Boutique Offerings
Our offerings for K-12 educators draw on research by Lynch School faculty as well as current practitioners in the field. We bring data informed practices to your classrooms and education spaces in order to address all needs of a twenty first century school. From teaching and learning to anti-racism and equity, from coaching and leading to student support, our offerings cover a wide range of topics that enhance learning spaces and hone the skills of educators.
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A Dive into Latin American History, Cultures, and Spanish Language
<p><span class="black">Teachers know that they should incorporate culture, history, and language authentically in order to create a culturally sustaining classroom that promotes the success of all their students, but knowing what to teach and how can be difficult when the culture or language is not one's own. </span></p>
<p><span class="black">To ensure that any teacher, regardless of personal background or language of instruction, can have the knowledge necessary to foster biculturalism and critical consciousness in their students, this workshop will cover:</span></p>
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<li><span class="black">Latin American history and the language history of Spanish</span></li>
<li><span class="black">Similarities and differences between Caribbean, Central American, and South American cultures</span></li>
<li><span class="black">Key concepts of English and Spanish grammar</span></li>
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<p><span class="black">Content will be connected to different academic standards, giving participants tangible examples to use in their everyday practice.</span></p>
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<p><b>Ana Soto VĂquez and Mariam Gorbea Ramy<br>
Online Workshop Series<br>
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<p>This workshop series is about incorporating culture, history, and language authentically in the classroom. This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge necessary to create a culturally sustaining classroom that supports the success of all their students.<b><br>
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K-12 teachers interested in deepening their understanding of foundations of language education.
Disrupting the Narrative: Anti-Bias Tools for Texts
<p>In this 90-minute workshop, participants will first learn about bias in our classrooms and that there are multiple paths for addressing and disrupting bias. Leaders and teachers will review and analyze David Sadker’s 7 Forms of Bias and textual examples for each. Participants will then actively participate in informed decision-making around their own curricular texts and consider alternative approaches in mitigating detected bias.</p>
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<p><b>Lisa Portadin <br>
Online Workshop<br>
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<p>This workshop will provide participants with the practical tools and reflective opportunities to evaluate and adjust classroom texts and instruction to address instances of bias. <b><br>
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Workshops
K12 Educators
Fully Online
K-12 teachers, administrators, and school leaders
Embedding SFL Writing In The American Reading Curriculum
<p>ARC is currently used in a number of dual language programs. In order for these programs to incorporate SFL writing into the curriculum, they need guidance on how to distribute content across languages in order to make room for writing instruction and how to carry out the assessments for writing and content. They also need support with the distribution of writing lessons in connection with the curricular content and in coordinating the writing projects with the content provided by ARC.</p>
<p>Currently, Maria Brisk is working with the Umana school to create units where SFL writing is incorporated into the ARC curriculum at the elementary and middle school levels. These units will be tested in the last weeks of the school year.</p>
<p><b>Maria Estela Brisk & Antonelli Mejia<br>
Online Workshop<br>
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<p>After participating in this workshop educators will be able to understand the basic principles and policies guiding the merger between SFL writing and the ARC for different grade levels.<b><br>
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Fully Online
K12 Educators
Online
Workshops
K-12 teachers, administrators, and school leaders
Math Routines That Promote Mathematical Fluency And Access For All
<p>Math Routines that Promote Mathematical Fluency and Access for All includes six mini-sessions: an introduction, 4 separate routine workshops, and a closing session. Participants will engage with math content through the different instructional routines.</p>
<p>After engaging with the routine, participants will learn the rationale and research behind each one. Knowing why the routine is structured the way it is helps educators make instructional decisions while planning in the moment with students and after leading the routine. The workshop will also offer some time for participants to explore materials and plan upcoming routines.</p>
<p><b>Janamarie Sunkle & Polly Wagner <br>
Hybrid Workshop<br>
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<p>Math Routines that Promote Mathematical Fluency and Access for All include six mini-sessions: an introduction, 4 separate routine workshops, and a closing session. Participants will engage with math content through the different instructional routines. <b><br>
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Hybrid
K12 Educators
Workshops
K-12 teachers, administrators, and school leaders
Planning For Culturally Responsive School Leadership
<p>Creating a school culture that is authentically culturally responsive requires a leader to think through a culturally responsive, equitable, and critical consciousness lens. This two-part course supports anyone who leads in a formal education setting and who wishes to better serve students who have been historically underserved or marginalized.</p>
<p>Participants will begin to shape and articulate their vision for a culturally responsive school and explore the frameworks and actions that will support them in authentically transforming their school spaces.</p>
<p><b>Keisha Valdez<br>
Online Workshop<br>
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<p>This two-part course supports anyone who leads in a formal education setting and who wishes to better serve students who have been historically underserved or marginalized.<b><br>
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Online
Workshops
K12 Educators
Fully Online
K–12 Teachers, administrators, and school leaders
Practical Language and Strategies to Build Executive Function and Decrease Anxiety
<p>In this interactive workshop, you’ll be empowered with: an understanding of anxiety and executive function practical language to talk about anxiety and executive function productive responses to decrease anxiety and build executive function, particularly how to improve organization, transitions, routines, self-monitoring, self-regulating and mental flexibility—all without sacrificing too much instructional time. Learn how to help your students, particularly those with anxiety, ADHD or learning challenges, become less stressed and more efficient, autonomous and productive.</p>
<p><b>Noel Foy<br />
Online Workshop<br />
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<p>With the continued climb in anxiety in children (over 30% of students), teachers and students need to be aware of the relationship between anxiety and executive function. In moments of high stress, executive function can be hijacked, causing students to forget directions or have trouble getting started or sticking with a task when it gets challenging.<br />
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Online
Workshops
K12 Educators
Fully Online
K-12 teachers, administrators, and school leaders
Providing Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction
<p>As educators, it is often difficult to plan ELA units while balancing the scope and sequence of the curriculum, ensuring best practices, and staying grounded in the work of equity and excellence. This workshop will be grounded in Gholdy Muhammad’s research, which has focused on the “social and historical foundations of literacy in Black communities and how literacy development can be reconceptualized in classrooms today."</p>
<p>Using Muhammad’s text, Cultivating Genius, participants will look at the big picture of a unit, analyzing all of the tenets of the equity framework. This work will include unpacking the framework through discussion of practices that will ensure teaching and learning that disrupts racism, sexism and other oppression.</p>
<p><b>Marcia Riddick <br>
In-Person Workshop<br>
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<p>This workshop will be grounded in Gholdy Muhammad’s research, which has focused on the “social and historical foundations of literacy in Black communities and how literacy development can be reconceptualized in classrooms today.”<br>
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On Campus
K12 Educators
Workshops
K-12 teachers, administrators, and school leaders
Strategies to Boost Executive Function, Productivity, and Motivation with Writing
<p>Do your students find it challenging to get started on a writing task? Do they have difficulty with stamina, effort, and self-regulation, or find it hard to remember the directions and steps of an assignment? If so, anxiety and underdeveloped executive function may be interfering with their productivity and motivation.</p>
<p>Executive function—which includes goal setting, planning, organizing, prioritizing, mental flexibility, self-monitoring, and thinking critically—is essential to writing. <span style="background-color: transparent;">When highly stressed or anxious, the executive function goes offline, blocking students’ abilities to focus on the task, remember what they need to do, and be flexible in their thinking.</span></p>
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<p><b>Noel Foy<br>
Online Workshop<br>
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<p>In this workshop, you will learn how to incorporate: language to build executive function and decrease anxiety and behavior issues quick, practical skill-building activities to develop executive function and increase production, motivation, and confidence as related to writing <b><br>
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K-12 teachers, administrators, and school leaders
Success in Instructional Coaching
<p>Coaches and mentors in education settings are in increased demand. More and more schools and districts are recognizing the value of teacher coaching and mentoring as a pathway for improved student outcomes. D<span style="background-color: transparent;">espite this growing recognition of the value of job-embedded professional development, there are limited opportunities to prepare coaches and mentors to perform their duties.</span></p>
<p>This 2 part series serves as an introduction to instructional coaching. Taking a coach-the-coach approach, the series addresses the coach's role and gets participants to think of how they are leaders, influencers, and agents of change. Participants are grounded in research-based approaches that promote best practices and continuous improvement. The workshop introduces participants to the key levers and processes required to support the development of coaches. It is ideal for those who are new to coaching or aspiring to be instructional coaches.<br>
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<p><b>Keisha Valdez<br>
Online Workshop<br>
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<p>The workshop introduces participants to the key levers and processes required to support the development of coaches. It is ideal for those who are new to coaching or aspiring to be instructional coaches.<b><br>
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K–12 Teachers