Featured Services

Building Your Skills

1-DAY COMMITMENT

Keynote

An expert author or certified associate will share a multifaceted approach for effectively supporting English learners. Staff will gain a deeper understanding of the unique needs of your EL community, explore a range of best practices for instruction, and learn how to target interventions to achieve better learning results.

Deepening Your Skills

2–4-DAY COMMITMENT

Essentials for Teaching Reading and Comprehension to ELs

Determine how to effectively close the learning gap for English learners.

• Gain practical instructional strategies and assessment processes for developing academic vocabulary.

Sustaining Your Skills

MULTI-DAY COMMITMENT

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• Acquire lesson templates that will help integrate vocabulary, reading comprehension skills, and writing strategies into math, science, social studies, and language arts.

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Instructional Coaching for Dual-Language and Bilingual Teachers’ Classrooms

Develop an effective instructional model for coaches to use with dual-language and bilingual educators, even when they don’t speak the language of instruction. Discover a proven process for an effective observation and feedback cycle to coach bilingual teachers and duallanguage classrooms.

• Explore the dual-language programs currently used in classrooms and schools and their unique qualities and benefits.

• Learn the seven essential elements of an effective coaching and feedback cycle.

• Gain best practices you can utilize in your work as a coach and observer of dual-language teachers.

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• Study the characteristics of high-quality feedback.

REQUEST ON-SITE OR VIRTUAL SERVICES at SolutionTree.com/ELPD or 888.409.1682

Featured Books

Redefining Student Accountability

NEW

A Proactive Approach to Teaching Behavior Outside the Gradebook

By Tom Schimmer

The time has come to separate academic achievement from student behavior attributes. Author and trusted assessment expert Tom Schimmer shares a three-tiered framework and trauma-informed, restorative, and schoolwide approaches to teaching responsibility, nurturing student accountability, and addressing student behavior in a way that teaches students the life skills they need to thrive in the classroom and in the larger world.

Motivated to Learn

NEW

• Learn how to create trauma-informed, restorative, and schoolwide approaches to teaching the skills of responsibility to students.

• Discover how to improve students’ social competence through a process of goal setting, self-monitoring, and self-reflection.

• Gain an understanding of how the PLC at Work® and RTI at Work™ processes, as well as strong assessment practices, can redefine student accountability in the classroom.

23GCTG-S8A–BKG002 $35.95 USD | $47.00 CAD

ISBN 978-1-952812-13-2

176 pages

Decreasing Challenging Student Behaviors and Increasing Academic Engagement

By Staci M. Zolkoski, Calli Lewis Chiu, and Mandy E. Lusk

Imagine a day in the classroom where you can devote all your energy to student learning instead of battling challenging behavior. In Motivated to Learn, you will gain evidence-based approaches for engaging students and equipping them to better focus in the classroom. With this book’s straightforward strategies, you can learn to motivate all your students to actively participate in learning.

• Discover the root causes of challenging behavior.

• Learn how to implement student choices in the classroom.

• Explore self-monitoring as a way to improve social behavior and academic success.

23GCTG-S8A–BKG037 $40.95 USD | $53.50 CAD

ISBN 978-1-952812-83-5

208 pages