PEBC Professional Learning
Is your staff ready to be rejuvenated with relevant, interactive professional learning? PEBC offers a wide variety of PEBC multi-day institutes that can be presented to your team in our Colorado locations, virtually or in-person at your site.
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Literacy and Comprehension Institutes
Investigating Thinking Strategies
What type of thinking do we want to facilitate in our classrooms?
Decades of research on reading comprehension supports our focus on metacognition and thinking strategies across the curriculum. In this two-day institute, participants experience the process of coming to deep understanding and learn how to integrate thinking strategy instruction across the curriculum.
Perfect For: K-12 Teachers, Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Workshop 2.0
How can we be learning designers for student understanding? How do our workshops allow for students to have ownership in their learning?
Intentionally planned workshops deepen student understanding, engagement, and ownership of student learning. We will spend two days unpacking the nuances of the workshop model and examining the ways in which the workshop model can be modified to meet students needs without losing the components of intentional teacher modeling, practice, and reflection. On day two, participants will visit a PEBC Lab Classroom.
Perfect For: K-12 Teachers, Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Planning for Agency, Engagement, and Understanding
In what ways might we be intentional in our planning to foster student agency, engagement, and understanding?
In this two day institute we will wrangle the beast of planning by elevating intentionality and providing you with new tools and processes for unit and daily planning. By focusing on rich student tasks, thinking, and discourse in conjunction with standards, we heighten student understanding and achievement. On day two, participants will visit a PEBC Lab Classroom.
Perfect For: K-12 Teachers, Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Argument Writing Institute
How might learners link quality evidence and clear reasoning to compose powerful arguments?
Researchers at Stanford identified argument writing as the convergence of the Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. In this two-day institute, participants will learn instructional strategies that engage students in high-level thinking and discourse that translate to writing strong arguments. Learn how to support students in developing an evidence-based argument while authoring one of your own.
Perfect For: 6th-12th Grade Teachers, Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Foundations of Literacy
What cognitive processes do people use to read effectively?
Reading is a complex process of meaning making that requires an array of skills and strategies. In this two-day institute, participants will examine the links between fluency, decoding, and the nuances of deep comprehension.
Perfect For: ECE-12 Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Literacy Specialists, Assistant Principals and Principals
Disciplinary Literacy
Isn’t all reading the same, at least, after one learns to decode and comprehend? Isn’t good writing the same for all? And what does it mean to think like a scientist? A historian? A mathematician? A geographer?
If you’re curious about any of these questions, this institute is for you. We’ll explore what’s unique to your discipline and what it takes to mentor your students as readers and writers in your area. Only you, the social scientist, the scientist, the mathematician, the literary scholar can apprentice your students in those thinking skills.
Perfect For: 5-12 Teachers, Instructional Coaches and Leaders
Math, Science, and Social Studies Institutes
Cultivating STEM Identities Institute
How do you and your students feel about yourselves as scientists and mathematicians?
In this two-day institute, participants will examine why learners’ STEM identities are important, and how we as adults can structure learning experiences to enhance students’ enjoyment of and engagement with thinking as scientists and mathematicians.
Perfect For: K-5 Teachers, Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Minds on Math Institute
Do you know how to address all eight of the common core standards for mathematical practice and promote deep understanding?
In this two-day institute, participants explore how explicit thinking strategy instruction can promote students’ deep mathematical understanding. Facilitators model how to facilitate classroom discussions that support all learners, preparing them with the problem-solving skills they need to make meaning of math, succeed on standardized assessments, and face life’s many mathematical challenges.
Perfect For: K-12 Teachers, Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Math Institute 2.0
How do we cultivate confident, competent math learners?
This two-day institute uncovers the foundation of mathematical meaning making. Join us to explore the relationships between number sense, conceptual understanding and problem solving that support learners’ efficacy as mathematicians.
Perfect For: K-5 Teachers, Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Science Institute
Are you ready to create engaging, inquiry-based learning experiences that generate interest in and understanding of the big ideas of science?
In this two-day institute, participants explore how to design learning experiences that integrate the Next Generation Science Standards’ Science & Engineering Practices, along with thinking strategies, in order to increase student engagement and deepen understanding.
Perfect For: K-12 Teachers, Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Social Studies & History Institute
How do social scientists and historians synthesize sources?
In this two-day institute, experience and analyze the ways in which we scaffold learners’ inquiry into primary and secondary sources. Develop instructional strategies to facilitate deep reading and true understanding of complex non-fiction texts.
Perfect For: K-12 Teachers, Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Coaching & Leadership Institutes
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Series
In what ways can we support ourselves and others in managing social and emotional needs and building social emotional competencies?
In this series, we explore research and practices and learn actions that can enhance our own well being and our ability to support our students’ success as learners. We will explore the CASEL framework, alternating between building awareness and taking action.
Perfect For: Teachers, K-12 Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals & Principals, School and District Leaders
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Series 2
As many educators have witnessed, the impacts of COVID, social unrest, chronic stress, and trauma can lead students to at times be dysregulated and unable to learn. In addition, many educators are also seeing disruptive student behaviors that they have not encountered before. While this makes sense from a neurological standpoint, it can be challenging to know how to move forward and find ways of meeting students where they are. In addition, regulating our own responses and extending empathy go a long way in de-escalating situations when students feel out of control or unable to self-regulate. This series illuminates key research, a number of strategies, some do’s and a couple of don’ts to help restore peace and sanity in our classrooms.
Perfect For: Teachers, K-12 Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals & Principals, School and District Leaders
Dynamic Leadership Series
How do we leverage the interconnectedness of our system to support all learners’ success?
This three-day series offers school/district leadership teams a framework of nine essential facets of leadership. Participating school and teacher leaders connect the expectations of standards, assessments, effectiveness and accountability while examining what it means to think critically when leading a system.
Perfect For: Teacher Leaders, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Impact Through Skilled Facilitation
How does skilled facilitation magnify and catalyze our work, and deepen our impact?
In this two-day institute, explore the many facets of quality facilitation and how it helps maximize the impact of the work of teacher leaders and school leaders. We will explore how a facilitative stance and tools enhance school culture and student achievement by building teacher capacity and leading to improved collaboration.
Perfect For: Teacher Leaders, Assistant Principals and Principals, and District Leaders
Cognitive Coaching (SM)
How might we draw forth our colleagues’ best thinking and problem solving?
In this eight-day institute, educators learn an approach to coaching and professional communications which focuses on supporting colleagues’ thinking around planning, reflecting and problem-solving. This approach increases students’ and colleagues’ independence, metacognition, and engagement, generating more confidence and success.
Perfect For: Principals, Assistant Principals, Teacher Leaders, District Leaders
Effective Mentoring & Coaching
In what ways might we support, challenge and facilitate colleagues’ professional vision?
In this two-day institute, participants learn how to refine their language and conversations to support novice through experienced teachers using coaching, collaborating, and consulting aligned to the situation. Increase creativity, independence and confidence among colleagues in support of deeper student learning.
Perfect For: Teachers, K-12 Curriculum Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Assistant Principals & Principals, School and District Leaders
Going Deeper With Coaching
What is your philosophy of coaching and how does that philosophy shape your coaching practices?
We will spend two days defining the role of coaching, creating or refining a tool for managing coaching, increasing our confidence facilitating conversations & protocols, identifying two or three new coaching moves or models to try with colleagues/clients, and drafting a coaching philosophy. (Includes a PEBC Lab)
Perfect For: Team Leads, Department Chairs, Mentors, Instructional Coaches and Leaders
Peer Learning Lab Institute
In what ways can we design transformative professional learning?
Join us for two days to learn more about the structure of learning labs, the logistics of developing learning labs in your building or district, and the roles of facilitators, hosts, and participants. (Includes a PEBC Lab)
Perfect For: Lab Hosts, Instructional Coaches and Leaders
Leadership Seminar: Renewing Our Impact
What is most important in our leadership? Leadership is service oriented and based in our identities as leaders, educators, and individuals. Join us in the exploration of the PEBC Leadership Framework and your own authentic application of the strands of purpose, culture, instruction, and systems.
Leadership teams will participate in a series of four half-day sessions in order to pause, come together in a time and space, and engage in renewal, new learning, and application.
Perfect For: Teacher Leaders, Assistant Principals and Principals, District Leaders
Phenomenal Teaching Framework
Working the Workshop
How do we design and facilitate effective workshops that engage all learners?
This interactive online course is designed for educators at all levels ready to explore workshop model instruction as a structure for learners’ engagement and understanding. We will examine how this cornerstone of the PEBC Teaching Framework works, and consider how to design and facilitate each component of an effective workshop, regardless of grade level or content area. Course experiences will include reading professional texts, watching classroom videos, hearing teacher interviews, applying and reflecting on your learning
Tools for Thinkers
In what ways might we leverage thinking strategy instruction to build student agency and understanding?
The purpose of thinking strategy instruction is to scaffold learners’ independence. Throughout this course, participants will experience and explore these tools to understand them first hand. Then, tasks will include planning how to introduce, practice and hand the strategies off to students. To this end participants will read professional texts, watch classroom videos, hear teacher interviews, and reflect in light of the PEBC Teaching Framework.
Awesome Assessment
In what ways might we develop ongoing student assessment that supports learners’ agency, equity, and understanding?
Based on the PEBC Teaching Framework, this interactive online course is designed for educators at all levels keen to design and facilitate high quality formative and summative assessment for learners. Across twelve weeks, we will explore the value of assessment for learners’ sense of agency, equitable achievement, and to deepen understanding. This course offers structures and tools for classroom implementation through professional, classroom videos, teacher interviews, application tasks and opportunities for reflection.
Crafting Community
In what ways might we develop classroom communities that support agency, equity, and understanding of every learner?
Social and emotional approaches that support students of diverse backgrounds’ success in school are the foundation of equitable practices. In this course, we will explore the value of and the means to craft an intentional and responsive community of learners among your students. As per the PEBC Teaching Framework, participants will explore the power of productive dispositions, the learning environment, healthy relationships, shared ownership, clear norms and facilitated collaboration to this end. Participants will read about, see and hear strategies for designing a learning community that welcomes each and every learner and supports them in bringing their best to school every day.
Developing Discourse
How can we design and facilitate engaged, accountable conversations about thinking and understanding?
Designed for educators at all levels, this interactive online course invites participants to explore how to design and facilitate engaged, academic conversations among students. Across twelve weeks, we will explore the value of discourse for learners’ language, social and academic development, the design and facilitation of discourse, as well as offer some structures and tools for classroom implementation. Course content will include reading of professional texts including excerpts of Phenomenal Teaching, classroom videos, teacher interviews, application tasks and opportunities for reflection.
Phenomenal Planning
How can we plan for equity, agency and understanding?
Across twelve weeks, this interactive online course immerses educators at all levels in approaches and tools for effective unit planning. We will explore how to prioritize content and process targets, work with existing curricula and standards to prepare units of study aligned with learners’ backgrounds, interests and needs. In addition to the PEBC Teaching Framework, course content will include reading of professional texts, videos, teacher interviews, application tasks and opportunities for reflection.
Phenomenal Teaching Institute
How can we teach for agency, equity and understanding?
The two-day PEBC Phenomenal Teaching Institute explores how educators can design and facilitate instruction to support learners' success. With Phenomenal Teaching as our text, we will experience, dissect and plan top quality instruction that honors students' thinking. Educators across the content areas are invited to discover the power of workshop model as an instructional design supported by thinking strategies and student discourse. You will leave with a template for developing your own lessons that motivate and engage each and every learner.