Weighing the Importance of Strategy, Curriculum and Leadership
What is the job of a teacher? And how do you measure success? What’s the best strategy to ensure real, lasting growth and what just looks good on paper? This article, featured in the Gotham Gazette, focuses on the strategies used in Renewal Schools. A research team from Teachers College at Columbia University examined […]
Eastern Suffolk BOCES Workshops
Please join us for our next Professional Learning Opportunity: How to be Flexible, Creative and Adaptable with Research-Based Literacy Practices in Order to Promote Independence Presented With Erica Pecorale, presenter This full day workshop will pull from the most reliable names in Literacy Education to provide multiple strategies that will empower educators to incorporate well-researched […]
Why I decided to teach and why I decided to stay in education
This is part one in a series on “Why Teach? Why Stay?” by Dr. Donald James For months I’ve been writing, and seeing posts, about the teacher and education leadership shortages. Much of what is written about is “why” there is a shortage. The constructs presented are all in the deficit, low salary, emotional fatigue, […]
Balance Driven Schools
How to engage all students in project-based, higher-level learning programs. This is a framework for developing student-centered, project-based schools through engagement and research. Presentation by Dr. Donald James, Executive Director for CITE, and former Superintendent of Commack Schools. Download this presentation: Balance-Driven Schools Movement in the Arts Video: Further Resources: celebrate urban birds […]
Alumni Spotlight – Andrew Rocco
We caught up with Andrew Rocco, a Sage/CITE alum and graduate who earned his M.S. in Educational Administration, as well as being licensed in Special Ed Grades 7-12. We’re very proud of his successes and grateful to call him an alum of CITE! What made you decide to pursue your doctorate in Ed Leadership? As […]
Online CTLE Courses for Individuals
CITE now offers online CTLE courses for teachers and school leaders, on a variety of topics. Register online and take the course when it’s convenient for you. Each course consists of video instruction and a quiz. You’ll earn 1 CTLE credit for each hour-long course. Go to https://citeprograms.thinkific.com/ for a full course listing. We will […]
Podcast – Meisha Porter
Cite Executive Director Dr. Donald James speaks with Dr. Meisha Porter about her decision to take on the role of NYC Schools Chancellor in a difficult time, the opportunity we have to reinvent the systems in our schools, and what the pandemic taught us about the classroom and about leadership in moments of crisis. Dr. […]
“Black History Is American History”
From ‘StrategiesMatters” By Dr. Carlen Padmore-Gateau The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, spurred and shifted a new path in a movement that has reawakened the spirit of activism and a deep yearning for truth in our country. The truth included the ill-treatment of black people in the United States of America and […]
