Customized Professional Development
We tailor our professional development to the specific needs of your school site or district. Be it large group meetings, small teams of teachers, or individualized, one-on-one coaching, our goal is to introduce and reinforce research-based strategies that can be applied to the district, school, or classroom context the very next day. (
How do we tailor our content?)
Types of Professional Development we provide
- Large group presentations
- Small group facilitation (grade-level or subject-area teams)
- One-on-one coaching (teachers and administrators)
- Workshop series (large or small group)
- Demonstration lessons (with follow-up support)
- Technology demonstration and hands-on application
Our Areas of Expertise
With over 35 years in classroom teaching, professional development and district and site leadership, we specialize in the following content areas:
Literacy, Pre-K through Grade 12
- Reading Comprehension (strategies such as predicting, summarizing, questioning, inferring, clarifying)
- Reading (all core components including phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding and fluency)
- Metacognition
- Vocabulary and Academic Language
- Content Literacy (Grades 4-12)
- Trait-based writing
- Struggling readers and writers
- Differentiated instruction
- English Language Learners
- Literacy assessments
- Curriculum development
Professional Learning Communities
- Lesson study
- Facilitation skills
- Protocols and strategies for analyzing student work
- Teacher leadership
- Assessment development
- Instructional coaching
Data Analysis & Assessment
- Data Collection through interviews, focus groups and classroom observations
- Survey Administration
- Analysis of student achievement results before and after interventions
- Coaching site personnel to conduct action research
Professional Development Structures
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