Millennium Charter Academy - All Kinds of Minds

"The Schools Attuned Program is a professional development and service delivery program that helps educators acquire the knowledge and skills, and offers a system of innovative tools, to meet the diverse learning needs of K-12 students.

The objective is to assist educators in using neurodevelopmental content in their classrooms to create success at learning and provide hope and satisfaction for all struggling students.

The Schools Attuned Program offers educators new methods for recognizing, understanding, and managing students with differences in learning and to help all of the students in their class succeed.

The purpose of the Schools Attuned Program is to equip teams of educators with new knowledge, skills, and strategies so that sound, defensible professional judgments can be made about

instructional practices with struggling learners. The Schools Attuned Program embraces the philosophy and principles of All Kinds of Minds, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the understanding of differences in learning.

The Schools Attuned Program is a comprehensive yearlong professional development program for K-12 education. The Program reflects the most current, research-based principles of professional development that changes teaching practice and has a positive impact on student outcomes. Participants register for one of two “paths,” Generalist or Subject Specialist. The different paths are designed to address the areas of interest and expertise of educators and other
related service professionals based on the grade levels and/or subject areas they teach. Both paths share the key features of the Schools Attuned Program: pre-course work, a core instructional course of a minimum of 35 hours, and a minimum of 10 hours of follow-up experiences. The curriculum is based on focused study (content) and school based application (process) of eight neurodevelopmental constructs that affect learning.

The Schools Attuned Program was designed using principles that reflect standards of professional development from the National Staff Development Council and current research on adult learning. The program was guided by the need to develop content and instructional techniques that build upon educators' wisdom of professional practice, ensure that educators are actively engaged in learning new content, develop capacity for reflection, and provide for classroom-centered follow-up for at least a year after participation in the Schools Attuned Core Course."

Taken from: www.allkindsofminds.org. Please visit this site for more in-depth information regarding All Kinds of Minds and The Schools Attuned Program.