Restorative Justice
Participants define "restorative practice" and learn strategies for facilitating talking circles that encourage those who have committed wrongdoing to come up with meaningful reparations and develop empathy for those they have offended.
Workplace Appreciation
Participants learn to build more positive relationships within their teams, reduce cynicism, sarcasm, and distrust among coworkers, increase understanding of each other’s differences, and create a more enjoyable work environment for management, staff, and volunteers.
Manager Tool Tips
Tools and Tips for managers of managers. Participants gain strategies for planning and facilitating effective one-on-one meetings with direct reports.
Work Style Diversity
Participants learn to articulate why they work the way they do, consider ways in which their work styles play out on a team, and push themselves to become stronger in certain work styles in order to balance the team or fit a given work situation.
Engagement Strategies
Participants gain strategies for increasing engagement during adult learning activities.
Relationship Building
Teachers learn, observe, and practice, strategies for building relationships with students and their families. Session ends with a commitment to specific relationship building strategies and accountability measures.
Clear Instructions
Participants learn, observe, and practice how to give specific, observable, concrete, and sequential directions while having an expectation of 100% of all students following instructions with fidelity.
Positive Framing
Participants learn, observe, and practice techniques for positively framing classroom corrections and consequences.
Strong Presence
Participants learn, observe, and practice techniques for a strong classroom presence.
Logical Consequences
Participants learn, observe, and practice techniques for administering consequences that logically connect to the child and for reconnecting positively after administering the consequence.
Getting & Maintaining Attention
Participants learn, observe, and practice techniques to capture and maintain mutual respect and attention from students or audience.
With-It-Ness
Teachers learn, observe, and practice techniques for developing a keen awareness of what’s happening in the classroom, adjusting accordingly, and keeping students on-task.
Developing Daily Objectives
Teachers learn and practice developing daily objectives that are achievable, rigorous, and measurable.
Lesson Planning
Teachers learn and practice developing exciting lesson plans that embody the full lesson cycle.
Culturally Relevant Teaching
Participants explore a pedagogy that pushes them to utilize the backgrounds, knowledge, and experiences of their students to inform their lessons and methodology.
Co-Teaching
Participants learn, observe, and practice the five models of co-teaching.
Team Building
Grade levels, content teams, cohorts, or other teams engage in various team building activities with the goals of creating trust, collaboration, and team.
Difficult Conversations
Participants learn, observe, and practice steps and strategies for engaging in difficult conversations with colleagues, supervisors, parents, and students.
Instructional Coaching Training
Participants learn, observe, and practice strategies for effective coaching including (but not limited to):
- Taking literal notes
- Identifying the key lever
- Developing a coaching plan
- Facilitating a coaching session
- Real-time coaching
- Deliberate practice
- Video analysis
- Video rehearsal
Kelly is a remarkable leader, teacher, coach, and staff developer. She ensures that she clearly understands what's expected and what the aims are prior to conducting meaningful and engaging sessions with participants. Additionally, Kelly has a talent for coaching. If given an opportunity to coach a member of your team, rest assured, you will be able to observe immediate results.Dr. Dione Simon Principal, Towns Elementary School Atlanta, GA
Dr. Gunn was thorough and intentional in her planning of professional developments. She gave clear action steps which could be implemented immediately and gave great feedback. She understood my strengths & weaknesses and how to utilize my strengths in my instructional coaching while developing me in my areas of growth. She was extremely positive and passionate about working along side of me to improve the quality of teachers.Kofi Kinney Former Mentor Teacher, KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools Atlanta, GA
Kelly Gunn asks the right questions to get leaders focused on the right areas. Her advice has been instrumental helping Kindezi to improve teacher/leader development and coaching practices. I think that any school could benefit from her as a leader of sessions, an adviser/coach to leadership, and more.Dean Leeper Executive Director, The Kindezi Schools Atlanta, GA