the workshops
These workshops will prepare you to meet the needs of your 21st century students! Click on the Read More link for each workshop below to find out how you can take your classroom fully into the 21st century!
For a full list of our workshops and other services please see our Brochure.
For a full list of our workshops and other services please see our Brochure.
PBL21 - the next step in the evolution of project-based learning
This workshop will take you through a process from identifying and articulating what a 21st century classroom looks and feels like to the development of your final product - a framework for a 21st century, Project-Based curriculum unit designed for your classroom, school or district. Watch student motivation, attendance, learning and test scores soar! Find out how to have your students excel on standardized tests without being just a test-prep factory.
Your unit design will include all the critical attributes of a 21st century classroom. It will be Project-Based, Interdisciplinary, and provide Differentiated Instruction as well as authentic, Performance-based Assessments. Read more here . . .
Your unit design will include all the critical attributes of a 21st century classroom. It will be Project-Based, Interdisciplinary, and provide Differentiated Instruction as well as authentic, Performance-based Assessments. Read more here . . .
MOVE IT, Math!
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This is the best math program anywhere! Your students will love math! There will be no fear of math! Student learning will astound you!
23 percent of the fourth-grade class at Herndon Elementary in Washington Park met or exceeded the state’standards in math. The figure jumped to 80 percent after implementing MOVE IT Math™! for one year! This program is not available as a self-paced, online course at this time. You can attend at one of our Regional Institutes or we can bring it to you! Read more here . . . |
tech integration and Web 2.0 tools
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The technologies themselves are not what make a 21st century classroom – it’s what you do with them! A digital textbook is still just a textbook, and a digital worksheet is still just a worksheet.
Learn how to make your classroom truly 21st century by using technologies as the vehicle for delivering the curriculum and engaging students. Engaged students are learning students! Read more here . . . |
media literacy
Media Culture in Times Square
There’s no doubt that we and our students are living in a media-saturated, globalized society. Media literacy is a critical skill; students must not only be able to successfully navigate the forest of signs and symbols in our world, but must know how to use media tools to create messages. Students' lives are filled with engaging the media outside the classroom, from television, film and music, billboards, t-shirts and bumper stickers, to cell phones, web sites and Web 2.0 social media.
Learn how to use these tools to engage students in the curriculum and help them learn how to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of media. Find out many ways to implement the CCSS through media literacy! Read more here . . .
Learn how to use these tools to engage students in the curriculum and help them learn how to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of media. Find out many ways to implement the CCSS through media literacy! Read more here . . .
innovation and entrepreneurship k-12
Innovation Creativity and Entrepreneurship are innate human abilities which school systems have been thwarting for decades.
They are also critical 21st century skills! How do we create a Project-Based, 21st century curriculum for developing these skills at high levels? How is the development of these critical 21st century skills supported by CCSS?
Attend this 2-day workshop to explore possibilities for developing Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, or ICE, in your classroom or schools! Read more here . . .
They are also critical 21st century skills! How do we create a Project-Based, 21st century curriculum for developing these skills at high levels? How is the development of these critical 21st century skills supported by CCSS?
Attend this 2-day workshop to explore possibilities for developing Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, or ICE, in your classroom or schools! Read more here . . .
greening the classroom & the curriculum
Greening the Curriculum and the Classroom will provide you with information on how to address environmental issues in your classroom, beginning with guidance on scope and sequence for sustainability issues from PK-12.
Learn how to take your classroom green while teaching the content and skills mandated by the standards. Plan some extraordinary classroom and community projects for the coming school year!
Read more here . . .
Learn how to take your classroom green while teaching the content and skills mandated by the standards. Plan some extraordinary classroom and community projects for the coming school year!
Read more here . . .
after school programs for the 21st century student
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Would you like your after school program to be more than mere tutoring of basic skills? Would you like to have your students begging to attend?
Would you like to see your students achieve exponential growth in their learning, grades and test scores? Find out how to plan exciting after school programs for your students. Read more here . . . |
personalized learning and differentiated instruction
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Personalization is broader than just individualization or differentiation in that it affords the learner a degree of choice about what is learned, when it is learned and how it is learned. The rhetoric is often phrased in terms of learning 'any time, anywhere'. This may not indicate unlimited choice, since learners will still have targets to be met. However, it may provide learners the opportunity to learn in ways that suit their individual learning styles and multiple intelligences.
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thinking tools for the 21st century student
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We ask students to demonstrate higher order thinking skills, but first we have to give them the tools.
Spend a full day of thinking and fun as you explore these Thinking Tools! Students will use these all day, every day, in every class - and their learning will increase! Read more here . . . |
service learning
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We believe that service learning is the ultimate curriculum for the 21st century. It not only includes all the standards, it goes beyond by connecting students to the world, their community, and most of all provides students with the realization that even though they are young, they do have a voice, they can make it heard and they can make a difference. It is highly motivational for students.
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Maker Spaces
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Game-based Learning
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