In November, ATC teacher development manager Nneka Love (ATC ’19) and alumna Ava Hollins-Rogers (ATC ’20) traveled to Henderson, North Carolina as part of the...
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ATC Staff Attend National Rural Ed Conference
ATC staff traveled to Savannah, GA at the end of October to attend the National Forum to Advance Rural Education. ATC executive director Brandon Lucius...

More Coaches Complete 5-Day Jim Knight Training
In October, new ATC teacher development managers Kandace McDonald (ATC ’17), Nneka Love (ATC ’19), and Freda Calloway (ATC ’20) travelled to Lawrence, KS to...

ATC Staff Participate In DESE Inclusive Ed Training
ATC staff attended days 1-2 of DESE’s Inclusive Education/ Meaningful Access for Students with Disabilities Support Specialist Training of Trainers at the Arch Ford coop...

ATC Coach, Alum Explore Rural School Leadership
ATC teacher development manager Nneka Love (ATC ’19) and alumna Ava Hollins-Rogers (ATC ’20) traveled to New Mexico on July 15-19 as part of the...

ATC Recruiter, Fellow Attend ESOL Institute
ATC recruiter Whitney Carter and 2023 ATC fellow Keeva Green attended the first half of the Southwest ESOL Institute in Arkadelphia on July 15-20, an...

Another ATC Coach Completes Jim Knight Intensive
ATC teacher development manager (and 2015 ATC alum) Kayla Bryant Robertson attended The Instructional Coaching Group’s 5-day Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute with Jim Knight in...

ATC Coaching Team Attends Jim Knight Institute
ATC’s teacher development team traveled to Lawrence, KS in January to attend the five-day Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute with Jim Knight to continue sharpening their...

ATC Kicks Off 2023-24 Year With 1st Saturday PD
On Saturday, August 26, ATC fellows and staff met at Chicot Elementary in Little Rock for the first All Corps PD of the 2023-24 year. Fellows learned transformational teaching strategies, collaborated with each other to generate solutions to current problems they’re experiencing in their classrooms, and split into eight content-specific groups to develop knowledge and skills relevant to their content area, such as incorporating art into ELA, creating inquiry-based unit plans in science, understanding differences in the new math standards, and using differentiated reading strategies to improve literacy in the elementary classroom.
ATC Staff, Fellows Attend Education Innovation Rally
On September 26-27, Arkansas Teacher Corps staff and fellows attended the 2022 Education Innovation Rally in Hot Springs, AR hosted by the U of A’s Office of Innovation for Education. ATC executive director Brandon Lucius and ATC director of institute Matthew Caston led breakout sessions on teacher retention and team leadership respectively. ATC teacher coach Kendra Ide, recruiter Whitney Carter, summer equity co-facilitator Dasnee McChristian, and fellows Ava Hollins-Rogers (ATC ’20) and Tyler Lewis (ATC ’20) were also in attendance.
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