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Workshops
2025-2026
Helping a Student

Inclusive Practices and MTSS (multi-tiered system of support) for the MHS Classroom

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5 PDPs   ~   8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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Instructor: Kim McHugh

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  • 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

  • Leave with 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 ownership of learning

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February 5, 2026

Teen study group

Discourse & Dialogue 

Where Students Drive the Conversation​

5 PDPs ~   8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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 Make thinking visible, make conversation meaningful, and make learning a practice of respectful, rigorous dialogue.

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Instructor: Dr. Terri Sullivan and Kim McHugh

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·  Model and practice discourse protocols to develop intellectual curiosity, courage, and tenacity.

·  Develop norms for equitable and powerful participation.

-  Explore the Harkness pedagogical model for whole class dialogue.

·  Integrate discourse prompts and routines from Harvard's PZ Thinking Routines into content lessons.

-  Design lessons framed in the intellectual virtues that cultivate healthy dialogue and discourse.

·  Connect dialogue to SEL, belonging, and inclusive communities.

·  Adapt your current lessons into “thinking conversations” using tools and strategies for discourse. 

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February 11, 2026

Lecture Presentation

Leadership Out Loud: Local to Global

Turning Practice into Publishable and Presentable Work

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5 PDPs   ~   8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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Instructors: Dr. Terri Sullivan and Dr. Dympna Thomas

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  • Leverage your skills and your work to open a whole new professional world

  • Learn how to access local and international speaking opportunities

  • Write your publishable abstract TODAY and SUBMIT your abstract for publication and/or presentation

  • Access the RIGHT opportunities that support your professional goals

  • Understand pathways to publish books, peer-reviewed articles, and thought leadership pieces in education journals, magazines, and online platforms

  • Practice framing YOUR current school leadership insights into publishable narratives

February 27, 2026

Managing Defiance and Dysregulation in the Classroom

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5 PDPs   ~   8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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Instructor: Kim McHugh

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  • Apply cognitive strategies to emotion regulation.

  • Employ purposeful relationship building strategies.

  • Recognize hypoarousal, hyperarousal, and cognitive fusion.

  • Practice defusion dos and don’ts.

  • Review classroom management fundamentals to thwart student defiance.

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

March 5, 2026

Team Building and Leadership Culture

5 PDPs  ~  8 am  - 2 pm  ~  $250

Instructor: Michaela Gill, Principal, Silver Lake Regional High School

  • Master communication protocols

  • Evaluate your practice to support educator sustainability

  • Ground decisions in learner centered and culturally proficient principles

  • Employ practices that emphasize distributive leadership and capacity building

  • Apply principles of MTSS with/for your staff

  • Explore team building strategies of highly effective business models and athletics

March 11, 2026 

Team Planning Session

Co-teaching for Diverse Learners

5 PDPs  in Special Education

  8 am  - 2 pm  ~  $250

Instructor: Terri Sullivan

  • 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

  • Build lesson planning strategies into your repertoire that includes appropriate support staff

  • 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

March 20, 2026

Study Groups

High Impact Academic Support

5 PDPs in Special Education

  8 am  - 2 pm  ~  $250 

Instructor: Terri Sullivan

  • Map IEP service delivery to Academic Support instruction

  • Design high impact routines to maximize skill building and engagement

  • Explore several progress monitoring strategies

  • Create menus of SEL skills (self-advocacy, task initiation, self-regulation, independence, goal setting) to embed into your practice

  • Marry UDL (Universal Design for Learning) principles with IEP principles

April 1, 2026

Girls in the Library

Unlocking the Text

Building Critical Reading Skills in Secondary ELA

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Two-part series 

10 PDPs   ~   8 am - 2 pm ~  $450

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Instructor: Kim McHugh

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•Apply strategies that move students from basic comprehension to deep, analytical reading.

•Model critical questioning techniques that encourage students to evaluate and interpret texts.

•Design scaffolded activities that help students tackle complex and unfamiliar reading material.

•Integrate analysis of author’s purpose, tone, and bias into ELA lessons for grades 7-12.

•Create formative and summative assessments that measure critical thinking and evidence-based responses.

•Curate diverse and engaging texts that promote discussion, debate, and multiple perspectives.

December 4, 2025 AND April 9, 2026
Student Presenting

Smart Starts Here

Metacognitive Strategies for MHS

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5 PDPs   ~   8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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Instructor: Kim McHugh

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  • Distinguish between cognitive and metacognitive strategies in instructional design.

  • Identify developmental stages and scaffolds for building metacognitive skills in students.

  • Model and embed metacognitive language and reflection practices into daily lessons.

  • Design learning experiences that support students in planning, monitoring, and evaluating their thinking.

  • Use formative assessments to make student thinking visible and guide strategic reflection.

  • Explore tools, protocols, and routines that promote a metacognitive culture in the classroom.

May 1, 2026

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 Difficult Conversations ~ Effective Confrontation

Responding to the Current Landscape

 
8 am - 2 pm   ~   5 PDPs ~ $250
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Instructor: Dr. Terri Sullivan

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  • Master the art and science of conflict management (Judy Ringer, Simon Sinek, Jefferson Fisher and Terri Sullivan).

  • Develop communication skills to navigate difficult people.

  • Learn the six elements of mastering difficult conversations.

  • Employ deescalating techniques to common scenarios.

  • Recognize fear-based behavior and resistance.

  • Apply specific strategies to five difficult personality types.

  • Practice difficult conversations for mediations, complaints, and evaluation conferences

** Intended for adult-to-adult interactions

May 15, 2026

Meeting at the office

The Practice of Leadership

Leadership isn't what you intend, it's what people experience!

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10 PDPs   ~    8 am - 2 pm   ~  $450 

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This two-day workshop is grounded in the belief that leadership is intentional and visible—not positional or implied. ‘Bossing’ is a learned skill, not a title. Designed to build leadership capacity across roles, this experience helps districts develop a strong leadership pipeline by equipping current and aspiring leaders with the tools, language, and systems needed to hold the line, build trust, and manage performance in complex school environments—even when the leader is not in the room. Participants move from being overwhelmed to operational, strengthening individual effectiveness while increasing organizational capacity.

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This is not a sit-and-get workshop. It’s an applied leadership experience designed to strengthen the skills, systems, and stamina required to lead people, systems, and change under pressure.

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DAY ONE OUTCOME: Participants leave with increased confidence and competence in leading adults, managing performance, and holding the line in ways that protect relationships while maintaining standards.​

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DAY TWO OUTCOME: Participants leave with systems and routines that move leadership from reactive to sustainable, increasing organizational capacity while protecting leader effectiveness.

June 9th & June 10th 

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Wired: A Neuro-Leadership Unconference

A new paradigm for sustainable success for aspiring to retiring school leaders! 

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Three-day series 

20 PDPs   ~   8 am - 2 pm  ~  $800

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Facilitated by Dr. Terri Sullivan, this dynamic three-day cohort series blends the flexibility of an unconference with targeted leadership learning. Participants will drive the agenda by selecting discussion topics most relevant to their work, while also engaging in guided explorations of how neuroscience principles can enhance leadership practices. Through interactive, problem-based leadership scenarios, participants will tackle real-world challenges, practicing strategies that build innovation, adaptability, and practical solutions under pressure. Together, we will strengthen team coherence, problem-solving capacity, and emotional agility, while sharing inclusive, tiered leadership practices designed to foster resilient, thriving school cultures.​

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October 24, 2025

January 14, 2026

March 27, 2026

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