August 3-5, 2009
Boston, MA
The YouthBuild USA Education Department is excited to announce the fourth annual Instructional Leadership Institute. For the past three years, YouthBuild USA has conducted the Instructional Leadership Institute as a training activity to respond to the most pressing needs of instructional leaders – including lead teachers, principals/education managers and program directors. The Instructional Leadership Institute remains an integral part of ongoing whole school improvement efforts to improve student learning and related outcomes and now includes both the National Schools Initiative (NSI) and the Postsecondary Education Initiative (PSE).
YouthBuild sites participating in the NSI and PSE initiatives are focusing necessary time and attention on the core instructional relationships between students and educators to improve the academic content knowledge, skills and behaviors that YouthBuild students need to complete postsecondary education and obtain meaningful career credentials. Both initiatives support efforts to ensure relevant instruction which integrates occupational and core academic content, provides opportunities for experiential learning, incorporates technology throughout the curriculum, deepens critical thinking skills, establishes a strong culture of reading, writing and numeracy and aligns well with college entry requirements.
The Instructional Leadership Institute is designed to support your efforts in creating a school climate and culture which promotes these ambitious teaching and learning objectives. The Institute will highlight effective and promising instructional leadership practices being implemented by YouthBuild schools across the country and by external experts and practitioners achieving impressive student learning results in other alternative high school settings.
2009 Institute Focus
This year’s Institute is being planned in conjunction with Northeastern University’s School of Education. The institute will include an interactive staff mapping process, during which participants will discuss, prioritize and document the most pressing professional knowledge and technical practice needs within their respective schools. Other presentations and discussions will focus on instructional approaches/practices for 1) promoting a culture of numeracy based on real world mathematical applications for young people and 2) differentiating instruction in ways that are responsive to the range of learning and developmental needs within the YouthBuild context
We believe that these sessions address areas of potential growth across NSI and PSE schools and programs and we look forward to seeing your Principals and Instructional Leadership staff during these 2.5 days of peer learning and sharing.
Who Should Attend
In keeping with our commitment to conduct role-alike meetings which enable us to delve deeper into the work and decrease the travel burden for site staff to attend all education initiative gatherings, we are inviting Principals/Education Managers and Instructional Leaders/Lead Teachers to attend this conference. Given our focus on numeracy, math teachers are also welcome to attend the event. We hope that each site will send at least two representatives from your site if possible.
2009 Learning Sessions
Session ONE: Interactive Staff Mapping Process
This interactive staff-mapping exercise will help participants consider, discuss, prioritize and document the most pressing professional knowledge and technical practice needs within their respective school sites. The conversational session will start with the unique realities of individual school programs and build toward the creation of plans that participants can take home and use to guide their work.
Session TWO: Promoting a Culture of Numeracy
This session will present a number of instructional leadership strategies and pedagogical approaches for building a stronger culture of numeracy within YouthBuild schools and programs. Participants will discuss specific strategies for student-centered teaching approaches which apply a range of mathematical concepts and functions to relevant contexts for YouthBuild students.
Session THREE: Differentiating Instruction
This session will respond to the need to differentiate instruction for YouthBuild students in ways that more fully embrace their unique learning styles and abilities. The session will present and consider promising instructional strategies for providing appropriate academic remediation, acceleration and preparation for diverse learners (including SPED, ELL and low-level readers) to not only graduate, but also succeed in postsecondary credential programs. Participants will discuss their own experiences in implementing many of these approaches for differentiating instruction.
Instructional Leadership Institute - Register Here (NSI & PSE Site Staff only)
Event Location
Travel
Lodging
Special Requests
Cancellation policy
Event Location
Boston Marriott Copley Place
110 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 1-617-236-5800
The award-winning Boston Marriott Copley Place hotel is centrally located in the historic Back Bay district of Boston, MA. Whether looking to shop on Boston's ritzy Newbury Street or at the Copley Place mall, or to cheer on your favorite sports team at Fenway Park or the TD BankNorth Garden, the Marriott Copley Place is the ideal place to stay on your Boston business trip or vacation. In addition to its downtown Boston location, this Back Bay hotel also offers hotel packages and first-rate amenities. Champion’s restaurant, valet parking, a car rental desk and a tour desk are just some of the added features at this Boston, MA hotel.
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Travel
Institute begins on: Monday, August 3, 2009 3:00PM sharp
Institute concludes on: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 1:00PM
Book your air travel to arrive into Logan International Airport (BOS). To insure better rates, begin to arrange travel immediately. Attendees should arrive on August 3, 2009 (before 2pm) and depart on August 5, 2009 (after 3pm). Travel may be covered with funds from your NSI and/or PSE grant and counted as travel for professional development.
Directions:
Please note that this hotel does not provide shuttle service. Hotel direction: 4 miles W. Subway service fee is $2.00 one way and estimated taxi fare is $35.00 one way. From other surrounding airports and train stations, please go directly to the hotel website.
Subway Directions: Take the Blue Line Inbound to the Government Center stop. Transfer here to the Green Line toward the Copley stop.
Driving Directions: Follow signs for Boston/Sumner tunnel. Pay the toll and stay in the right lane in the tunnel. Follow signs for Exit 26/Storrow Drive. After you emerge from the tunnel, take the second left exit to Copley Square/Back Bay. At the first light, turn right onto Beacon St. Follow Beacon St. for 4 blocks and make a left on to Exeter St. After 5 lights, Exeter St. ends at Huntington Ave. Turn right onto Huntington Ave. At the first light, under the sky bridge, make a U-turn to the left. The hotel entrance will be immediately on your right.
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Lodging
Funds from your NSI and/or PSE grant may be used to pay for the cost of lodging and counted as professional development. Our YouthBuild group rate is $129.00 single occupancy per night.
Please remember that attendees will not need to make their own reservations. The Education Department will provide the hotel with a rooming list of all attendees and maintain communication with the hotel on behalf of participants. However, all attendees will be responsible for all room incidentals and will need to provide the hotel with a credit card at check-in. Attendees should review their bill at check-out.
Hotel Check-in time: 4:00 pm
Hotel Check-out time: 12:00 pm
For NSI sites only: As in our past conferences, YouthBuild USA will pay for the cost of lodging for the second attendee per school/program. The site must cover the cost of the first/primary attendee. If a site should only send one attendee, this person would be considered the first/primary attendee and funds from your NSI grant should be used to pay for the cost of lodging.
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Special Request
We do our best to serve foods that are acceptable to everyone. There will always be a vegetarian option for meals and pork will be limited to breakfast menus only. If your diet requires us to make special arrangements, please send an e-mail to tmurphy@youthbuild.org
If you have any physical limitations or require specific housing accommodations in order to make your stay more comfortable, please send an e-mail to tmurphy@youthbuild.org
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Education Department Registration policies
Early Departure Fee
In the event a guest who has reserved a room within our block checks out prior to the guest’s reserved check out date, the hotel may charge an early departure fee. If this happens and that guest is on the YouthBuild USA master bill, YouthBuild USA will charge the school/program that fee post the conference. To avoid an early departure fee, guests should advise the hotel before or upon check-in of any change to their departure date.
Late Check-In Fee
In the event a guest who has reserved a room within our block checks in after the guest’s reserved check in date, the hotel will still charge that guest the full room rate, which will be added to that guest’s account. The hotel may also cancel that guest’s entire registration if they are not advised before check-in. If this happens and that guest is on the YouthBuild USA master bill, YouthBuild USA will charge the school/program any additional charges post the conference. To avoid any additional charges or risk a room reservation cancellation, please contact the hotel directly at least 24 hours in advance.
Cancellation Policy
If you need to cancel your registration and attendance, you must notify the Education Department at tmurphy@youthbuild.org and also contact the hotel within 24 hours of your scheduled arrival date.
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If you have any additional questions or concerns about your registration or this gathering, please contact:
Shurie Bostick (NSI) at 617-741-1289 sbostick@youthbuild.org
Scott Emerick (PSE) at 617-741-1247 semerick@youthbuild.org
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