Professional development
Trainings to get every student talking
Our trainings are built around simple, repeatable strategies that work across content areas and grade levels. Teachers leave ready to use them the next day.
Getting All Students Talking and Thinking
Imagine a lesson driven by students' voices, all using academic language in context. In this training, teachers practice simple, structured discussion routines they can use the next day — in any lesson, with any content. They leave with a planned lesson and a set of strategies that get every student talking and thinking, every day.
The Simplest Lesson Plan for Literacy and Oracy
What are the most essential parts of a lesson plan to ensure students develop literacy and oracy every day? In this training, teachers learn a simple framework that aligns content to language and makes lesson planning clear and effective. They leave having written real lesson plans and practiced strategies they can use immediately in any classroom.
Getting Students Asking Questions and Writing Arguments
How do we develop students' curiosity and turn that curiosity into critical thinking? This training shows teachers how to create a culture where questions come naturally, using the Question-Evidence-Claim-Reasoning approach to take students from curiosity to predicting, evaluating, and justifying. They leave with strategies they can use in any content area, the next day.
Integrating the ELPS into Content-Area Instruction
The new ELPS are here. Are your teachers ready? In this training, teachers learn a practical, simple approach to teaching the ELPS in partnership with the TEKS, so it feels like the natural way to teach, not one more thing to add. They leave with language objectives, differentiation strategies for EBs at every proficiency level, and immediately usable routines that get all students reading, writing, speaking, and thinking academically.
Trainings with The Visual Non-Glossary
We bring the same practical, immediately usable approach to trainings built around the VNG — helping your teachers get every student talking with academic vocabulary, from day one.
No sub coverage needed.
Every training is available as a PLC mini-session
No sub coverage needed. We deliver any of our trainings in a condensed 45- to 90-minute format during teachers' shared planning time. We model one strategy, help teachers plan it into an upcoming lesson, and leave time to reflect — without touching instructional time. PLC mini-sessions are most impactful as a series throughout the school year.
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