Kim's workshops and consulting
11 PRACTICAL, INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS
These highly interactive workshops include videos, role-plays, poll questions, and small- and large-group discussions.
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1. Rethinking teacher supervision, coaching, and evaluation - A workshop on shifting from annual full-lesson evaluations to short, frequent, unannounced classroom visits with face-to-face coaching conversations and short write-ups after each one, then collaborating with each teacher to describe overall performance in an end-of-year rubric (3-6 hours)
2. Managing time for instructional leadership - Ten ways principals and other school-based leaders can use every minute to continuously improve teaching and learning (3-4 hours)
3. Making student learning central to the teacher evaluation process - Using standardized test scores and SLOs (student learning objectives) to evaluate teachers has been thoroughly discredited. Yet it's possible to focus on student learning every day: principals having low-stakes conversations about student learning after classroom visits, orchestrating robust PLC conversations about students' work, and encouraging teacher teams to document their value-add to student learning over the course of each year. (2 hours)
4. Leveraging classroom assessments - Nine ways to support teachers as they check for understanding and use other assessments of student work to significantly improve pedagogy and learning (3-4 hours)
5. Avoiding "PLC Lite" - How to support teacher teams in truly effective analysis of student work and follow-up. (2 hours)
6. Rethinking differentiation - A practical approach to mastering the daunting and poorly-understood challenge of meeting the learning needs of diverse groups of students. (90-120 minutes)
7. UbD backwards curriculum unit planning - An authorized one-day, hands-on workshop on Wiggins/McTighe Understanding by Design, with teacher teams working through key steps in designing a comprehensive curriculum unit (6 hours)
8. Supervising, coaching, and evaluating principals - Parallel to the above approach with teachers, superintendents (or their designees) set goals, make frequent school visits, coach on one "leverage point" at a time, gather data from other sources, and collaborate with the principal to describe performance in an end-of-year rubric (3-4 hours)
9. Getting the most out of the Marshall Memo - Strategies for sparking discussion and positive change by sharing ideas and resources from each week's Memo with individual colleagues, teams, and the whole faculty; also making good use of the Best of Memo website (1 hour)
10. Understanding recent mindshifts in K-12 education - Eight major changes in the way we think about intelligence, poverty, school leadership, teachers, tests, and accountabiliy (2-3 hours)
11. Implementing a middle-school sex education program - Thinking through the rollout of Marshall's curricluum for students in grades 6-8; this includes access to the full curriculum (2 hours)
ON-SITE CONSULTING AND COACHING
Kim offers the following school-based services, remotely, in single visits, or as part of a longer-term consultancy:
- Time management and instructional leadership for school leaders
- Effective use of on-the-spot and interim assessments
- Support with teacher supervision, coaching, and evaluation with co-observations and debriefs
- Rethinking district policies on supervision, evaluation, and assessment
- Whole-staff training on Understanding by Design curriculum unit design (in collaboration with Jay McTighe)
- A top-to-bottom analysis of a school's effectiveness, leading to specific action steps