Workshop currently under construction

Parents are the vital partners to increase student achievement K-12. Learn how to involve parents proactively, how to use relevant and targeted homework to extend learning, how to appropriately involve parents and the community in learning interventions, and how to work with parents who are reticent to become involved for whatever reason.

Practicing Purposeful Abandonment has changed my life and it can change your life as well! We can't do it all nor should we! We need to learn what is important, what isn't, and what we are willing to "go to the barricades for!"

Learn to identify issues of change and conflict that eat up so much of your time and do nothing to enhance your school improvement goals. Examine purposeful abandonment by exploring what you can "give up to get" and the "dead horse" issues that need to meet their demise. Learn to use increasing student achievement as the filter for how and when you spend your time as the instructional leader. Walk away with ideas and strategies you can put to immediate use to make purposeful abandonment intentional for you and your school or district.

Learn to Examine:

• How you have spent time in the past and how you can work in the future
• Use of preplanning and elimination of unnecessary tasks, projects, phone calls, etc.
• Practicing "abandonment" by using the filter of increasing students achievement for decision making.
• Examine levels of decision-making, meeting schedules, committee structure, etc.

Dread the times you need to make a presentation or speak in front of a large group? Learn how to focus your message and use your own presentation style in a proactive way to meet your audiences' needs. You will walk away with an "always works" planning template that you can adapt or revise to any length of presentation or any size of audience. Devise ways to maximize active audience participation and learn to take the logistical steps that make the difference between success or not!

Expectations for teaching and learning need to be explicitly defined, taught and learned to maximize student achievement and accountability. Schools and classrooms will not only be safer as a result of this classroom and school-wide process but teachers and students will be able to maximize teaching and learning time. Behavioral interruptions and referrals will be significantly reduced! As a result of this process, teachers will identify strategies for student behavioral expectations so that all students experience academic and social success daily; students will learn from teachers how to make responsible choices daily to use problem solving/conflict management skills in and out of the classroom. Student action plans to change behaviors and other tools will be shared K-12 for use in all content areas.