Professional Development
We work at schools with teachers and school leaders.
Whether it’s modeling instruction, providing feedback on teacher-delivered lessons, reviewing assessment data, analyzing student work and identifying instructional next steps, we work in partnership with school leaders and teachers.
We focus on student outcomes.
Improving the skills and knowledge of students is at the heart of education every single day. We are as committed to positive and impressive growth as you are. We work with schools to measure student progress, identify learning challenges and address them. We believe that every child can learn and we work as fellow educators to identify individual pathways to make learning joyful, rewarding and accessible for diverse students.
Whether it’s the extraordinary success in high school admissions of our High School Readiness program, our remarkable debaters in our Young Historians Program, or the dramatic reading growth of students in Bringing Classics to Life, our programs deliver measurable growth and impact.
We foster a love of learning.
Our programs help schools improve their state test performances…. but our goal reaches far beyond that. All of our programs reflect a love of learning; a belief that classroom instruction should be dramatic, compelling, fascinating and rigorous. Students work hard in our programs, but as they work, they laugh, experience a sense of wonder, use their creativity and puzzle things out, sometimes on their own and sometimes with others. The end result is a student who falls in love with the act of learning and grows in confident command of their ability to learn.
We strengthen teacher strategies in English Language Arts.
When schools need their teachers to speak a common language across ELA skills and strategies, they invite us to provide professional development institutes in the following topics:
Teaching Nonfiction with Focus Questions and Quick Jots
Evaluating Arguments: Claims, Reasoning and Evidence
Identifying A Theme
Poetry: Finding the Literal and Deeper Meaning
Part to Whole Questions
Whole to Part Questions
Identifying Text Structures
Summarizing versus Retelling