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Workshops for Teachers
Brainstorming

Cognitive Engagement Best Practices

Disrupt the Unmotivated Learner

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5 PDPs ~  8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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  • Workshop best practices and principles of student-centered learning.

  • Explore Harvard University's Project Zero and Thinking Routines.

  • Integrate Bloom's taxonomy with the principles of neuroscience.

  • Disrupt the neuropathways that drive motivation. 

  • Advance learning objectives from 'what students know and are able to do' to 'how students think and are able to apply'. 

  • Transform passive students into curious, thoughtful, intellectually engaged learners.

  • Develop cognitive engagement best practices to promote self-directed, immersive learning. 

December 4, 2024

         Supporting MA DESE Standards for Effective Practice

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               II-A-1 High Expectations and Support

               II-A-2 Engaging Instruction

               II-A-4 Critical Instruction

               II-B-4 Student Ownership of Learning

Girl Relaxing

Educator Wellness: Reset and Refuel

Responding to the noise and dysregulation (yours and theirs)

Building educator confidence, resilience, and sustainability 

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Co-taught with Diana Chaffalo, Littleredyoga, LLC

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5 PDPs  ~  8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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  • Employ techniques to prioritize self-care and well-being.

  • Learn tools to relax, reset, and re-energize.

  • Build self-confidence, fortitude, and tenacity for the workplace.

  • Disrupt the neural pathways causing stress and anxiety.

  • Control the cognitive and sensory overload that impedes perceived success.

  • Master strategies for self-regulation and time management.

  • Manage the compassion fatigue of caring for youth.

  • Apply and practice techniques in the yoga studio setting with certified staff.

March 21, 2025
Laying on a Chair

Thwarting Student Dysregulation and Defiance

Classroom Management: Where Neuropsychology and Pedagogy Meet

5 PDPs  ~  8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

  • Engage the dysregulated, defiant, and disinterested student.

  • Apply cognitive strategies to emotion regulation.

  • Identify teacher moves that invite or escalate conflict.

  • Employ purposeful relationship building strategies.

  • Recognize hypoarousal, hyperarousal, and cognitive fusion.

  • Practice defusion dos and don’ts.

  • Employ pedagogy that disrupts the neural pathways.

  • Review classroom management fundamentals to thwart student defiance.

  • Add lesson elements that increase emotionally positive hormone levels (dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, endorphins).

January 8, 2025

Group project help

Grade Expectations 

Standards based grading and a path to true competency determination

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Featuring John Scopelleti, MA DESE Rethinking Grading Fellow

Link to SST Journey to Standards Based Report Cards

 

5 PDPs   ~   8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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Join us for an engaging workshop designed for both teachers and school administrators ready to rethink grading practices in ways that are standards-based and aligned with competency determination. Shift the focus from simply evaluating what students know and can do, to how they think and apply their knowledge in meaningful ways. Dive into key questions: How can we assess product, process, and progress (T. Guskey, 2015)? What does equitable grading (J. Feldman, 2018) look like? How do assessments foster metacognition, sustain rigorous engagement, and challenge students to apply, create, contribute, and solve problems? Discover innovative approaches like contract grading and conferencing while emphasizing the importance of assessing enduring understandings and transferable skills. Together, we’ll tackle essential dilemmas: Are we grading compliance, behaviors, and habits or cognition and skills?  Are our practices truly rigorous, or are they just rigid?

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February 26, 2025 

Girl with Backpack

Inclusive Practices and MTSS (multi-tiered systems of support) for the Classroom
5 PDPs  ~  8 am - 2 pm  ~ $250 
 

  • Develop proactive, preventative, and tiered protocols.

  • Apply UDL (Universal Design for Learning) principles in the classroom.

  • Use school and specific student data to inform your practice and improve student achievement.

  • Review pedagogical tier one practices for high quality instruction.

  • Develop a tier one toolbox of interventions and supports.

  • Review instructional elements of inclusive practices, metacognition, and social-emotional learning.

  • Practice the integration of instructional and behavioral evidence-based interventions and supports to maximize student engagement and achievement.

TBD
Reading Outside

Harnessing AI in the Classroom: Transforming Teaching and Learning

David Murphy, Ed.D.  ~ Effective Effort Consulting and Special Education Teacher, Duxbury Public Schools

  • Unlock the potential of artificial intelligence to enhance teaching and learning.

  • Learn how AI tools can personalize learning experiences and provide real-time feedback to students.

  • Explore ethical considerations and best practices for integrating AI in educational settings.

  • Engage in interactive sessions to apply AI technologies in lesson planning, assessment, and student engagement. 

March 12, 2025
Students Taking Exams

Cognitive Neuroscience for Educators
Co-taught with Dr. David Murphy of Effective Effort Consulting and Duxbury Public Schools

5 PDPs  ~  8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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  • Review the science of neuroplasticity and how to incorporate strategies into lesson design to build new neural pathways.

  • Explore the role of sensory experiences and movement in learning.

  • Examine how sleep, nutrition, and emotions effect attention, learning, and memory.

  • Add elements of metacognition to lesson planning.

  • Understand brain structures and functions across developmental stages with particular focus on executive function and processing speed.

  • Apply neuroscience conceptual understanding to teaching strategies.

October 25, 2024
Teacher

Pedagogy Power-Up
5 PDPs  ~  8 am - 2 pm

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  • Refresh your current practice in response to a new kind of student.

  • What is the pedagogical framework that informs our instructional strategies and what elements of contemporary pedagogy are missing from your repertoire?

  • Explore contemporary pedagogy and how to apply specific elements for personalized, phenomenon based, and project based learning.

  • Flex your ‘go to’ comfortable teaching style to meet diverse learners where they are.

  • Examine the role of AI in lesson design and delivery.

  • Workshop time to apply learned principles.
     

DATES TBD
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