Just ASK Virginia!
"We aren’t looking for solutions to specific problems; we are looking for resources and materials that enhance what we do, make our teachers more effective, and build in-house capacity in our schools, and the Mentoring in the 21st Century Resource Kit is AWESOME!”
ASK Group Consulting and Workshops in Virginia
Virginia divisions working with ASK Group include Fairfax County Public Schools, Frederick County Public Schools, Henry County Schools, Louisa County Public Schools, Prince William County Schools, Spotsylvania Public Schools, and Winchester Public Schools. In Fairfax County Public Schools, Certified Local Trainers (CLTs) lead the six-day workshop series Leading the Learning for administrators committed to increasing their expertise as instructional leaders. The multifaceted work in Prince William County includes professional development opportunities for administrators and teachers as well as support for the revision of the supervision and evaluation process for teachers and administrators. District office administrators and school-based administrators from eighty-five schools have participated in the six-day Leading the Learning workshop series and completed walk-throughs with the workshop leader. Each year four days of professional development based on Why Didn’t I Learn This is College? is provided for approximately 500 novice teachers; this training is led by 30 Certified Local Trainers (CLTs) who participated in nine days of CLT training. Paula Rutherford and Bruce Oliver are working with these Virginia school divisions.
Learn more about consulting and workshops available for your school or district.
Mentoring in the 21st Century® Resource Kit
Just ASK provides Virginia school districts with the Mentoring in the 21st Century® Resource Kit as an option for meeting their mentoring professional development needs. This kit provides a complete mentoring curriculum that districts can use to easily design and implement a comprehensive mentoring program. The kit includes teaching notes, learning exercises, learning tools, DVDs, and videos for workshop sessions. Outlines for over 30 hours of mentor training are provided. This kit is available for only $985!
More Information:
Which Virginia Districts are currently using the Mentoring in the 21st Century® Resource Kit?
- Alleghany County Public Schools
- Clarke County Public Schools
- Frederick County Public Schools
- Henrico County Public Schools
- Loudoun County Public Schools
- Millbrook High School
- Norfolk Public School District
- Norfolk State University
- Prince William County Public Schools
- Shenandoah University
- Smyth County Public Schools
- Warren County Public Schools
- Williamsburg-James City-County School District
- Winchester City Public Schools
…and hundreds of other schools and districts across the country!
The kit was selected in the February edition of District Administration magazine's Reader's Choice Top 100 Products for 2007-2008 in the Books & Materials category!
Which Virginia districts are using our induction resources?
See which school districts are using our publications in their mentoring and induction programs. Even though some of these districts do not have the resource kit, they use our publications like Why Didn't I Learn This in College?, The 21st Century Mentor's Handbook, and Instruction for All Students as professional development resources.
- Alexandria City Public Schools
- Culpeper County Public Schools
- Danville City Public Schools
- Fairfax County Public Schools
- Halley Elementary School
- Henrico County Public Schools
- Henry County Public Schools
- Lynchburg City Public Schools
- Portsmouth City Public Schools
- Prince William County Public Schools
- Roanoke County Public Schools
- Shenandoah University
- Smyth County Public Schools
- Spotsylvania County Public Schools
- Williamsburg-James City-County School District
- Winchester Public Schools
The kit was selected in the November/December issue of District Administration magazine's Reader's Choice Top 100 Products for 2010!
New Teacher Professional Development Kit
The New Teacher Professional Development Kit provides the tools you need to design and implement a comprehensive new teacher professional developmentprogram for your school or district. You can use this kit, complete with teaching notes, learning exercises, DVDs, and learning tools for workshop sessions, to design your own half-day, full-day, or multiple-day workshops, and follow-up sessions to initial training. The price of the complete kit is $795.
The New Teacher Professional Development Kit has just been released and already Campbell County Public Schools, Chesterfield County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, Floyd County Public Schools, and Warren County Public Schools have the kit in their hands as they train their new teachers.
More Information:
To order the this kit or to download a brochure, visit www.justaskpublications.com/ntpd.
Mentoring in the 21st Century® Institute
Another option is to have an ASK Group consultant lead a two-day Mentoring in the 21st Century® Institute on-site. You can use the additional Learning Experiences in the resource kit for follow up workshop sessions.
Areas of Focus
- What do we need to know and be able to do to help new teachers meet district performance standards?
- What are the conditions we need to create in order to promote retention of new teachers?
- How can we use Just ASK resources to support our mentoring program?
Resources
- The 21st Century Mentor's Handbook by Paula Rutherford addresses the areas of focus listed above and provides tools for needs assessments, goal setting, reflection, and instructional design. There are pointers about best practice in a standards-based classroom including what to note, suggestions to make, and reflective questions to ask. Also included is a wide array of intervention strategies for the challenges and concerns faced by new teachers. This text provides guidelines for using Why Didn't I Learn This in College? with new teachers.
- Why Didn't I Learn This in College? by Paula Rutherford. This best seller pulls together everything a new teacher needs to know in one source. It is based on the constructs that the best management program is a good instructional program and that if student learning is our goal, we want to shift our focus from control and compliance to creating positive and productive learning-centered environments.
Learn more about our upcoming institutes.
If you would like to find out more information about what Just ASK can do for you in Virginia, or if you have questions, please request someone from Just ASK to contact you, or call 1-800-940-5434 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm EST).
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