Equip your staff with proven techniques they can use to improve student achievement and encourage independent learning. Select one of the workshops listed below or suggest a topic for on-site training on our On-Site Information Request Form.

• How to Successfully Teach Math Facts and Word Problem Strategies to ALL Students
  Increase achievement and motivation in basic math fact fluency and word problems in just minutes a day. You'll get two field-tested supplemental programs that are excellent, easy-to-teach and very effective.
• Mastering Math Facts in Your Classroom: Grades 1-8
  Basic math fact fluency is one of the cornerstones for success in grades 1-8. This program will help instructors put teacher-tested, proven approaches to work right away. Leave with a wealth of new ideas and tools to help you improve the math skills of your students immediately!
• Word Problems Made Easy
  Pretests, post-tests, blackline masters – teachers will leave this workshop with everything needed to teach word problems in 10 minutes a day! Learn simple, easy-to-teach methods and formulas for solving word problems.
• Mastering Math Fact Families in Your Elementary Classroom
  Just 10 minutes per day will advance student mastery of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. A self-paced program using math families, this is a great supplement to other math programs to teach and motivate at all grade levels.
• How to Successfully Overcome Fraction Anxiety
  Fractions are often intimidating. We have a system to take you through the basics of teaching fractions, with easy-to-read posters and interest-building activities to use in your classroom. Teach fractions simply, clearly, concisely, and confidently.

• Powerful Strategies for Building Students' Vocabulary and Comprehension
  This program gives you unique vocabulary-building strategies to ensure your students can read – and comprehend what they're reading. Get instructional ideas based on explicit learning strategies that will give students the “comprehension connection.” Improve your students' vocabulary skills within your current class time limits. Give students the vocabulary skills they need to succeed on standardized tests.
• Improving the Writing and Spelling of Students Who Won't Write and Can't Spell
  Spelling is a talent, but it's one that CAN be taught, as long as teachers have specific methods. This definitive seminar will give teachers the research-based tools needed to give the gift of spelling to all students.
• Practical Reading Fluency: Getting Slow Readers Up-to-Speed
  Improve your students' fluency with our new spin on three classic, yet crucial, tactics: sentence-by-sentence repeated re-reading, reader's theater, and peer assisted reading. Help students bridge the gap between identifying words and understanding what they've read.
• Reading in the Content Areas: Helping Secondary Students Read to Learn
  Reading is an essential skill, necessary for lifelong learning and academic success. Leave this workshop with immediately useful, practical and proven strategies you can use to help your students improve their content area reading tomorrow.
• Engaging Strategies That Strengthen Students' Reading Comprehension
  Many students can read words accurately in text but lack understanding. This workshop will discuss the research that has been done with proficient readers. Demonstrations are used to model how teachers can engage students to use and “own” the meta-cognitive strategies of proficient readers.
• ELL: Help! My Students Don't Speak English
  Learn simple ways to differentiate instruction and curriculum for English language learners. Learn how to engage and assess ELL students without lowering your standards. Help is on the way!
• Developing the Active Reader
  Silent reading is the type of reading required in the real world. It is one of the most important skills a teacher can help a student develop. This on-site workshop lets you acquire the tools you need to meet the challenge.
• Forward Phonics, Forward Reader: A Proven Step-By-Step System for Helping At-Risk Students Achieve Long-Term Reading and Spelling Growth
  This workshop provides a proven step-by-step system for helping at-risk students achieve long-term reading and spelling growth. Learning phonemes and phonograms gives students the building blocks they need to learn reading, writing and spelling.
• Researched-Based Reading: Teach a Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
  Learn a tutoring method that will help teach an at-risk student to read in 100 easy lessons. This simple, logistical system can help even the slowest learners achieve a second grade reading level.
• 6-Traits of Writing: The Crash Course
  This dynamic workshop provides teachers with the knowledge and tools they need to start teaching the 6-Traits of Writing right away. This crash course will provide you with the confidence and resources to plan a powerful kick-off to 6-Trait Writing in your classroom.
• The Best Children's Books of the Decade and How to Use Them in Your Program
  In this outstanding workshop, you'll receive recommendations for dozens of children's books that are sure to delight, inspire and motivate students to read, read, read! Come away with a wealth of titles you'll want to add to your collection, techniques for successfully using these books, and an awesome handbook filled with outstanding ideas.
• Using Literature to Teach Reading and Writing Skills
  This workshop provides a variety of ways to connect literacy skills with literature, ways to use literature to expand vocabulary and enrichment activities. You'll create a sampling of extended activities for many of the books shared in this exciting workshop.
• Using Poetry to Reinforce the Skills of Literacy
  Make poetry reading and practice fun! Learn, practice and share a variety of ways to read and writing poetry using classroom proven techniques. Special strategies for ESL and reluctant learners will be included. Receive at least 20 ready to use poems, complete with all of the skills connections!
• Activities and Games to Reinforce Literacy Skills
  Jumpstart your own successful literacy program! Get activities and games that teach and reinforce comprehension, phonics, reading and writing. Watch the experienced presenter demonstrate a variety of mini-lessons focusing on writing and making books.
• Strategies and Activities for Motivating Students to Writing
  Are you looking for a process that will help your reluctant writers learn to write in a logical, non-threatening way? We'll show you how! Receive ways to monitor and evaluate student on-going writing projects. Leave with creative ideas for improving spelling skills and sharing finished writing.

• Successful Intervention With the Chronically Disruptive Youth
  Disruptive students don't only hurt themselves with their bad behavior – they also make it difficult for other students to learn. Learn effective ways to correct disruptive behavior while keeping everyone's dignity intact.
• Successfully Structuring Your Class Including Disruptive, Chaotic and Unorganized Students
  Does it seem that there are never enough hours in a school day? Increase academic success with breakthrough strategies for organizing your time, materials and space. Get more time to teach.
• Using Effective Teacher Talk to Increase Student Motivation, Achievement and Self-Responsibility
  Teachers will learn how to decrease discipline problems and increase motivation for learning. This seminar offers a skill-based approach to using effective Teacher Talk that will encourage self-responsible behaviors, self-motivation, and increased effort on the part of students.
• Discipline Without Stress® - How to Handle Every Discipline Problem
  Stop stressing about discipline! This workshop offers an amazingly effective approach to discipline without stress, promote responsible behavior, promote learning, increase effectiveness, and improve relationships.
• Motivating Defiant and Disruptive Students: Strategies That Work
  Learn how to teach difficult students to maximize instructional time with these proven strategies. Get interventions that keep students focused, productive and engaged.
• Motivating the Unmotivated: Teaching Self-Motivation, Discipline and Responsibility
  Learn practical ways to teach unmotivated students to continually motivate, encourage, reinforce and monitor themselves. Teach students to develop a sense of responsibility, to make thoughtful decisions about their behavior and to build positive
  attitudes about school and themselves.
• No Child Left Unmotivated: Intervention StrategiesThat Work on Your Toughest Students
  Boost your effectiveness by understanding and accommodating the four basic learning styles. Cultivate self-esteem in your students and see how it can dramatically increase motivation. Get the tools you need create a positive classroom environment where all your students can feel confident and successful.
• The Fundamentals of Humor, Laughter and Play in Education
  Learning and teaching should be fun. Put the often neglected resource of humor to work in your school today. Increase student self-esteem, motivation and retention with the creative strategies you will learn.
• How to Make Mondays Rock
  Banish the ‘Sunday Blues' forever, and even look forward to Monday mornings! Sound impossible? It doesn't have to be, as long as you know the secrets. You'll learn strategies for getting “revved up” for Mondays and motivating your class so they can't help but get excited along with you.
• Healing the Inside Child: Working With Traumatized and Stressed Children and Adolescents
  This groundbreaking workshop will change the way you teach defiant, disruptive and angry youth. Hear about cutting edge research and insights into how trauma impacts the learning process. Receive specific tips for developing a nurturing learning community for overwhelmed and stressed students.
• Ready, Set, Teach! Best Practices for New or Struggling Teachers
  This workshop will give foundational strategies for excellent teaching. It demonstrates best practices for instructional delivery, student management, student engagement in learning and classroom management. You'll take control of the classroom AND make learning exciting and fun.
• The Paperless Classroom: Internet-Based Instruction for Primary and Secondary Students
  This workshop is a how-to program. Learn how to set and manage content, how to run student message boards and chat rooms, and to design a stellar teacher website and getting everyone to buy into the idea of a virtual classroom. You'll have all the knowledge necessary to create and utilize an Internet-based classroom.

• Getting Your Students Excited About Science
  Learn how to arouse student curiosity about the natural world and show them how to solve problems by making the scientific method simple and painless. Hold students' attention using strategies that employ manipulatives, interactive materials and hands-on activities. Show kids how science is all around them, how it impacts their daily lives and how it's the basis for many of their other classes.
• Make and Take Science Experiments, Demonstrations and Activities
  This workshop will help busy teachers who want to make science more exciting, stimulating and meaningful! You'll participate in over a dozen eye-catching demonstrations and hands-on activities. Take home a series of fun and highly visual science demonstrations, experiments and activities that illustrate properties of air, color, light, matter, chemistry, motion, force and more!

• Practical Strategies for Teaching Students With Asperger Syndrome
  This program gives you a plethora of strategies for dealing with these exceptional – and often highly intelligent – students. Ensure that your students learn content material and set them up for behavioral success with proven instructional and management strategies.
• Making IEPs Easy (Grades 1-12)
  IEPS are meant to be a useful planning tool for instructional decision-making. More often they are perceived as a paperwork nightmare. At this groundbreaking program, teachers will receive simple, yet effective strategies for streamlining the IEP process.
• Special Education Law
  Gain an understanding of the federal laws governing special education. Be prepared to handle questions regarding disciplinary actions for special needs students. Confidently navigate the due process procedure while protecting the rights of special needs students.
• Lawfully Managing Student Records Without Violating Privacy Rights
  When you work in a school setting, you see and use student records on an almost daily basis. You need to be aware of all the laws and regulations safeguarding student privacy rights – so you can protect your school from potential lawsuits. Properly managing student records is no easy task. We'll make it easier for you.

• Differentiated Instruction - One Size Does Not Fit All
  This workshop provides an understanding of the strategies needed to set up a classroom that provides success and challenge for academically diverse students. Differentiating instruction makes teaching more interesting and effective as YOU meet the needs of your students.
• Lesson Planning 101: Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan
  This innovative workshop will give you proven methods for creating brain-friendly lessons and plans that are built on the crucial eight steps of the learning cycle. You'll come away with fresh, exciting ideas that will get both you and your students motivated.
• Accelerating Achievement Through Purposeful Assessment
  Get proven methods for creating assessments that get you the answers you need about students' knowledge gaps. You'll learn techniques for transforming reluctant test-takers into positive, confident kids who aren't afraid of assessments. Develop a school-wide plan that fosters a supportive environment and positive attitude for assessment.
• Strengthening Study Skills: The Key to Unlocking Student Success
  This study skills workshop teaches common sense strategies that help students take control of their learning. It focuses on 3 main areas: academic skills to study and learn more, organizational skills that keep kids on track and support skills that can help students become better learners.