For Co-Curricular Education
October 3-6, 2012 Building A Residential Curriculum
Our Popular Annual Workshop
Are you ready to get serious about your residential curriculum?
The Durango Institute offers you four days away from the daily demands of school life to develop a comprehensive residential life mission statement and come up with a realistic strategic plan that will help you accomplish your objectives.
Residential planning, whether beginning or enhancing a formal residential curriculum, is a pervasive and important reality for boarding schools today. This four-day workshop is designed for Student and Residential Deans and residential faculty who are charged with developing and evaluating their residential curriculum. Each participant will receive individualized attention working directly with their own school materials, complimented by group discussion and interaction on contemporary and structural residential life issues.
You will leave this workshop with a focused Residential Life Mission and a clear outline for programs and implementation. In order to get to take full advantage of this time, it is strongly recommended that each school send a team of two or more. A special rate is available to help make this possible.
Topics covered during this workshop include:
The Residential Mission
What are your trying to teach and how can you teach it more effectively?
Community and Connections
How do we create and maintain a residential community that teaches?
Collecting Your Curriculum
Where are all the pieces and how do you put them together?
Implementation and Evaluation
Once you have articulated your residential curriculum, how do you make it work?
This workshop will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Durango, Colorado. Sessions will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon October 3 Sessions will end at 5:00 pm on Saturday, October 6. Participants can fly directly into Durango La Plata Airport on United, Frontier, American and US Air Airlines. Transportation will be provided to the hotel. Dress for the conference will be informal and comfortable. Participants will be housed in a single room; breakfast and lunch will be provided during the workshop.
Hi Carol,
We met last year at TABS. I work with Brian Easler at WMA and was a student of Sandy Tattersall’s at Peddie.
I was wondering if the Sept workshop is going to be in the New England area or CO. I’m about to give birth and would love to come to the Sept workshop, but if it is in CO, then I think it would be best for me to wait until April.
Please advise.
Many thanks and happy 4th of July!
Tiffany