Projects & Services

Here is a sampling of some the learning opportunities we can offer and customize for your teacher teams.

Leading Teacher Teams
Rooted in CSTP’s Teacher Leadership Framework, this training is designed to specifically address the knowledge skills and dispositions educators need to successfully work with and/or lead teams. This training will address all six sections of the Leadership Framework, (Working With Adult Learners, Communication, Collaboration, Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy, Systems Thinking and Equity Lens) and guide participants to reflect on their own strengths and opportunities for growth in their ability to lead successful collaborative teams. This training can be planned for a full or half day. Intended audience: educational leaders of all types – department heads, instructional coaches, PLC leads, TOSAs and administrators. 

Culturally Responsive PLC Teams
This training will make connections between common PLC questions and/or structures and the six themes of CRE and the five planning questions outlined in Culturally Responsive Education in the classroom by Dr. Adeyemi Stembridge. Rooted in CSTP’s Teacher Leadership Framework it will also highlight the ways all teachers can elevate their leadership skills in order to work together for all students in all classrooms. Work with your team to explore how you and your PLC can leverage planning to make your classrooms more culturally responsive. This training can be planned for a full or half day. Intended audience: PLC Teams. 

High Impact High Function PLCS
This training focuses on growing PLC teams to have healthy communication and collaboration for high functioning high impact PLCs.  Teams will experience collaborative processes and tools to set them up for meaningful PLC work in the coming school year. This experience will create a common understanding of and language for growing leadership knowledge, skills and dispositions for the entire staff so that they might leverage their assets as teams to better serve their students.

CSTP will model and practice the use of protocols and structures to support and increase meaningful and impacting collaboration and reflective conversations. Participants will leave the training with a better understanding of what they can do to move relationships from congenial to collegial and teams to be more high functioning and impactful.This training can be planned for a full or half day. Intended audience: PLC Teams. 

Collaboration and Communication for Equity Focused Teacher Leadership
This training explores the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to lead equity focused conversations with colleagues. During this training participants will explore components of teacher leadership with a focus on the communication and collaboration skills necessary to have hard conversations about race and equity in our schools and systems. Educators will have an opportunity to investigate and reflect on their own strengths and areas for growth. We will model and practice the use of protocols and structures to support difficult and necessary learning focused conversations to increase collaboration. Participants will leave this training with a solid foundation for understanding teacher leadership, as well as practical resources they can implement immediately with colleagues in order to more effectively work together for the benefit of the students we serve. This training can be planned for a full or half day. Intended audience: educational leaders of all types – department heads, instructional coaches, PLC leads, TOSAs and administrators. 

Teacher Leadership Framework Introduction
CSTP will provide a comprehensive overview of the Teacher Leadership Framework. This includes all six areas of the Framework – working with adults, collaboration, communication, knowledge of content and pedagogy, systems thinking and the newest addition equity lens. Participants will interact with the Framework, use their own experiences and knowledge to apply the concepts and have time for deep reflection on the application of the Framework to their work. Participants will identify areas of strength and challenge and create an action plan according to their reflection and needs.  CSTP will model and practice the use of protocols and structures to support and increase meaningful and impacting collaboration. Participants will leave this training with a solid foundation for understanding teacher leadership, as well as practical resources they can implement immediately with colleagues in order to more effectively work together with their teacher leader teams to better serve student needs throughout the district. This session can be planned for one or two full days and the depth of reflection and planning can be customized accordingly.  Intended audience: educational leaders of all types – department heads, instructional coaches, PLC leads, TOSAs and administrators. 

Teacher Leadership Framework Deep Dive
Designed for those who have already had an introduction to the CSTP Teacher Leadership Framework, this training provides up to six deep dive sessions. Each will focus on one of the six aspects of the Framework.  During these sessions CSTP will lead participants in reflecting on and building the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for each element as well as co-planning and preparing for teacher team collaboration training. These sessions can be planned for a full day or half day session and the depth of reflection and planning can be customized accordingly. Intended audience: educational leaders of all types – department heads, instructional coaches, PLC leads, TOSAs and administrators. 

Advocacy
CSTP offers advocacy training to teachers and organizations throughout the state. This training includes information and tools about developing an effective message, practicing the delivery of a message, understanding your audience and action planning. CSTP also offers a “Write to Advocate” workshop designed to increase teacher’s knowledge and skills in communicating written messages that attract the attention of decision makers and other audiences about education issues important to them. The training can be one-day or multiple days depending on the needs of the group. 

Self-Identity Development and Awareness 
CSTP offers training to support educators working towards becoming transformational educational leaders by answering the driving question of, “What does it mean to show up authentically as yourself while working towards disrupting and interrupting systems of oppression that perpetuate harm?” These sessions offer participants a chance to engage in community learning about how the many identities that we each carry as individuals impact and shape our behaviors, mindsets, and expectations. And, through discourse and reflection, interrogate and identify what might we need to unlearn and replace to build and deepen relationships with learners in our respective roles. Participants leaving this session will have a renewed understanding of who they are as individuals and how they contribute towards transformational learning environments as a whole.