Seminars to Support your Professional Development Needs

Leadership support featuring a practical framework and collection of adaptable tools designed to help instructional leaders turn priorities and initiatives into clear actions, measurable goals, and sustainable systems. Reduce initiative overload, build staff capacity, and support meaningful instructional change over time. Whether you are just starting or working on a multi-year initiative, school improvement goals are attainable! Leaders gain practical resources, including needs assessments, initiative reviews, measurables guides, problem-solving templates, and teacher self-reflection surveys, to identify needs, prioritize actions, strengthen instructional practices, and support continuous improvement.

• Turn priorities into action with a consistent framework, clear goals, and measurable steps that connect daily work to district priorities.
• Build staff capacity and ownership through needs assessments, teacher reflection, collaborative problem-solving, and targeted support.
• Sustain meaningful instructional change with adaptable toolkits and repeatable processes that support implementation, monitor progress, and improve student outcomes.

 Before spending another dime on Tier Two or Tier Three intervention materials, stop and focus on Tier One! Effective support begins in the general education classroom. Explore practical instructional and assessment strategies, use quick progress-monitoring checklists, and learn to incorporate intervention blocks into the typical school day or learning period. Staff will develop consistent practices for collecting data, monitoring progress, and responding to student needs through purposeful differentiation.

Together, your team will explore how to organize a school-wide MTSS framework that uses student data to guide instructional decisions and provide increasingly intensive levels of support based on individual needs. Through a systematic problem-solving model, educators will learn to identify learning gaps, determine next steps, and adjust instruction and interventions to improve student outcomes.

A practical Differentiation Toolkit is provided, giving educators adaptable resources and strategies to respond to varied learning needs, monitor student progress, and strengthen core instruction before adding more intensive interventions.

• Strengthen Tier One instruction with practical strategies for differentiation, assessment, and progress monitoring.
• Use student data to guide support by identifying learning gaps and determining appropriate instructional responses and intervention intensity.
• Apply the Differentiation Toolkit to plan responsive instruction, address varied student needs, and support ongoing growth within a school-wide MTSS framework.

District administrators and instructional coaches are powerful change agents who influence the quality of teaching and learning. Build leadership capacity through evidence-based practices, meaningful discussions, and practical strategies for recognizing and encouraging student engagement, instructional rigor, and effective teaching. With the right questions, feedback, and coaching strategies, instructional leaders can help teachers strengthen classroom practices, ensure students are learning, and respond effectively when students struggle.

We live in a data-rich educational environment, yet knowing how to turn data into meaningful instructional decisions remains a challenge. Learn how to guide teams in analyzing student progress, identifying instructional needs, selecting effective strategies, and monitoring the impact on student learning. From classroom walkthroughs and actionable feedback to collaborative planning and professional learning, leaders and coaches will strengthen their ability to support teachers and improve student outcomes.

Professional development sessions, leadership seminars, instructional coaching, and follow-up support are customized to your needs. Participants receive practical toolkits, reusable coaching resources, and leadership methodologies that can be applied repeatedly to guide conversations, support teacher reflection, strengthen instructional practices, and sustain professional growth.

Practical toolkits and repeatable coaching and leadership methodologies help turn professional learning into ongoing action!

• Strengthen instructional practices with coaching and support systems that align best practices to daily instruction in all classrooms
• Use data and purposeful questioning to guide coaching conversations, inform instructional decisions, and respond to student needs.
• Apply repeatable coaching and leadership methodologies with practical toolkits that support teacher growth, meaningful feedback, and sustained instructional improvement.

 Growth mindset is more than grit and open-mindedness. It is the belief that effort, supported by effective strategies and feedback, can lead to meaningful growth. Without believing that growth is possible or understanding why change matters, effort can quickly fade. Teachers need to understand the purpose behind district initiatives and the research, desired outcomes, and instructional changes that guide their 

work.

For educators, we will examine the importance of recognizing student buy-in, effort, and evidence of progress. Students who work hard but continually fail to see growth may eventually stop trying. Traditional assessment practices can sometimes undermine a growth mindset, while celebrating small successes, providing meaningful feedback, and offering multiple opportunities to demonstrate mastery can strengthen engagement and learning.

Explore the power of “Not Yet” and the role of classroom climate in student achievement. These sessions move beyond familiar sports-star analogies about grit and perseverance to examine the realities, research, and instructional implications of growth mindset. Practical tools will support retakes, teacher midframes, student reflection, and the recognition and monitoring of student growth.

• Connect effort to growth by helping educators understand the purpose behind instructional change and recognize the strategies that support progress.
• Strengthen student engagement and ownership through meaningful feedback, student reflection, and opportunities to demonstrate mastery.
• Apply practical tools to support growth using retakes, teacher midframes, and strategies that make student progress visible and actionable.

A Problem-Solving Mentality Can Change Your District!

Build the capacity of educators to become active change agents in their classrooms and throughout the building. Staff will learn to turn collaboration into action using practical tools and guiding documents that make every meeting purposeful and productive.

During team meetings, staff meetings, and Teacher-Based Team (TBT) meetings, educators will use structured templates to identify what students need to know, determine how they will know when learning has occurred, and decide what to do when students have not yet learned it.

Every meeting should lead to action. Teachers should leave knowing what they will do differently, what they will look for, and how they will determine whether their efforts made a difference.

Through collaborative goal setting, attainable SMART goals, measurable success criteria, formative assessment practices, data conversations, and shared problem-solving, educators develop the knowledge and confidence to make informed instructional decisions. Teams move from “meeting about the work” to “meeting to change the work.” Rather than working in isolation, educators build shared knowledge, examine evidence, respond to student needs, and take purposeful action.

Whether your team is just beginning TBTs, strengthening an existing process, or needs a refresher, practical strategies, reusable tools, and guiding documents help make continuous improvement part of the regular routine.

Build Change Agents. Make Meetings Actionable. Change Instruction. Improve Student Learning.

• Make collaboration purposeful with structured protocols, clear goals, and focused conversations about student learning.
• Turn data into instructional action by identifying learning needs, establishing measurable success criteria, and selecting next steps.
• Build effective problem-solving teams that examine results, adjust instructional practices, and share responsibility for student growth.

Both teachers and students benefit from an intentional focus for every lesson. Teachers will learn how to identify priority learning standards, establish clear learning targets and success criteria, align instruction and assessment to the intended rigor of the standards, and monitor how well every student is progressing toward mastery. Clarity helps teachers know what students need to learn, how to recognize evidence of learning, and where to go next.

There is a significant difference between simply moving through a chapter or curriculum and intentionally planning instruction around a specific learning standard. Effective standards-based instruction requires more than placing an “I Can” statement on the board. Educators must understand the depth of the standard, prioritize essential knowledge and skills, establish meaningful success criteria, and ensure that daily instruction and assessments reflect the intended level of rigor.

We will explore how to align classroom instruction with state standards, unpack standards into attainable learning progressions, and identify the essential knowledge and subskills students need to master. Educators will learn to use formative assessment and ongoing data collection to monitor progress, identify gaps in understanding, and determine whether students are ready to advance or need additional instruction. John Hattie’s research on teacher clarity and its relationship to student achievement will also inform our work.

When teachers know what students are expected to learn and consistently examine evidence of mastery, feedback becomes more purposeful, differentiation more responsive, and intervention needs more apparent. Practical tools are provided for planning, teaching, assessing, and monitoring learning with clarity.

• Align instruction with standards and rigor by identifying priority learning standards, unpacking expectations, and designing lessons that target the intended depth of learning.
• Monitor progress toward mastery using clear success criteria, formative assessments, and student data to identify what students know and what they still need to learn.
• Make informed instructional decisions by using evidence of learning to provide meaningful feedback, adjust instruction, differentiate support, and determine next steps.