CRACKING THE CODE OF 

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

(2-3 DAYS) 

Explore Creativity and Innovation at all levels. Learn about the Makers Movement, Maker Spaces, traits of creators and innovators as well as how to encourage, teach, assess

and create the conditions to enable creativity and innovation to take root. Go deeper with creativity and innovation by conducting a baseline assessment of where you fall in terms of promoting creativity and innovation. Then, explore and practice specific instructional strategies for building creative and innovator skill sets with your students.

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You’ll complete and share a key design challenge to help you progress along the creative spectrum. The workshop is filled with modeling so that you can experience how creativity and innovation can be quickly taught, practice and enhanced in learning environments. You’ll also walk out the door equipped with new tools and resources as well as with a new creative design challenge to be used with your students beyond the workshop.

ADVANCING CRITICAL THINKING

(1-2 DAYS)

What is critical thinking?

Go deeper down the rabbit's hole to define this

21st Century Competency. Unveil misconceptions of critical thinking and examine 

how projects can promote critical thinking. Participants will actually go through the project process to create an original solution, while the facilitator models how the teaching and assessing of critical thinking can be infused along the way. 

WIRED/REWIRED: THE NEUROSCIENCE

OF "THE BRAIN ON BIAS" AND
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT (1 DAY)

Dive into collaborative and experiential learning to better understand the neuroscience of “the brain on bias.” Hint: We ALL have implicit bias - our brains are wired for it. Reveal what can

TRAUMA AND THE ROAD TO RECOVERY FOR OUR LEARNERS & COMMUNITIES (1 DAY)

This session launches with startling statistics about the prevalence of trauma in our communities by reviewing key data from the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study, which

revealed that traumatic life experiences during childhood and adolescence are far more common than expected.

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Understanding the sheer scope of trauma is not enough – thus, we will dive deeper into the implications of how trauma affects the brain, the body and how the effects of trauma manifest in educational settings.

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Wrapping our heads around the realities of trauma can be disheartening and defeating, but hope is not lost. Together, we will imagine a road to recovery by examining various evidence-based practices for our learners with trauma. These include evidence-based therapies for rehabilitating traumatized brains and bodies. 

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In a collaborative setting, we will use a creative process to imagine and design three types of solutions: 

1. Healing experiences for our learners with trauma

2. Learning experiences for our educators to better understand, empathize and engage with our learners with trauma

3. Opportunities for community building

PRODUCING POWERFUL
PRESENTERS (1 DAY)

Model, model, model! In this one-day session, participants go through a project process first hand. With presentations at the end, participants ping-pong back and forth between engaging project work and 

presentation development, presentational skill development,  rehearsals and show time. 

CURRICULUM MAPPING &
CLASSROOM BRANDING (1-2 DAYS)

Go from daily/unit planning to annual planning in this full day session for up to 35 teachers and instructional leaders. This workshop helps participants harmonize the sometimes disconnected 

pieces of our work throughout the school year - such as units, projects, kits, modules, textbooks, activities, and instruction - into a coherent and student-friendly annual plan. Immerse yourself in a clear and concrete process for curriculum mapping that includes:

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• Branding a classroom experience

• Crafting a classroom premise that is exciting to student

• Developing a curriculum map that sequences the learning

Participants will walk out the door with a plan that includes deliverables such as a classroom brand, a relevant and compelling premise and a curriculum map.

BALANCED ASSESSMENT FOR
DEEPER LEARNING (2-3 DAYS)

This deep dive on assessment for up to 35 participants explores best practices that can be used to measure and enhance learning. Participants will be equipped with the knowledge, tools and 

PATHWAYS TO
PERSONALIZATION (1-2 DAYS)

"How do you increase student agency in learning?" Join us as we explore this Driving Question and as we review the global and day-to-day components of a student centered learning environment. Investigate pathways, strategies, practices and techniques to enable more 

self-direction, more independent learning and more choice in the learning process. The workshop models a student-centered learning environment, in which you will learn about yourself as a learner, set your own personal goals and experience what it feels like to progress in a highly learner-centric environment. You will walk out the door with plans to advance yourself along the student-centered learning spectrum of practice.

TEACHING & ASSESSING
COLLABORATION (1-2 DAYS)

Take collaboration from buzzword to buzzworthy in your classroom. Learn what collaboration actually is and how to teach it by incorporating:

• Collaboration Rubrics and Journals

• Learning Inventories and Profiles

• Contracts and Common Roles

• Prompts for Reflection

• Discussion Protocols

• Processes for Forming Teams

• Protocols for Facilitating Team Meetings

• Processes for Decision Making and Conflict Resolution

• Incorporating Self and Peer-Assessment of Collaboration
   

Highly interactive by design, this workshop models the collaboration practices in a full-day design challenge. Participants walk out the door with a toolkit to use in their own work.