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**All workshops and sessions can be customized as full-day workshops, multi-part series, or conference session strands to fit your district’s needs.
Workshop Series #1: Critical Thinking & Complex Reasoning
These sessions focus on enhancing students’ cognitive skills, fostering critical thinking, complex reasoning, and problem-solving.
Workshop Series #2: Student Engagement & Discourse
These sessions are designed to empower student voices, promote active participation, and make learning interactive, engaging, and fun.
Workshop Series #3: Vocabulary Instruction & Assessment
These sessions provide innovative, research-based strategies for vocabulary development, assessment, and school-wide initiatives in middle and high school.
Workshop Series #4: Classroom Management & Relationship Building
These sessions focus on creating positive, restorative learning environments where students feel valued and supported, and learning is top priority.
Workshop Series #5: Instructional Design & Alignment
Sessions focused on developing aligned, purposeful instruction that meets standards and enhances learning outcomes.
Workshop Series #6: Game-Changing Professional Development
This multi-part professional learning series designed to transform the way instructional leaders design and facilitate professional development.
Workshop Series #7: The AI Edge
Unlock the transformative power of AI to enhance literacy, boost comprehension, and sharpen critical thinking skills in your classroom.
8. Hitting Pause, Sparking Insight
A Guide to Teaching Metacognition for Deeper Thinking
Step into a classroom where reflective learning evolves into sophisticated exploration. In this interactive session, you will discover a rich repertoire of hands-on strategies and creative techniques designed to transform everyday lessons into transformative journeys of metacognitive discovery. Using the 3 phases of metacognition, empower your students to hit the pause button on their busy minds, critically examine their thought processes, and unlock their inner potential to think through their thinking. This session guides you in cultivating an environment where learners move beyond merely engaging in metacognition to genuinely behaving metacognitively—actively monitoring, adjusting, and applying their reflective insights in real time.
7. From Consequence to Connection
Restoring Relationships After Discipline
Discipline shouldn’t be the end of the story—it should be the start of healing and growth. Too often, students return from a consequence feeling disconnected, resentful, or shut down, making it harder for them to re-engage in learning. So how do we repair the harm, rebuild trust, and get them back on track? This high-energy, solution-focused session will move beyond generic behavior reflection sheets and provide real, practical strategies for restoring relationships after discipline. Learn how to clean the slate, repair trust, and bring students back into the learning environment in a way that fosters accountability, respect, and connection—without sacrificing high expectations.
6. Restorative Classroom Management
Systems & Routines for a Learning-First Culture
Transform your classroom into a vibrant space where respect and learning flourish with our Restorative Classroom Management Cycle! This engaging session introduces a transformative four-step system designed to boost high expectations, maximize every minute of instruction, and make learning the heart of your day. Walk away with practical, creative strategies to turn challenges into opportunities and create a classroom where restorative practices empower every student.
5. Cultivating Respectful and Affirming Student Relationships
Boundaries, Rapport, and Professionalism
Imagine a classroom where every student feels secure, connected, and inspired to thrive. In today's world, creating a positive, structured, and nurturing community is more essential than ever. This session offers innovative strategies to forge meaningful relationships, build social capital, and cultivate a safe haven for learning. Reflect on your mindset and emotional intelligence while discovering dynamic approaches to foster a vibrant classroom culture that empowers every learner.
4. Talk That Talk
Energize Every Voice with Student Discourse
Imagine a classroom buzzing with curiosity, where every conversation becomes a gateway to deeper understanding. In this session, we’ll explore creative strategies to transform everyday chatter into thoughtful, engaging dialogue that illuminates complex ideas. You'll learn how to nurture conversations and facilitate academic conversations that not only foster deeper comprehension, but also spark curiosity and excitement in every learner.