Professional Consulting Services

Workshops, keynotes, residencies, intensives, school and district consulting, strategic planning and demonstration teaching

Completely customized in-person and online professional learning including:

  • Demonstration and co-teaching including whole class, small groups, and student conferences

  • All aspects of curriculum and instruction planning with teachers, coaches, and other school leaders

  • Individual consultation with teachers and teams

  • Webinars

  • Book study facilitation

Audiences

K – 8 teachers, principals, coaches, paraprofessionals, school district curriculum and instruction professionals, pre-service teachers, and parents

Topic Include:

  • Effective research-based instructional practices in reading, writing, and inquiry-based learning

  • Literacy Studio: Integrating reading and writing for maximum time efficiency and student learning

  • Teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, and response to reading

  • Effective writing instruction including original and responsive writing

  • Assessing all aspects of literacy

  • Understanding what is essential in literacy curriculum, K - 8

  • Developing and engaging children in oral language—speaking and listening

  • Best practices in the classroom when using state standards and state assessments

  • Understanding research in literacy instruction

  • Helping parents understand best practices in literacy instruction

  • Supporting professional learning for teachers—strategic planning for professional learning and best practices in coaching teachers in literacy

  • Undertaking action research in the classroom