FEA In-District Programs

Blueprints For Student Success

Recommended for priority and focus schools that are experiencing changing populations or whose students are struggling, this intensive, three-day, in-district training program offers reliable strategies focused on mediation, not remediation.

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Connected Action Roadmap (CAR)

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CAR is a three-day in-district program that connects the Common Core State Standards, student learning, professional learning, and teacher and leader effectiveness to the work of professional learning communities (PLCs). This training uses a roadmap metaphor to describe the focus of this learning.

Travel (take action) on roads (foundations of effective practice) that are directly connected to your destination (student learning). Stop veering off in different directions spending time, energy and resources on disconnected initiatives.

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Developing Student Growth Objectives for All Content Areas

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Now that the NJDOE has released its evaluation regulations, you need to learn how to develop SGO’s and to effectively evaluate all subjects.

Linking student progress to teacher evaluation involves building the capacity of teachers and school leaders to interpret data so that target objectives for student improvement can be established. This in-district session will address how to do this successfully in the tested and non-tested content areas, such as fine arts and physical education. The presenters will review the process of developing student growth objectives in order to make explicit the connection between teaching and learning, increase the effectiveness of instruction via continuous professional growth, focus attention on stud

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Giving Effective Feedback: The Key to Better Teacher Evaluations

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Learn to Give Feedback That Helps!

One of the biggest challenges facing building administrators today is ensuring that their teacher evaluation process will truly make a difference in both student and teacher growth. The teacher evaluation process presents an opportunity for educators to improve teacher expectations and performance, while also enhancing student achievement.

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Implementing PARCC and Common Core: The Latest Information

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This program will provide critical information that you need to move this initiative forward in your school or district.

This in-district session will focus on the administrator’s role in implementing the new PARCC assessments and the Common Core State Standards. The presenters will focus on the impact this initiative will have on schools.

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Improving School Climate and Morale

Improving School Climate and Morale deals with the critical elements necessary for a positive school environment. A positive school climate and high morale among staff and students leads to more productive teachers and support staff, plus higher achievement levels for students.

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LEGAL ONE: LEGAL ONE is a comprehensive, standards-based program that provides New Jersey school leaders with the essential knowledge and skills required in the areas of school law, ethics and governance required by state mandate. This course, both on-line and in-person, was developed in partnership with the Foundation for Educational Administration, the Institute on Education Law and Policy at Rutgers University, Newark, and Monmouth-Ocean Educational Services Commission. Graduate credit from Rutgers University is available upon completion.; Learn More

Prevent Bullying. It’s the right thing to do, and it’s the law.

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If ever there was a time to be concerned about bullying, it is now. We must take bullying in our schools and among our students seriously. How are you protecting students against bullying, cyber bullying, and other forms of violence in your school? In New Jersey, bullying prevention is the law!

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Response To Intervention: Passion For Compassion Model: View the brochure.

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a new and different approach to learning, which focuses on the continuous assessment of students and simple instructional responses to increase the teachers’ repository of successful interventions, many of which are appropriate for Tier I and Tier II levels in the RTI process.; Learn More

Seven Learning Strategies to Engage Struggling Students

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While all students are entitled to a rigorous, relevant, and successful education, this can be a daunting challenge for struggling students and those with disabilities. Traditional methods sometimes fail, and we cannot control many circumstances that hinder student development like poverty, trauma, abuse, a home life that devalues education, limited access to resources, psychological problem, limited verbal abilities, and communication difficulties. The focus of this in-district workshop is on developing more efficient and effective methods to reach these students.

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SMARTmove: View the latest brochure.

The SMARTmove program is grounded in the belief that substantive expertise and effective strategies exist within the school, but much of this knowledge has not been systematically managed and shared. Through skillfully executed workshops and follow-up coaching sessions, SMARTmove facilitators build the capacity of teachers and principals to utilize the potential of professional learning communities and formative assessment strategies to transform a school and improve student learning. Designed to enhance teacher practice, SMARTmove builds the capacity of teachers and principals to utilize the power of formative assessment strategies and professional learning communities to improve student achievement. The program builds on the work of Paul Black, Dylan Wiliam, Jan and<; Learn More

The Leader’s Brain: Advanced Leadership Skills

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Learn to Be a Better Leader!

The Leader’s Brain is an in-district program that captures the latest and most up-to-date knowledge and research about the practice of leadership. The program was developed as a result of observing and working with world-class leaders in education over the past 10 years through The FEA Principals’ Center at Princeton University and is presented to all educational leaders in your district. This content is a shift away from the focus of “style” and “transformational” and “transactional” leadership models of the past years to a more encompassing leadership model emphasizing change and core values while empowering others toward creativity and innovation.

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