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School Development

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Durango, CO

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October 19, 2012

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For Co-Curricular Education

Consulting Staff

Carol W. Hotchkiss,

Director and Co-Curricular Consultant to Schools

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Dan Morrissey, Residential Life and Safety

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Elizabeth Powell, Administrative Coaching and Spirituality

Doug Dickson, Residential Life and Administrative Coaching

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Robb Genetelli, Learning Specialist

Ellie Griffin, Student and Faculty Support

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Susan Hazell, Marketing and Leadership

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Jennifer Bryan, Gender and Sexuality Diversity

Burch Ford, Administrative Coach

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Marc Elliot, Diversity Issues

Annabel Smith, Global and Community Education

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Laura Danforth, Administrative Coaching and Student Leadership

Christine Oh Chapman, Multiculturalism

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Hans Mundahl, Techonology

Hans Vitae

Kate Collins, Health Issues

Brad Powell, Security and Marketing

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March 28 30, 2012 Human Development Curriculum

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August 8-11 Diversity, Privilege, and Multiculturalism

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October 3-6, 2012 Building A Residential Curriculum

Registration forms and schedule to be posted soon.

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Administrative and Program Coaching

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Residential and Program Evaluation and Strategic Planning

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Emergency and Crisis Response

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School and Program Surveys

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Publications

Building a Residential Curriculum (book)

R.S.S.I. Residential School Services Inventory (Download)

The School As Village: Helping Our Students Grow Up (Free Download)

R.A.D.D A Residential Inventory for Working with AD/HD Students (Download)

A Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century (Free Download)

Red Flags: Behavioral and Psychological Warning Signs (Download)

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Carol s Vitae

Carol W. Hotchkiss

Co-Curricular Consultant to Schools

Director, The Durango Institute for Co

-Curricular Education1718 Mariposa Drive

Durango, Colorado 81301

abo203@r.postjobfree.com

Demonstrated skills and competencies

Thirty-four years of teaching, administrative, and consulting experience in boarding schools in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, West Coast, South, and Northern Midwest as well as schools in Canada, India, and Great Britain.

Professional strategic planning and program development with a reputation for pragmatic idealism.

Fifteen years of experience with TABS as a faculty member, consultant, and supporter. Through TABS and other national and regional workshops, has worked with over 200 schools regarding their residential and student support programs. Good name recognition and connections with a diverse cross section of the boarding school community.

An articulate and visionary problem solver who brings energy, collaboration, and hard work to both marketing and program development.

Entrepreneur who has created and managed two successful school-related businesses establishing national reputations for excellence, responsive programming, professionalism, and networking the Durango Institute for Co-Curricular Education and The Human Development Institute.

Author of three books on school related issues (Building a Residential Curriculum, Quests and Quandaries, Personal Quests and Quandaries) plus contributions to a number of professional books and journals.

Experience, commitment, and connections in the areas of student support and the cultural, socioeconomic, gender, racial, and learning diversity of our schools.

Teaching Experience:

With Students: Human Development (includes adolescent issues, wellness, relationships, sexuality, drugs and addictions, ethics and personal responsibility), Ethics, English, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Social Psychology, Child Development, and selected courses in Women s Studies.

With Teachers: Residential life curriculum, new teacher orientation, intervention and emergency response procedures, community and group dynamics, student leadership, adolescent development, counseling issues, diversity and culture, sexual and physical harassment issues, learning differences and disabilities, and Human Development programs.

With School Heads and Boards: Strategic Planning, Focused Fund Raising, Retention and Faculty Development, Residential Curriculum Development and Marketing, Community Ethos and Responsibilities, Day/Boarding Concerns and Decisions, Creating a Healthy School/Parent Partnership, Emergency and Crisis Response Development.

As Boarding School Expert Witness: Physical Harassment and Bullying, Sexual Assault and Harassment, Diversity Issues, Student Support and Supervision Issues, Faculty Boundaries and Training.

Professional Employment

July 2001 to presentDurango Institute for Co-Curricular Education,Durango, Colorado Director and Co-Curricular Consultant to SchoolsProviding a forum of workshops and consultants that address significant personal, social and ethical programs and challenges confronting our schools and our students.

1996-presentT.A.B.S. (The Association of Boarding Schools)

Residential Life Workshop Faculty

Teaching Faculty for Residential Life workshops for administrators and residential faculty

June, 1989 to present1997-2001Human Development Institute. Carpinteria, California

Co-Director of national institute that trains secondary school teachers to create and strengthen Human Development and Ethics programs.

Coordinating a seven-year study on the role of women and girls in Independent Schools which involves twenty five secondary schools in the United States and Canada.

June, 2005- 2009GARDNER CARNEY LEADERSHIP LAB. Colorado Springs, Colorado

Visiting Faculty of national institute designed to equip teachers with strategies that will strengthen their connection to students, utilizing best practices from educational institutes and corporate leadership development programs.

Provides teachers with a personal framework to help them more deliberately promote, elicit, and recognize student leadership on a daily basis.

May 2006 to June 2009Conserve School, Land O Lakes, Wisconsin

Assistant Head of School for Student Life

Responsible for all student life programs and personnel, including:

Dorm maintenance, security, staffing, and supervision

School-wide emergency response and crisis intervention

Student activities, discipline, health and counseling

Training and supervision of a support and residential staff of 35

Student handbook and discipline

Parent communication

Residential policy and program development

July 1998 to 2001Saint Mary s School for Girls, Raleigh, North CarolinaAssistant Head, Dean of Residential and Student LifeResponsible for development and direction of full residential life program including:

Dorm maintenance, security, staffing and supervision

School-wide emergency response and crisis intervention

Student activities, discipline, health and counseling

Training and supervision of a support and residential staff of 18

Student handbook and discipline

Parent communication

Residential policy and program development.

September, 1984 to 1997Cate School.Carpinteria, CaliforniaDirector of Student Services in a secondary boarding school providing educational and personal counseling resources for students and faculty.

Initiated and coordinated a nationally acclaimed four year Human Development program focusing on social, physical and ethical developmental issues.

Taught Human Development, Leadership Training, and Moral Issues

Head of Human Development department

Head of Student Services Committee; coordinated sexual harassment and abuse policies

Advisor to the Cultural Awareness Committee

Active member of curriculum and residential life committees

Faculty Representative to the Board of TrusteesSeptember, 1973to June, 1980Millbrook School. Millbrook, New YorkTeacher, dorm master, assistant dean and counselor in secondary boarding school. Developed school counseling program and assisted with coeducation and residential life program. Taught Child Development and Exploring Human Nature, an anthropology/ psychology/sociology social science requirement course. Head of first girls dormitory.

September, 1980to June, 1984Peddie School. Heightstown, New JerseyDirector of Counseling Services in 8-12 day/boarding secondary school. Developed counseling program and implemented a Peer Leadership program for peer education and support. Taught English and Women s Studies. Head of Dormitory.

Prior to 1970Teacher, Counselor And Residential Supervisor working with At-Risk and Adjudicated youth, ages 3 18, with Cuyahoga County Child Welfare Children s Receiving Home (Cleveland), Alexander Dawson Foundation (Colorado), Denver Children s Home (Colorado), Denver Juvenile Court Halfway House (Colorado), Morrison School for Girls (Colorado), and Hope Farm School (New York

)

1965-1966 Vista volunteer Trained in Baltimore, Maryland in the third VISTA training group, assigned to Cuyahoga County Child Welfare and Children s Receiving Home. My experience here led to my interest and training in sociology, service learning, and social change.

Education

1980-19841984-1988 Post Graduate work at Columbia University, New York University and University of California at Santa Barbara: learning disabilities, counseling psychology, chemical dependency, family systems, crisis intervention, eating disorders and values education.1976-78 State University of New York, MA in Psychology with an emphasis on adolescence and group dynamics.

1966-1969 University of Colorado, BA in Sociology and American LiteraturePublications

2005 PUTTING HUMANITY FIRST: A Curriculum for the 21st Century. Article for Independent School Magazine outlining the personal, social, community, and ethical responsibilities of schools in the 21st century.

2003 Personal Quests and Quandaries: Self-Portraits and Stories. A collection of stories of adolescence today addressing issues of identity, health, drugs, relationships, and sexuality.

2002 Building A Residential Curriculum. Workbook and faculty guide for all aspects of establishing and maintaining a strong and healthy residential school community.

1993 Quests and Quandaries: A Workbook in Human Development. Textbook for secondary school courses in physical, social and ethical development. Now in 2nd Edition.

Quests and Quandaries: Curriculum Guide. Teacher s guide to establishing and running a human development program using the Quests and Quandaries textbook.

1994 A Step Ahead. Chapter on rationale and procedures for establishing a Human Development and Peer Teaching Assistant Program.

1992 Healthy Choices, Healthy Schools. Chapter on Creating Healthy School Communities.

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

Durango Institute for Co-Curricular Education

2001- 2005 Building a Residential Curriculum

2003 Counseling and Student Services in the Boarding School

2004 Educating Character and Community Through Service

Teaching with Quests and Quandaries

Human Development Institute

1990 Human Development Curriculum

1991 Adolescent Sexuality and Relationships

1992 Educating About Drugs and Addictions

1993 Beyond Self Esteem: Character, Ethics, and Social Responsibility

1994 Healthy Relationships in School Communities

1995 Adolescent Relationships and Sexuality

1996 Addictive Behaviors: Education and Intervention

1997 Educating for Character and Community

1998 Adolescence 2000: Students, Families, and Schools

1999 The Changing Landscape of Adolescent Sexuality and Relationships

2000 Addictive and Obsessive Behavior

2001 Ethics and Leadership in Human Development Education

2002 Addressing the Challenges and Risks of Adolescent Sexuality

2003 Resetting the Moral Compass in the Aftermath of 9/11

2004 Teaching Strategies of Resilience and Hope

2005 Boundaries, Education, and Skills: Responding to Addictive Behavior

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)

1989 Addressing the Third Curriculum

1991 Creating Safe and Healthy School Communities

1992 Affective Education: A Four Year Curriculum

1998 Marketing and Management Creating Communication

2001 The Independent School Gender Project

The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS)

1998, 1999 Crisis Management and Security

2000, 2001 Attention Deficit Disorder in the Dorm

2002 Changing Times, Changing Leadership

2000 Emergency Response Protocal

2003 Educating the Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander

2005 The Cost of a Free Ride: Understanding Privilege, Entitlement, and Despair

Summer and Midwinter Workshops:

The Residential Classroom

Discipline and Structure in the Dorm

Counseling Issues in the Dorm

Coping with Crisis in the Dorm

Student Services and Special Needs

Talking So Kids Will Listen; Listening So Kids Will Talk

After Hours: The Student Underground

ADD in the Dorm

Student Leadership

Confidentiality and Communication

Bullying and Harassment: The Dark Side of Residential Life

Now What? Communication and Change

Taking Care of the Caretaker

Peterson Residential Life Workshops

1993 1995 Residential School Issues.

Independent School Health Association (ISHA)

1995 The School as Village- Helping Our Students Grow Up

1998 Mentoring Our Students: Boys and Girls

Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario (CIS)

2001 The Residential Classroom

Structure and Discipline in the Dorm

Hello? Can Anybody Hear Me?

Sex, Drugs, Depression, and Children

What Did I Do? ADD in the Dorm

Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA)

2000 Marketing Your Residential Life Program

Coalition of Residential Education (CORE)

2002 Taking Care of the Caretakers

California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS)

1987-1993 Trainer for the CAIS Beginning Teacher Institute

1990 Teaching The Ethics Of Human Development.

1991 Developing Effective Counseling Resources

1992 A Four Year Human Development Curriculum

1993 Listening to All of Our Voices: Diversity in Private Schools

North Carolina Association of Boarding Schools (NCAIS)

1999 Maintaining Your Sense of Humor Under Fire

North Carolina Community of Concern

2000 Developed a statewide chapter of parents, students, and schools to address adolescent use of alcohol and other drugs

2001 Parents, Students, Schools, and Community: Making a Difference

Coordinated a statewide student, parent, and school conference

Inservice, Program Evaluation, and Strategic Planning

American Hebrew Academy, Cheshire Academy, Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Cranbrook School, Conserve School, Dana Hall School, Emma Willard School, Ethel Walker School, Gould Academy, Governor Dummer School, Hawaii Preparatory Academy, The Hill School, The Hotchkiss School, Kamehameha School, The Knox School, Lawrenceville School, Mid-Pacific Academy, Missouri Military Academy, Newark Academy, Orme School, Oregon Episcopal School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Polytechnic School, Portsmouth Abbey School, Purnell School, Rabun Gap Nacoochee School, Sacramento Country Day School, St. Margaret s School, St. Mary s Hall, San Domenico School, Shawnigan Lake School, Subiaco Academy, The Masters School, Upper Canada College, Verde Valley School, Vermont Academy, Wilbraham and Munson Academy, Woodside Priory School, Woodstock School

RELATED ACTIVITIES

1995- presentCo-Organizer for the Independent School Gender Project

A research project and workshop related to the experience of women and girls in contemporary independent schools.

2001 present Four Corners Safe Schools Coalition Administrative Committee

A coalition of diverse community members who work collaboratively to support school efforts to ensure a safe, equitable, and inclusive environment for all students

2003 present Volunteer mediator for the La Plata County Braid River Peace Project

A La Plata County court and community referral citizens mediation project.

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