Workshops for Principals

The demands of the Common Core Standards require that students have the ability to engage in careful, sustained interpretation of a variety of texts. This workshop will build school leader and subsequently teacher capacity to model for students the process of reading with a greater emphasis on the particular over the general with strategic attention to […]

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 site-based and district level […]

Textbooks and curriculum guides are not a substitute for long term instructional planning and beginning with the end in mind (backward mapping). Individual teachers and teams of teachers need a succinct roadmap to effectively plan the scope & sequence of instruction, choose appropriate strategies; and identify “best- fit” materials of instruction. This workshop will equip teachers […]