Enhance your teaching effectiveness with our Building Educator Capacity professional development. Explore strategies in differentiated instruction, arts integration, and targeted interventions to boost your skills and support diverse student needs. Our sessions are designed to help you implement innovative practices that elevate student outcomes and foster a dynamic learning environment.
Accelerating Reading Gains
Enhance student reading skills and comprehension with effective differentiated instruction strategies that align with the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). This workshop provides educators with practical lessons and techniques designed to meet diverse reading needs and drive academic growth.
In this session, learners will:
Arts Integration
Use the power of the arts to make learning accessible, engaging, and meaningful for every student. Provide teachers with arts-based activities to use in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies instruction. Learn how integrating the arts will spark curiosity, increase cultural relevance, improve classroom culture, and strengthen academic achievement.
In this session, learners will:
Differentiation Strategies
Learn the how’s and why’s of differentiation, supported by current theory and pedagogy. Differentiation strategies can support teachers in any grade-level or content area while honoring students’ unique paths to learning and mastery.
In this session, learners will:
Intervention Strategies
Intervention takes place in a variety of places and spaces during the school day. When students have the opportunity to experience high-yield intervention strategies across multiple content areas, their growth accelerates exponentially.
In this session, learners will:
Enhance student reading skills and comprehension with effective differentiated instruction strategies that align with the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). This workshop provides educators with practical lessons and techniques designed to meet diverse reading needs and drive academic growth.
In this session, learners will:
Use the power of the arts to make learning accessible, engaging, and meaningful for every student. Provide teachers with arts-based activities to use in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies instruction. Learn how integrating the arts will spark curiosity, increase cultural relevance, improve classroom culture, and strengthen academic achievement.
In this session, learners will:
Learn the how’s and why’s of differentiation, supported by current theory and pedagogy. Differentiation strategies can support teachers in any grade-level or content area while honoring students’ unique paths to learning and mastery.
In this session, learners will:
Intervention takes place in a variety of places and spaces during the school day. When students have the opportunity to experience high-yield intervention strategies across multiple content areas, their growth accelerates exponentially.
In this session, learners will:
Kent State University
Dr. Timothy Rasinski is a professor emeritus of literary education at Kent State University and was previously director of its award-winning reading clinic. Dr. Rasinski is the author of numerous best-selling books, articles, and curriculum programs on literacy education and has co-authored many resources for Shell Education including, but not limited to, Greek & Latin Roots: Keys to Building Vocabulary, Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes, Practice with Prefixes, Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Word Nuances series, Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary series, Idioms and Other English Expressions series, Close Reading with Paired Texts series, Rhymes for the Times: Literacy Strategies through Social Studies, as well as TCM’s curriculum resource Building Vocabulary series. Dr. Rasinski is a frequent, well-known presenter nationwide and in 2021 and 2023 was named one of the top 2% most-citied scientists in the world. His scholarly interests include reading fluency, word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. Dr. Rasinski served a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world’s most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Rasinski is a former president of the College Reading Association and has won the A. B. Herr and Laureate Awards from the College Reading Association for his scholarly contributions to literacy education. In 2010, Dr. Rasinski was elected to the International Reading Hall of Fame, and in 2019 Dr. Rasinski was recipient of the International Literacy Association’s highest honor—the William S. Gray Citation of Merit—for his contributions to the field of literacy.
Lesley University
Jennifer M. Bogard, Ph.D., is an educator and author. She teaches courses in literacy and integrating the arts for Lesley University. Dr. Bogard taught elementary school and is a former literacy coach. She presents for schools and professional organizations and writes books, journal articles, and literature guides for educators. In addition to writing books for children, Dr. Bogard is co-author of Shell Education’s popular Integrating the Arts Across the Curriculum, 2nd Edition series.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Lisa Donovan, Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor in the Fine and Performing Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Most recently she served as Associate Professor of Education and former director of the Creative Arts in Learning Division at Lesley University. A theater artist, educator, and researcher, she has taught internationally in Japan and Israel, and throughout the United States. Her research interests include the impact of arts integration in education, and the role of the arts in developing a sense of voice and identity. Dr. Donovan has also co-authored the Shell Education professional resource Integrating the Arts Across the Content Areas as well as co-authoring and consulting in the Strategies to Integrate the Arts content-area specific series.