Specialized Trainings

Topic Date Description

Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends
and Influence People
May 2018 Dale Carnegie shares fundamental techniques in handling
people, making people like you, and winning people to
your way of thinking. He also shares leadership strategies
on changing people without giving offense or arousing
resentment.

Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly May 2018 Stephen Covey provides seven principles which produce
Effective People consistent, purpose-driven choices and achievement of
desired results. This is accomplished through self-
development, interdependent relationships, and renewals.

Flipped Classroom May 2018 Dr. Lodge McCammon’s Flipped Classroom model
encourages teachers to turn live lectures into video
lectures, which saves time and allows teachers to engage
students in more meaningful learning activities.

Understanding by Design June 2018 Understanding by Design is a framework for creating

curriculum based on establishing the desired results you
want to see, determining the forms of acceptable evidence,
and the learning experiences that will occur.

Literacy June 2018 Literacy is the foundation of students’ ability to function,

develop, and achieve in society. Attention to student
learning needs, implementation of a school literacy plan,
and application of UDL strategies continuously produce
student growth and achievement.

Crucial Conversations
June 2018 Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al
Switzler offer techniques that create a safe space for
crucial conversations when opinions differ, stakes are
raised, and emotions are high. Application of these skills is
sure to preserve positive relationships when making
decisions and problem-solving.

Restorative Discipline June 2018 A practice that incorporates school staff building
relationships with students that lead towards students
owning their actions.

Poverty June 2018 Increasing understanding of, and impactful pedagogy with,
students living in poverty is the objective of this important
topic. Using guidelines from research-based texts to
develop practical and proven strategies for individual
schools will effectively meet the unique needs of this
growing population in our county.

Teach Like a Champion and First Days July 2018 Lemov provides 62 refining techniques to strengthen
of School instruction to support engagement and establish a positive

BB&T Leadership Training
Madeline Hunter’s Mastery Teaching
Emotional Intelligence and Myers-Briggs
Make it Stick
Racial Equity Institute
Equity and Social Justice Retreat
The Ron Clark Academy
Digital Storytelling
and effective school culture. Additional topics addressed
include rigor, data, and social-emotional classroom culture.
Wong’s instruction of establishing structure and
procedures provide an excellent prerequisite for Lemov’s
techniques.
July 2018 BB&T Leadership Training supplies the tools to analyze
strengths, beliefs, and triggers when things are going well
and in conflict. This framework aids in replacing ineffective
beliefs, behaviors, and emotions with strategies that lead
to success.
July 2018 Madeline Hunter’s time-proven lesson planning framework
forms the basis of effective instruction that is needed to
build upon with advanced techniques to address varied
student needs.
July 2018 Emotional Intelligence and Myers-Briggs focus on how one
balances self-regulation and social skills and adjusts how
one sees the world through the eyes of others.
July 2018 Peter Brown and his co-authors use brain research to
explain what’s wrong with the ways we have been taught
to learn and share strategies that are most effective for
making information stick.
August 2018 The Measuring Racial Equity: A Groundwater Approach
presentation by REI engages its participants in data
proving that racial inequity looks the same across systems,
socio-economic differences do not explain the racial
inequity, and that systems contribute significantly to
disparities. The presentation makes the participants
consider whether we are spending our time focusing on
fixing the fish or if we are digging deeper and fixing the
water.
September The Franklinton Center at Bricks, a former slave plantation
2018 and that eventually became on of the first accredited schools
March 2019 for African Americans in the South, conducts retreats
focused on developing an understanding of social justice
and equity in the United States.
October This two-day professional development was spent
2018 observing the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, GA. We saw
exemplary classroom management, instruction, and school
culture.
November This three-day retreat focused on identifying our purpose
2018 or why within four domains: Historical, Biological, Cultural,
and Political. We created our own digital story of our why
through iMovie.
Maxwell Training
LGBTQ Training
Time Management
NC School Improvement Project
American Enterprise Institute
4 Disciplines of Execution
February This training focused on continuing to learn our purpose or
2019 why. Why are we doing the work that we are doing and
how can we help others connect back to their why? We
discussed the power of humility when telling our own story.
April 2019 Equity issues impact students beyond race. This training
focused on analyzing current policies that affect LGBTQ
identifying students. We also discussed the power of
language when working with all students.
May 2019 This training was provided by Kelly Perin from Little Bites
Coaching to provide strategies and resources in time
management and goal writing and follow-through.
Strategies were also provided on how to maintain a healthy
personal and work life balance.
June 2019 This two-day training provides administrators with an
overview of the following courses: Math Foundations,
Reading Research to Classroom Practice, Co-Teaching,
and All Leaders Understand and Collaborate to Support
Evidence-Based Practices.
June 2019 This two and a half day retreat at the American Enterprise
Institute in Washington D.C. consisted of a lecture by Dr.
Rick Hess, author of Cage-Busting Leadership, and seven
panels of influential leaders in education policy.
July 2019