Following is a description of Mary's most popular full day trainings. She will also custom fit the training to the requests of the school. All trainings support research based practices for Tier 1 and Tier 2 of Response To Intervention (RTI)

ESL Strategies - Grades K-6 
Practical ideas to make current curriculum comprehensible and relevant  
Cooperative learning techniques and activities
Comprehensible strategies for teaching academic content
Highly effective comprehension strategies
Step by step English language lessons for each level of language learner
Motivating ideas to make learning English natural and enjoyable
Ways to integrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking into the curriculum.
Culturally Responsive Teaching to promote self esteem and understanding
Dozens of fun and exciting language games  
Management techniques to accommodate ESL students in the general classroom
Tools to perform ongoing and informal assessment to match instruction with the needs of the ESL students    

Reading Strategies That Really Work!- Grades K-2    
A wealth of cutting edge fluency, vocabulary and comprehension strategies
Easy to implement literacy center activities  
Management techniques to keep the class independent and productive while the teacher works with small groups
Reciprocal teaching strategies just for K-2 students
How to use graphic organizers to increase thinking skills
Differentiated literacy instruction for ESL, struggling, and gifted students

Writing Strategies That Really Work! - Grades K-2
Guide students through the developmental stages of writing
Modeled and interactive writing techniques
Sentence, paragraph, story, and poetry writing strategies and ideas
Step by step writing focus lessons
Dozens of across the curriculum writing ideas
Strategies to help students revise and edit their own writing
Writing workshop management techniques
Motivating publishing ideas to share and celebrate writing
Authentic assessment and evaluation tools 

Math Strategies That Really Work! - Grades K-2
Guided math groups based on NCTM standards
Math center activities and management techniques
Dozens of ways to help students master math facts
Writing and math
Reading and math
Engaging math projects
Helping students understand number sense
Lots of hands-on engaging activities to increase math achievement

Practical Strategies to Increase Reading Skills - Grades 3-6   
Guided and shared reading strategies to increase comprehension and fluency
Easy to implement and manage independent literacy centers
Teach comprehension skills through picture books  
Increase oral and written reading responses through motivating literature circles Increase comprehension and vocabulary knowledge in content area reading
Dozens of word games and activities to increase spelling skills and vocabulary knowledge
Reciprocal teaching strategies to increase comprehension and fluency
Differentiated instruction for ESL, struggling, and gifted students
Strategies to increase higher level thinking skills
How to raise reading achievement by getting kids hooked on books
Authentic assessment and evaluation tools 

Practical Strategies to Increase Writing Skills- Grades 3-6  
Step by step guided and interactive writing focus lessons 
Highly effective strategies to help students write quality sentences, paragraphs, essays, stories, poetry, and research reports
Writing in the content areas
Writing workshop management techniques
Techniques to help students revise and edit their own writing
Teacher and peer conferencing strategies    
Dozens of narrative, descriptive, persuasive, and expository writing ideas
How to help students use graphic organizers as writing tools
Activities to empower students to use rich vocabulary in their writing
Motivating publishing ideas
How to prepare students for writing assessments
Realistic approaches to evaluate and assess writing growth and abilities

Practical Strategies To Increase Math Skills- Grades 3-6
Guided math lessons based on the NCTM standards
A wealth of math center ideas and management techniques
Increase math vocabulary with evidence-based activities
Hands-on math projects to stimulate understanding
Dozens of ways to help students master multiplication and division facts
Numerous meaningful and exciting math games and activities in place value, probability, algebra, fractions, geometry, measurement and more!
Great ideas to help students make the reading, writing, math connection

The following two seminars were developed for principals who want the entire staff to see reading and writing strategies at all grade levels. These seminars combine the highlights from the primary and intermediate reading and writing seminars above:

Vocabulary, Fluency and Comprehension Strategies - Grades K-6 

Writing Across the Grade Levels - Grades K-6

Research has shown that one-day teacher training sessions do not have long-range impact on instructional practices. Effective professional development requires ongoing support as learning is applied in the instructional setting. In-school support allows teachers to gradually implement learning and build opportunities throughout the school year to discuss, question and modify learning over time.

Mary's suggestion for effective Teacher Development:

1. Whole day seminars as described above.

2. Small group meetings - A few weeks to a month after a seminar substitutes are arranged to rotate around classrooms so Mary can meet with small groups of teachers to answer questions, review strategies, discuss specific student needs, asessments and interventions.

3. Demonstration Lessons - To help teachers fully understand how, when and why to use effective strategies and interventions Mary will work with teachers to plan and teach a lesson. The focus will be on matching the lesson to the needs of the students.