Customized Professional Learning
Building content knowledge alongside best instructional practices for individual teachers, teams, staffs, administrations, and districts.
Expert Level Demonstration Lessons
Seeing is believing. Through the modeling of best instructional strategies, expert classroom management and through the fostering of an equitable…
Dynamic Individual or Team Coaching
A reflective teacher is an effective teacher. Opening our doors to others, our peers, etc. is one of the most effective ways to impact our teaching.
Keynote- Motivational Addresses
Motivate and inspire your administrative teams, full staffs, teacher leader teams, etc. with practical, yet impactful ideas to spark a season…
E-Learning Course
Modules
Coursework on any of the above topics as well as on specific standard domains. Take it at your pace and get live support along the way.
Year Long Teacher Support Packages
Packages are designed for teachers needing more than just a one time overview. Like most of us, once isn’t enough.
Customized Professional Learning
Building content knowledge alongside best instructional practices for individual teachers, teams, staffs, administrations, and districts.
Save the cookie cutter presentations for the ‘olden days’ when we subconsciously thought, ‘You get what you get and don’t throw a fit!” When we know better, we do better. Just as we adjust to meet the needs of our students, I believe in adjusting to meet the needs of each staff. Choose from one of the topics below, or choose a topic of your choice, but either way, I will work with you to ensure you get the training you need! Learning is not one size fits all.
Up to 7 hours of customized professional development for groups up to 40 participants. These courses are designed to meet your individual district, school, or team learning goals. Offered as overview training in 2-3 hour sessions, although most impactful as either full day sessions or multiple sessions over several visits. The best model incorporates these learning courses into full learning cycles (PD, modeling, coaching, repeat). Please contact Shannon for full course descriptions, pricing and bundling suggestions for your specific goals.
Most of the above courses can be:
Stand Alone Courses
Web-Ex Delivered
Paired with follow up check-in sessions
Paired with Guided Staff PD powerpoint recordings for follow up staff meetings and admin/coach led professional learning blocks
Paired with Staff Book Studies
Paired with coaching cycles
Paired with Demonstration Lessons
2-3 hour sessions, 6-hour sessions, or multiple days sessions
Expert Demonstration Lessons
Seeing is believing. Through the modeling of best instructional strategies, expert classroom management and through the fostering of an equitable math talk community, demonstration lessons allow teachers to get a sense of pacing, lesson design, and pedagogy in an inquiry-based classroom. These are teacher favorites! They are practical and give instant ideas to try on right away
Open Door Coaching
A reflective teacher is an effective teacher. Opening our doors to others, our peers etc. is one of the most effective ways to impact our teaching. We know coaching is what takes our implementation of professional learning to new levels. Please reach out to learn more about each of the below coaching models and how they can transform your classrooms.
I provide many coaching models to meet your needs:
Individual Coaching
Team Learning Lab Coaching (Student-Centered, Data Driven)
Studio Team Coaching (a C0-Teach live coaching Model)
E-Coaching
Keynote Addresses
Motivate and inspire your administrative teams, full staffs, teacher leader teams, etc. with practical, yet impactful ideas to spark a season/ year of new learning initiatives, or reignite a passion or vision to keep momentum.
Consider:
Beginning of the year: Start slow, start fast— but START. Make your start matter!
Mid Year– Revisit, Reflect, Re-energize
End of the year – It’s how you finish that is measured by most. Get inspired and motivated to finish as strong as you started.
E-Learning
Coursework on any of the above topics as well as on specific standard domains. Take it at your pace and get live support along the way. Build content knowledge with the expert and collaborate with others.
Small Group Instruction in Math Class- A balanced approach
Small group instruction has a needed place in our instructional math blocks. But, how do we make them meaningful? Is it possible to do a balanced approach ? Can we meet individual needs in both small and whole group? In this course we will discover the possibilities for effective small group instruction, structures and routines to teach, and how to organize instruction. We will also explore when, who, and why of small groups. This step by step mini course will give you just what you need to get started!
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Partner Talk: Level 1
Students need structures and rehearsal to be proficient with turn and talks. Do you struggle with dominators in your turn and talks? Do students just stare at one another? Do you have a hard time getting students on task, or to stop talking, or to regain control after a turn and talk? How do you even choose partners and how often do they need to be changed? All of these questions and more are taught in this mini course to get you started. The course includes a step by step workbook, videos, and activities. This course is avaialble for individual teachers or for staffs. The staff package includes facilitation guides for whomever is facilitating the learning with staff.
Partner Talk: Level 2
Now that you’ve completed level 1 through the first partner talk course, or through my live workshops, learning labs, or demonstration lessons, you are ready to take your student talk to a whole new level!! How do we get the quality of what students are saying to be even better and to go deeper? In this mini course I’ll walk you through step by step to getting basic and advanced talk moves set up so that partner talk is actually increasing student understanding each day in your classroom.
“You Do, We Do, I Do”– Same Course, New Name : “Transformed Lesson Plans”
This course will launch again September 2020.
Learn More Here: https://empowerconsulting.org/yes/
Teacher Support Packages
Yes, YOU Can. Packages are designed for teachers needing more than just a one time overview. Like most of us, once isn’t enough. We need consistent support and resources to support our learning. This package is designed to support new teachers to a district, school, or grade who may be new to the curriculum or for teams/teachers who need or want support on specific topics/units throughout the year. These support packages include community forums, live, individualized e-coaching and Q & A’s, etc. Fall 2019 cohorts are filling NOW! Participants receive a 3-hour overview training to watch and rewatch at their leisure, with a team, or with a group of other new teachers in the district. They will then get NINE – 1 hour digital coaching sessions in which the cohorts will meet afterschool online to conitnue their learning of utilizing their curriculum, get access to additional content and unit learning, and of course lots of time for Q & A. This is a rockstar deal to support teachers all year long.
Staff Support Packages
Similar to the individual or team packages listed above, but for full staff support. Packages include professional learning and touch-point webinars or recordings to support administration and coaches as they continue the work in between professional learning, demonstration lessons or coaching cycle visits.