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