Seminar Topics for Effective Professional Development

The Center for Effective Learning provides customized training opportunities designed to support educators in their quest to prepare students to master the 21st century demands of a global economy. We offer support to school leaders as they enhance and refine a variety of instructional opportunities with dynamic and interactive professional development. Each Seminar Topic connects current brain research as the foundation for increasing human capacity, promoting higher skills in problem solving and producing products both for teachers and students.

Highly Effective Teaching Professional Development Topics:

• Response to Intervention Using Bodybrain Instructional Strategies (2 Days)
• Bodybrain Basics (3 Days)
• Brain Compatible Math Instruction (1 Day)
• Character Education: Using Lifelong Guidelines and LIFESKILLS in the Classroom (1 Day)
• Classroom Management: Managing Behaviors in the Classroom (1 Day)
• Collaboration and Cooperative Learning (1 Day)
• Embedding the Standards into Conceptual Curriculum (1 to 2 Days)
• Enriched Environment: Creating the Conditions for Learning (1 Day)
• Integrating and matching technology to Brain Research (1 Day)
• Leadership for Bodybrain-Compatible Learning: Walking the Talk (1 to 3 Days)
• Literacy: The Biology of Communication (1 Day)
• Movement to Enhance Learning (1 Day)
• Orchestrating Yearlong Curriculum Maps: Satisfying the Brain's Need for Connection (1 Day)
• Overview of the Highly Effective Teaching (HET) Model (1 Day)
• Special Education Focus Training (1 Day)
• Support staff Sessions (1 Day)
• Using the Multiple Intelligence to Demonstrate Understanding (1 Day)

We work with administrative teams and districts to provide high-quality professional development to ensure that the school delivers quality instruction resulting in high levels of student learning and mastery. This is accomplished by establishing the optimal conditions for learning in a respectful environment which implements effective curriculum that is rigorous, embedded with educational standards, and driven by formative assessment. We acknowledge that each school is unique and requires customized services to build an effective educational environment.