Individual and Group Mentoring for Educators
The evidence is clear that high performing schools and classroom require access to effective leadership. To sustain that leadership, school educators need their own support as we’ve all heard, “it’s lonely at the top”. This support comes in forms of mentoring and coaching both individually and in a group setting. New school administrators can benefit from mentoring while more experienced, veteran administrators can benefit from coaching model. LearnBlackberry Hill offers this experience to superintendents, principals, directors, coordinators as well as classroom teachers , directors who may be experiencing monumental challenges in their school or, really want to focus on the growth of their career.
Title IX/Sexual Harassment protocols
The Title IX statute addressing sexual harassment continues to evolve into an extremely comprehensive and complex set of protocols that can be challenging even the most veteran public school administrators. It is important to see the statute as protecting students and adults from emotional and potentially demeaning effects of sexual harassment. It’s about ensuring students and employers safe access to school programs and school jobs. Dr. Carroll can provide Title IX Coordination services to districts as well as coaching/mentoring services to identified administrators.
Special Education
As a vital part of any public school’s curriculum and instructional offerings, special education requires school districts to adopt well designed organizational systems that clearly focus on students with special needs. These systems should support educators to do what has been developed in their students’ individual educational program (IEPs) through the collaborative effort with parents and service providers. Dr. Carroll has the expertise to provide schools effective strategies for maintaining viable special educational services.
Teacher Evaluations
Often a challenge for public schools, adopting an effective means for providing teachers with critical feedback is essential for sustaining qualified educators and contributes to a positive learning culture. It takes an element of leadership to evaluate teachers based on a clear standard. Blackberry Hill can support schools in this endeavor.
Inclusionary Practices
Schools that adopt systems that promote the inclusion of all students, regardless of race, gender, disability, ethnicity create stellar learning environments. Dr. Carroll has the experience to support schools who may struggle with this mission.
Restorative Practices
Often viewed as “corrections-based”, schools that emphasize restorative practices often enjoy a positive learning environment while minimizing the practice of punishment and exclusion. Schools need to build a deeper understanding of how these systems can be part of the classroom as well as administrative practices.