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Training Workshops
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Day One) |
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Designed to help you connect to your students.
How does poverty impact learning, work habits, or decision making? The reality of living in poverty brings out a survival mentality
and turns attention away from opportunities taken for granted by people in middle and upper class. If you work with people in poverty,
better understanding how different their world is from yours will be invaluable.
Most teachers today come from middle class backgrounds. In an educational setting, economic class differences create conflict
and challenges for both teachers and students alike. Designed for educators at all levels, but helpful to counselors, administrators,
and support staff as well, this seminar provides practical, real-world support and guidance for overcoming barriers and helping others
succeed. Designed for elementary and secondary schools of any size.
What audiences learn:
- Impact of economic class differences on communication, interactions, and expectations
- Symptoms of generational poverty and how they differ from situational poverty
- Poverty-related behaviors and mindsets that affect learning
- Identification of the resources and strengths of any student
- Tips, tools, and intervention strategies proven to increase your effectiveness
- “Hidden rules” or social cues that differ greatly between the classes
When you book A Framework for Understanding Poverty workshop,
we are offering the option to purchase an online inventory that surveys your staff in order to customize the program for your school’s and your teachers’ specific needs.
Click here to see a sample survey.
Available as a workshop at your school, or check our training dates for seminars with this title.
Also available:
- Trainer certification
- A second day of training, titled Research-Based Strategies, is an ideal combination
- Hidden rules material adapted as a 90-minute standalone workshop
- Keynote address containing portions of this seminar
- As the first day of Ruby Payne’s National Tour two-day workshop (see schedule on website)
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| Length: | One-day or two day workshop, overview, keynote, breakout session |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Option: | College credits |
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Link: #framework
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Under-Resourced Learners |
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From understanding today’s students to designing specific interventions that are effective, this workshop will provide a broad base
of approaches for your immediate use in today’s classroom.
This workshop will help you build relationships with today’s Generation Y students, as well as learn new tools to help struggling students.
Based on Dr. Ruby Payne’s Under-Resourced Learners: 8 Strategies to Boost Student Achievement, this workshop provides
immediately useful strategies, such as:
- Six-step process for systemic change
- Making school more successful for boys
- Strategies to cultivate relational learning in your classroom or building
- Checklists for quickly assessing student resources
- Behavior and classroom management
- Specific content interventions related to language arts and math
- Parent engagement model
- Understanding Hispanic/Latino students and parents
Who should attend:
- Middle and high school teachers and administrators
- Paraprofessionals working with special education and Title I
- Department teams that are targeting state assessment
- Easily adapted to elementary audience
Targeted Options:
Ask us about specifically targeted workshops on the topics of math, reading, science, Response to Intervention, student engagement
and dropout prevention, and more.
When you book
Under-Resourced Learners workshop,
we are offering the option to purchase an online inventory that surveys your staff in order to customize the program for your school’s
and your teachers’ specific needs.
Click here to see a sample survey.
When you book a Engage and Graduate Your Secondary Students: Preventing Dropouts workshop, why not customize the program to your
organizations specific needs by purchasing the Student Engagement Survey? This inventory gives you baseline data by measuring actual
classroom behaviors centered on the research-proven concepts in Under-Resourced Learners.
Click here for more information.
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| Length: | One Day or Two Half-Days, overview, keynote, breakout) |
| Prerequisite: | None. Familiarity with Dr. Payne’s original work, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, is helpful but not required. |
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Link: #under-resourced
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Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) |
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A teacher-friendly workshop focused on serving under-resourced students
Research-Based Strategies provides educators with hands-on techniques that help them narrow and then eliminate the
achievement gap for all students, but especially under-resourced students. Reduce your planning and response time and
improve your effectiveness. Develop more immediate, reliable intervention strategies. Address students’ challenges before
they become overwhelming. We have merged many of the concepts from our titles Understanding Learning and
Learning Structures into this totally updated program.
This workshop provides strategies that can be readily implemented and integrated into any curriculum or program and
will raise student achievement. In this redesign, you will find:
- 50+ strategies, their explanations, and relevant research
- A chart of observed student behaviors
- Extensive bibliographic references
- A “menu” of strategies that can be used to meet the needs of today’s under-resourced learners
- New strategies categorized by academic, behavior, or community-based concern or challenge
- An incorporation of the book Understanding Learning: the How, the Why, the What
This workshop is included in the two-day Framework seminar. Check out our
training dates.
Also available:
- Content-based secondary offerings including science, social studies, English, and math
- Technical Support
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | Framework for Understanding Poverty (Day One) seminar |
| Audience: | Elementary and secondary educators and administrators |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #learning_structures
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Application of Learning Strategies (Day Three) |
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Additional classroom strategies for developing cognition
An extension of Research-Based Strategies using the workbook Putting the Pieces Together, this seminar explores additional
classroom strategies to build student cognition and provides ideas for moving students from the concrete to the abstract. While
concepts shared are not content-based, the application of strategies focusing on specific subject areas is explored. At the secondary
level, the seminar is content specific and includes mental models appropriate for the discipline. This seminar is designed for elementary
level educators and core subject secondary level educators.
Also available:
- Content-based secondary offerings including science, social studies, English, and math
- Technical assistance at your site after participation in the workshop
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| Length: | One day or Two Half-days |
| Prerequisite: | Framework (Day One) or Under-Resourced Learners and Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) seminars |
| Audience: | Teachers |
| Option: | College credits available |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #application_learning_structures
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Application of Learning Strategies for Elementary |
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An extension of Research-Based Strategies using the workbook Putting the Pieces Together.
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| Length: | One day or Two Half-days |
| Prerequisite: | Framework (Day One) or Under-Resourced Learners and Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) seminars |
| Audience: | Teachers |
| Option: | College credits available |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #application_learning_structures_elem
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Application of Learning Strategies for Secondary English |
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This seminar is an extension of Research-Based Strategies designed for secondary level educators in English. We work directly
with teachers on the importance of embedding mental models into instruction to improve student learning. Additional classroom
strategies are introduced, as well as ideas to move students from the concrete to the abstract. There is an emphasis on the
application of strategies specific to the English curriculum.
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Day One) or Under-Resourced Learners and Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) |
| Audience: | Secondary English/Language Arts teachers |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #application_english
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Application of Learning Strategies for Secondary Math |
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This seminar is an extension of Research-Based Strategies designed for secondary level educators in math. Additional
classroom techniques are introduced, with the emphasis on strategies for math courses up to and including Algebra I.
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Day One) or Under-Resourced Learners and Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) |
| Audience: | Secondary Math teachers |
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Link: #application_math
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Application of Learning Strategies for Secondary Science |
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This seminar is an extension of Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) designed for secondary level educators in science.
Additional classroom tools are introduced, as well as ideas to move students from the concrete to the abstract. There is an emphasis
on the application of techniques specific to the science curriculum.
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Day One) or Under-Resourced Learners and Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) |
| Audience: | Secondary Science teachers |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #application_science
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Application of Learning Strategies for Secondary Social Studies |
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This seminar is an extension of Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) designed for secondary level educators in social
studies. Additional classroom techniques are introduced, as well as ideas to move students from the concrete to the abstract.
There is an emphasis on the application of strategies specific to the social studies curriculum.
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Day One) or Under-Resourced Learners and Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) |
| Audience: | Secondary Social Studies teachers |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #application_socialstudies
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Engage and Graduate Your Secondary Students: Preventing Dropouts |
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Raise your graduation rate! Learn strategies to engage students and graduate them. These strategies help you work with
students to create sustainable interventions that will help them attain their goals and lead them to graduation.
This workshop offers just-in-time interventions for middle schoolers, freshmen, and sophomores who start disengaging and
helps juniors and seniors get back on track.
Join us for this two-day workshop for educators working with grades 7–12 who want to design sustainable programs for student
success with special emphasis on under-resourced learners. This innovative approach shows you how to achieve success and
features the following strategies and topics:
Strategies and topics:
- Cost of dropouts
- Causes and characteristics affecting decreased student achievement/retention
- Updated statistics and research
- Content availability
- Relational learning
- Instructional strategies
- Future story
- Generation Y characteristics
- Immigrant student issues
- Emotional resources and resiliency
- Bonding and bridging capital
- School-wide processes to monitor student learning
When you book a Engage and Graduate Your Secondary Students: Preventing Dropouts workshop, why not customize the program to your organizations
specific needs by purchasing the Student Engagement Survey? This inventory measures students' perceptions of the practices, culture, and relationships
in the building. These results can be used to target needs identified by the key stakeholders, the students themselves.
Click here for more information.
Register today
Available as a workshop at your school, or check our training dates for seminars with this title.
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| Length: | One to Two days |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Educators in grades 7–12 who are involved in or are responsible for school improvement plans. |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #prevent_dropouts
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Meeting AYP with 5 Simple Processes |
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In today’s world of accountability, teachers and administrators need simpler processes that give a payoff in student achievement!
This workshop will provide you with five systemic processes to do this. You will learn teacher-friendly strategies to disaggregate
data and determine their impact on AYP. Quick and highly collaborative curriculum alignment and pacing techniques will be taught,
along with alternatives to monitor students' progress throughout the year. Included in this progress monitoring are teacher-developed
assessments by grading period so that students who are unsuccessful are identified immediately and interventions can be made at
that time. Specific systemic interventions that can be adapted for any campus are also offered. Finally, you are provided a strategy
to establish a plan to embed these processes.
You will learn:
- Teacher-friendly strategies to disaggregate data and determine their impact on AYP
- Quick and highly collaborative curriculum alignment and pacing techniques
- Alternatives to monitor students’ progress throughout the year
- Teacher-developed assessments by grading period
- Specific systemic interventions that can be adapted for any campus
- A strategy to establish a plan to embed these processes
- Strategies for working with staff using this collegial model
- Step-by-step directions for implementation
Sample materials that may be reproduced without cost or copyright violation are included.
Come as an individual, or better yet, bring your grade level, department, or campus vertical team, along with a campus administrator!
With decreased funding and increased federal and state demands on your already limited time, this workshop gives you everything you
need to raise your students’ scores—easily, quickly, and effectively.
Materials requirement: Meeting Standards and Raising Test Scores training manual
Also available:
- Trainer certification
- Four-part video series and training manual
- Technical assistance at your site after participation in the workshop
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | None. Framework (Day One) and Learning Structures (Day Two) workshops are recommended, but not required |
| Audience: | Designed for elementary and secondary educators and administrators. |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #meeting_standards
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Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students |
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Strengthening college students’ success
A deeper understanding of the challenges—and strengths—that students from poverty bring to college will help faculty, staff, and
administration create the conditions that make success achievable, not merely accessible.
Based on the book by the same title, this workshop addresses the needs of the under-resourced college student and provides a
wealth of strategies for postsecondary education. Based in part on Dr. Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty
and Phil DeVol and Teri Dreussi Smith’s collaboration with Payne in Bridges Out of Poverty, this workshop provides practical
solutions and innovative possibilities for those working with under-resourced college students.
This professional development moves faculty and staff through a transformational process by first building understanding of the
"what and why" of under-resourced college students, then by developing the “how-to” teaching and program design strategies to
help students succeed. Participants will learn to:
- Use teaching strategies to build cognitive ability
- Develop mental models in their discipline to move students from concrete learning to the abstract thinking and planning required in college
- Improve retention by building relationships of mutual trust and respect
- Work with under-resourced students to tap their knowledge and improve institutional policy and procedures
- Develop high-impact community engagement strategies
- Redesign programs to better serve students in poverty
When you book a Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students workshop, why not customize the program to your organizations
specific needs by purchasing the Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students Campus Assessment Survey for Faculty,
Administrators, and Support Staff? This inventory helps colleges and universities take an in-depth look at the influences of economic class on
teaching and learning in higher education.
Click here for more information.
Also available: Keynote address containing portions of this workshop
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| Length: | One-day, keynotes, breakout, overview |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Post secondary faculty and staff |
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Link: #college_students
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Response to Intervention |
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Learn about the what, the why, and the how of response to intervention (RtI) and the under-resourced learner. This session will cover
student intervention teams, the rationale behind the RtI mandate, and the intervention process for student achievement. We will focus
on the three tiers of intervention and the progress monitoring of student growth. All of the above are taught in conjunction with the book
Research-Based Strategies by Ruby K. Payne.
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| Length: | One Day or Two Half-days, breakout, consulting |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Elementary and secondary educators and administrators |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #response_intervention
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The R Rules: A Guide for Teens Facilitator Workshop |
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A guide for teens to identify and build resources
This workshop helps facilitators learn to present The R Rules: A Guide for Teens to Identify and Build Resources,
a goal-setting curriculum for teens that can be used to identify individual interests and then move through career exploration
and life skill building. This can be implemented as a "for-credit course," integrated into life skills, consumer and business
classes, leadership, or advisory, and it provides targeted interventions and supports school and program goals. It can be
adapted as a nine-week, semester, or yearlong course. The facilitator will learn to use the workbook to support teens to:
- Identify, increase, and use individual and community resources
- Examine mindsets and see new options and possibilities
- Complete a personal resource inventory and current and future pictures
- Develop life skills for managing and planning
- Explore career pathways, 21st Century Skills, and postsecondary opportunities
- Design a personal plan for learning, earning, and leading
The R Rules includes concepts from the work of Dr. Ruby K. Payne and is aligned to components from High Schools
That Work, GEARUP, and the American School Counselor Association Model, 21st Century Skills, and academic and
vocational standards.
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| Length: | Two to Three Days |
| Prerequisite: | A foundation in concepts from A Framework for Understanding Poverty or Bridges Out of Poverty is strongly recommended. |
| Audience: | Secondary teachers of Life Skills, Consumer or Business classes, Freshman Advisory, Secondary counselors or administrators. Also ideal for Framework or Bridges Certified Trainers. |
| Presenter/Author: | Betti Souther |
| Options: | A One-Day Kick-off for Teens is also available.
Ongoing technical assistance is available from our aha! consultants. |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #rrules
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Collaboration For Kids: Early Intervention Tools for Schools and Communities |
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This workshop and book describe a simple, straightforward, interactive process for addressing, early in a child’s life, problems that
negatively impact education—a process that utilizes the inner strengths of the child and family members.
Through the Collaboration for Kids (CFK) training, you will learn a new structure for collaborating with and reaching out to children and
families as early as possible in a child’s life. It is new team collaboration in its purest form. Focus is placed on the child who is
"unavailable to learn" due to issues outside of school. Emphasis is on the child who is in need of Tier 2 and Tier 3
interventions. Positive, proven, long-term changes are the result when this structure is put into place.
Some benefits of the CFK initiative:
- Reduce truancy
- Improve classroom behavior
- Diminish juvenile crime
- Stabilize families
- Increase academic success
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| Length: |
The one-day CFK workshop offers an overview of the CFK initiative process, the concepts, the research, the procedures, RtI use,
and strategies for meeting success.
The two-day CFK training offers all of the day one information and materials, as well as CFK team building, start-up policies and
procedures, RtI uses, practice cases, and the “how-to” information involved in personalizing and building your own CFK process.
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| Prerequisite: | none |
| Audience: |
Schools and school boards, community social service agencies, community mental health agencies, judges and juvenile justice
agencies, county boards of supervisors, teacher training institutions, community action organizations, land grant cooperative
extension agencies, health departments, etc.
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| Presenter/Author: | Heatherly W. Conway, Ed.D. |
| Options: | Consulting also available |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #collaboration
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Conflict Management presented by Dr. Bill Sommers |
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Administrators and teacher leaders in schools say that conflict is increasing in many areas of their
professional lives with students, colleagues, and community members. Conflict can occur over change,
power, scarcity, diversity, and many other issues. Unresolved conflict can lead to physical and/or
emotional violence. This course is designed to teach processes and skills to effectively deal with conflict,
especially for people in supervisory roles. These strategies can be used by administrators for school
leadership and management, facilitating committee work, and for short- or long-term planning. This
course will focus on dealing with unresolved conflict, day-to-day conflict management, how to deal
with change, and power issues.
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| Audience: | Administrators, principals, central office, teacher leaders, or anyone trying to reduce conflict in their organization. |
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Link: #conflict_management
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Classroom Sim Workshop: Discipline Strategies - Any Grade Level |
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Customized simulation workshops prepare participants to utilize aha! Process Classroom SIMs:
- In university teacher education programs
- In district-level professional development
- Individually, to practice teaching skills before ever setting foot in the classroom
Workshop facilitators guide participants in
- A tour of the simulated classroom, including normal and disruptive events triggered by students, parents, and the larger system
- Addressing the events based on rules, procedures, and teacher discretion
- Analyzing the effects of their decisions in terms of classroom happiness, learning, and behavior
Building on Ruby Payne’s accompaniment book, Working with Students, discussions focus
on how the aha! Classroom SIMs can
- Prompt conversations among veteran and new teachers
- Facilitate interaction between new teachers and their mentors
- Encourage new and veteran teachers to analyze their classroom management skills
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| Length: | Four hours (Introductory or more in-depth workshops can be arranged upon request) |
| Prerequisite: | none |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #sim6-8
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Meeting the Educational Needs of African American Boys |
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Examine the hidden rules of African American males and receive methods and strategies for building significant
relationships and promoting higher academic achievement.
African American males often operate within a “hidden rule system” that is vastly different from the "middle class
rule system" that governs America’s schools. Because the majority of public school teachers are female, white, and
middle class, rule conflict is often inevitable.
This workshop examines the hidden rules of minority males in general and minority males living in poverty in particular.
Participants will be given the opportunity to evaluate real-life classroom scenarios and to dialogue about appropriate
interventions and approaches.
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| Length: | One Day or Half-day |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Elementary and secondary school audiences |
| Presenter/Author: | Rita Pierson, Ed. D. |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #african-american
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Understanding Students of Hispanic/Latino Descent and Their Parents |
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Improve the academics and socialization of your Hispanic/Latino students. This population has the highest dropout rate.
Many educators and students experience cultural tension in school when behaviors are misinterpreted as rude or disengaged,
but are actually a result of cultural upbringing. This workshop provides an understanding of hidden rules in the Hispanic/Latino
culture and issues that Hispanics/Latinos encounter in public schools.
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| Length: | One Day or Half-day |
| Prerequisite: | none |
| Audience: | Educators of all grade levels |
| Presenter/Author: | Ruben Perez |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #hispanic-latino
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Removing The Mask
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- Identifying Gifted Students from Poverty &
- Serving Gifted Students from Poverty (Two Workshops)
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| Description: |
These workshops’ ready-to-use instruments and procedures help you identify and serve gifted students from poverty.
ou’ll also learn how to keep these students in the program and help them to be successful.
Does your district’s gifted program reflect the demographics of your campus/district? If not, you may not have equity
in your gifted program. Typically, gifted programs serve middle class America to the exclusion of students from poverty.
This workshop is delivered in two parts:
Identifying Gifted Students from Poverty (Day One): This workshop presents a process, several instruments, and detailed
procedures to help school personnel find gifted students from poverty. Participants take away the instruments and know how to use them. Identification issues target K–6.
Serving Gifted Students from Poverty (Day Two): This is a follow-up to the first day and deals with how to help students
stay in the program and be successful. Topics include suggestions for behavior interventions, support systems to retain
students in gifted programs, techniques for working with parents, and the teaching strategies that help. Specifically, this
workshop addresses the cognitive, social, and emotional needs of gifted students from poverty in the context of program
and curriculum design. Addresses issues in K–12.
Both seminars are based on the book Removing the Mask: Giftedness in Poverty by Dr. Paul D. Slocumb and
Dr. Ruby K. Payne. Dr. Slocumb is past president of the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented and has been
active in gifted education for more than 25 years. This seminar is designed for educators at any level—pre-K through
secondary—who want to learn how to identify and serve gifted and high-ability learners from poverty and achieve equity
in the identification process.
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| Length: | One-day and two-day workshops available |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Teachers and staff K-12 |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #removing_the_mask
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Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis |
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This workshop focuses on the educational and emotional needs of the boys in our classrooms. Find out why boys account for
85% of the discipline problems in school. They also constitute the largest populations in special education, Title I, and those who
have reading and writing problems. Boys are the ones who have committed the violent acts in America’s schools, and they are
the most likely to drop out of school.
This workshop focuses on the answers behind male behavior in school and what schools can do to begin making school more
"boy-friendly." Issues that impact boys who come from poverty, as well as middle class, will be explored in this session.
Also note that a parent version of this workshop is available as an evening add-on
to this training. See the description below.
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Educators and staff |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #hear_our_cry
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Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis – Parent Version |
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Creating well-adjusted boys at home and at school
Based on his book Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis, Dr. Paul D. Slocumb assists parents who want to raise boys to become healthy,
well-adjusted men who are successful at school, at home, and in personal relationships. His two- to three-hour workshop focuses on
parenting styles and choices parents make in raising boys that affect the men they are to become. This workshop explains the what,
the how, and the why behind some of these critical choices.
This workshop can be offered as an optional add-on to a day’s training for parents in the evening. Contact aha! Process for details on
cost and scheduling (2–3 hours).
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| Length: | 2-3 hours |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Parents |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #hear_our_cry_parent
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Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading |
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Want to see your reading scores skyrocket? Boost your students’ reading scores by 15–25%.
Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading provides a mental model that students need in order to decode words easily,
accurately—and fast! Using a system of 44 hand signs that prompt associations between letters or word “chunks” and
their sounds, readers see the letter(s), make a sign, and say the sound at the same time. This multisensory approach
works wonders with students who struggle with regular reading programs.
aha! Process offers a one-day workshop in Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading for up to 100 participants. The
workshop includes:
- A thorough review of the signs
- Discussion of how the strategy can be incorporated into programs that are in use in the district or by the organization
- Tips for successful implementation of the strategy
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- Practice sessions for participants
- Discussions of non-phonetically spelled words and words with “tricky parts”
- A live demonstration of the strategy with struggling readers
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Intended audiences include administrators, teachers or tutors who work with students reading at third-grade level or below,
special education teachers, speech therapists, ELL instructors, and parents.
Participants are equipped to begin immediate implementation of the strategy by the conclusion of the workshop.
Coaching also available: Dr. Tucker can work directly with teachers and their students after the workshop.
Read a
participant's testimonial
Read the
National Study on the Tucker Signing Strategies
Visit the Tucker Signing Strategies website.
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Elementary teachers and secondary reading, language arts, or special education teachers, pre-school |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #tucker_signs
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Reading by Age 5 Workshop |
| Description: |
See it, sign it, say it, spell it
It’s a well-known fact: The area of the brain responsible for language development shares nerve endings with the part
of the brain responsible for motor coordination. No wonder young children love to use their hands to communicate! And
that’s what makes Reading by Age 5 so revolutionary.
Fast results and great fun to teach—for teachers and parents! Ideal for Head Start and early childhood programs.
A balanced blend of American Sign Language and Tucker Signing Strategies, the easy-to-follow guidelines in Reading by
Age 5 help caregivers teach children as young as nine months to sign words and concepts—the building blocks of reading.
In this workshop you will discover a proven, research-based program that helps children:
- Develop language acquisition, phonetic awareness, and decoding skills
- Prepare a foundation for reading-comprehension skills
- Outperform fellow students on a variety of reading and pre-reading measurements
- Communicate their needs with less stress
- Bond with caregivers through eye contact and positive interactions
- Absorb knowledge more readily in other subject areas, as well
- Couching also available
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Preschool and Elementary educators |
| | Begin the booking process |
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Link: #reading_age5
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Living on a Tightrope |
| Description: |
This workshop is designed to help principals be successful, which in turn helps the entire school organization be successful.
The training is based on the book Living on a Tightrope: A Survival Handbook for Principals, coauthored by Dr. Bill Sommers
and Dr. Ruby K. Payne. While instructional leadership has been the principal’s primary role as identified in educational literature,
the reality is that the principal’s role has become one of crisis management and an almost judicial approach to legal issues. Written
from their experience as principals and based on research from the education and business realms, Bill and Ruby outline practical
strategies for the workplace. Among them: data-driven conversations to increase positive results, responding to conflict on individual
and organizational issues, and connecting personal identity to organizational goals and self-renewal—sustaining oneself while serving
everyone else.
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| Length: | One Day |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Administrators |
| Options: | This can be adapted to one consultant but the optimum presentation is two. |
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Link: #living_on_tightrope
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Math Strategies/Problem Solving for the Elementary Classroom |
| Description: |
The presentation focuses on a variety of mental models for elementary math. Participants learn that when mental models are
taught directly to the students, they are able to learn and retain concepts much more quickly. A problem solving process will be
presented which requires the students to plan, label, and sort information. This process is used as a method to control students'
impulsivity and thereby increase their success in math. This method of teaching problem solving has been especially effective
with students who are struggling in understanding basic math skills. Teaching question-making strategies to students is also
included. The workshop is designed for math teachers of elementary school students, with audiences of grades K–2 or 3–5.
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | K-2 or 3-5 teachers |
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Link: #math_strategies
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Think Rather of Zebra: Dealing with Aspects of Poverty Through Story |
| Description: |
The great teachers in history understood the power of story and storytelling. Through this workshop Jay Stailey, with
the use of “story” and the models of those who teach with stories, reinforces the work of Dr. Payne and extends it to a
unique level of understanding.
Through example and interaction the participant discovers:
- The power of story to teach
- Why human beings need and respond to stories
- Brain research including how stories are processed and used
- Examples of stories as teaching tools
- How to use Think Rather of Zebra to reinforce A Framework for Understanding Poverty
By virtue of our nature as human beings, we are, all of us, storytellers. Through example and interaction, each of us can
discover storytelling skills and how those skills can be applied in teaching/learning settings.
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | Must have Identifying Gifted Students from Poverty (Gifted Day One) before Serving Gifted Students from Poverty (Gifted Day Two). |
| Audience: | Teachers and staff K-12 |
| Presenter/Author: | Jay Stailey |
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Link: #think_rather_zebra
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words |
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This informative and enlightening workshop follows Matthew Seebaum’s book by the same title. Participants will learn useful
strategies designed to make learning experiences more meaningful and concrete for children. This workshop is especially helpful
for early childhood and special education professionals who struggle with discipline and learning issues associated with children
from limited experiential backgrounds.
Dr. Seebaum shares his research and practical strategies in this workshop. Participants leave with ready-to-implement, child-friendly
materials and strategies to use in the classroom and school setting. This popular workshop is practical for those who struggle with
challenging learners.
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| Length: | One day |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| Audience: | Early childhood and special education teachers |
| Present/Author: | Matthew Seebaum |
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Link: #a_picture
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Trainer Certification Workshops
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty - Trainer Certification |
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Become a certified trainer!
This seminar is designed for individuals who wish to become Certified Trainers in order to take the information
from A Framework for Understanding Poverty back to their own organizations. The training includes in-depth
work on A Framework for Understanding Poverty and Research-Based Strategies seminars. Other topics also
include instructional techniques and the power of story—all intended to help trainers prepare the program for their
particular organization. In-depth research and training materials are provided.
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| Length: | Three days |
| Prerequisite: | A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Day One) and Research-Based Strategies (Day Two) |
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Link: #framework_trainer
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Meeting AYP with 5 Simple Processes – Trainer Certification |
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Become a certified trainer!
Meeting AYP Trainer Certification: This workshop is designed for those who wish to train others in their school or district in
Dr. Payne’s five systemic processes for meeting AYP, raising test scores, aligning curriculum and developing assessments
using teacher expertise, and identifying immediate interventions to impact student success. Participants will increase their
depth of understanding and skills in working with the processes taught in the Meeting AYP course. Opportunities to work
with the processes themselves will be provided, along with opportunities to collaborate with the other participants and presenters.
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| Length: | Three days |
| Prerequisite: | A Framework for Understanding Poverty is helpful, but not required. |
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Link: #meeting_standards_trainer
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