Professional Learning Services:
Reshaping the Profession of Teaching—
On the Ground, in Your District
Teachers21 will help you design the best professional learning support to meet your needs and goals around improving teaching, leading and learning in your district. Below, you can explore the three areas of our offerings:
Effective Leadership
Teachers21 offers varied opportunities for administrators and school leaders to examine the knowledge base on leadership and to engage in reflective inquiry in order to help all students and staff become more successful. Professional development and coaching opportunities are designed to support a leader in developing skills in supervision and evaluation, instruction, strategic leadership, change management, data analysis, long- and short-term planning, and professional learning communities. Our current offerings in Effective Leadership include:
Instructional Leadership:
The following topics may be designed as courses,institutes, or workshops:
- The DNA of School Leadership
- The Administrator as Instructional Leader
- Classroom Walk-Throughs
- Closing the Achievement Gap
- Leadership in the Field of Special Education
Planning and Evaluation Services:
The following services may be customized according to a district’s needs:
- Strategic Planning
- Curriculum Planning
- Professional Development Planning
- Comprehensive Induction Planning
- Program Evaluation
Leadership Coaching:
Leadership coaching is recommended as a monthly or multiple-session service.
Want to learn more? Give us a call at 781-416-0980 to request our full packet of offerings, discuss your needs and ideas with our Director of Professional Development, or book a course, workshop, or other training in your district.
Powerful Teaching
The data from numerous studies of the past decade have shown that what a teacher knows, believes, and can do is what matters most when it comes to student achievement. Teachers21 offers a comprehensive range of opportunities for teachers to hone their instructional skills, expand their content knowledge and pedagogy, articulate their curriculum, and extend their understanding of children and their differences. Below, you'll find an overview of our current offerings on Powerful Teaching:
Powerful Practice:
- Differentiated Instruction
- Assessment for Improving Student Learning
- Standards-Based Instruction
- Project Based Learning
- Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
- Effective Teaching Strategies
- Effective Teaching Strategies for Paraprofessionals
- Response to Intervention
- Effective Inclusion Practices
- Co-Teaching Strategies
- Interdisciplinary Instruction
- To Think or Not to Think
Content-Specific Pedagogy:
- Literacy
- Math
- Science
- Social Studies
- Technology
Instructional Coaching for Teachers:
- Content Coaching
- Powerful Practice Coaching
- Model Classroom Coaching
- Course Application Coaching
- Train the Trainer: Support for In-District Instructional Coaches
Interested by what you've seen so far? Give us a call at 781-416-0980 for more information.
Supportive Learning Environment
To create an engaging, relevant, and rigorous learning environment for students, a community’s educators must themselves be participants in a climate that fosters continuous growth, risk taking, and ongoing collaboration. Students succeed in schools where educators are continuously analyzing data and examining student work to guide instructional practices and learning outcomes. Below are some of our current offerings on the Supportive Learning Environment:
Comprehensive Induction:
- Beginning Teacher Institute
- Mentoring New Teachers
- Advanced Mentor Training
- Beginning Teacher Network
- The Administrator’s Role in Supporting Beginning Teachers 21
- Differentiating Supervision and Evaluation for Beginning Teachers: Leadership Training for Administrators
Professional Learning Communities:
- Building Professional Learning Communities for Increasing Student Achievement
- Teacher Leadership to Strengthen Teaching and Learning
- Creating High Performing Teams
- Curriculum Mapping
- Open and Honest Communication: Having those Difficult Conversations
- Looking at Student Work
- Using Action Research To Manage Change and Improve Schools
- Using Data to Improve Student Achievement
Classroom Culture and Climate:
- Building School Culture In an Era of School Reform
- Bullying
- Classroom Management
- Equity, Diversity and Social Justice in the Classroom
- Strengthening Family-School Partnership
Secondary School Redesign:
- Secondary School Redesign
- Redesigning Regional Technical Vocational High Schools for the 21st Century
- Personalizing Learning: Advisor/Advisee
- Teaching in the Block
- Transitioning to High School: The Ninth Grade Academy
Instructional Coaching for Teams:
- Using Protocols: Analyzing Student Work, Tuning Protocols, and Consultancy Protocols
- Implementing Action Steps
- Coaching for Team Leaders
Don't see what you're looking for here?; We want to know!; Give us a call with your questions, comments, and requests at 781-416-0980.
Planning your summer and school year professional development?
Not sure how to find the right presenters?
Teachers21 professional development staff is available to meet with your school/district to assess your PD needs and to map out a professional development program.
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