Teach Learn Thrive

Professional Development Workshops

Strengthen community, mindset, and skillset of your greatest asset—your teaching faculty—with a one-time workshop or a yearlong PD series. 

Teach Learn Thrive workshops will…

  • Reconnect your teachers to their purpose as educators

  • Strengthen community and collaboration among your faculty

  • Engage your staff in discussions of high-quality instruction

  • Invigorate faculty culture by uniting teachers around a common focus

Teach Learn Thrive has PD that fits your teachers’ needs, emotionally AND intellectually…

With Teach Learn Thrive workshops, you can expect…

Space and time for teachers to process their learning and make a plan for incorporating new techniques

Dedicated time for participants to reflect on their purpose and values as educators

Clearly defined learning outcomes, research-based content, and a toolkit full of classroom-friendly, versatile learning activities

Fun, interactive learning experiences that keep participants energized

Structured discussions so teachers can connect with one another and deepen their understanding through the expertise of their peers

Tools to help teachers tap into their inner strength and resilience

Workshop Topics

  • What if your teachers could feel renewed energy, purpose, and excitement for their jobs? Educators crave and deserve balance and wellness. This workshop helps them cultivate those, with strategies for shifting perspective on challenging situations, tips for good health that impact how they show up for their students, and kind yet firm peer accountability.

    While we often *know* how to be healthier and happier, we don’t always uphold the habits that lead us there. This workshop makes success in this area easy. Peer support and mutual accountability are key elements in each session, because as the research makes clear, resilience is higher when the community is strong.

    The structure of this workshop is a combination of helpful content, individual reflection, and structured small-group conversations, all pointed toward cultivating resilience. Participants leave this series with a refreshed perspective on teaching and a toolkit of ways to take good care of themselves so that they feel better about their work.

  • Need some fresh ideas for student SEL? This interactive workshop explores the five core competencies of social-emotional learning (SEL). These interconnected skills help build empathy, resilience, interpersonal abilities, and independence. Participants will walk away with new ideas for activities that promote self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making in students. Examples include journaling, mindfulness and breathing exercises, self-management techniques, role-playing exercises, empathy- and community-building, communication, team-building, and more.

  • Research shows that having clear learning goals is one of the top three factors impacting student achievement. This session ensures teachers learn and experiment with best practices in learning targets. They’ll learn how to include standards-based goals, student-friendly language, and checks for whether students met the target. Teachers will end up knowing how to create focused, standards-based learning targets that guide the lesson planning process and yield higher achievement rates.

  • This interactive workshop will help you reimagine your classroom behavior challenges as opportunities to teach for inclusion. Learn the brain science behind engagement and practical strategies for use in your classroom. You will leave feeling empowered with tools you can use to excite and connect students to the content and skills in your curriculum.

  • As educators, we know that we must push students past their comfort level to pique their curiosity and motivate them through challenge. The hard part is creating inclusive learning enviromnents in which the learning objectives are accessible for all students. In this series or session, teachers will explore the principles of UDL and learn to design lessons that proactively address learner variability. Teachers will leave with ways to present information, design tasks, and engage students fiexibly. Finally, we will harness the resources inherent in each other: time will be provided for teachers to collaborate and support each other in addressing the challenges of meeting all learners’ needs.

  • When teachers craft effective lesson plans, student learning outcomes improve dramatically. What are best practices in planning effective lessons? This workshop teaches a flexible yet structured approach to assembling all the elements of instruction - from engagement to differentiation. Teachers will explore myriad real-life lesson plans, reflect on their current lesson planning practices, and spend time creating their own lessons using the tools provided.

  • Based on the groundbreaking research of Carol Dweck, the concept of growth mindset has become an increasingly common topic among teachers. Convincing students that their efforts, NOT natural talents, will bring them success in any area of school or life is crucial to a positive classroom environment as well as student learning outcomes - this is Dweck's premise. Yet based on a 2016 study by Education Week, 85% of teachers, whether previously trained on mindset or not, wished for further training on the topic. Teachers will leave this workshop with a variety of ways to infuse growth mindset into your lessons and to cultivate growth mindsets in students, thereby supporting an inclusive learning environment for all.

  • In this session, teachers will learn strategies for increasing accessibility to grade-level standards and high levels of thinking for all students. A variety of ways to differentiate instruction and learning will be explored. In addition to inclusion techniques, teachers will also examine several examples of standards-driven, differentiated assignments. Finally, time will be provided for teachers to "workshop" an upcoming assignment for their own classroom, with the support of colleagues and the facilitator.

Bring a workshop to your school

You’ll hear back from me within two business days so we can set up a time to talk through your school’s PD needs, explore any questions, and discuss next steps for bringing a workshop to your school.

I look forward to hearing from you!

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