekly progress reports• Advise teacher of session with student• Fourth Offense Written referral to an administrator

SAMPLE FIVE STEP BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT

PLAN• Warning indicated by name on board.• Brief after class conference; or contact made during

planning period• Parent contact made by email, letter or telephone.• Parent conference• Administrative referral.• You may utilize this behavior management plan or

incorporate any of these steps into your own management plan. However, each teacher should formulate a five step behavior management plan of increasing consequences to deal with classroom disruption and discipline

FIVE STEP BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM:Listed below is the behavior management

system that is based on five increasing steps of consequences for this classroom.

• 1 -• 2 -• 3 -• 4 -• 5 - Administrative referral

TEACHER DISCIPLINE PROTOCAL

• Teachers are asked to adhere to the following protocol when considering disciplinary action.

• Minor classroom disruptions and classroom management problems should be handled by the teacher following their five step “Behavior Management Plan”. When the teachers five step Behavior Management System has been exhausted do not send students to the office instead complete an online discipline referral and the students(s) will be dealt with by an administrator as soon as possible. Check with administration if you have not received a copy of the completed referral within three days.

• If a serious classroom problem arises (fighting, refusing to follow teachers instructions or disrespect to a teacher) call the office or securities and ask for an administrator who will come to your classroom for the student(s). Do not send students to the office.