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Workshops Offered

Effective Grading & Assessment Practices

• Assignments Feedback & Grading: connections to motivating today's learner
• The Journey Toward Effective Assessment Practices
• Confronting the Grading Lottery: from Isolation to Consistency
• Converting to a Standards-Based Grading System in Your School.  Dos & Don'ts
• Homework, Late Work and Giving Zeros.  Best Practices for the 21st Century Learner & World

Motivational & Inspirational

• If We Really Believe ALL Students Can Learn Then ...
• It Takes A Village (PLC) To Educate Today's Child
• The Culture We Want in Our Schools
• You Know You're Becoming A PLC When ...
• The Ingredients of a Great School
• Confronting the Adult Bullying Dilemma in Schools
• Managing and Reducing Stress in Schools and Classrooms
• Simply the BEST:  What the Best Teachers Do

Student Engagement & Classroom Management

• Creating the Conditions for the Highly Engaged Student & Classroom
• Classroom Management: NO Excuses, NO Blame, Just Results
• Creating a Classroom With High Expectations
• Mastering the Art and Science of Having Difficult Conversations with Students
• Mastering the Art and Science of Having Difficult Conversations with Adults

Professional Learning Communities
 

• The Power of PLCs: endless possibilities
• Relationships and Collaborative Teams: the pathway to greatness
• Using Data to Create & Sustain Meaningful Change
• SMART Goals: from good intentions to specific action steps
• What Happens in Our School When Students Are Not Learning?
• Focused Leadership in a PLC
• What Does Shared Leadership Mean for Me
• Leadership 101
• Leadership for DEEP Implementation
• Shaping and Improving School Culture

Effective Teaching Practices
 

• Reaching Students From Poverty: the student's perspective
• Lesson Design, Differentiated Instruction, and the 5 P's
• Motivating Today's Learner
• Planning for Effective Instruction
• Questioning and Thinking in Today's Classroom
• The Quality Teacher: What the Best Do EACH and Every Day