Starting off the school year for all teachers requires intentional planning to set the stage. For new teachers, this is especially important whether you are in your first three years of the profession or whether you are making the move to a new school culture with a new mission. In this day-long workshop, we will tackle the questions most on the minds of new teachers. How do I build positive relationships with students? How can I create a classroom that is warm and welcoming as well as well-ordered with clear expectations? What do I do when students are in conflict? And how can I partner with parents in challenging circumstances.
Our approach in the day’s work will be experiential, research based, and will build on the experiences and questions of participants.
This training will take place at Carolina Friends School’s main campus (in Durham, NC).
“I think this training was amazing and brought me to a point of relief when it comes to serving in my school. It made me feel more relaxed and less stressed out about the things going on during my service and gave me a better sense of how to handle these situations.”
Presenters:
Ida Trisolini is the Interim Head Teacher of the Middle School at Carolina Friends School and a member of the Peaceful Schools NC Committee. During her 32 tenure as a Middle School educator, she has served in a variety of roles including language arts teacher, electives teacher, and Interim Assistant Head for Teaching and Learning. She helped design the conflict resolution curriculum at CFS and has presented workshops on creating a peaceful classroom and school culture at regional and national conferences as well as workshops on Discipline for Growth and Learning. Ida has been teaching for thirty-two years and has been teaching in Quaker schools for twenty-eight years. Ida thinks middle schoolers are the most amazing people on the planet!
Renee Prillaman has over 40 years of teaching and administrative experience and holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. Renee began her career as a classroom teacher which cemented her love of experiential learning and building just and caring classroom cultures. Seeing teaching as a calling and an act of creating social justice, Renee spent her career focused on supporting and developing teachers and those who supervise and lead teachers. She guided teachers and student teachers in public schools and served as a clinical professor in child development and education on the faculties at Meredith College, UNC- Chapel Hill, and Duke University. In 1998, she joined the Carolina Friends School Staff and there has served as a teacher, Head of the Middle School, and the School’s first Assistant Head for Teaching and Learning. She also served as Acting and Interim Head of School. Currently, Renee is a coach and consultant focusing on developing leaders who are joyful, authentic, and courageous. Renee has taught in new teacher institutes for the Southern Association of Independent Schools and the North Carolina Association of Independent Schools. She is a founding board member and previous Chair of the Peaceful Schools NC Committee and has delivered workshops and presentations for Peaceful Schools NC since its inception.
Registration:
Early Bird registration, before May 20: $140
Standard registration: $175
Group rate: Send four educators for the price of three
Additional 20% discount for schools in the Peaceful School Network
We are committed to making these workshops available and accessible to all. Email peacefulschoolsnc@gmail.com to submit a request for sliding scale registration rates.