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"Their ability to either provide outstanding educational consulting directly or through making connections with specialists from across the nation has made a quantifiable difference in the professional growth of our teachers."

Lawrence Pendergast,
Principal Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction, New York

Most professional development only address the symptoms. We help our clients get to the heart of their challenges. In our workshops, we use a few simple principles to help you teach and lead more effectively, resolve instructional challenges and increase not only your student achievement but your own job satisfaction. We work with you to create customized sessions to meet your individual and unique needs. Contact us to schedule a workshop at your school!.

Check out our Differentiation Workshops!

Our services include:

• half-day on-site workshops for up to 100 teachers and/or administrators
• full-day on-site professional development workshops for up to 100 teachers and/or administrators
• year-long school or district relationships
• keynote addresses for conferences, dinners, or kick-off celebrations
• on-site job-embedded coaching in 30-minute segments for individual and groups of teachers
• all-day revolving staff meetings

Workshops for Teachers :

• Never Work Harder than Your Students One-Day Overview
• Differentiation Workshop
• Differentiation and RTI
• Differentiated Instruction for AP Teachers
• Supporting Struggling Students without Sacrificing Rigor
• Creating Rigorous Lessons
• The Steps to Rigor
• Proactive Intervention Strategies that Catch Students BEFORE They Fail
• Effective Classroom Management
• Helping Students Take Ownership of Their Work
• Quality versus Quantity: Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences
• Finding Need-to-knows: How to Unpack Your Curriculum and Teach What Really Matters
• Preparing the Underprepared: Helping more students access AP instruction

Workshops for Instructional Leaders :

• How to Have Strategic Conversations with Teachers
• Monitoring and Supporting Effective Differentiated Instructional Practices
• Leading for Rigor: How to support and promote more rigorous instructional practices
• Creating a College-Going Culture
• Building a Successful AP Program
• Equity and Access Issues and Solutions
• Conducting More Effective Walk-throughs and Observations
• Working with Under-Performing Teachers
• Curriculum Mapping Strategies to Build a Strong Instructional Program

Workshop Series and Packages : All packages can be customized to meet your individual needs.

• Differentiated Instruction Package
  • 2 half-day differentiation workshops for teachers
  • 1 half-day differentiation workshop for instructional leaders
  • 50 copies of the Differentiation Workbook
  • 2 days of on-site, job-embedded coaching for teachers
  • 1 half-day walkthrough and follow up coaching for administrators and instructional leaders
• Building Equitable AP Programs: How to Increase AP Enrollment and Success without Sacrificing Rigor
  • Year One: • 1 Half- Day Teacher Training: Supporting Under-Prepared Students with Rigor • 1 Half-Day Teacher Training: Creating A Rigorous AP course • 1 Half-Day Leadership Training on Building a Sustainable AP Program and Supporting Students and Teachers • 1 Half-Day Guidance Counselor Training on Identifying, Recruiting, and Supporting Students and effectively scheduling AP Courses • 2 Site visits/ Conferencing and AP Department Meetings • 20 Hours of email/phone support
  • Year Two: • 1 Half-Day Teacher Workshop on Strategies for engaging and supporting student • 2 Half-Days of classroom observations • 2 Half-Days of conferencing • 1 Half-Day Guidance Counselor Training • 1 Half-Day Vertical Team Training • 1 Student Focus Group • 20 Hours of email/phone support
• The Master Teacher Series (based on Never Work Harder than Your Students)
  • 6 Full-day Workshops on the 7 Principles of Effective Instruction
  • 10 hours of email and phone support per teacher
  • 2 classroom observations per teacher
  • 1 copy of Never Work Harder Than Your Students per teacher
  • 1 Course Notebook
• Job-Embedded Coaching Package
  • On-site, job-embedded coaching for individual teachers or small teams of teachers including co-planning, lesson plan analysis, co-teaching, and classroom observations
  • Follow up individual support in person, via email or phone, and web conferencing
• The Instructional Leadership Series
  • 2 Full-day Workshops on Supporting under-performing teachers, recruiting and retaining excellent teachers, developing master teachers, conducting strategic conversations, and monitoring teacher performance.
  • 1 Walkthrough per leadership team and follow-up coaching
  • 10 hours of follow-up, job-embedded coaching for each leadership team
  • 1 Copy of Strategic Conversations for each participant
• Supporting Under-prepared and Struggling Students Series
  • 2 Full-day Workshops on supporting under-prepared and struggling students.
  • 2 days of on-site, job-embedded coaching and conferencing for individual and small teams of teachers.
  • Follow-up Email and phone support
  • 1 Strategy Notebook for each participant
• Customized Packages: Combine any of our workshops with job-embedded on-site coaching, email and phone support, and materials to create a package customized to meet your individual needs.