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6+1 Trait® Wee Writers Across Content Workshop

This workshop introduces teachers of the youngest students to Education Northwest’s 6+1 Trait Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment using classic literature children know and love.

6+1 Trait® Writing Across Language and Culture Workshop

Education Northwest’s 6+1 Trait® Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment provides a common language teachers and students can use to communicate about the characteristics of quality writing and establishes a clear vision of what good writing looks like.

6+1 Trait® Writing Across the Content Areas Workshop for Teams of Teachers, Grades 6-12

This workshop helps middle and high school teachers integrate writing across the content areas in meaningful, effective ways.

6+1 Trait® Writing Introductory Workshop

This workshop introduces teaching strategies to help students identify quality in writing, manage their own writing process, practice effective revision and editing skills, and become confident writers.

6+1 Trait® Writing One-Day Overview Workshop for Administrators

Education Northwest's 6+1 Trait® Writing Model of Instruction & Assessment provides a common language teachers and students can use to communicate about the characteristics of quality writing and establishes a clear vision of what good writing looks like.

6+1 Trait® Writing Workshop for Trait Presenters

This advanced training of trainers is designed for literacy coaches, teacher leaders, administrators, and curriculum coordinators wishing to conduct their own in-district trait-based workshops.

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics: Professional Development for K–8 Educators

Take action now! It’s time to start preparing for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM). With common assessments set to roll out in the 2014–2015 school year, districts can ease the coming transition by beginning the implementation process now.

Connections: School to Work

Connections: School to Work is a service of the Education, Career & Community Program at Education Northwest. We provide a wide range of training, technical assistance, professional development, curriculum development and consultation on youth development, community-based learning, and school-to-work transitions.

Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching: Classroom to Community and Back

Training in strategies to actively engage students (especially those who are typically disengaged) by tapping into their family, community, and youth culture.

Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Number and Operations

Education Northwest offers professional development in the DMI curriculum that helps teachers examine the major ideas of K-6 mathematics and learn how children develop those ideas.

Evaluation of Classroom Technology Integration Through the Use of OPTIC

Education Northwest offers training in the use of OPTIC, an observation tool designed to assist school principals or others in assessing the degree of technology integration occurring in classrooms and schools.

Fostering Number Sense and Algebraic Reasoning in K–2, 3–5, and 6–8

Education Northwest offers professional development that builds teachers’ pedagogical and content knowledge focusing on number sense and algebraic reasoning.

Improving Adolescent Mathematics Learning: Instructional Strategies for Teachers of Grades 6–12

Education Northwest offers professional development that helps teachers incorporate research-tested practices to support struggling adolescent learners into instruction, assessment, professional development, and school structures at the middle and high school level.

Improving Mathematics Instruction for English Language Learners

Education Northwest offers professional development that helps teachers incorporate research-based instructional strategies for ELL students into mathematics instruction.

Initiative-wide Youth Mentoring Technical Assistance

The National Mentoring Center provides in-depth training and technical assistance to large-scale federal, state, and regional mentoring initiatives. These services are geared towards serving cohorts of funded mentoring sites or the large-scale implementation of mentoring projects by government and private nonprofit funding sources.

Lenses on Learning: Instructional Leadership in Mathematics

Education Northwest offers professional development that helps administrators recognize and support standards-based mathematics instruction.

Lesson Study

Education Northwest offers professional development in lesson study that helps teams of teachers collaboratively build pedagogical and content knowledge by planning, teaching, observing, and refining lessons.

Listening to Student Voices

This service provides a process for K-12 educational leaders and school-based teams to include students in continuous school improvement. It involves use of one or more of four Listening to Student Voices tools.

Mentoring Program Training and Technical Assistance

The National Mentoring Center (NMC) can design and deliver customized training for mentoring program staff and volunteer mentors. Our trainings and other forms of program assistance combine the skills and expertise of NMC staff teams with the wide-ranging talents of our national network of expert trainers.

Professional Learning Teams (PLTs) To Improve Student Achievement

Professional Learning Teams (PLTs) are the foundation for making your entire school a professional learning community dedicated to improving student academic performance.

Recreating Secondary Schools: Best Practices for Small Learning Communities

Successful small learning communities, career academies, and small schools share a common set of practices. This training helps district and school leadership teams redesign high schools so that all parts of the system—structures, curriculum, instruction, assessments, professional development—are aligned with preparing students for postsecondary success.

Recreating Secondary Schools: Interdisciplinary Units and Projects

Interdisciplinary teaching and learning teams are the basic building blocks of effective learning communities. This training positions interdisciplinary teams of teachers to provide continuity of instruction across grade levels and classrooms for increased student achievement.

Recreating Secondary Schools: Resource Allocation To Close the Achievement Gap

Typical patterns of resource use are often inconsistent with schools’ improvement priorities, especially closing the achievement gap. In this training, school leadership teams examine the resource allocation strategies of schools that created rigorous instructional programs with improved outcomes for all students.

Recreating Secondary Schools: Rigorous and Coherent Instructional Programs

Would you like to see more interdisciplinary collaboration, but schedules, groupings, and standards seem to limit you? In this training, your leadership team collaboratively defines a standards-based program that can overcome obstacles to interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

Scoring With the 6+1 Trait® Writing Model Workshop

This training instructs teachers on how to use the 6+1 Trait® Writing Model to analyze and score student papers.

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Equity Academy To Improve Instruction for English Language Learners

Implementing high-quality language instruction programs to improve the education of English language learners (ELLs) is a national priority emphasized in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The SIOP model was developed to help ELLs acquire grade-level content knowledge while increasing their English proficiency.

Support for Mathematics Coaches and Leaders

Education Northwest offers professional development for elementary, middle, and high school mathematics coaches and leaders that strengthens mathematical content knowledge and enhances skill and knowledge for providing coaching support.

Teaching and Learning Mathematics for Secondary Teachers

Education Northwest offers professional development for secondary mathematics teachers and administrators addressing school- or district-specific needs through a combination of workshops, coaching, and/or facilitated learning teams.

Teaching by Design in Elementary Mathematics

Education Northwest offers professional development in the implementation of Teaching by Design in Elementary Mathematics, a series of study guides that help elementary teachers create and share knowledge for teaching mathematics.

Tutoring and Out-of-School Time Strategies, Training and Program Development

For more than a decade, Education Northwest has been a national provider of training and technical assistance to tutoring and out-of-school time programs. Our trainings combine the skills and expertise of staff teams with the wide-ranging talents of our national network of expert trainers.

Video Study Groups: Improving Math and Science Teaching and Learning

Education Northwest offers professional development conducted in learning communities using video of teachers’ own classrooms to launch professional discussions about student interactions, questions, and responses to instruction.