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Diocese of Trenton

Capital Charter



Asbury Park

Contact Us

Donald (leake@tcnj.edu)

Brenda (bleake@tcnj.edu)
Greg (seaton@tcnj.edu)
Tabitha (dellange@tcnj.edu)
Broderick (boxley@tcnj.edu)
Helene (anthonyh@tcnj.edu)

what's next?

As many of you know, this retreat is the culmination of a yearlong effort to support schools in the central region of New Jersey in creating positive change. Over the past year we have shared our concerns, listened to experts, developed plans, and built a network of critical friends.
While this retreat was the culmination of one project – we know that it is just the beginning the work you will do.
Our hope is that your relationship with one another and with us will not end today. Hopefully, this week has introduced you to ideas and colleagues from other schools with whom you can share ideas and strategies. We believe this network of friends is an important resource that has the potential to impact your success.
Our Capacity Building Team is also hoping to continue our work with you. We would like to follow your progress and check in with how your plans are unfolding. We have some ideas about how our work together might continue. And, we are interested to hear about how you would like to see the relationships among one another and with us evolve.
We have found our time with you to be a valuable learning experience. We truly hope that you have benefitted from the programming throughout the year and this past week.

One Man Show -- Thursday

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Who Says Wednesday is Hump Day?

Wednesday began with a powerful presentation with two recent high school graduates from Philadelphia. Malikka and Steve were well received and many positive comments emerged from their documentary and sharing of ideas.
Later in the day, after a fair amount of confusion and a general agreement that the schedule for the day was inaccurate [useless], special topics and work sessions commenced.
Capacity building participants engaged in discussions about Professional Learning Communities, considering social justice and equity in leadership, differentiated instruction, and trust and perceptions in schools.

Special Topics Schedule

Thank you for all of your enthusiastic interest in our Special Topics. We tried to accommodate everyone. The schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. – iObservation System (#3)

Wednesday, 2:30-4:00 p.m. – Concurrent Sessions
• Trust and Perceptions (combined topics from #12 and #13)
• School Culture (#9)
• Learning for Equity and Social Justice (#17)

Thursday, 9:00-11:30 a.m. – Professional Learning Communities (#8)

Thursday, 2:30-4:30 p.m. – Concurrent Sessions
• Use of Data to Make School Based Decisions (#6)
• Using Locally Generated Teacher Research to Improve Practice (#7)
• Social Class: Instructional Implications (#4)

Room locations will be announced.

There was also some interest in #1 Differentiated Instruction and #5 Hypermasculinity. Dr. Helene Anthony will be available for consultation about Differentiated Instruction and Dr. Seaton will be available for consultation about Hypermasculinity. Please do not hesitate to contact them individually about these topics.

Welcome

Welcome to the Capacity Building Summer Retreat. We are so please to be working with you.

Over the next four days we hope that you will take every opportunity to confer with your colleagues, critically examine the various resources, and recommit to the very important work of helping the students who we serve progress and succeed.

Please use this blog to share your thoughts with one another.

Have a wonderful and productive week.