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"After I attended an aha! Process workshop in Denver in September I brought my teacher leadership team to Houston for the URL Summit.
We found many of the strategies we learned there to be so helpful that we have expanded their use beyond just students who are struggling.
We now even use the student resource questions as part of our new student registration materials and then match student needs with the
resources that the teachers/advisors can support and deliver."
Lyn Bair, Principal
Bridges High School
Carbondale, CO
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aha! Process offers seminars as another option for staff development. These programs are core to our
mission and are held in rotating locations around the country. Come hear Dr. Payne help you build success in your school.
These seminars are also available as
workshops at your school.
If you’d like to see our complete listing of workshops
you can host at your school or district,
click here
or call us at (800) 424-9484.
We believe in collaboration. To that end, we design our workshops to be highly interactive, with lots of chances for
you to ask questions and give feedback. The presenters are available for one-on-one attention during the event.
After the event, we are available for consultations to further support you in your work.
To receive additional information about any of our programs, please feel free to contact us at (800) 424-9484, or use our
Contact Us page. For schedule, locations, and pre-registration visit our
Training Dates page.
Some workshops may require the purchase of book(s) for each participant.
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Training Seminars
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Research-Based Strategies for Students in Poverty and Low-Performing Schools |
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(includes A Framework for Understanding Poverty)
Research-Based Strategies provides educators with hands-on techniques that help them narrow and then eliminate
the achievement gap for all students, but especially under-resourced students. Reduce your planning and response
time and improve your effectiveness. Develop more immediate, reliable intervention strategies. Address students'
challenges before they become overwhelming. We have merged many of the concepts from our titles Understanding
Learning and Learning Structures into this totally updated program.
This seminar provides strategies that can be readily implemented and integrated into any curriculum or program and
will raise student achievement. In this redesign, you will find:
- 50+ strategies, their explanations, and relevant research
- A chart of observed student behaviors
- Extensive bibliographic references
- A "menu" of strategies that can be used to meet the needs of today’s under-resourced learners
- New strategies categorized by academic, behavior, or community-based concern or challenge
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| Prerequisite: | None |
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Available as well as a workshop at your school in half-day to two-day options.
Contact
aha! Process for more details, or call (800) 424-9484.
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Link: #framework
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Raising Achievement with 9 Systemic Processes |
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This is a hands-on workshop where you will be able to walk into your classroom the following day with new,
effective tools to use. Learn the nine teacher-friendly processes that are designed to raise student achievement.
Simpler processes are key to this collegial model that is designed to take less time and yield strong results. Using the book,
Research Based Strategies and the workbook 9 Systemic Processes to Raise Achievement, our presenters will walk clients
through a model that creates sustainable excellence. Especially excellent for low performing schools, schools with demographic
shifts, schools with students from poverty, and schools struggling to meet AYP with specific subgroups.
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| Length: | One Day |
| Prerequisite: | None |
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Available as well as a workshop at your school.
Contact
aha! Process for more details, or call (800) 424-9484.
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Link: #raising_achievement
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Engage and Graduate Your Secondary Students: Preventing Dropouts |
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Raise your graduation rate! Learn strategies to engage students and graduate them. These strategies help you work
with students to create sustainable interventions that will help them attain their goals and lead them to graduation.
This seminar offers just-in-time interventions for middle schoolers, freshmen, and sophomores who start disengaging
and helps juniors and seniors get back on track.
Join us for this two-day seminar for educators working with grades 7–12 who want to design sustainable programs
for student success with special emphasis on under-resourced learners. This innovative approach shows you how to
achieve success and features the following strategies and topics:
- Content availability
- Relational learning
- Instructional strategies
- Future story
- Generation Y characteristics
- Immigrant student issues
- Emotional resources and resiliency
- Bonding and bridging capital
- Schoolwide processes to monitor student learning
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| Length: | Two Days |
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Educators in grades 7–12 who are involved in or are responsible for school improvement plans
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Available as well as a workshop at your school in half-day to two-day options.
Contact
aha! Process for more details, or call (800) 424-9484.
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Under-Resourced Learners Summit |
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The Under-Resourced Learners Summit is where
- Subject-area teams
- Administration leaders
- Educators at the elementary, middle, and high school levels
Explore, discuss, and learn about:
- Challenges facing under-resourced students in today's schools
- Best strategies and innovations to raise achievement levels for all students across the curriculum
- Emerging classroom management strategies
- Ways to creatively use participatory technology to engage students
- Best practices to effectively address learning challenges schools are facing
Simultaneous Break-Out Sessions Include:
- Strategies for ESL Students - A practitioner perspective resources
- Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading
- Parent Engagement Model Using Getting Ahead
- Getting the Backing of your Community & Parents
- Behavior and Classroom Management
- Response to Intervention
- Teaching African American Boys
- Six-Step Process for Raising Student Achievement
- Motivating your students
- Relational Learning Strategies
- Understanding Students and Parents of Hispanic/Latino Descent
- Language and Story Structure
- Working with Boys in the Classroom
- Assessment Levels of Questions for Student Success
- Engaging and Involving your Parents
- Show Me the Money!
- Graduating your Cohort Groups
- Mental Models for Language Arts
View course descriptions below.
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Learn facts and strategies that you can embed immediately to make your teaching easier and the students' learning faster.
Register your team today
or call (800) 424-9484.
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Graduating your Cohort Groups |
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Is your school seeing increased dropout rates? In this session you’ll review the underlying causes and unique characteristics
affecting decreased student achievement and retention. You’ll also learn strategies to make teaching easier and learning
faster for all students, across the curriculum.
This session examines:
- The cost of dropouts
- Generation Y characteristics
- Immigrant student issues
- Emotional resources and resiliency
- Bonding and bridging capital
- Relational learning
- Instructional strategies
- School-wide processes to monitor student learning
Throughout the session you’ll have access to practical, real-world guidance to improve your effectiveness in working with
students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.
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Link: #url-redesign
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Relational Learning in the Classroom |
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Developing relationships of mutual respect with students has been a key component of Ruby Payne’s trainings for years.
This session will take participants beyond the basics of mutual respect to specific strategies to develop relational learning
with today’s under-resourced and Generation Y students.
Discussion will revolve around the key characteristics of relational learning.
Learn about bridging and bonding capital; help students at the secondary level develop a very specific and clear plan to
address their own learning performance and a safe environment (emotionally, verbally, and physically) for themselves.
It all begins with relationships.
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Link: #url-relational
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Six-Step Process to Raise Student Achievement |
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In today’s world of accountability, decreased funding, and increased federal and state demands, teachers and administrators
need simpler processes that yield significant increases in student achievement levels.
This session presents an overview of a straightforward six-step process that educators can use to raise students’ scores—easily,
quickly, and effectively.
You will learn:
- Teacher-friendly strategies to disaggregate data and determine their impact on AYP
- Quick and highly collaborative curriculum alignment and pacing techniques
- The elements of high-quality instruction
- Alternative ways to monitor students’ progress throughout the year
- Systemic interventions for at-risk students
- A strategy for embedding these processes in your classrooms
While there is no "silver bullet" that will raise student achievement, this six-step process delivers a method that works,
step-by-step instructions for implementation, and strategies for working with staff to incorporate this collegial model.
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Link: #url-six-step
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Getting the Backing of your Community and Parents |
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Examine aha! Process constructs and tools for ways to transcend the silos that exist in our communities. Share your
best practices for getting the backing of parents and communities. Help create new solutions.
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Link: #get-backing
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Engaging and Involving your Parents |
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Parents—engaged and involved? Or disconnected and unavailable? This session will examine five critical issues that have a major
impact on working and communicating successfully with parents whose children are under-resourced. The understanding gleaned
through these issues can unlock previously closed doors and lead to a better understanding between the home and school.
Participants will leave this session with handy tips and resources that will build stronger relationships between the school and
its families.
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Link: #engaging-parents
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Behavior and Classroom Management |
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Is student behavior a challenge for you? Are you struggling to teach the "perfect lesson" because you’re disrupted by the actions
of a few? Focusing on the under-resourced learner, this session will provide practical strategies for successful classroom management.
Topics will address emotional safety, as well as standardized and clearly defined classroom procedures. Student behaviors will be
classified, and the classroom as part of a larger school system will be discussed. The bonus of this session is the use of simulations
as tools to help improve the management of the classroom, especially for those looking for answers and strategies.
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Link: #url-management
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Motivating your Students |
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Question: Are your students motivated? Answer: Yes, they are motivated, but not necessarily to do what you want them to do.
This session will address goal-directed behavior, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and the components and interactions among
each, particularly as they relate to under-resourced students. Participants will leave with a more in-depth understanding of
motivation theory, as well as handouts describing practical approaches to developing intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in their students.
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Link: #url-motivate-students
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Mental Models for Language Arts
Meet your AYP requirements easily! |
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In today’s world of increased accountability, teachers and administrators need simpler processes that truly pay off in student
achievement. aha! Process mental models are a great way to make learning faster and easier.
aha! Process presents mental models for a whole range of language arts concepts in this interactive session. From
structures and patterns of language arts to steps of the writing process, sorting information, organizing research, and grammar,
these mental models make learning painless.
You’ll also learn how to implement rubrics to assess performance and help you gauge your students’ progress against adequate
yearly progress standards.
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Link: #url-mentalmodels
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Developing the Resources of Your Students |
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It all begins with the resources the student brings to the classroom. For years, A Framework for Understanding Poverty
has defined poverty through the lens of eight resources. Dr. Payne has added a ninth resource for today’s under-resourced learner.
Participants in this session will analyze and learn to more effectively use these resources to determine interventions, review the
new checklists, and discuss ways to use with today’s students. Interventions based on resources that are present can be a key
to changing a student’s life!
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Link: #url-developing
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Working with Boys in the Classroom |
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Boys account for 85% of the discipline problems in school. They also constitute the largest population in special education, Title I,
and those who have reading and writing problems. Boys are the ones who have committed the violent acts in America's schools, and
they are the most likely to drop out of school.
This session focuses on the "why" behind male behavior in school and what schools can do to begin making school more "boy-friendly."
Issues that affect boys who come from poverty, as well as middle class, will be explored in this session.
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Link: #url-boys
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Meeting the Educational Needs of African American Boys |
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One of the most misunderstood, maligned, and underserved segments of the public school population is the urban minority male
student. African American males in particular often operate within a "hidden rule system" that is vastly different from the middle
class rule system that governs America's schools. Because the majority of public school teachers are female, white, and middle
class, rule conflict is often inevitable. This conflict is evidenced by the number of minority males who are in special education and
alternative school placements.
This session examines the hidden rules of African-American males in general and poor African-American males in particular.
Methods and strategies for building significant relationships and promoting higher academic achievement are also presented.
Participants will be given the opportunity to evaluate real-life classroom scenarios and to dialogue about appropriate interventions
and approaches.
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Link: #url-meetneeds
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Language and Story Structure in Your Classroom |
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Language resources allow a person to share understandings, experiences, and information with others. Without language, the only
other options are drawings or nonverbal signals. Language is the tool to build social capital, to express thinking, and to organize and
relate personal experiences.
Explore the need for student development in the areas of registers of language, patterns of discourse, vocabulary development,
and story structure. Vocabulary can limit or enhance the school experience and the development of social capital as much as any
other factor.
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Link: #url-structure
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Assessment Levels of Questions for Student Success |
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Help your students feel confident and succeed on state assessments. This workshop gives you a number of tools and strategies that will
help you:
- Learn specific strategies that target support for student success based on the type of assessment item(s).
- Save time and energy in planning lessons and creating assessments.
- Target instruction at the level indicated by the state assessment.
- Maximize your time to practice identifying and writing questions at the level indicated by the state assessment.
- Gain the ability to compare assessment levels of questions and Bloom’s levels of questions.
Strategies (e.g., vocabulary sketching, plan and label for problem solving, mental models, and step sheets) that correlate with the levels
of questions will be modeled. Participants will identify the areas of weakness based on state standards assessed by the state
assessment. Based on the areas of greatest need, participants will create a plan to implement strategies for student success.
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Link: #url-assessment-levels
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Understanding Students of Hispanic/Latino Descent and Their Parents |
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Hispanic/Latino students have the highest dropout rate. Many experience cultural tension in school when behaviors are misinterpreted
as rude or disengaged but are actually a result of cultural upbringing. This session provides an understanding of hidden rules in the
Hispanic/Latino culture and issues that Hispanics/Latinos encounter in public schools. Participants will learn strategies to enable
students and parents to foster improved academics and socialization.
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Link: #url-understanding
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Show me the money! |
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Are you tired of asking–or being asked–"But how can I fund this?" This session will give you many answers to that
question. School improvement is at the top of the federal agenda, and there is a lot of money that you can tap into for under-resourced
learners. Never let "the funding question" stop your work for kids!
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Link: #url-rti
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RtI: Response to Intervention |
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Learn about the what, the why, and the how of response to intervention (RtI) and the under-resourced learner. This session will
cover student intervention teams, the rationale behind the RtI mandate, and the intervention process for student achievement. We
will focus on the three tiers of intervention and the progress monitoring of student growth. This session will provide an overview of
the training and support available from aha! Process consultants.
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Link: #url-rti
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The R Rules: A Guide for Teens to Identify and Build Resources |
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How do you plan on getting to college? "By car."
This session will provide an overview of The R Rules, a curriculum for teens based on the work of Ruby K. Payne, PhD. Resources
allow choices. One resource or the lack of it can mean the difference in completing a task, reaching a goal or achieving a dream.
The R Rules is an asset model full of information, tools and activities for exploring resources, rules, environments and systems.
Students increase awareness, options and skills as they identify and use resources to develop plans and reach the future pictures
they create.
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Link: #url-rrules
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Trainer Certification Workshops
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty - Trainer Certification |
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Become a certified trainer!
This seminar is designed for individuals who wish to become Certified Trainers in order to take the information
from A Framework for Understanding Poverty back to their own organizations. The training includes in-depth
work on A Framework for Understanding Poverty and Research-Based Strategies seminars. Other topics also
include instructional techniques and the power of story—all intended to help trainers prepare the program for their
particular organization. In-depth research and training materials are provided.
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| Length: | Three days |
| Prerequisite: | A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Day One) and Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) |
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Link: #framework_trainer
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To receive additional information about any of our programs, please feel free to contact us at (800) 424-9484, or use our
Contact Us page. For schedule, locations, and pre-registration visit our
Training Dates page.
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