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July 31, 2012

Building Professional Learning Communities

The efforts of educators can have a significant impact on student achievement. In fact, educators who: (1) focus on learning, rather than teaching; (2) recognize the dynamic power of collaboration; and (3) judge their effectiveness based on results will become the teachers and leaders that our schools deserve. This workshop will equip teachers and teams of […]
July 31, 2012

Promoting Common Instructional Language Across Content Areas

The bedrock of student achievement is the intentional and consistent use of common instructional language across grade levels and content areas. Unintentionally, students are being exposed to key concepts through divergent and often, erroneous instructional language which inadvertently perpetuates underperformance. This workshop will expose teachers to the power resident in and the practice of common instructional […]
July 31, 2012

Developing Worthwhile Mathematical Tasks

A myopic focus on teaching algorithms or a step-by-step, procedural fluency approach to solving mathematical problems is insufficient to transfer the most valuable approach to teaching mathematics to mastery: conceptual understanding. This workshop will build teacher capacity to link concepts to be assessed to engaging, meaningful, real-world mathematical tasks.