Dates
April 26-29, 2027
Location
To be announced soon!
Pricing
$1,899 Early Bird* / $1,999 Regular
*Early Bird pricing ends March 26th
Email [email protected] for more details
In what ways might we provide tools that increase learners’ agency and understanding? Thinking strategy instruction gives learners the power to fend off confusion and persevere. It takes them from helpless hand-raisers to agentic meaning-makers!
The “Thinking Strategies” are rooted in the proficient reader research and are proven to be effective when explicitly taught. Thinking strategy instruction involves each strand of the PEBC Teaching Framework; planning for lifeworthy learning, cultivating thinking oriented classrooms, crafting student centered workshops, engaging students in meaningful discourse, and assessing along the way to adjust instruction to meet students' needs. In this institute, educators will experience how the thinking strategies support understanding across grade levels and content areas with an emphasis on how to explicitly teach, support, and plan for student agency and understanding. Participants will visit PEBC Lab Classrooms where teachers and students utilize thinking strategies on a regular basis and where the PEBC Teaching Framework from Phenomenal Teaching by Wendy Ward Hoffer comes to life. Thinking to learn, and learning to think!
Includes
- Certificate of attendance for CDE credit
- Lunch each day
- Two lab classroom days
- Transportation to and from lab classroom schools
- A copy of Phenomenal Teaching by Wendy Ward Hoffer
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Learning Objectives
✓ Thinking Strategies That Serve as Tools for Understanding
✓ Community That Fosters Agency and Understanding
✓ Lifeworthy Workshops That Prioritize Student Engagement
✓ Classroom Discourse That Promotes Academic Conversations
✓ Assessment That Supports Progress
Lab Classrooms
See the Thinking Strategies and elements of the PEBC Teaching Framework in action across grade levels and content areas! Two days in a PEBC lab classroom are included as part of the institute.
In each PEBC Lab classroom, participants will spend the morning observing the instruction and learning taking place in that classroom. With the lab classroom host and a PEBC staff developer, participants will spend time debriefing their observation, asking questions, and reflecting on the implications for their own classroom practice.
Leadership Lab Option
If you are a school or district leader, we now offer an option to spend the second Lab Classroom day in a Leadership Lab. You will spend the morning in a lab classroom at a school that has developed systemic practices across grade levels and has nurtured many lab classrooms over the last several years. You will learn with other leaders how to initiate, support, and sustain quality instruction in all classrooms.
PEBC Institutes fill quickly. Register today!
Facilitators
Annie Patterson
PEBC Senior Director of Lab Networks
Dana Sorensen
PEBC Senior Director Client and System Services
Michelle Morris Jones
PEBC Senior Director of Professional Development Design
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If you have a contract or would like to pay by purchase order, please contact [email protected].
To pay by credit card, please register below.
