In-Person Training
The training is a 6-hour session with a max of 8 participants. This cap allows the trainer to maintain the integrity of feedback opportunities with individuals.
During this training, teachers will be trained on best practices for implementation through demonstrations, examples, and interactive dialogue. They will create ready-to-use teacher samples. With personal feedback available, teachers will create a unique plan for their course layout.
This training does require additional travel costs when outside 50 miles of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A certificate for professional development is awarded at the end of each training.
Contact Kathleen King for in-person training fees and on-site scheduling.
Virtual Training
Virtual Training consists of TWO 2 hour training sessions with a maximum of 5 participants through a virtual meeting web host. (Totaling 4 hours)
During each session, teachers will be trained on best practice for implementation through demonstrations, examples, and interactive dialogue.
Through trainer-led discussions, teachers will develop a deeper sense of connection to the explorations.
With personal feedback available, teachers will create a unique plan for their course layout.
Contact Kathleen King for virtual training fees and scheduling.
About
Kathleen King is a master educator and curriculum author who teaches both students and teachers the value of investing in the social-emotional skills of high school freshmen. She studied Special Education at both the University of Alabama and the University at West Alabama receiving her master’s degree in 2008. In 2005, she began her teaching career at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and taught in the classroom until 2013. During her career at Hillcrest, she was asked to start a general education elective course called “Freshman Seminar.” The purpose of the course was to make the transition to high school easier for freshmen students. The material provided wasn’t working for her and wasn’t engaging her students. This challenge inspired her to pursue her own curriculum. While building rapport with her students through creative teaching, she surveyed students each year gaining a better understanding of what they needed in order to be successful. These surveys provided her focus for research, and a way to further develop her curriculum to benefit both students, and other teachers. The feedback from students also provided the heart and foundation of the program, which King describes as “Person-First, Student-Second.”
In Spring of 2013, after her husband’s career move to Tennessee, she decided to stay home and raise her three young children. As a stay-at-home mom, she continued to research and write, revitalizing the curriculum into what it is today. Kathleen, her husband, Jonathan, and their three children moved back to Tuscaloosa in the Spring of 2017. She now continues to pursue opportunities to equip teachers with The Journey curriculum, in order that they might connect with students in the same way she has.