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Learn more and do more to support teaching excellence in Washington
CSTP offers a wide range of training sessions, events and gatherings for education stakeholders. Visit this page frequently to see what is happening across Washington to plan your involvement and make your voice heard.
Registration is now open for the Advocacy Training, May 1, 2010, in Vancouver. The CSTP Advocacy Training is designed for teachers and other educators to add-to and boost-up the knowledge and skills needed to advocate for positive change at the local, state, and national policy levels. Learn how to transform your expertise into advocacy goals connected to strong, cohesive messages. Develop communication skills to speak so others listen. Strategize about logical entry points in the system to introduce your voice into policy dialogue, and craft a plan to meet your context-specific advocacy goals that support effective teaching and student learning.
The registration deadline is Friday, April 23, 2010. Interested individuals should register early as the training fills up quickly. The cost for the training is $50 per person. This cost includes meals (breakfast & lunch), training venue and materials. Click here to sign up now.
For more information on the Advocacy Trainings or to see the other dates scheduled for this school year, check out our flyer.
We are sorry, the retreat is full for this year. Please check back in January 2011 when we will have a new Writers' Retreat opportunity posted.
Attendees will receive the luxury to write that long awaited journal article, or getting their professional thoughts down so that they can be published.
CSTP's 2010 Writers' Retreat June 28 - July 1 Olympia
"As political activists, we must be advocates and risk takers who are willing to write and speak publicly. We must be public relations people who testify, write letters, pen editorials, and communicate clearly with all educational stakeholders. This is a new role for most of us. The public is not used to seeing teachers on the front lines of the profession." - Regie Routman, Conversations
CSTP will be helping to indulge attendees as a writer
To prepare for the retreat please check out the following:
Questions:
Karen Estes - email: karen@cstp-wa.org
Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession
P.O. Box 7052
Tacoma, WA 98417
fax: 253-761-1521
office: 253-752-2082
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Write to Advocate is a two-day workshop, July 22 - 23, designed to increase teachers' knowledge and skills in communicating written messages that attract the attention of decision makers and other audiences about education issues important to them. Participants will learn how to use their expertise to develop powerful written messages. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to work with national and local communication experts to hone their writing skills and messages.
Interested people must complete a short online application by Monday, June 7. Those selected will be notified no later than June 25th. Registration is $75, which includes course fee, meals and lodging.
Click here for the Wrote to Advocate flyer and application questions.
Click here to apply.
Questions? Contact Nasue Nishida.

"We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only s/he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar--that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire--can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide."
Nathan M. Pusey
President, Harvard University
CSTP and OSPI present:
Strong Teachers, Strong Learners
Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind
Workshop: November 2, 2010 - SOLD OUT
Symposium: November 3-4, 2010
We invite all educators who help their colleagues improve their professional practice to join this time of learning together. Mentors, coaches, other teacher leaders, and administrators will benefit from participating in our 4th annual symposium. Focused on improving student learning through teacher growth and development, this is an opportunity to
Workshop: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - SOLD OUT
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Building an Even More Thought-full Learning Community with Habits of Mind
by Art Costa
This workshop is available as an add-on with symposium registration.
A Habit of Mind means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies, dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties. It means getting into the habit of behaving intelligently when you DON'T know the answer.
For more on Habits of Mind see http://www.instituteforhabitsofmind.com/
What are Habits of Mind? Click here for a description.
Symposium: Wednesday and Thursday, November 3 and 4, 2010
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day
Keynote Address: Mindful Mediation
Featured speaker: Art Costa
Dr. Costa will inspire and challenge us in our pursuit of the common goal of increasing student learning. In doing this, he will help us understand how we can use our skills to enhance others' cognitive capacity for high performance, both independently and as members of a community.
Symposium Strands
Focused on a variety of mentoring and coaching topics, strands will provide participants the opportunity to think, problem solve, and apply concepts more deeply.
Participants will select one strand to attend Wednesday afternoon and continue through Thursday morning. Descriptions of strands and the opportunity for pre-selection will be emailed to registered attendees in late September.
New strand this year: Mentoring and coaching teachers in special education
Comments from 2009 symposium attendees:
Location:
The symposium will take place at the Lynnwood Convention Center in Lynnwood, Washington. Directions and lodging information can be found on the Registration page.
Register early! Reduced fees offered for all registrations received by June 30, 2010.
Bring your team! Register 3 people from the same district and receive a $50 discount on the third registration.