Professional Learning That Inspires Practice
Every session is grounded in educational research, shaped by real classroom experience, and designed to provide practical ideas educators can use with confidence.
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When Readers Have Something to Say
Discover practical ways to transform read-alouds into rich conversations that deepen comprehension and student voice.
From Stuck to Started: Growing Confident Writers
Help every writer find a place to begin through purposeful planning, mentor texts, and classroom routines that build confidence.
Enrich Your Read Aloud: Planning for Rich Thinking
Explore a flexible framework for planning interactive read alouds that foster critical thinking, meaningful discussion, and deeper understanding.
Stake Your Claim: From Opinion to Evidence
Learn how clear criteria and authentic claim-and-evidence tasks help students analyze texts, support their thinking, and communicate with confidence.
Find Your Greatness: Building Community Through Media Literacy
Explore a classroom-tested media literacy unit that uses exemplar media campaigns to strengthen critical thinking, oral language, writing, and classroom community.
#MoreThanBefore: Our Journey Toward Becoming Real-World Readers
Transform independent reading into a meaningful classroom experience through practical strategies that build engagement, choice, and reading identity.
Find Your Poet’s Eye: Helping Students Think Like Writers
Explore a practical poetry unit that helps students develop their writer’s identity through authentic writing, meaningful feedback, and purposeful revision.
Gamifying the Science of Reading for Older Beginners
Discover practical, engaging approaches to phonics instruction that honour older beginning readers and make decoding meaningful and motivating.
Vocabulary Hunting: Gamifying Vocabulary for Older Learners
Learn classroom-tested vocabulary strategies that make language learning engaging while strengthening comprehension and communication for all students.
Game Changers: Assessment Hacks You Can’t Live Without
Discover practical formative assessment strategies that transform diagnostics, feedback, peer assessment, and success criteria into powerful tools for learning.
Beyond the Words: Using the Arts to Deepen Reading Comprehension
Discover how illustration, drama, music, and sound can help students look beyond the words on the page and uncover deeper meaning in the texts they read.
Show Me What You Know: Rethinking Reading Comprehension Assessment
Move beyond traditional comprehension questions with practical ways to ask better questions, uncover student thinking, and give readers more meaningful ways to show what they understand.
Interested in Learning Together?
If one of these sessions aligns with your professional learning goals, I’d be pleased to continue the conversation. While I do accept invitations to present at conferences and professional learning events, my primary role remains in public education.
