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!
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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
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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
This newly re-designed follow-up to Tips and Tools for Professional Learning 1 expands and enriches the foundational concepts introduced in the first course. In this six-hour session, participants will explore additional research-based, learner-centered processes and strategies that strengthen their ability to design and facilitate professional learning.
A key feature of this updated version is choice—districts and participants can select from a menu of content options, ensuring that the learning is aligned to their specific needs and context. The result is a flexible, impactful experience that empowers educators to deepen their skills and apply them with confidence.
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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
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Apply intentional facilitator moves to build positive, productive, and inclusive learning environments
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Use structured strategies to effectively manage group dynamics and foster engagement in professional learning settings
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Strengthen communication skills, including clear direction-giving and effective questioning, to support collaboration and learning
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Facilitate respectful and solution-focused conversations by recognizing and addressing negative behaviors and challenging questions with professionalism
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Leverage tools, frameworks, and protocols that support data-informed dialogue, equitable participation, and actionable outcomes
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Incorporate various innovative practices, such as AI tools, to design and deliver impactful professional learning
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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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District Leaders
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Campus Administrators
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Teacher and Team Leaders
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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
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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.