"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 help organizations meet their goals ...
Applied Academic Solutions helps you leverage authentic perspectives to implement practical solutions.
Applied Academic Solutions specializes in:
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Social Emotional Learning
- Academic Achievement / Gap Closure
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
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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.
Featured Initiatives & Projects
Bringing the Light & Wisdom Book Tour
Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage
Creating an Equitable High Quality 21st Century Public Education
Dr. Lathardus Goggins II, a passionate advocate for youth development, proudly announces the release of his latest publications: "Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage," "Africancentered Rites of Passage and Education: Culturally Responsive Social Emotional Learning" (2022), and "Facing the Rising Sun: Lessons for the Authentic Self" (2021). These groundbreaking works showcase Dr. Goggins' extensive expertise and commitment to fostering academic success and equity in education.
Creating an Equitable High Quality 21st Century Public Education
Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage
Creating an Equitable High Quality 21st Century Public Education
Join us for a lively and engaging community discussion on education in Akron! This in-person event will take place at House Three Thirty, located on West Market Street, Akron, OH, USA. Together, let's explore innovative ideas, share experiences, and brainstorm solutions to improve education in our community. Whether you're a parent, family member, educator, student, or passionate about education, your voice matters! Come and connect with individuals who are dedicated to making a positive transformative impact on our local education system. Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to the conversation and help shape the future of education in Akron!
Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage
Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage
African-centered Rites of Passage and Education: Cultural Responsive Social Emotional Learning
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.
African-centered Rites of Passage and Education: Cultural Responsive Social Emotional Learning
African-centered Rites of Passage and Education: Cultural Responsive Social Emotional Learning
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.
Facing the Rising Sun
African-centered Rites of Passage and Education: Cultural Responsive Social Emotional Learning
Facing the Rising Sun
Lessons for the Authentic Self is a card of 49 micro lessons teaching SEL core competencies and the Nguzo Saba.
The Black Child & SEL
African-centered Rites of Passage and Education: Cultural Responsive Social Emotional Learning
Facing the Rising Sun
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.
Teach the Truth
Effective Interactions with African American Males
Three Guidelines for Re-Imagining Education
Understanding the current “anti-anti racism” efforts
Three Guidelines for Re-Imagining Education
Effective Interactions with African American Males
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
Effective Interactions with African American Males
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."
Coalition for African-centered Rites of Passage
Coalition for African-centered Rites of Passage
Effective Interactions with African American Males
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.
Africana Cultural Resources
Coalition for African-centered Rites of Passage
Titles by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II
A comprehensive list of links to
Africana cultural resources
(websites, lesson plans, and videos).
Titles by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II
Coalition for African-centered Rites of Passage
Titles by Dr. Lathardus Goggins II
Links to books and articles by
Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.