Learner-Centered Instruction
Do your classrooms cultivate clarity, engagement, and efficacy for all learners?
Strengthen learner agency to support students to become more confident, lifelong learners
Engage all learners in inquiry grounded in collaboration, questioning, and discussion
Leverage foundational knowledge and skills to create transfer-level learning experiences
Build and support a toolkit of effective strategies anchored to support surface, deep, and transfer of learning in your content area
What are your ‘learner-centered instruction’ goals?
A simple, doable approach to develop clarity and share it with students.
View PD OptionsMove from teacher-centered to learner-centered classrooms
View PD OptionsPractical strategies and tools for multilingual learners
View PD OptionsQuality, Customized Professional Learning That Works
Our professional learning pathways all have the same goal, to advance learner ownership, efficacy, and agency. We partner with your system to assess your needs and co-construct an action plan anchored in implementation science. We are ready to help and support you at any stage of your learning journey.
Our Learning Progression
Foundational Learning
Build a shared language of learning anchored in co-constructed goals and success criteria aligned to your mission and vision.
Job-Embedded Coaching
Empower educators using the gradual release of responsibility to model, coach, monitor, and analyze progress towards shared goals.
Sustainable Systems
Advance teacher agency to ensure risk-taking, innovation, and collective efficacy through quality implementation.
Clarity for Learning and Impact
Are both teachers and students clear about what must be learned, why students are learning it, and how they can be successful? Are students able to determine their next steps in learning through quality feedback and assessment? Clarity for Learning, by best selling author and assessment expert, Kara Vandas, offers a simple and doable approach to developing clarity and sharing it with students.
Clarity for Learning and Impact
This professional learning series offers five powerful practices that include:
- Gaining clarity as educators
- Sharing clarity and advancing student agency
- Assessing with clarity
- Feedback with clarity
- Collaborating with clarity: Impact Teams
Clarity for Learning: Five Essential Practices that Empower Students and Teachers
Kara Vandas and John Almarode
Learner-Centered Engagement
Do your teachers need support shifting from teacher-centered to student-centered learning? This series by “questioning guru” Connie Hamilton puts learners at the center by applying evidence-based strategies and protocols to empower reflective learners through active engagement and listening, meaningful discussion, and collaboration. Regardless of the focus of your session, everyone will leave with strategies and tools they can apply in school the next day.
Learner-Centered Questioning
Questions serve as a driving force for learning. Experience and learn to implement strategies for impactful, learner-centered instruction through any of the following professional learning opportunities:
- Question-Answer-Relationships
- Question Formulation Technique
- Socratic Questioning
Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series)
Connie Hamilton
Active Listening and Discussion
The person doing the thinking is the person doing the learning. Choose from the offerings below to cultivate a classroom culture in which everyone is learning.
- Active Listening to Support Discussion
- Active Engagement Strategies
Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series)
Connie Hamilton
Engaging the Mind
Working through and overcoming challenges is an inherent part of learning. Select from the offerings below to ensure students have the support they need to understand and apply complex concepts while developing their understanding of themselves as learners.
- Scaffolding, Not Spoonfeeding
- Metacognition: Flipping the Cognitive Load
Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series)
Connie Hamilton
Reach and Teach Multilingual Learners
Written and designed by multilingual (ML) learner Rachel Carrillo Fairchild, who later became a classroom teacher and ML expert nationally. Our hands-on learning series offers practical strategies and tools for assessing and teaching the most hard-to-reach learners.
How to Reach and Teach Multilingual Learners
Honor the cultures of our multilingual (ML) learners to accelerate their progress and growth using evidence based practice anchored in culturally responsive-sustaining practices.
- Understand how humans acquire language
- Identify language acquisition levels
- Assessing and giving feedback to ML learners
- Engaging families of ML learners
- Making content comprehensible
How to Reach and Teach English Language Learners: Practical Strategies to Ensure Success
Rachel Carrillo Fairchild
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