Education Solutions Now (ESN) believes professional development is important in any career field and it is equally important for educators. Teaching information, techniques, and methods are constantly being updated and changed and this means that your education alone will not be enough to serve you throughout your whole career.
We support the ideology that professional development is about life-long learning and growing as an educator. You always have the potential to progress and refine your skills. There is always more to learn and new skills to attain. Professional development can help you figure out why you make certain decisions, and can look into the way you think about and deal with certain situations.
This is why ESN offers a variety of professional developments. We not only have a set of professional developments that have previously been designed for various campus needs, but we also will tailor them to meet the needs of your campus. An initial consultation will assist us in planning for the development of your sessions.
Workshops vary in length from two hours, to two days, to two weeks, to two months depending on the analysis of the needs assessment and depth of the instruction.
A Teacher’s Guide to ADHD in the Classroom This 4 hour session explicitly outlines attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD and focuses on what educators need to know about ADHD: how it affects children in the classroom — girls as well as boys — and how we can help kids with the disorder succeed in school.
Bullying Prevention A down-to-earth set of rules and building supervision policies to minimize bullying and maximize legal protection from complaints.
Coaching for Instructional Coaches A focus on the power of reflective practice, building leadership skills, problem-based coaching models, and strategies to build a strong professional learning community.
Co-teaching that Works An opportunity for teachers to understand why two may be better than one, but that doesn’t mean they won’t butt heads in the inclusion classroom. With the help ESN co-teaching experts, you can ensure successful collaboration on your teaching teams.
Cross-Functional Teams The purpose of this training is to convey and establish a mindset of one. By providing a space, cross-functional teams will understand the importance of working together towards a common goal, particularly across different departments.
Culturally Responsive Teaching Teachers will develop the necessary skills and be equipped with tools to recognize the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning.
Data Driven Instruction Leaders receive training in how to lead effective assessment analysis meetings and how to put in place a productive data-driven culture that defines a higher bar for rigor for all students.
Designated Supports The purpose of this session will be to clarify testing and accommodation policies accessible to educators at the campus levels, including classroom teachers. Participants will gain knowledge on the benefits of establishing a system to identify, implement, and monitor scholar’s use of designated supports routinely, effectively, and independently. Designated Supports/Accommodations, Accessibility Features, and Gradual Release of these options can help a scholar who needs support be successful in class, state assessment, and ultimately in life.
Differentiated Instruction Provides an instructional theory that allows teachers to face this challenge by taking diverse student factors into account when planning and delivering instruction.
Engaging In Worthy-Work Collaboratively analyze content specific work samples to determine worthiness and identify potential action steps to strengthen the rigor, alignment, engagement, and quality of the work.
Guided Reading Participants will build a strong understanding of reading as a complex process and learn how to help students become more proficient readers through differentiated instruction in small, guided reading groups. They will use running records of oral reading behaviors to study a child’s progress in reading over time and consider the role that a gradient of texts and matching books to readers has on student progress. Participants will analyze assessment data to form flexible groups, select appropriate texts, and plan guided reading lessons for effective literacy instruction of diverse students.
Interventions Participants will learn directly from current and former practitioners who have firsthand experience implementing the RTI process. This session will deepen your expertise as individuals and teams with sessions designed to increase personal and collective efficacy. Participants will also acquire practical solutions to current roadblocks and challenges that your school may face.
Leadership 101 Engage in a back-to-basics session that focuses on the what—and the how—of effective leadership. From recognizing the characteristics of effective leadership to behaviors that undermine performance and leading with impact, you’ll leave with a solid understanding of how best to develop both aspiring leaders and seasoned veterans.
Literacy Strategies Across Content Areas Learn how to apply literacy standards into your content area. Teachers will explore Literacy Resources, create a teaching task, and develop a plan to use the task within classroom instruction.
Literacy Workstations An introduction to literacy work stations and how to make them purposeful and connected to instruction and state standards. This session will answer the question, “What does the rest of my class do while I’m working with a small reading group?” Includes practical suggestions for establishing, managing, and using literacy work stations.
Professional Learning Communities Leaders will develop a strong instructional leadership model that includes observation and feedback, curriculum planning, and leading professional development.
Running Records Allows you the opportunity to gain a better understanding of how to assess a student’s reading performance as she/he reads from a benchmark book. Note* Benchmark books are books selected for running record assessment purposes.
Self-Care First Understand why self-care is an important component of a teacher’s mental health, while addressing misconceptions about what it is. Become familiar with why it is important to take care of your teachers health so they are prepared to be the best teacher they can be for your students.
Small Group Instruction (Math and Reading) A no nonsense approach to developing and implementing successful instructional groups.
Social Emotional Learning Staff will learn to implement transformational processes focused on social-emotional wellbeing, relationship-driven campus culture, and student connectedness.
Ten Critical Classroom Management Strategies 10 strongly research-based, practical, cheap strategies which emphasize the role of the teacher managing his/her own behavior as critical to good classroom discipline.
The Difference between ADD and ADHD This quick and simple training brings a clear understanding by comparing the difference between ADD, or attention-deficit disorder, which is an older term for the disorder we now call ADHD, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Understanding Cultural Diversity Raise aware of the importance of respecting the cultural differences of others, and employers can offer training to increase awareness and to better equip employees to function in a diverse workplace.
Working with Parents A research- and experience-based workshop on how to best hold parent conferences, communicate problems, and build rapport and support, with special emphasis on how to work with different types of difficult parents.
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