BEST Summer Institute

Killington Grand Resort
16 strands addressing themes of Bullying & Harassment Prevention, including: A World of Difference, Supportive Classroom, Peer Mediation, Making Peace, etc.

A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Train-the-Trainers Institute

Montpelier tba
This training-of-trainers prepares up to 30 adult educators to conduct Anti-Bias workshops for adults, implement the AWOD Peer Training Program to prepare students to teach other students, and teach educators to use the AWOD K-12 curriculum.

Tech Savvy Girls Leadership Institute

University of Vermont, Burlington
Leadership Institute for High School Girls (residential); and Professional Development for Educators

Tech Savvy Girls Middle School Camp

Newport and other locations tba -- www.techsavvygirls.com

UVM Building Just & Caring Schools

University of Vermont, Burlington
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmcwe/smrinst.html or gabbie004@aol.com

Vermont Leadership Academy

Killington Grand Resort
www.vermontinstitutes.org/leadership - featuring Jonathon Kozol, author of “Savage Inequalities” and other educational leaders

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach

Montpelier
http://www.vermontinstitutes.org/conferences/equity/vella04.htm

Taller Ants Summer Institute on Tolerance

Castleton – www.tallerants.com
This weekend institute helps student and adult participants understand tolerance and its connection to cognitive learning. Participants develop skills and create action plans to take back to their schools.

“Preventing & Responding to Harassment in Schools”

Southern & Northern sites--Check back here for upcoming information.
Training to assist educators in recognizing and responding to harassment incidents in schools.

Rosie’s Girls® Training Institute: A Four-Day Experiential Retreat, July 11-14, 2004

For the second year, teams of individuals from organizations and/or communities interested in running the Rosie’s Girls® Summer Program are invited to apply to attend the Rosie’s Girls® Training Institute, held near Burlington, Vermont, in July 2004. The Rosie’s Girls® Training Institute is a four-day experiential training retreat intended to give its participants the tools needed to pilot the Rosie’s Girls® Summer Program – a three-week girls’ trades exploration day camp - in their communities in the summer of 2005.

Created through a collaboration between Northern New England Tradeswomen, Inc. and Strong Foundations, Inc. and piloted first in Vermont, Rosie's Girls® Summer Program is a three-week summer trades day camp designed to help middle school-aged girls (entering grades 6-8) develop a broader sense of themselves and their capabilities, learn independence and self-reliance, expand math and science skills through concrete applications, and consider careers in nontraditional fields.

For more information about Rosie’s Girls and about the 2004 Institute, visit http://www.nnetw.org/rgti2004.htm.