Workshops & Trainings

At Urban Essentials 101 (UE101), we believe that teacher quality is vital to the success of schools in general; however, when it comes to urban poverty schools in particular, we view the teacher-quality issue as more of a symptom than the primary cause of the crisis.  In urban schools, under most circumstances, the matter comes down to the efforts initiated around two principal components or themes: the proper distribution and balancing of Relationships and Resources. UE101 promotes and assists in the production of the proper distribution and balancing between the relationship and resource components.

UE101 is a whole staff program.  Our goal is to assist schools in the building of an Urban School Structure Plan (USSP) that is tailored to your specific needs.  The phases of assistance provided by UE101 include program training, design, implementation, and assessment.  The program focuses upon full maximization of your school’s relationships and resources in order to facilitate the building of a sound USSP.

Program Components

UE101 consists of many proven program strategies.  Below is a listing of the main program components:

Campus Programs

  • School Covenant Support Document
  • Relationship Assessment Surveys
  • Urban School Structure Plan (USSP)

Teacher Programs

  • General classroom management
  • Teacher-Student Mediation Program (TSMP)

Dean of Students programs

  • Primary Intervention Beyond the Classroom (PIBC)
  • Data Collection and Analysis Program
  • Teacher-Student Mediation Program (TSMP)
  • Student-Student Mediation Program (SSMP)
  • Parent Conference Program (PCP)
  • Campus SARA Team (Survey, Analysis, Response, Assessment) and PECS (Problem, Effect, Cause, Solution) Program
  • Campus (Staff) Liaison Program
  • Relationship-Building Workshop Program
  • Tutoring-Detention Program
  • Behavior/Consequence program
  • Identification-Security Collaborative

Sophists Academy programs

  • Core Course Collaborative (CCC)
  • Partner Program Collaboration
  • General Education Return Process
  • TSMP, SSMP, Alternative Placement Program
  • Suspension-Expulsion Program

District Suspension-Expulsion programs

  • District Suspension Protocol
  • Sophists Academy Return Process
  • District Expulsion Protocol

Alternative Placement programs

  • District Placement and Appeals Protocol
  • Alternative School Placement Liaison
  • Sophists Academy Return Protocol

Workshop / Training Agenda

A typical UE101 Program workshop consists of two (2) to four (4) days of training. Each workshop session will accommodate up to 50 participants.

Sample Workshop Agenda

Day 1: (9:00 AM – 3:30 PM)

  • Overview of the philosophy and statistical successes of the Urban Essentials 101 model
  • Overview and outline of the UE101 program’s components and implementations
  • Workshop and training on the building and implementation of the Teacher-Student Mediation Program (TSMP)
  • Workshop and training on the building and implementation of the Student-Student Mediation Program (SSMP)
  • Day 1 closing procedures (questions, comments, and clarifications)

Day 2: (9:00 AM-3:30 PM)

  • Student Essentials: building authentic relationships and supportive structures
  • Environmental Essentials: building a safe environment that is actually conducive to learning
  • Discipline Essentials: building consistent, supportive structures
  • Instructional Essentials: building inspirational assessment tools
  • Teacher Essentials: building inspirational leaders, authentic relationships, properly aligned resources, supportive structures, and quality instruction
  • Day 2 closing procedures (questions, comments, and clarifications)

Day 3: (9:00 AM-3:30 PM)

  • Program Components Review: what is the objective; who is needed to complete the objective; and how do we conduct ourselves while en route to the objective?
  • Component Building: campus programs, teacher programs, dean of students (or designee) programs, Sophists Academy (ISS) programs, district suspension-expulsion programs, alternative placement programs, district placement and appeals protocol, Sophists Academy (ISS) return protocol
  • Program Troubleshooting: program alignment, the Urban School Structure Plan, Teacher-Student Mediation Program (TSMP), Student-Student Mediation Program (SSMP), and others
  • Problem, Effect, Cause, Solution (PECS) and Survey, Analysis, Response, Assessment (SARA) Programs
  • Day 3 closing procedures (questions, comments, and clarifications)

Please contact Julius Lockett for information on pricing and availability for workshops and trainings