Presentation and consulting services
Presentations:
I have created and presented the following lecture/power points to educators in New York, Nashville and Oregon. These are one hour presentations, including time for questions:
“Kids in Crisis: how to reach them so you can teach them”
 Oregon Association for Teacher Educators (ORATE) Conference; Salem, OR
National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Conference; Portland, OR
“Reaching Struggling Readers and Writers”
New York State Alternative Education Association, Binghamton, NY
National Council Teachers of English Annual Conference, Nashville, TN
Contact me at L_thurston_2000@yahoo.com if you’d like to see the slides and handouts or to discuss tailoring these presentations to meet the needs of your staff.
Consulting Services:
I offer
- Instructional Coaching at the secondary level
- Literacy across the content areas
- Modeling of best practices
- Standards based lesson design
- Formative and summative assessment
- Differentiation and scaffolding
- Development of long term and supporting learning targets
- Embedded professional development on creating classroom community
- Reach them before you teach them: Connecting to kids in crisis by creating classroom community
- Using strategies and methods outlined in my workbook, I can assist teachers in developing the type of classroom community necessary to allow all kids the opportunity to achieve
Contact me at L_thurston_2000@yahoo.com to discuss tailoring these learning opportunities to meet the needs of your staff.
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