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A keynote supports and motivates your teachers to use best practices and new research related to classroom instruction. Solution Tree authors and associates are available and capable to customize their work for your needs.

Support underserved students using culturally and linguistically responsive teaching strategies across content areas and grade levels.

Today’s educators face any number of challenges when trying to satisfy their students’ literacy needs, including heated debates within the profession on best practices. Authors LeAnn Nickelsen and Melissa Dickson examine today’s literacy wars by combining educational neuroscience, the formative assessment process, and differentiation to create The Literacy Triangle, a three-sided model incorporating reading, discussing, and writing tools.

Educators in any grade level or content area will learn the essential tools needed to help students take ownership of their learning. Support your students as they build their metacognitive skills, motivation to learn, ability to regulate their emotions, and strategies for problem solving.

The transition from traditional teacher-led learning to student-centered blended learning can be daunting, so education leaders must have a clear vision. This impactful session will explore the why, how, and what of blended learning so leaders can communicate the value of this shift to teachers, students, and parents.

Improve curriculum and student achievement by implementing the most effective and efficient instructional techniques. Educators in all grade levels and subjects will benefit from learning how learning occurs and how to use brain-based teaching techniques.

Geared toward all elementary school teachers, this session focuses on practical, research-based strategies and methods to implement STEM in the classroom. Get the information and context you need to make informed decisions about implementing STEM.

Examine and improve the multitiered system of supports in your school or district through The Road to Success With MTSS professional learning supports. Expert practitioners in the field will guide your teams through a critical review of your existing MTSS elements and design an updated plan that adds to and strengthens your systems of academic and behavioral supports that benefit all students.

With an extensive research basis highlighting their cognitive, socioemotional, linguistic, and even physiological benefits, read alouds are a key element in building students’ language comprehension. Yet, statistics show that 50–70 percent of elementary teachers do not devote intentional planning time for their read alouds (McCaffrey and Hisrich 2017). In this workshop, experts highlight effective read-alouds as complex instructional interactions that require thoughtful preparation and deep understanding of a text. Discover how to plan and implement read alouds optimized to support all learners.

Incorporating student movement while learning can amplify students’ focus and interest in the learning process. During this workshop, participants discover instructional strategies that use movement to engage students in learning. Explore ways to immediately integrate these effective techniques in the classroom.

With this results-oriented approach, learn how to create a meaningful and motivating learning experience across grade levels and content areas. Rely on the model’s five steps—(1) focus, (2) reach, (3) ask, (4) model, and (5) encourage—to help you launch engaging lessons, articulate clear expectations, and offer effective feedback.

Discover a proven, measurable, and transparent framework for cultivating learner agency from kindergarten to postsecondary education. In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of agency in schools, showing that when students have agency over their learning, they are more engaged, motivated, and successful.

Learn to be a highly effective teacher, and remember why you love what you do! This highly engaging workshop delivers immediately implementable tools and strategies that new teachers (and any teacher who needs a brushup) can use to command the classroom with confidence and poise.

Empower your substitutes or new teachers to lead their classrooms with high engagement and a focus on learning.

Energize the elements of high-quality instruction without huge investment of time or resources. Drawn from the title Teach Brilliantly: Small Shifts That Lead to Big Gains in Student Learning by James A. Nottingham, this impactful service will provide new insights into effective practice with a wealth of practical strategies applicable in every educational context.

Learn how to phrase and pose good questions that will “hook” students’ curiosity and guide them along four different pathways to inquiry: Foundational, Understanding, Deep, and Expertise.

Discover how to determine students’ learning needs and help them reach their fullest potential.

Motivate students who are disengaged in the learning process. Explore a range of strategies for connecting with these students, developing their competence, and creating a fun learning environment.

Discover a framework for substantive change that comprehensively addresses the most alterable effect on student achievement: instruction.

Designed for teachers in the early stages of their careers, as well as mentors, coaches, and supervisors, this two-day training identifies six phases every beginning teacher goes through, offering crucial advice and strategies for each.

Lead your school to success with key strategies and practices that establish a learning culture, such as creating an inclusive environment and inspiring teachers to become leaders.

Provide effective differentiated instruction to students with varying needs, from disabilities to twice-exceptionality.

Cultivate meaningful student engagement by understanding the theories and teaching strategies of learner autonomy, motivation, self-determination, and participation in the classroom.

Ensure your art and music programs thrive with music- and arts-based teaching strategies built upon the research-based framework of Dr. Robert J. Marzano’s New Art and Science of Teaching. Educators will learn how to enhance their daily practices and promote the artistic expression, creative growth, and critical thinking skills of every student.

Make the most of The New Art and Science of Teaching model in math classrooms. Discover tools and instructional strategies for math that will aid teachers in articulating learning targets, conducting math lessons, tracking students’ learning outcomes, and more.

Implement a four-step instructional cycle based on the synthesis of educational neuroscience, formative assessment, and differentiated instruction. As teachers are able to gradually release learning to students, these high-impact strategies, tools, and concepts have the power to double the speed of their learning and transform students into active learners and independent thinkers.

Explore ways in which findings from educational neuroscience inform the big ideas and key practices of differentiation, and how applying those ideas helps teachers create brain-friendly classrooms. You’ll also gain instructional strategies and practices that support teachers in addressing the varied learning needs of their students.

Bring the real world into your classroom and encourage creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and innovation with activities and projects based on engineering design thinking. Model and develop strategies and approaches to connect your current curriculum to real-world challenges and to engage all learners in designing solutions.

Instructional coaches play a crucial role in helping educators meet the ever-changing demands placed on teaching and learning. In this on-site professional learning engagement, coaches will discover seven drivers they can use to best support teachers in their daily work: (1) collaboration, (2) transparency, (3) inquiry, (4) discourse, (5) reverberation, (6) sincerity, and (7) influence.

The term ”personalized learning” carries all kinds of connotations for all kinds of people. When considered from the perspective of the learner, this term becomes more accessible and even exciting for educators. Engage with practical, proven strategies, stories, and resources that empower individual educators, schools, and districts to authentically personalize learning.

Rethink student engagement and bring flow to the classroom to inspire students to love learning and reach optimal achievement. Using the key components of flow, generate a state of flow in the classroom every day to spark optimal student performance.

During this three-day workshop, participants will develop a completed individual sustainable project-based learning (SPBL) unit design infused with high-impact strategies, a clear assessment plan, and a way to measure the evidence of student learning through teacher action research.

Put the student before the score, the process before the product, and relationships before evaluation. The Embracing Relational Teaching professional learning engagement explores and implements relational teaching practices to create a more inclusive and supportive learning environment. Training sessions provide an interactive experience that explores key topics such as building relationships, promoting student voice and agency, integrating social-emotional learning into instruction, and more. Participants will leave with practical tools, resources, and strategies to build strong, authentic relationships with their students that can positively impact their well-being and achievement.

How can students achieve a deep understanding of multiplication that allows them to develop fluency with their basic facts that goes beyond recall to explain and justify their thinking? Experience the six strategies that make up the Fact Tactics™ Fluency Program, designed to shift from drill-and-kill instruction to an approach that helps students make sense of multiplication while developing automaticity and procedural fluency.

Without the mastery of essential literary skills, students fall behind and struggle to reach their full potential in the classroom and their chosen career. In this multiday workshop, educators discover the tools they need to embed literacy into all subjects and support developing students as they learn to read, write, and think critically.

The ability to overcome learning challenges, struggles, and setbacks is a skill that empowers students throughout their lives. In this multiday workshop, educators explore the why and how of creating resilient learners through the power of “not yet.” Discover how to cultivate a classroom where productive struggle is encouraged, obstacles are valued, and students deeply value themselves as learners.

Learn how Depth of Knowledge clarifies what exactly students must learn and how deeply students must understand and use their learning to demonstrate proficiency, develop competency, or perform successfully.

Get a 15-day roadmap for success using the PLC at Work™ process through enhanced collaboration, easy-to-use planning guides, and ready-to-use templates.

Ensure best-practice instruction is adopted throughout your school or district with job-embedded coaching. Our expert coaches will provide professional development tailored to the needs of each staff member, with a custom mix of classroom observations, lesson-planning support, targeted feedback, and more.

Give your team personalized support and guidance focused on instructional best practices. Together, we’ll develop a customized learning plan featuring on-site professional development and virtual training opportunities specifically designed to help your staff provide quality instruction that leads to quality learning.

Access hundreds of instructional videos and resources, including the New Art and Science of Teaching video playlist, that reveal specific, proven actions you can take to ensure all students achieve academic success..