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Customized PD

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Customized Professional Learning
EducationPlus is your go-to partner for customized professional learning. We work with you to design learning opportunities that honor what your teachers know and do while providing new ways of thinking about teaching and learning grounded in research and presented in an interactive format.

We offer:

  • 60-90 minute in-person, virtual or hybrid workshops
  • Half-day and full-day sessions
  • Multi-day learning series
  • Job-embedded coaching
  • Walk-throughs and feedback audits  

Every customized professional learning event begins with a conversation. Your short and long-term goals, along with your knowledge of students and staff, guide our work. We understand that it sometimes helps to have a starting point - you may choose to browse through the list of topics below for examples of work we've conducted in districts large and small, public and private.

 

Examples of Possible Learning Structures 

  • Half-day sessions each month on a specific topicgoal
  • Six sessions on a variety of topics for an all school PD day
  • Three sessions with coaching between PD days
  • Coaching for new teachers on classroom management
  • Equity walk-through with follow up PD days
  • Hybrid delivery of content to multiple sites with virtual support
     

Multiple Days Mini-Conference 

EducationPlus can provide facilitators with expertise in a variety of topics to support district professional learning days.  If you are seeking multiple presenters for a variety of topics, indicate the date(s) of the event and approximately how many breakout sessions you are seeking along with the topics/focus for the sessions. We will contact you to determine how we can assist based on the availability of our team members. 
 

Job-Embedded Coaching

EducationPlus can provide ongoing coaching for a variety of initiatives. Coaching includes on-site observations and conversations with various stakeholders. Coaching sessions are designed in collaboration with schooldistrict leaders and can be customized for onsite, virtual or via phone. If you are interested in scheduling coaching sessions, please indicate the approximate number of sessions.

Make a request and receive a quote

A representative will contact you to help develop and finalize plans. 

 

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Audience

  • Early Childhood Teachers
  • Elementary Teachers
  • Middle School Teachers
  • High School Teachers
  • Building Administrators
  • Central Office Administrators and Curriculum Coordinators
  • Support Staff (instructional) - e.g. para-educators/teacher assistants Support Staff (non-instructional) - e.g. secretaries, bus drivers, custodial, food service
  • All Certified Staff
  • Other  

Possible Topics for Customized Learning Opportunities:

Assessment & Reporting

  • Assessment for Learning
  • Creating and using formative assessments
  • Creating and using performance tasks
  • Creating and using scoring guides
  • Developing an assessment plan
  • Developing and using student work
  • Developing and using learning progressions
  • Standards-based grading

Classroom Management/Student Engagement

  • Community building
  • Developing (or co-developing) expectations, rules, routines and procedures
  • Instructional strategies to enhance engagement

Coaching for Leaders or Teams

  • Structures and practices to promote efficient, effective and meaningful teamwork
  • Coaching conversations/difficult conversations
  • Developing a shared leadership model
  • DISC assessment
  • Protocols for specific purposes (e.g. increase engagement, explore issues, address conflict)
  • Facilitating conversations about data and instruction

Collaboration Strategies, Procedures, Protocols (ex. PLC PracticesImpact Teams)

  • PLC from the ground up (reboot efresh)
  • PLC leadership training for teacher leaders
  • Fresh ideas for existing PLCs
  • Leading the work of PLCs for administrators
  • Coaching for collaborative teams (on-site observation and conversation with existing teams)
  • Effective use of data for instructional decision-making

Culture & Climate

  • Bullying Prevention
  • Community building
  • CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute) Initial Certification (6-8 hours)
  • CPI refresher (3-4 hours)
  • De-escalation strategies
  • Digital citizenship | Social media | Cyberbullying
  • Expectations, procedures, routines
  • Growth mindset
  • Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
  • Restorative Practices
  • Proactive community building
  • Responsive/discipline
  • Circles
  • Specific engagement strategies
  • Supporting students with anxiety
  • Trauma-aware/trauma-informed schools

Curriculum Development Enhancement

  • Aligning curriculum (for new standards or vertical articulation)
  • Prioritizing and unwrapping standards into learning targets
  • Developing success criteria/learning progressions/proficiency scales
  • Revising curriculum

Equity and Inclusion

  • Anti-bias/Anti-Racism strategies (ABAR)
  • Culturally proficient instruction
  • Equity audit
  • Institutional racism
  • Implicit bias
  • Intersection of racism and trauma
  • Stereotype threat
  • Understanding privilege
  • Microaggressions and the impact on learning

Instructional Practices and Strategies

  • Coaching (observations and conversations onsite and virtual)
  • Designing for engagement
  • Differentiated instruction
  • High impact instructional practices (MarzanoHattie)
  • Inquiry-based learning
  • Project-based learning (PBL)
  • Rigor and relevance
  • Response to Intervention (RtI)/Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
  • Teachers as designers of learning experiences
  • Understanding by Design (UbD) Backwards design
  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Learning for Support Staff

  • Communication and Community Building
  • Effective communication (written andor verbal)
  • Having difficult conversations
  • De-escalation strategies
  • Equity
  • Microaggressions: How to Spot and How to Handle
  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology: Google Suite and Microsoft Suite

Technology

  • Effective use of technology in instructional design and assessment
  • Digital citizenship Media literacy
  • Digital wellness and healthy tech habits
  • Discovery Education Experience 101
  • Discovery Education Experience 201
  • Discovery Education and Social-Emotional Learning Supports
  • Discovery Education for Specific Content Areas
  • Google Workspace = Suite of Tools (Docs, Slides, Drawing, Classroom, Forms, Keep, etc.)
  • Microsoft Suite of Tools (Outlook, Calendar, Teams, Slides, Forms, etc.)
  • Online learning design
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (Chat GPT, Google Gemini, AI apps, etc.)
  • The presentation was excellent and I love the way the presenter kept us engaged with hands-on acivities.
  • Wonderful presentation! Best PD of my school year so far. Clear vision, ease of implementation, and benefits of student achievement!
  • This is the kind of PD we love! I love leaving a session feeling excited to try some new things in my classroom. It was short, clear and to the point, and left me feeling confident I can try this successfully.