Kathleen's dynamic workshops, institutes, retreats, consulting and coaching can be customized to meet your district, school or event needs. All learning events with Kathleen combine current researched educational theory with hands-on, practical strategies for teaching ALL learners.

• Differentiated Instruction – Introductory to Advanced: Take the complexity out of differentiating! Kathleen offers a step-by-step plan for creating a differentiated classroom. Learn how to honor all learners, build community and design engaging and meaningful lessons that meet standards and benchmarks while keeping the learning in your classroom rigorous and relevant. Kathleen has a multitude of dynamic, practical strategies and lessons examples for differentiating in Grades K-12. 
• Teaching for Understanding – Reading and Writing in the Content Areas:  Would you like to promote ownership and independence with your students? Learn strategies for teaching students the vital reading, writing, speaking and listening skills they need to become successful learners. These strategies are important for all learners, but a MUST for struggling students in the regular or special education classroom.
• Teaching in the Extended/Block Class Period: Keep your learners engaged in meaningful learning with these strategies for teaching in the block or trimester schedule.  Learn how to vary the chunk (input), chew (process) and check (output) of your lessons over a class period, a week, a unit.
• Inclusive Education/Response to Intervention: If you are including more and more students with mild to moderate disabilities in your classrooms, then this is the workshop for you.   This workshop is packed with practical, doable intervention strategies that respond to and support all learners in the regular classroom.
• Co-Teaching: Whether your school or district is just starting co-teaching or if co-teaching partnerships have been in place for awhile, discover timesaving strategies and techniques for building a teaching partnership, planning lessons and working together effectively in the co-taught classroom.
• Winning Strategies for Test-taking (Grades 3-8): This workshop will help teachers and students make the most out of preparing for high-stakes testing. Students will discover engaging and meaningful connections between learning strategies that help them win a game and learning winning strategies for taking tests. Students will also discover the valuable life skills that can be learned through test taking.
• Inspired Teaching – The Craft of Apprenticeship Learning: Bring in a new era of teaching…do more than merely motivate your students, prepare them for the 21st century and stimulate their innate desire to learn by inspiring them! Students can acquire lifelong learning strategies and love learning if we apprentice them into owning the vital skills that will help them succeed in and out of school.  This 2  - 5 day workshop focuses on best practices and differentiated teaching strategies that will reach and inspire all learners in your classroom.
• Writing Workshop: Learn how to create a writing workshop in your classroom. These sessions can be used in conjunction with Lucy Calkins Units of Study.

Kathleen also provides…

• Motivational Keynote Addresses
• Study Skills or Vital Know-Hows
• Improving School/Classroom Climate
• Curriculum/Lesson Design
• Teacher Inspiration/Student Motivation
• Parent Workshops
• Special education
• Gifted Education