Educational Strategies Seminars

Response to Intervention (RTI) Strategies


Response to Intervention (RTI) is an exciting differentiation model that schools and districts may opt to use as a new way of meeting students’ needs earlier and more quickly. This seminar is designed to show you how RTI can be implemented effectively and efficiently at all grade levels.

This seminar will help alleviate the fear and confusion surrounding RTI, especially at the secondary level, by providing practical, classroom-tested techniques for Tiers I, II and III as well as user-friendly materials that can be implemented immediately in your classroom. You will receive many simple, straight forward, and effective strategies, best practices, and classroom-proven tips to enhance the success of all your students.
Intended audiences: Principals, Teachers, ParaProfessionals
Format: Workshop – 360 Minutes
This seminar can be adapted for all grade levels

Special Needs in the General Classroom: How Do We Make It Work?


This workshop has also been titled “Successful Inclusion Strategies and Techniques for Differentiating Curricula to Meet I.E.P. Requirements.” Successful Strategies and Techniques for Adapting Curricula and Differentiating Instruction for Students with Mild to Moderate Special Needs. Practical, proven strategies for effectively and efficiently adapting content area curricula to meet student learning styles and IEP requirements.
Intended audiences: Teachers, ParaProfessionals
Format: Workshop – 360 Minutes
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Differentiated Instruction Strategy Blast!


Susan presents a smorgasbord of strategies that are simple, common sense and effective to keep learners engaged, to help students with organization and memorization, and to make learning fun and meaningful. All strategies are based on solid educational theory and current research.
Intended audiences: ParaProfessionals
Format: Workshop – 45 Minutes
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Memorization & Test Mastery Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom


Participants will leave this workshop with realistic strategies to foster memory in the classroom for all learners and to bypass memory difficulties for under-performing students. We will discuss concrete instructional strategies that assist students with special needs, at-risk learners and average test performers in the general classroom while improving short and long term memory.
Intended audiences: Teachers, ParaProfessionals
Format: Workshop – 360 Minutes
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Co-teaching in the Inclusive Classroom: Practical Strategies for Success


This workshop develops an understanding of potential benefits of collaboration and defines approaches to achieving those benefits. Included are practical, proven strategies for overcoming common roadblocks to effective co-teaching.
Intended audiences: Teachers
Format: Workshop – 360 Minutes
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Paraprofessionals And Teachers Working Together in the General Classroom


This workshop develops an understanding of the potential benefits of collaboration and defines approaches to achieving those benefits. Additionally practical, proven strategies for overcoming common roadblocks to effective collaboration are presented.
Intended audiences: ParaProfessionals
Format: Workshop – 360 Minutes
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Differentiating Curricula/Inclusion: Why Bother?


This Keynote is designed to address the objections, concerns and mind sets that often challenge successful differentiated instruction or inclusion practices. The Keynote Motto is “Good for all critical for the students with special needs.”
Intended audiences: Principals, Teachers, ParaProfessionals
Format: Keynote Address – 60 Minutes
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