Virtual Learning Topics
Trauma, Stress, Poverty & Resilience Tools Topics
Socio-Emotional Learning Topics
NEW SERIES! Turning Trauma/Stress into Triumph: Creating your Trauma/Stress-Response Toolkit for a More Resilient Schoolyear (For Educators and Students)
The following 90 minutes trainings can be combined to give you a full day of training in 90-minute intervals or just one session – your choice!
- What is Trauma/Stress and How Does It Affect and Impact The Brain (Learning & Behaviors)
- Meeting the Needs of the Whole Child: Creating a Year-long Trauma/Stress-Response Plan for Your School
- Responding to a Trauma/Stress-Reaction: How to Cultivate Calm Quickly
- The Three T’s for Building Powerful, Positive Relationships: Trust, Time, and Teach
- Building Growth Mindsets through Powerful Feedback
- How an Empathy-Centered School Changes Everything!
- Counteracting Trauma/Stress with Expressive Writing Opportunities and Reflection Time
- Respecting the Trauma/Stress-Brain: Teaching Content Without “Overtaxing” Working Memory
- The Overwhelmingly Positive Effect of Teacher Clarity (Every Day in Every Way!)
- SEL That Sticks: Teaching SEL Skills in Integrated Ways to Increase Transfer into Daily Behaviors
Academic/Instruction Topics
Closing Academic Gaps through the Formative Assessment Process (based on new book: Teaching with the Instructional Cha-Chas: 4 Steps to Make Learning Stick)
Process Content More Deeply by Using High-Impact Formatives
Memory Strategies that Stick: Top Tricks for Retention and Transfer
Strengthen Working Memory Daily with these Simple, Low-Prep Tools
Differentiation Done Simply and Effectively: Check & Change
Differentiation: Strategies to Bump it Up (Enrichment for Advanced Students)
Differentiation: Top Tools to Close Gaps Fast!
Top Intrinsic Motivational Tools for During Stressful Times: Student Agency
DARE to Engage the Brain
Reaching & Teaching the Most Reluctant Learners: Cultivating Tenacity and Perseverance
The Best Before Learning Strategies: Priming, Pre-Exposing, and Processing
Lesson Plans that Engage: Using High Quality First-Time Instruction so they Get It to “Got It” in Tier 1 Time!
Alignment that Matters: From Standards, Learning Targets, Daily Formatives and Criteria for Success To Responding to Daily Data
Using Criteria for Success for Power Peer and Self Feedback: Bringing out Amazing Student Agency
The Grading Story: Going from a Standard to a Grade
Literacy Topics
The Literacy Triangle: Reading, Discussing and Writing (each component is at least 90 minutes) (for ELA or Content-Area Classrooms)
Writing Across the Curriculum to Close Gaps
Guided Reading That Works: 6 Opportunities for Differentiating
Complex Text Tools that Engage Students and Build Valuable Brain Skills
Student Discourse: Higher Level Processing for Stronger Student Outcomes
The Best Vocabulary Strategies that Make Words Stick
Bump Up the Questioning and Types of Questions: Teacher and Student Led Questions
Leadership Topics
Creating an Instructional Focus for Year-Long Growth: Combining the Highest-Impact Learning Processes and Tools with Your School’s Data, LeAnn Helps you Design a Plan for Your School for Extreme Student Learning
Maximize Professional Development: Use my Power Process (This process is working across the most challenged schools in high-poverty areas)
Maximize Coaching: Use these 3 Steps to Bring About High Student Achievement (Yes, Virtual Coaching too)
Coaching Power by Creating a High-Impact Instructional Playbook
Collective Teacher Efficacy and Learning Walks: How They Drive One Another
Self-Care Topics
Changing Your Stress Mindset: Going from “Uh-Oh!” to “Oh, Ok!”
Brain-Smart Foods that Maximize Learning
The Total Teacher: A Toolkit for Integrating Total Health
