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Workshops for Teachers
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
10 PDPs ~ 2 Days ~ $435
 

  • 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.
     

November 12, 2024  AND November 13, 2024
Students in a Science Class

Student Engagement and Student-Centered Instruction

10 PDPs ~ 2 Days ~  8 am - 2 pm  ~  $435

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

  • Learn how to move students outside their comfort zones and close critical thinking gaps.

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

  • Transform compliance lessons and passive students into inquiry fueled lessons and intellectually engaged learners.

  • Harness curiosity to support creative self-efficacy and independent responsibility for learning.

  • Examine how exploration builds autonomy, motivates the learner, and increases engagement.

  • Elevate the learning zone over the performance zone.

  • Workshop best practices and principles of student centered learning. 

December 3, 2024    AND    December 4, 2024

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.

December 13, 2024     
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

The Grade Awakening

I know. I think I know. I forget! Now what?

5 PDPs   ~   8 am - 2 pm  ~  $250

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  • Disrupt the forgetting curve and re-imagine homework and grading!

  • Move from what students know and are able to do – to – how students think and are able to apply what they know.

  • What about grading product, process, and progress? (T. Guskey, 2015)

  • How do assessments develop metacognition, sustain rigorous engagement, and ask students to apply, create, contribute, and problem-solve?

  • Explore contract grading and conferencing. 

  • Elevate assessing enduring understandings and transferable skills.

  • Are we grading compliance or cognition? Is it rigorous?  Or just rigid?

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.

March 5, 2025
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
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