Instructional Strategies

Effective teaching is a complex but critical endeavor. During this 2-Day Workshop, Shelley Gies arms educators of all levels—from teachers to superintendents and principals—with tools and strategies to improve their practice.

In this workshop, participants will discover how to build a coaching culture and mindset in their school or district, including those without designated coaches. Participants will dive into the coaching process through the use of short videos of classroom instruction to experience the process, tools, and feedback protocol.

In this workshop, participants will discover how to build a coaching culture and mindset in their school or district, including those without designated coaches. Participants will dive into the coaching process through the use of short videos of classroom instruction to experience the process, tools, and feedback protocol.

Dive deeper into the School Wellness Wheel and discover the science of toxic stress and how understanding trauma helps teachers learn various skills and strategies that promote growth, facilitate healing, build resilience, and engage students in deeper, authentic learning.

Effective teaching is a complex but critical endeavor. During this 2-Day Workshop, Shelley Gies arms educators of all levels—from teachers to superintendents and principals—with tools and strategies to improve their practice.

Dive deeper into the School Wellness Wheel and discover the science of toxic stress and how understanding trauma helps teachers learn various skills and strategies that promote growth, facilitate healing, build resilience, and engage students in deeper, authentic learning.

This 2-Day Workshop will emphasize the importance of starting with the rationale and process for prioritizing standards in standards-based grading rather than starting with the grading system.

Teaching in the standards-based classroom requires significantly more than simply knowing the standards. A true focus on standards in the classroom requires a teacher to understand multiple elements of a standards-based learning environment, including planning, instruction, assessment, and feedback. This session will present a thoughtful and logical approach to planning for and delivering a high-quality opportunity to learn that increases the potential for students to acquire understanding of the knowledge and skills included in standards. Participants will walk away with information, insights, and ideas as well as a plethora of resources for use in their own classrooms.

In this workshop, participants will discover how to build a coaching culture and mindset in their school or district, including those without designated coaches. Participants will dive into the coaching process through the use of short videos of classroom instruction to experience the process, tools, and feedback protocol.

Effective teaching is a complex but critical endeavor. During this 2-Day Workshop, Kristin Poage arms educators of all levels—from teachers to superintendents and principals—with tools and strategies to improve their practice.