Bridges To Learning™

Students • Parents • School • Community

• Bridges to Learning™ is a series of in-service workshops that can be supported by ongoing consulting services. These programs help schools engage parents and build support within their communities.
  

• Workshops can be held at each participating school utilizing I-TV, a two-way interactive video conferencing technology. Schools without I-TV capabilities may opt to attend a workshop at a school in their area. Otherwise, all participants need is I-TV technology and an on-site facilitator.

• Bridges to Learning™ is a collaboration between The Communications Center, Inc. and Kaleidoscope Consulting, LLC. For more information on Kaleidoscope Consulting, LLC, and their owner, J. Scott Christianson, please click here.

• To register, and for pricing information, please contact us.

Workshops Available

Our in-service workshops are based on current market research and will provide practical, skill building information to teachers and administrators through interactive formats.

Parent Engagement Workshops

These workshops will help you encourage and incorporate parent involvement within your schools. We offer workshops in 2 hour, 1/2 day, and full day blocks to meet your school's specific needs.

• 10 Things You Should Know About Parent Involvement

2 Hour Workshop: This program covers the basics of how parent involvement can become an effective resource for your school.

1/2 Day Workshop: This program addresses how parent engagement relates to student achievement, the forms of parent engagement that most affect achievement, and how to effectively engage parents. Also discussed in this program are topics such as how to draft an engagement policy that meets your school's specific needs.

Full Day Workshop: This program addresses how parent engagement relates to student achievement, the forms of parent engagement that most affect achievement, and how to effectively engage parents. Also discussed in this program are topics such as how to draft an engagement policy that meets your school's specific needs as well as how to engage the broader community in support of your students and school, and evaluating and fine-tuning your parent engagement policy.

Our programs can be customized to meet your school's needs.

Other Skill Building Workshops

• Teaching & Using Conflict Resolution Skills in the Classroom

2 Hour or 1/2 Day Workshop: Learn and share strategies to help your students identify the source of conflict and age appropriate ways to avoid and resolve problems they encounter.

• Work Style Preferences: Implications for Learning and Teaching

These interactive programs look at work style preferences, primarily in refrence to the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)™. These work style preferences affect the ways in which individuals receive and process information, and thus how they communicate. In its simplest form, the HBDI™ is a research-based assessment tool that measures work style preferences. The underlying research and model for the HBDI™ provides a framework that has been used by many corporations—including Starbucks, General Electric, and IBM—to enhance teamwork, planning, and communications.

Workshop 1 (1/2 Day): This program will focus on identifying different types of work style preferences, understanding how those preferences affect both what people hear and what they say, and how to work more effectively with others.

Workshop 2 (1/2 Day): This program will focus on how to coach student teams as well as creating lesson plans that accommodate different kinds of learners.

These workshops may be combined for a full day program. Our programs can be customized to meet your school's needs.