CCSE tailors its programs to the needs of each client. By identifying needs and developing action plans for each client organization, targeted professional development can occur through the following channels:

Site-based Professional Development Services

CCSE provides professional development training on-site for schools, dioceses, and religious congregations around the world. CCSE will design half-day, full-day, multiple day, and longer-term series of workshops and other professional development programs to meet client needs at the client’s school, a cluster of schools, or in councils. To discuss possibilities, contact us.

Consulting Services

CCSE provides consulting services for schools, dioceses, and religious congregations around the world in the target areas.  To discuss possibilities, contact us.

POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR SITE-BASED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONSULTING SERVICES

• Curriculum Design
• Curriculum Auditing
• Differentiated Instruction
• Response to Intervention (RtI)
• Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
• Methodology
• Reading
• Elementary math, science, religion, social studies, and science
• Professional Learning Communities
• Safety in Schools: bullying and crisis management
• Data-driven decision making
• Assessment
• Research-based instructional strategies
• 21st century skills including critical thinking, use of technoligy, collaboration, cooperation and inquiry

Conferences

CCSE sponsors conferences solely and in partnership with other professional organizations like NCEA to expand the knowledge base/skills of Catholic educators and to challenge Catholic schools to program for the future. By exposing Catholic school learning leaders to the cutting edge of educational practice in the target areas, a proactive agenda for the future for Catholic schools can be set.

Current sponsored conferences include the Instructional Leadership Conference in November, co-sponsored by CCSE and by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) Secondary Schools Department and the Chief Administrators of Catholic Education (CACE). CCSE also sponsors an annual conference for Secondary Instructional Leaders in July, working with department chairs and other curriculum leaders at the high-school level. For more information, click on Conferences. 

Catholic Educator Cohort

With CCSE’s leadership, Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education has partnered with the Archdiocese of Chicago to offer Catholic Educator cohorts.

• the MEd in Instructional Leadership is finishing its third cohort December 2011. The current program prepares candidates for K-12 administration certification.
• The first MEd in Reading began in January 2011 and will finish in May 2013. This program prepares teachers for K-12 reading specialist certification.
• The first EdD in Curriculum and Instruction began in August 2010. This program leads current principals and teachers to be better instructional leaders in their schools. Coursework for this cohort will finish in 2014, and then the candidates will work in groups to complete a capstone project on a topic specifically related to the schools of the Archdiocese.

The goal for all three of these programs is to prepare and encourage leadership in the school of the Archdiocese.