Agenda – Cohort-2 - Day 1
Nurturing for a Bright Tomorrow
Wake County Schools and Social Sciences Research Institute, Duke University
Holiday Inn, Dillard Drive - Staff Development – August 14-15, 2014

Thursday, August 14
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.    
Registration    

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.    
Welcome & Introductions Disposition Survey
    
Wendy Carlyle, 
Director, AIG Wake Leadership Team 

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.    
Overview of Wake Nurturing Goals & Research
Dr. Darryl Hill,
Lead Researcher, Wake Leadership Team

9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.    
Overview of Nurturing Model Introductions    
Margaret Gayle,
Associate Researcher, SSRI Duke University Team

9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.    
Break    

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.    
Closing the Opportunity & Achievement Gap Research Q & A
    
Dr. Angel Harris,
Professor Sociology & African American Studies, Duke University

11:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.    
Overview & Research of Building Thinking Skills    
Sandra Parks
TS Author and Researcher

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.    
Lunch     

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.    
Model Kindergarten Lesson and Mental Models    
Sandra Parks
TS Author and Researcher

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.     
Break    

2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Reflections & Planning Q&A     
Sandra Parks & Leadership Teams

Agenda – Cohort-2 - Day 2
Wake County Schools and Social Sciences Research Institute, Duke University
Holiday Inn – Dillard Drive - Staff Development – August 14-15, 2014

Friday, August 15
8:30 a.m.    
Welcome and Introductions
Goals of the Day  
Wendy Carlyle and Margaret Gayle

8:40 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.    
Thinking Skills Essential Understandings &  Model Lessons
Christine Lange and Margaret Gayle

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.    
Lunch     

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.     
School Planning
Sandra Parks, Margaret Gayle, Christine Lange

3:00 p.m.  –  3:30 p.m.    
Reflections Q & A    
Duke & Wake Leadership Teams

Note: Breaks determined by Trainers