"Applying authentic experiences to create practical solutions."
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.
"Applying authentic experiences to create practical solutions."
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.
We support organizations and individuals to find solutions.
Applied Academic Solutions facilitates the leveraging of authentic perspectives to implement practical solutions.
Specializing in:
- Academic Achievement / Gap Closure
- Creating Meaningful Authentic Learning Experiences
- Healing-centered/Trauma-Informed Engagement
- Social Emotional Learning
- Equity and Belonging
Services
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:
- Defining Social Emotional Learning and Best SEL Practices
- "Gaining the Permission to Push": Using Cultural Responsive SEL to Support Rigor
- Connection, Belonging, and Cultural Responsiveness
- Equity, Identity & Achievement
- "There is no mystery ... We Know What Works" - Using Dr. A. Hilliard's Framework.
- Restorative Practice
- Effective PBIS
- Trauma-Informed / Healing-centered Practices
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.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integration - Applied Academic Solutions offers AI Integration Training designed to empower educators with the tools and strategies to seamlessly incorporate artificial intelligence into their teaching. Our training focuses on fostering critical thinking, creativity, and meaningful learning experiences, ensuring students are prepared for the future.
Professional Learnings & Workshops Series
Harness the Power of AI in Your Classroom
Gaining the Permission to Push: Creating the Conditions for Academic Rigor
Gaining the Permission to Push: Creating the Conditions for Academic Rigor
Gaining the Permission to Push: Creating the Conditions for Academic Rigor
Gaining the Permission to Push: Creating the Conditions for Academic Rigor
Gaining the Permission to Push: Creating the Conditions for Academic Rigor
Humane Teaching Strategies
Gaining the Permission to Push: Creating the Conditions for Academic Rigor
Connecting SEL, Restorative Practices, Trauma-informed, and PBIS
We Know What Works...
Bringing the Light into a New Day
Featured Initiatives & Projects
Titles by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II
Links to books and articles by
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.
Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage
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
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.
Facing the Rising Sun
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: Cultural Responsive Social Emotional Learning
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.
Coalition for African-centered Rites of Passage
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 Black Child & SEL
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.
Three Guidelines for Re-Imagining Education
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.
Effective Interactions with African American Males
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."
Creating an Equitable High Quality 21st Century Public Education
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.
Africana Cultural Resources
A comprehensive list of links to
Africana cultural resources
(websites, lesson plans, and videos).