Join us in Santa Barbara for a comprehensive two-
day workshop on the Career Choices curriculum

You'll explore new frontiers in education, gain insights, exchange ideas, evaluate approaches, and learn how to develop plans and create the kind of models that will work best for the students in your school.

Click here for a printable flyer providing additional details about this exciting professional development opportunity.

Academic Innovations sponsors two-day Focus on the Future workshops three-to-four times per year in our hometown of Santa Barbara, California. While the training revolves around the Career Choices curriculum, you will also have an opportunity to focus on cooperative learning techniques, team teaching strategies, curriculum integration models, and career and life planning methods. This highly acclaimed workshop is popular with teachers and administrators alike.

Learn how to:
      Engage students in motivational, relevant academics
      Integrate career and life planning into core academic subjects (English/language
          arts, math, social studies) using the Career Choices curriculum
      Improve reading, writing, and math by teaching skills in real-world context
      Replicate the curriculum or incorporate the concepts into existing curricula
      Ignite students' interest through new strategies, resources, activities, and ideas
      Use the Internet to enhance your Career Choices course
      Infuse technology into your academic classroom using the optional online correction
          tool for Lifestyle Math
      Motivate students and help them see the impact their high school education has on
          their future life satisfaction
      Create a willing, motivated, and confident faculty as you implement educational
          change
      Tap into special funding opportunities
      Build interdisciplinary or academic teams that work
      Set up Freshman Academies, Smaller Learning Communities, or Tech Prep/School-
          To-Work programs in your school

Who Should Attend?
      Freshman academy teachers and planners
      Educators implementing Smaller Learning Communities
      Teaching teams already using Career Choices
      Teachers responsible for integrating career/technical studies with academics
      Academic teams looking for a proven interdisciplinary curriculum
      At-risk program coordinators and teachers
      Counselors and Tech Prep coordinators Administrators charged with dropout
          prevention
      Family and Consumer Sciences, Business, and Career Orientation teachers
      English teachers looking for innovative literature-based curricula

The workshops are held at the lovely Pepper Tree Inn, a great place to learn and to regenerate your enthusiasm for teaching. Each noon you'll lunch with educators from all over the United States. In addition to the workshop experience, our participants have an opportunity to enjoy the weather, scenery, shopping, dining, and cultural life of Santa Barbara. Many, in fact, elect to stay a few extra days to relax and reflect on their workshop experience.

Flight, Transportation and Hotel Details
Santa Barbara's major airport has direct service from most points in the United States, so getting here is easy!