Tips and Tools for Professional Learning In-Person or Virtual
This course will prepare and equip leaders throughout your organization to design and facilitate professional learning that is engaging, meaningful, and impactful. Throughout this six hour session, participants will experience a variety of strategies and leave this session with practical tools to ensure the adults they lead are learning!
Audience:
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Campus and District Instructional Leaders
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Department Leaders
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Teacher Leaders
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Instructional Coaches
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Curriculum Specialists
Objectives:
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Foster the exchange of ideas and best practices in designing learning experiences for increased collaboration.
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Learn how to design and facilitate meaningful learning experiences using the Nested Process Framework.
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Experience brain-based techniques to actively engage adults in fun learning processes while fostering curiosity and intrinsic motivation.
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Identify the characteristics of adult learners and how the adult brain receives and retains information.
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Explore various instructional strategies and technology integration that support the Nested Process Framework and enhance learning outcomes for adults and students.
Tips and Tools for Professional Learning Two In-Person
Tips & Tools for Professional Learning 2 is a full-day learning experience designed to deepen facilitator expertise and strengthen the effectiveness of professional learning for adults. Throughout the day, participants will explore and reflect on high-impact facilitator moves that foster engagement, clarity, psychological safety, and meaningful learning transfer.
The course emphasizes intentional facilitation practices that enhance group dynamics, increase retention, and create learning environments where adults feel respected, challenged, and supported. Core strategies for proactive facilitation, clear communication, and sustained learner engagement are introduced and revisited throughout the learning experience.
Participants will also examine approaches for transforming negativity and navigating challenging moments in professional learning settings. Through structured reflection and guided discussion, facilitators will analyze common sources of resistance, consider response options, and strengthen their confidence in maintaining a professional, solution-focused climate.
Additional facilitator competencies will be expanded throughout the day, allowing participants to strengthen their ability to design and facilitate impactful adult learning that leads to meaningful organizational outcomes.
Audience:
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Campus and District Instructional Leaders
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Department Leaders
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Teacher Leaders
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Instructional Coaches
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Curriculum Specialists
Objectives:
By the end of this full-day session, participants will:
Facilitator Moves and Learning Environment
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Examine intentional facilitator moves that build a strong adult learning community.
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Strengthen strategies for communicating directions and transitions to effectively manage large and small group interactions.
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Increase engagement, enhance learning retention, and create efficient learning structures that maximize participant investment.
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Identify facilitation techniques that promote equitable participation, purposeful dialogue, and sustained focus across a full learning day.
Transforming Negativity
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Recognize the sources of negative attitudes, resistance, and challenging behaviors in adult learning settings.
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Reframe challenges as opportunities for learning, growth, and productive dialogue.
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Analyze response strategies for difficult or confrontational questions in a professional and constructive manner.
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Build facilitator confidence in maintaining psychological safety while upholding high expectations for engagement and accountability.
Impact on Practice
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Identify strategies that increase adult learner ownership, application of learning, and long-term impact on practice.
Tips and Tools for Teams In-Person
Collaboration is said to be an essential skill in the process of continuous improvement. Yet most education leaders have received little training to lead, manage and facilitate collaborative processes. High- functioning collaborative teams are key to increasing student achievement. In order to lead these adult learners, the critical skill of facilitation is a MUST! This full day of learning provides strategies and structures equipping you to lead collaborative processes that positively impact student success.
Audience:
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Department leaders
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PLC and teacher leaders
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Instructional Coaches
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Campus leaders
Objectives:
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Explore strategies to accelerate team development and build collective efficacy.
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Experience processes that promote contributions from ALL team members.
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Learn strategies to lead teams in designing and using their own accountability structures.
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Explore communication practices to set clear expectations and structure the work of teams.
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Discuss and reflect how emotional intelligence can be leveraged to positively impact collaborative teams.
Mentoring Pre-Service and Beginning Teachers In-Person
This course is designed to equip mentors with the knowledge and skills needed to support beginning teachers effectively. It covers essential strategies for providing constructive feedback, fostering professional growth, and improving practice. Participants will learn techniques for structured conversations targeting specific needs of the teacher. Additionally, the course emphasizes the importance of emotional support and practical advice, helping mentors empower new educators to navigate the challenges of their early careers and build confidence in their teaching practice.
Audience:
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Mentors of Pre-Service and Clinical Teachers
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Mentors supporting beginning teachers
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Coaches supporting beginning teachers
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University Clinical Teacher Supervisors
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Alternative Certification Program Supervisors
Objectives:
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Articulate how a learning-focused mentoring relationship builds capacity in beginning teachers and grows their efficacy as instructional problem solvers and decision makers.
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Facilitate structured conversations with clinical and beginning teachers to support planning, reflecting & problem-solving.
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Navigate learning-focused mentoring stances to respond to teachers’ needs and maximize their learning.
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Use a Third Point data source or artifact to keep mentoring conversations focused on important learning.
Increase Your Influence:
How to Lead with Effective Communication In-Person
Do you want to refine your leadership skills? Are you in a new leadership role? Develop your skills to lead by supporting and communicating clearly with others. Learn to give voice to what is important to others by exploring curiosities, needs, celebrations, hopes, struggles and respond to move individuals and systems forward. Use your intentional language to build high impact, trusting learning communities.
Audience:
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District Leaders
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Campus Administrators
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Teacher and Team Leaders
Objectives:
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Apply, experience, and evaluate intentional communication skills.
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Challenge current assumptions.
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Evoke discovery, insight, commitment or action.
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Develop clear understanding and greater clarity with others.
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Communicate in a brain-friendly way.
Amp It Up! Virtual
Does your online professional learning need new tools and techniques to AMP UP the engagement and effectiveness of your adult learners?
Quickly enhance and develop your repertoire of online learning techniques that will immediately impact professional learning for adults and improve classroom practice. Join us for fun and interactive learning that will boost your confidence and skills to lead others in a digital platform.
Audience:
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Campus and District Instructional Leaders
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Department Leaders
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Teacher Leaders
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Instructional Coaches
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Curriculum Specialists
Objectives:
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Recognize 3 critical keys of high quality, online professional learning.
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Learn strategies to foster a virtual learning environment that meets the physiological, social/relational, and learning needs of adults.
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Experience brain-friendly, online techniques to capture and hold learners’ attention and increase retention.
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Engage collaboratively with peers using various free online processing tools.