

Educational Leadership Uncensored, LLC
MA DESE Professional Development Provider

One Day Themed Workshops

Special Education and the Guidance Office : A Tug of War
5 PDPs ~ 8 am - 12 pm
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Understanding regulatory flexibility in state vs. local graduation requirements.
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Interpreting and aligning student transcripts with Out of District placements.
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Managing transportation, McKinney-Vento, Office of Civil Rights, Bureau of Special Education Appeals
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Scheduling supports and services from the IEP grid pages.
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Monitoring student progress and service delivery.
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Mastering the counselor’s role at the IEP meeting.
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Working with the Team Chair, Principal, and Special Education Administrator.
November 3, 2023
$200

Thwarting Student Dysregulation and Defiance
A Classroom Management Playbook
5 PDPs ~ 8 am - 2 pm
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Apply cognitive strategies to emotion regulation.
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Employ purposeful relationship building strategies.
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Recognize hypoarousal, hyperarousal, and cognitive fusion.
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Practice defusion dos and don’ts.
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Review classroom management fundamentals to thwart student defiance.
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Add lesson elements that increase emotionally positive hormone levels (dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, endorphins).
November 17, 2023
$250

​Immersion, Inquiry, and Intellectual Risk-taking
5 PDPs ~ 8 am - 2 pm
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Develop intellectual risk-taking strategies.
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Learn how to move students outside their comfort zones.
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Transform compliance lessons to inquiry fueled lessons.
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Harness curiosity to support creative self-efficacy.
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Examine how exploration builds autonomy and increases engagement.
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Elevate the learning zone over the performance zone.
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Workshop principles of phenomenon-based learning (from Finland).
December 1, 2023
$250

The Grade Awakening
I know. I think I know. I forget! Now what?
5 PDPs ~ 8 am - 2 pm
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Disrupt the forgetting curve and re-imagine homework and grading!
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Move from what students know and are able to do – to – how students think and are able to apply what they know.
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What about grading product, process, and progress? (T. Guskey, 2015)
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How do assessments develop metacognition, sustain rigorous engagement, and ask students to apply, create, contribute, and problem-solve?
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Explore contract grading and conferencing.
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Elevate assessing enduring understandings and transferable skills.
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Are we grading compliance or cognition? Is it rigorous? Or just rigid?
March 1, 2024
$250

​Conflict Management ~ Difficult Conversations ~ Effective Confrontation
Responding to the Current Landscape!
5 PDPs ~ 8 am - 2 pm
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Master the art and science of conflict management.
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Develop communication skills to navigate difficult people.
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Learn the six elements of mastering difficult conversations.
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Employ deescalating techniques to common scenarios.
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Recognize fear-based behavior and resistance.
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Apply specific strategies to five difficult personality types.
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Practice difficult conversations for mediations, complaints, and evaluation conferences.
March 22, 2024
$250