MA DESE Professional Development Provider #S2022-0016
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Leadership/Administration
- Safe and Supportive Learning Environments
- Special Education
Educational Leadership Uncensored, LLC
Mentor Training
Two Session Series ~ September 24 and September 25
10 PDPs ~ $450 ~ Lunch Included
Instructor: Kim McHugh
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Build trusting, productive mentoring relationships.
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Coach new teachers using reflective questioning and evidence-based feedback.
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Conduct meaningful classroom observations and post-observation conferences.
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Support novice teachers with classroom management, instruction, planning, and professional growth.
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Navigate difficult mentoring situations with confidence and professionalism.
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Foster teacher resilience and well-being while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
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Develop a yearlong mentoring plan with practical tools and resources that can be implemented immediately.
The Crisis Ready Leader
Through the unthinkable with confidence, compassion, and proven protocols
5 PDPs in Leadership/Administration
8 am - 2 pm ~ $250 ~ Lunch included
Instructor: Michaela Gill, Principal, SLRHS
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Navigate high-stakes school threats
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Manage grief and loss with compassion
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Build clear, actionable workflows for physical site emergencies such as gas leaks, fires, or natural disasters
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Access tools to control the digital narrative
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Coordinate multi-agency collaboration
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Establish "Return to Learn" frameworks that address long-term trauma and operational recovery after the immediate danger has passed.
October 8, 2026
High Impact Academic Support
5 PDPs in Special Education
8 am - 2 pm ~ $250 ~ Lunch included
Instructor: Terri Sullivan
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Map IEP service delivery to Academic Support instruction
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Apply proven strategies to improve subgroup achievement
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Incorporate tier one skill building into tier two services
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Design high impact routines to maximize skill building and engagement
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Create menus of SEL skills (self-advocacy, task initiation, self-regulation, independence, goal setting) to embed into your practice
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Marry UDL (Universal Design for Learning) principles with IEP principles
October 22, 2026
Co-teaching for Diverse Learners
5 PDPs in Special Education
8 am - 2 pm ~ $250 ~ Lunch included
Instructor: Dr. Terri Sullivan
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Strengthen clarity of expectations and defined roles and responsibilities for special educator, paraprofessional, and content area educator Explore several evidence-based co-teaching models for Middle/HS classrooms
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Build lesson planning strategies into your repertoire that includes appropriate support staff
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Create a tiered communication system for each student’s team that does not overwhelm staff with TMI and yet ensures those who need to know are appropriately kept in the loop
October 23, 2026
MTSS and Inclusive Practices for School Leaders
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5 PDPs ~ 8 am - 2 pm ~ $250 ~ Lunch included
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Instructor: Michaela Gill, Principal, Silver Lake Regional High School
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This workshop guides leaders in examining current policies and systems to ensure they actively support inclusive practices and equitable outcomes for all students:
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Develop models for tiered school and district wide screening and progress
monitoring
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Employ specific elements of adaptive and collaborative leadership
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Review district and school data to support resource allocation at each tier
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Leverage your Strategy for District Improvement and School Improvement Plan
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Build community and staff buy in
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Explore and/or expand how your current practices and policies support inclusive practices
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October 27, 2026
Inclusive Practices and MTSS (multi-tiered system of support) for the MHS Classroom)
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5 PDPs ~ 8 am - 2 pm ~ $250 ~ Lunch included
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Instructor: Kim McHugh
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Develop proactive, preventative, and tiered protocols
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Apply UDL (Universal Design for Learning) principles in the classroom
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Use school and specific student data to inform your practice and improve student achievement
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Review pedagogical tier one practices for high quality instruction
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Leave with a tier one toolbox of interventions and supports
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Review instructional elements of inclusive practices, metacognition, and social-emotional learning
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Practice the integration of instructional and behavioral evidence-based interventions and supports to maximize student engagement and ownership of learning
October 29, 2026
Discourse & Dialogue
Make thinking visible, make conversation meaningful, and make learning a practice of respectful, rigorous dialogue.
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5 PDPs ~ 8 am - 2 pm ~ $250 ~ Lunch included
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​​Instructor: Kim McHugh
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Model and practice discourse protocols to develop intellectual curiosity, courage, and tenacity.
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Develop norms for equitable and powerful participation.
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Explore the Harkness pedagogical model for whole class dialogue.
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Integrate discourse prompts and routines from Harvard's PZ Thinking Routines into content lessons.
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Design lessons framed in the intellectual virtues that cultivate healthy dialogue and discourse.
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Connect dialogue to SEL, belonging, and inclusive communities.
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Adapt your current lessons into “thinking conversations” using tools and strategies for discourse. ​​​​​​
November 5, 2026
Progress Monitoring that Works
Because "seems better" isn't evidence
8 am - 2 pm ~ $250 ~ Includes lunch
5 PDPs in Special Education
Instructor: Dr. Terri Sullivan
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Identify simple, meaningful data sources that can be collected during everyday instruction
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Distinguish between completion, performance, skill acquisition, and independence
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Develop practical ways to monitor academic, executive functioning, and SEL skills
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Establish baseline, benchmarks, and criteria for success
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Create efficient systems for gathering input from special educators, general educators, and paraprofessionals
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Analyze student data to determine: continue, adjust, intensify, fade, or exit a support
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Create a ready-to-use progress-monitoring plan for one of your own students or IEP goals