Metro Learning Communities (MLC), a specialized professional development project of NYU’s Metro Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools, has released the dates for their fall 2022 Facilitative Leadership Seminar. This innovative professional development series is designed to improve quality instruction and academic achievement for all students through deep and collaborative teacher learning. MLC will resume this fall, on October 13th, 2022.

MLC’s seminars are open to a range of educational professionals including Pre-K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, and academic coaches, in addition to a wide range of school leaders and administrators. Metro Learning Communities provide seminar participants with the opportunity to engage in a wide range of data-informed and transformative teaching protocols and processes, including ATLAS, Issaquah, Looking at Data, Diversity Rounds, as well as the Collaborative Assessment, to enhance the quality of their own academic learning environments. The processes shared during MLC’s Facilitative Leadership Seminar have proven integral to workshop participants’ abilities to support the students in their respective classrooms as readers, writers, critical thinkers, and collaborators. This MLC’s seminar instructs attendees on how to improve their facilitation skills, as well as explore assumptions about equity, race, and gender through the moderation of equitable practices. 

Metro Learning Communities has an extensive history of partnering with educational institutions to champion the development of equitable schools, including the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), NYU Partnership Schools, and New Visions for Public Schools, in addition to The Center of Educational Innovation (CEI), and The School Reform Initiative (SRI).