Effective professional development includes six research-based practices:

  • Significant and ongoing time to learn new strategies and rumble with implementation. 
  • Active engagement with a variety of approaches and conversations
  • Models new concepts and theories
  • Relevant instructional strategies appropriate to grade level and content
  • Continuous feedback and support during implementation
  • Collective and collaborative team support

(Darling-Hammond et al., 2009; Guskey & Yoon, 2009; Rhoton & Wohnowski, 2005; NCCTQ, 2011) 

Our Expanding Expertise in Education offerings are only available as a series, based on best practices in education. We want to provide you and your teachers with the most effective learning environment and training worthy of their time and energy. Each series includes a 1-hour pre-series consultation and a 1-hour debriefing session with administrators/leaders and facilitators. Full day or half day sessions are negotiable for each series; please email us for more information. 

For a pricing quote, please contact:
Serena Morales

The Assessment Series

  • The purpose of this series is to kick-start best practices in Standards Based Learning, Instruction, and Grading, and support teams of teachers through initial implementation and ongoing support. The Series can be repeated up to three times as a spiral curriculum that includes content area or team support, extensive feedback on working drafts, communicating with families, and assistance with school-wide implementation.
– Learning Targets that Launch Instruction
– Assessment Architecture that Supports Student Learning
– Powerful Proficiency Scales + The One-Point Rubric

The Raising Collective Expertise Series

  • The purpose of this Series is to support leadership teams as they consider entry points and goals for the autonomy and choice adults crave in their learning. Sessions also facilitate teacher-led research based on collective problems of practice and contextualized inquiry.
– Raising Collective Expertise Through Point of Need & Professional Choice
– Raising Collective Expertise Through Teacher-Led Research Part One
– Raising Collective Expertise Through Teacher-Led Research Part Two

The Critical Literacy in the Disciplines Series

  • The purpose of this Series is to support teachers with strategies, models, and practice as they build and implement language acquisition strategies into content area standards. Each session helps teachers remove barriers to learning beyond vocabulary instruction, including: reading digital spaces, text types, and rules of notice for disciplinary texts.
– Critical Literacy with Considerate Texts
– Critical Literacy with Texts + Tasks
– Critical Literacy and Rules of Notice

Half Day Series

Implementation Support

Three sessions

3.5 hours each day

One hour pre-series consult

One hour debrief consult

Full Day Series

Implementation Support

Three sessions

7 hours each day

One hour pre-series consult

One hour debrief consult