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Empowering Students to Embrace Failure: The Gift of Failure Book Study (June Session)
This course is a reflective journey for educators, centering around the concepts presented in Jessica Lahey's book, The Gift of Failure…
Quiet Wisdom: In-Person Spring 2024 Session
In this 3-hour in-person session, participants will have the opportunity to explore the practices from the virtual meditation in a live community setting…
Every Connection Matters
Relationships are at the core of education. When teachers are intentional about all of their relationships, they can address burnout, increase their own effectiveness, and improve the learning environment for their students…
Pillars of Wholesome Living and Teaching - Summer 2024
In this course we will explore the benefits of proper nutrition and sleep, stress management, and movement and how they can create a better life for both YOU and your students. Coaching calls will be scheduled to work with you on a one-on-one basis to support you in your wholesome journey…
Addressing Addiction in the Classroom: The Addiction Inoculation Book Study
In this course, educators will explore essential insights and strategies to address the growing challenges of addiction prevention among students using the book The Addiction Inoculation by Jessica Lahey…
Empowering Educators: Navigating the Heart of Teaching
Join us for a transformative journey through The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer. Delve into the essence of teaching, exploring profound insights at the intersection of identity, integrity, and the art of education. Engage in thoughtful discussions, reflective practices, and collaborative exploration as we empower ourselves to navigate the challenges of teaching with courage and authenticity…
Empowering Students to Embrace Failure: The Gift of Failure Book Study (July Session)
This newly added July session of this popular course is a reflective journey for educators, centering around the concepts presented in Jessica Lahey's book, The Gift of Failure…
The Project Habit: Making Rigorous PBL Doable, by Michael McDowell
Grounded in the principles outlined in Michael McDowell's book, The Project Habit: Making Rigorous PBL Doable, participants will explore strategies for designing, implementing, and assessing high-quality PBL experiences in their classrooms and schools…
Quiet Wisdom: Continuing our Exploration of Contemplative Practices in Teaching Summer 2024
This all new session of Quiet Wisdom will delve into seven new contemplative practices for educators to explore, lead by a meditation specialist. We will follow with an interactive discussion, led by teachers who will share the research behind the practice and facilitate a conversation on how to apply it in different classroom settings and disciplines…
Morning Classroom Conversations: Get Students Thinking and Learning by Getting them Talking
This book study is designed for 5th-12th grade teachers, school counselors and other conversation leaders to discover the process for incorporating focused Morning Classroom Conversations (MCCs) into a regular part of your homeroom or advisory period in just 10-15 minutes…
Designing Questions for Effective Learning and AI Applications
In this completely asynchronous course, participants will dive into the classroom applications of AI tools, such as Chat GTP, as well as a question design tool called the Question Formulation Technique. This is a concise and powerful protocol that enables learners to produce and improve their own questions, and strategize how to use them…
Teaching Assistants and Aides Support Series Summer 2024: Atomic Habits
Teaching Assistants and Aides are invited to join us in this summer book study of Atomic Habits, where author James Clear provides us with four simple laws and very concrete strategies to show us how to make the types of tiny changes that will ultimately lead to those remarkable changes we hope to see…
Exploring the Modern Classrooms Project
The Modern Classrooms Project takes blended instruction, self-paced learning, and mastery based grading to create a highly engaging learning environment. In this course we will explore how you can plan and then implement your own Modern Classroom in a coaching style with calls throughout the course…
ABCD ChatGPT: AI for the Modern Classroom
This course will provide you with a toolkit of various AI strategies that you can use to design your classes this fall. You will learn AI tools that create standards specific content as well as how to use them in a fraction of the time it would take to create your own unit or lesson plan, and will be given implementation time each three hour session…
Tricks of the Trade: A Toolkit for Teachers
Many of my best practices came from ideas shared in a collective community of teachers. As we look forward to the fall and a new year, this course is designed to help us expand our knowledge and our toolkit for the classroom…
National Board Certification - Introduction and Planning Session
Join GCRTC Teacher Leadership Coaches, Geoff Bizan, NBCT, and Liz Daley, NBCT, who have been through the process of becoming a National Board Certified Teacher…
National Board Certification - MOC Maintenance of Certification Introduction and Planning Session
Join GCRTC Teacher Leadership Coaches, Geoff Bizan, NBCT and Liz Daley, NBCT, for an introduction to the process and benefits of maintaining your current National Board certification…