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Academic Innovations
Freshman Transition Initiative
For Classroom Teachers and Lead Administrators
Career Choices Lead Teacher Institute
To address the need for quality technical assistance in an ongoing fashion, the Career Choices Lead Teacher Institute is designed to equip you to deliver quality professional development for your school teams at your own site.

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Who should attend:
  • The Career Choices Lead Teacher, selected and approved by the principal
  • Administrators responsible for high school or middle school professional development
  • Experienced Career Choices instructors who wish to attain certification as a Career Choices workshop leader or conference presenter
  • Smaller Learning Community administrators

For Principals and District Administrators

Using the new Course Standards for Freshman Transition Classes, developed through The George Washington University’s Freshman Transition Initiative, learn the 10-Step Plan for initiating a Freshman Transition course and implementing a school-wide program that will provide data-driven advisory opportunities.

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Who should attend:
  • High school or middle school principals and vice principals
  • Principals with the team of leaders responsible for Freshman Transition and high school redesign efforts
  • District leaders responsible for innovative dropout prevention strategies
  • School leaders responsible for Freshman Academies

For Classroom Teachers and Lead Administrators

This institute is presented by educators who have built successful programs based on the Course Standards for Freshman Transition Classes.

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Who should attend:
  • Principals and administrators who have already attended a Freshman Transition Leadership Institute
  • Teachers and lead administrators who have already attended a Career Choices Lead Teacher Institute

For Course Instructors
Career Choices Implementation Institute
A great institute for the novice Career Choices teacher,
these sessions will be a chapter-by-chapter tour of the Career Choices
text and interdisciplinary supplements.

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Who should attend:
  • Freshman academy teachers and planners
  • Educators implementing Smaller Learning Communities
  • Teaching Teams already using Career Choices
  • Teachers responsible for integrating career/technical studies with academics
  • At-risk program coordinators and teachers
  • Counselors and Tech Prep coordinators
  • Administrators charged with dropout prevention
  • English teachers looking for innovative literature-based curricula

For Principals, Vice Principals and Dual Enrollment Admins
 *By invitation only
Dual Enrollment Freshman Transition
At the DEFT Institute, high school and college administrators learn strategies for creating an effective DEFT program from the innovations themselves and also walk away with a custom plan for implementing DEFT at their schools.

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Who should attend:
  • High school principals and vice principals
  • Community college dual enrollment
    administrators

For Course Instructors
Integrating Technology into a Career Choices Course
This institute is wired for access to five teachers hands-on experience with
the internet-based tools we've designed to enhance your Career Choices classroom.

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Who should attend:
  • Teaching teams already using Career Choices
  • Your school's School Site Executive for the Career Choices online enhancements
  • Instructors preparing to integrate any of the Career Choices online enhancements into their lesson plans