Join us for our “DERS Coffees,” a regular, virtual convening for DERS users. Come talk about how the DERS can be used to create a community of practice around the items and indicators, share challenges and successes, and collaborate with other DERS users. NCMPS will share our strategies, resources, and more!
DERS coffees will be held monthly at 2pm ET on the following days via Zoom. Topics for each monthly convening are listed below the dates.
- February 20
- How does DERS inform classroom practice and program design at your school?
- March 19
- Coaching conversations with DERS – how do you encourage short and long term changes utilizing DERS data?
- April 23
- What do you do with your end of the year DERS data? How do you use it to prepare for next school year?
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About the Instructors
Katie Grabowski is a public Montessori graduate, educator, mentor, and parent and with over 15 years experience both in the classroom and supporting teachers in public Montessori programs in Milwaukee Public Schools. She holds an AMS Primary certification, a NAMTA Orientation to Adolescent Studies certificate, and a MAT. Katie and her husband have two children who attend a public Montessori school in Milwaukee.
Katie Brown holds a PhD in urban education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she studied outcomes for African American students in public Montessori schools. She is an adjunct faculty member at Whitworth University, where she teaches the Montessori Surround arc of graduate-level courses, and an affiliated researcher at the University of Kansas. She also serves on the Breakthrough Montessori PCS Board of Trustees, the Laura Holland Uzzell Foundation Board of Directors, and the American Montessori Society Research Committee. Katie has been working in Montessori since 2012, and with NCMPS since 2015. She also has the pleasure of being a Montessori parent. Katie lives in Cary, NC with her partner and two first-plane children.
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Cheyenne is a Seminole and Chilean woman, advocate for Indigenous people and a former Miss Indian World. She has utilized her platform as an ambassador to advocate for environmental protections of the Florida Everglades, overturn adverse stereotypes and stigmatizations of mental health in tribal communities, encourage healing through identity and self love, and combat the negative, stereotypical narrative of Native and Indigenous people through education.
Cheyenne also provides motivational speaking presentations, empowerment workshops, pageantry coaching, cultural and historical consulting, hosts and emcees, and presents on topics such as culture as prevention, identity, human trafficking, domestic violence, and much more. She strives for authenticity and to live a healthy life physically, mentally and spiritually through her culture and teachings. 
