These 1 hour, 3 hour, and full day sessions will help your school implement strength based practices that will increase student engagement. These sessions will include:

The Department of Education requires all state assessments to assess higher order thinking, reasoning, critical thinking, communication, and understanding challenging content. These skills are also necessary for solving problems and making good decisions in life. These 1 hour and 3 hour sessions will include:

Intro to theories of intelligence

Understanding types of critical thinking

Understanding types of inference

Sentence Frames for critical thinking

Sentence Frames for making inferences

State test prep for reasoning

Many schools have been established with an emphasis on STEM or STEAM. Some schools have incorporated “Habits of Mind” and many gifted programs use Depth & Complexity icons. But shouldn’t every school develop higher level thinking in all students? This session will show how Inquiry & Design can be integrated across the curriculum to elevate thinking and problem solving for all students. This is transformative since it will impact your students’ ability to learn in addition to developing student agency. These 3 hour and Full day sessions will include:

The difference between Inquiry & Scientific Inquiry

Using Inquiry across the curriculum

Engineering Design as a problem solving process

Engineering Design across the curriculum

Data Analysis: Begin with the end in mind

Growing future-ready, life-long learners

Would you like to see your students more engaged and excited about learning the state standards? If so, the first step is getting to know the interests and strengths in every student. A Talent Development Program will provide instructional time for students to explore their interests and develop expertise. Through career exploration students will identify careers where their talents are desired. A Talent Development Program will help to show the “why” in every class. These 3 hour and Full Day sessions will include:

Explore free & premium EdTech examples for identifying and managing student interests & strengths

Explore various talent development programs & choose the one or hybrid that works for you

Explore how AI language models can serve as “personal motivators and career coaches”

JigSaw and Brainstorming for connecting to careers

Building future-ready student profiles

How sound is your Balanced Assessment Program? Are your teachers using formative assessment data to inform instruction and provide feedback to students and parents? Do you have consistent rules or work flow for deciding which students need remediation or intervention? Do your rules suggest the intensity of the interventions and does your progress monitoring data determine the effectiveness of your interventions? Are you able to track growth across the district from Fall, Winter, and Spring? And finally, does your Summative Assessment results correlate with your formative and interim data? These 3 hour and Full Day sessions will include:

Exploring types of assessments

*Identifying & classifying the assessments used in your buildings

*Identifying if multiple assessments of the same type are being used that are adding costs and reducing instructional time

*Evaluating the utilization of assessment data

*Exploring free and premium tools for bringing the data together to build student profiles

(*Note: an assessment audit will use this input from Principals, Teachers, and Specialists to prepare a formal report for the Superintendent. A follow-up meeting with the Superintendent and selected stakeholders where the audit findings are reviewed may be requested at no additional charge)

Sales Coaching: Developing your EdTech sales team’s expertise in solution and consultative selling and delivering winning presentations

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