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• Cambridge Public Schools HGSE Seminars at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School
The Office of School Partnerships is sponsoring a series of professional education seminars for Cambridge Rindge and Latin School led by Harvard faculty and associates. In collaboration with CRLS Principal Christopher Saheed and CPSD Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk the sessions are planned for CRLS Deans of Curriculum and Program, Curriculum Coordinators, and Instructional Coaches.
Sessions include:
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Liz City
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Jim Honan and Liz City
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Steve Seidel
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Liz City and Jim Honan
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Nonie Lesaux
• HGSE Reading Buddies
The Reading Buddies program pairs staff, student and faculty
volunteers from across Harvard with second graders at the
Amigos Elementary School, a dual immersion bilingual school in Cambridge,
during the students' English week. In a one-on-one setting, volunteers
read aloud and share conversation with students for 35 minutes on designated Thursdays from 12:05 to 12:45 at the Amigos School. The Reading Buddies
Program is coordinated by the HGSE Office of School Partnerships
and Cambridge School Volunteers (CSV), Inc. The HGSE Staff Advisory
Committee to the Dean for Administration and Academic Services (SACAD)
supports recruitment. Volunteers learn how reading aloud promotes literacy in a training
session led by Amigos School educators and CSV staff. At a holiday
party and at a year-end celebration for students and volunteers,
each student receives a book to take home chosen by his or her buddy.
To learn more about Reading Buddies, call the Office of School Partnerships
at 617-496-4822 or email school_partnerships@harvard.edu. Also please
read the Harvard
Gazette article about Reading Buddies and please see the schedule for 2007-2008.
• Lectores y Amiguitos
Lectores y Amiguitos is a Spanish language volunteer program in
which fluent Spanish speakers from the HGSE and across Harvard
read to second graders at the Amigos Elementary School. Volunteers read aloud and share conversation in Spanish with second graders every Thursday from 12:05 to 12:45 at the Amigos School. The goal of Lectores
y Amiguitos is to foster a love of reading in Spanish and to give
second graders the opportunity to practice their Spanish oral language
and listening skills. It was designed to complement the HGSE Reading
Buddies program, in which another group of volunteers read one-on-one with students
in English. Both programs are coordinated by the HGSE Office of
School Partnerships, in collaboration with Cambridge School Volunteers
(CSV) Inc. Through a training session led by Amigos School educators and CSV
staff, volunteers in the program learn how reading aloud can promote
literacy, as well as strategies and techniques useful for reading
to students in their second language.
For more information about the program, please call the Office of
School Partnerships at 617-496-4822 or email school_partnerships@harvard.edu Also please see the schedule for 2007-2008.
• BPS Leadership Development Network (LDN)
This network of leadership teams from several Boston Public Schools continue to build on the work of the Boston-Harvard Leadership Development Initiative (LDI), a larger multi year collaboration of HGSE and BPS that was funded for five years beginning in 1997 by FleetBoston Financial. When the LDI ended most of its programs, four of the schools requested to continue to network and come to Harvard for a series of professional development sessions facilitated by faculty from HGSE and other education experts. The group has now grown to six schools and meets several times a year usually on Saturday mornings. Workshops focus on organizational change, adult development, curriculum and instruction, and other research topics relevant to the priorities of the schools and the BPS district.
• Participating schools include:
-- Pauline A. Shaw Elementary School, Maudlin Wright, Principal
-- Henry Dearborn Middle School, Teresa Soares-Pena, Principal
-- Mary E. Curley Middle School, Michelle Madera-Cepeda, Principal
-- Muriel S. Snowden International School, Gloria Coulter, Headmaster
-- Mather Elementary School, Alenor Abdal-Khallaq Williams, Principal
-- Elihu Greenwood Elementary School, Ida Weldon, Principal.
• Also see the LDN schedule for 2007-2008.
• Cambridge Public Schools HGSE Seminars at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
The Office of School Partnerships is sponsoring a series of professional education seminars for Cambridge Rindge and Latin School led by Harvard faculty and associates. In collaboration with CRLS Principal Christopher Saheed and CPSD Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk the sessions are planned for CRLS Deans of Curriculum and Program, Curriculum Coordinators, and Instructional Coaches.
Sessions include:
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Liz City
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Jim Honan and Liz City
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Steve Seidel
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Liz City and Jim Honan
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 -- 1:00 to 3:00pm -- Nonie Lesaux
Recent OSP Work included:
• Cambridge Public Schools Leaders' Network Seminar
Series
A collaboration with the Curriculum Development Office of the Cambridge
Public Schools (CPS), this series of seminars with HGSE faculty
and other associates is focused on effective and informed practices,
national trends in educational leadership, and the power of language
in leadership. Participants include Cambridge Public School Program
Directors, Principals, Assistant Principals, Deans of Curriculum,
Deans of Students and Curriculum Coordinators. The aim of the collaboration
is to create a network for CPS educators to regularly come together
to discuss their professional development needs, to build their
capacity as leaders, and to develop their capacity to create leadership
opportunities for teachers in their schools.
The group sessions are postponed for the current year as the administrative
leaders are meeting with HGSE faculty member Richard Elmore. Previous CPS
Leaders' Network presenters included: 1) John Diamond, Assistant
Professor of Education; and James P. Honan, Senior Lecturer at HGSE,
2) Susan Moore Johnson, Carl H. Pforzheimer,
Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning, 3) David
Perkins, Professor of Education, Project Zero and WIDE World Project,
4) James P. Honan, Senior Lecturer; and Liz City,
CASE Fellow at HGSE, 5 and 6) Follow up sessions
organized by CPS at Thorndike with Jerry Goldberg, Teachers 21 Professional
Development Consultant.
• Cambridge Public Schools Case Study
Group
The Cambridge Public Schools Case Study Group met with Katherine
Merseth, Senior Lecturer on Education, Director of the Teacher Education
Program at HGSE, and former principal investigator of the Case Development
Project which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). For more
information call 617-496-4822.
• HGSE-Boston Public Schools Cluster 2 Data
Analysis Project
EdVestors funded this recent partnership to strengthen the leadership capacity of school
teams to develop and use assessment data through ongoing professional
development sessions and follow-up onsite consultations. Harvard
doctoral students led by recent Ed.D. recipient Ethan Mintz worked
within a collaboration between 12 schools and programs in Boston
Public Schools’ Cluster 2, and the Office of School Partnerships
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This program aimed to
strengthen the capacity of principals, teachers, and other school-based
educators to organize, analyze, and interpret formative and summative
assessment data for the purpose of making instructional and curricular
decisions. Paul Reville, Faculty Sponsor/Principal Investigator. BPS
school sites include Elementary: Blackstone, Eliot, Emerson, Hurley,
Mason, Quincy, Winthrop: Middle: Dearborn, Orchard Gardens K –
8; High Schools: Boston Community Leadership Academy, Quincy Upper
School, Snowden High ; Special Programs: Community Academy.
Office of School Partnerships • Harvard Graduate School of Education
44R Brattle Street, Third Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone 617-496-4822 • fax 617-495-1863 |
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