"Applying authentic experiences to create practical solutions."
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.
"Applying authentic experiences to create practical solutions."
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.
... is a private consulting, research, and evaluation practice that assists various organizations, public sector clients, and communities, including students, parents, schools, and nonprofits.
Mission Statement:
Applied Academic Solution's mission is to support our clients in better comprehending and achieving their objectives, measuring and recording their achievements, and communicating their outcomes. Applied Academic Solutions offers professional development and coaching to teachers, leadership training for school administrators, and curriculum development and program evaluation services to create and execute successful programs.
Vision Statement:
To be the foremost partner in educational excellence, fostering transformative growth for educators, administrators, and institutions worldwide. Our vision is to empower every client with the tools, insights, and strategies necessary to achieve unparalleled success and to create lasting, positive impacts on their communities. Through innovative professional development, cutting-edge leadership training, and comprehensive program evaluation, Applied Academic Solutions aspires to set the standard for academic and organizational achievement, advocating for meaningful authentic learning experiences and equity in education.
Applied Academic Solutions facilitates the leveraging of authentic perspectives to implement practical solutions.
Applied Academic Solutions specializes in:
Applied Academic Solutions provides:
Strategic Planning – Applied Academic Solutions offers a complimentary one-hour consultation to review and discuss your vision, mission, immediate goals and objectives, and professional learning needs. After this initial consultation, The Principal Consultant will follow up with you to recommend appropriate services. Additional hours can be scheduled as needed to create a practical solution for growth/success. As part of the Strategic Planning Process, Applied Academic Solutions will use a design thinking process and common ground framework to facilitate your stakeholder team to define the plan's parameters clearly.
Professional Development / Learning Communities – Applied Academic Solutions offers services, including evaluating programs, providing professional development, and facilitating ongoing learning communities. We use adult learning methods for virtual and in-person training to create highly interactive and engaging learning.
Most Requested Topics & Specialities:
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Assessment & Measurement – Applied Academic Solutions provides assessment and program evaluation using quantitative and qualitative data and methodologies. Applied Academic Solutions will gather, analyze, highlight, and organize data to document outcomes and make recommendations aligned with your vision, mission, and objectives.
Implementation Support – Applied Academic Solutions can help you build change management processes, including a Theory of Change and Action. We specialize in using evidence-based approaches. We will help you create buy-in, understand and overcome resistance, adapt changes, and foster engagement around your strategic plan and new initiative. We offer 3, 6, and 12-month follow-ups to provide advice & coaching to implement your plan.
Dr. Lathardus Goggins II has more than 30 years of experience in education, boasting a wide range of expertise. He has taught math and science at an inner-city middle school, catering to "at-risk" students, and has successfully improved their performance from basic to advanced levels on state standardized tests. Dr. Goggins has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses through traditional and online approaches. His responsibilities have included managing admissions, academic advising, community outreach, directing an Upward Bound program, student activities, programming, campus climate assessment, and setting campus policy on diversity and civility. Furthermore, Dr. Goggins has served as a district administrator for two networks of around 32 schools, where he supported leadership, teachers, and support staff in implementing Trauma-informed Approaches, Restorative Practices, and Social Emotional Learning strategies.
Dr. Goggins' areas of specialization are Culturally Responsive Teaching, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), and Restorative strategies, focusing on using identity development to foster academic success. As an education leader, he is deeply committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Dr. Goggins is a trauma-informed and healing-centered practitioner with a proven track record of resolving conflicts, assessing school climates, and developing and implementing services, programs, and policies. He also believes in cultivating collaborative relationships with the community to promote belonging and achievement.
I am a member of several professional and civic organizations. Each year, I participate and present at various webinars and conferences to stay updated with the best practices in education. I have been a professional educator for more than 33 years.
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I received my bachelor's degree in geography, my master's degree in cultural foundations in education, and my doctorate in educational foundations and leadership. My passion, advocacy, and scholarship are focused on the impact of identity development on academic achievement, particularly using African-centered rites of passage to facilitate academic achievement with African American students.
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Links to books and articles by
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.
Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage provides a thorough discussion on the principles and components of African-centered rites of passage (rites). It should be noted that this is not a "how to" book, but a book meant to help the reader to know "how to - how to." It is a guide to understanding "family-based community-linked" African-centered rites of passage. The title, "Bringing the light into a new day," is a metaphor that refers to all the familiar quotes and statements about light and the coming of the dawn, where light is a metaphor for opportunity, hope and wisdom.
Bringing the Light into a New Day: The Workbook is an essential guide for parents, educators, and community leaders seeking to nurture and celebrate the growth and development of youth through African-centered rites of passage. This workbook provides a step-by-step framework to help families create a meaningful and transformative rites of passage process, deeply rooted in African cultural heritage and designed to strengthen individual identity and communal bonds.
Lessons for the Authentic Self is a card of 49 micro lessons teaching SEL core competencies and the Nguzo Saba.
African-centered Rites of Passage and Education: Culturally Responsive Social Emotional Learning is the 25th-year edition update of the original 1996 publication - exploring the connection between education and the rites of passage process. It examines the philosophical foundations that frame each concept, identifying expected outcomes and understanding the intersections between the "rites" and education.
The CACRoP is a growing community of practitioners, facilitators, scholars, parents, and activists committed to the advocation, study, development, and practice of an African-centered rites of passage process. The coalition is open to anyone who advocates for African-centered rites of passage as the fundamental process by which an authentic African sense of self is developed.
The foundation for learning and engaging students, parents, educators, and the community is SEL. While many districts have committed to addressing SEL development of its students, all too often the practice of SEL has devolved into “fixing” children (particularly black and brown students). The Black Child & SEL explicitly addresses the five SEL core competencies as levers for fostering equitable environments in support of all students.
As district leaders and educators have been force to "at least" rethink education delivery, there is the opportunity to re-imagine education itself. In 2020, we have an opportunity to create an education system that: (1) values the human being; (2) is committed to the development of the human being; and (3) engages the full potential of the human being.
Links to resources used for the course.... "this seminar will critically examine the social and emotional effects of racism on the academic, occupational, cultural and relational well being of African-American males."
The two-day dialogue focused on the future of public education in Akron, Ohio, held on September 29 and 30, 2023. The CDoEd was a collaborative effort led by the NAACP Akron and co-sponsored by Freedom BLOC in partnership with local educational institutions, community organizations, and advocacy groups. The CDoEd aimed to engage stakeholders in meaningful conversations about the role, direction, and expected outcomes of education in the community, with special emphasis on identifying the key issues and strategies for creating high-quality public education in Akron.
A comprehensive list of links to
Africana cultural resources
(websites, lesson plans, and videos).
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