Workshops

Workshops run for about six and a half hours. They are intended for teachers, administrators, and instructional coaches K-12 and across all disciplines. There can be up to 150 attendees, provided the presentation space can accommodate all participants with extra space for movement.

Empowering Teachers

Energizing Classrooms

Creating Student Success

Empowering Teachers Energizing Classrooms Creating Student Success

Differentiated Instruction

Practical and Realistic Strategies to Use With The Whole Class

This seminar is designed to provide highly practical and ready-to-use strategies and activities to secondary educators who want to create a successful learning environment for all students through differentiation of instruction. The focus will be on using these differentiated teaching strategies in whole group settings while keeping prep time to a minimum.

Workshop Includes:

  • Ways to incorporate advanced techniques of differentiated instruction into various disciplines

  • How to implement personalized instruction in whole class scenarios

  • A valuable resource handbook filled with ready-to-use materials and activities

  • Can be tailored to meet the objectives of schools that are considering, , initiating a Block Schedule, or are in need of refreshing instructional practices that enhance learning in an extended period

Brainstreaming™

Ensuring Student Success Through Active Engagement in Learning

This workshop engages teachers from all disciplines in the use of effective student-centered active-learning strategies designed to increase classroom participation, develop essential problem-solving skills, and promote creativity. 

Workshop includes:

  • Interactive activities that allow teachers to participate in the collaboration, innovation, and higher-ordering thinking that forms the basis of powerful classroom learning experiences

  • A valuable resource handbook filled with ready-to-use materials and activities

  • Repertoire of dynamic instructional strategies that are easily incorporated into your existing curriculum

  • Can be tailored to meet the objectives of schools that are considering, , initiating a Block Schedule, or are in need of refreshing instructional practices that enhance learning in an extended period

Indelible Instruction

Powerful Instructional Strategies for a Cognitively Diverse Classroom

This workshop provides a framework for instructional excellence that links brain-based research on teaching and learning to powerful, innovative, classroom-tested instructional practices. The result is a creative and inspiring approach to classroom teaching that provides educators with highly effective tools for addressing their most significant instructional goals: accelerate learning for all students and increase motivation and success. 

Workshop includes:

  • practical, hands-on techniques that help to close traditional achievement gaps.

  • strategies for capturing and holding the attention of even your most reluctant students

  • Specifically, strategies for varying instruction, teaching for understanding, and incorporating student-centered learning, while transitioning to or teaching in a block schedule. (The workshop is not meant to sell the block, but rather to demonstrate how competently teaching professionals are able to work with this type of schedule and how to take full advantage of the powerful benefits of the extended period)

  • Can be tailored to meet the objectives of schools that are considering, , initiating a Block Schedule, or are in need of refreshing instructional practices that enhance learning in an extended period

Motivating the Disengaged

Increase the Engagement and Success of Students Who are Unmotivated, Reluctant or Struggling (Grades 3-12)

This workshop provides teachers with the strategies and skills to increase the success of each student, from the struggling to the high achieving, with differentiated activities conducted within the whole class framework. 

Workshop Includes:

  • Proven strategies to increase student engagement and success for all students, especially your at-risk, difficult, or disruptive students

  • An extensive resource handbook that includes ready-to-use materials and proven practices for increasing students’ intrinsic motivation to succeed

Comprehension-Based World Language Teaching

Powerful Strategies and Interactive Activities for Increasing your Students’ Achievement and Motivation

This seminar provides teachers with specific, practical strategies for creating meaningful world language instruction. You will participate in numerous activities proven to engage all learners, lower the affective filter in the classroom, and give every student the opportunity to be confident and competent in the acquisition of a second language. You will expand your instructional repertoire to encompass a variety of techniques for enhancing the learning of all students in your world language classroom.