Site-Based Workshops
The following Site-Based Workshops are delivered on-site at your locations and tailored to the needs of local teachers: 

Teaching Contextually to Reach All Students
To answer the question “Why do I have to learn this?” teachers need to be able to show the relevance of content to student experience or interest. Most students learn best when such connections are made. This workshop is designed to help teachers from all disciplines develop strategies to promote learning for understanding rather than simple acquisition of knowledge. Workshop content is tailored to address the state standards that must be taught by participants. [1-3 days]

Empowering Teachers to Develop Contextual Projects
This workshop helps teachers recognize the importance of using projects as a vehicle for helping students learn for understanding. Presentations and products are the outcomes expected of students when using this method of teaching. The workshop helps teachers learn to effectively use projects and performance-based assessments as teaching tools. [1-3 days]

Standards-Based Instruction–A Hands-on Workshop for Secondary Teachers
Imagine a school at which teachers know exactly the essential skills and knowledge their students should be learning and how their colleagues are teaching to the same standards. In such an environment, teachers can successfully collaborate with one another on lessons and units. This workshop looks at the teaching process as it relates to standards-based education. Participants are engaged in the development of standards-based lessons, assessments, and active learning strategies. Come be renewed by instructional ideas that are engaging for students and have been proven to yield better results on state assessments as well as on norm-referenced, alternative, and criterion-referenced assessments. [2-3 days]

Mathematics Enrichment for Career and Technical Education
This professional development program is designed to enable career and technical education teachers to infuse higher levels of mathematics into CTE courses. The program will enable CTE teachers to deepen students’ understanding of algebra and geometry concepts as they are used to solve authentic workplace problems. The career areas offered for training are:

Agriculture/Natural Resources      
Automotive Technology
Business and Marketing
Construction
Health Services
During the program, participants will be engaged in the development of work-based problems and the alignment of the problems to state math standards. [Comprised of six days of face-to-face training (delivered within a 13-week period as three, 2-day sessions on math concepts, strategies, and program goals) and continuous online instruction and support.]

The Principal’s Office Doesn’t Have to Be the “Panic Room”
Don’t panic, get help! Come experience a new vision of leadership through a workshop designed to help teachers provide the instructional leadership for teaching and learning necessary for success in today’s educational climate. Within a range of leadership roles, teachers can contribute to quality teaching and learning campus wide. Participants will learn new ways of involving teachers in leadership activities and how to develop an organization in which every member is a leader. [1 day]

Career Guidance and Planning
This workshop enables counselors to develop a career guidance system for their school that prepares students to see and make connections between school and work. This new system helps give students the knowledge, skills, and focus to be productive citizens in an ever-changing world. System components include:

Portfolios of work
Education and knowledge of careers
School and business partnerships
Transitions from high school
Student follow-up and evaluation
Generating support from teachers, administrators, and parents
[1 day]