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YOU ARE INVITED TO A WEBINAR

WestEd's SchoolsMovingUp website will feature another free webinar, "Supporting Students in Alternative Education Settings," on Wednesday, November 18, from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time (1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time).

As part of a series of WestEd-sponsored webinars related to education goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Sarah Feldman, Senior Research Associate in WestEd's Innovation Studies program, will moderate a presentation on supporting students facing significant obstacles to completing their high school diploma -- parenthood, financial constraints, incarceration, immigration, drug addiction and/or previous school failure. Cami Anderson, Superintendent of Alternative High Schools and Programs for the New York City Department of Education (District 79), will present strategies on developing a teaching staff that can work effectively with such students; and Lucretia Murphy, Executive Director of the See Forever Foundation, will describe the program offered for adjudicated young men in the Maya Angelou Academy and the Transition Center.

Specifically, Cami Anderson will present on the recruiting, training and supporting of high quality teachers and the use of teaching standards and strategies for supporting students' social, emotional growth specifically tailored for working with an alternative population of students. Lucretia Murphy will describe the program offered for the young men in the Maya Angelou Academy and the Transition Center, focusing on the instructional practices, assessments, and supports the schools provide to improve educational outcomes while young men are in the school and help them transition into school when they return to the community.

See the webinars page on SchoolsMovingUp for further information, including specific topics to be addressed by this webinar, at http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/webinars.

Please share your alternative school/program mission and vision statements with other alternative educators.  This will help new programs develop their own statements.  Thanks for participating in our Blog!

Kindly,

James Witty