Designing Thriving Schools® Workshops

Designing Thriving Schools® is a leadership seminar that establishes a dynamic, engaging environment which encourages the creative exchange of ideas. It harnesses the brainpower of your educational leaders by providing cutting-edge information and examples of the latest technology tools as well as educational and organizational strategies; information that educators can use to produce real, actionable results. Participants will learn to strategically improve technology integration in all teaching and learning practices and organizational systems. The goal is to identify those tools and strategies that your team can implement to accelerate learning and increase staff performance. The result is a short list of educational imperatives and enabling technologies that will become key elements in your action plan.

Developed exclusively to address the challenges and exciting new opportunities facing educational institutions, aligned with No Child Left Behind and ISTE Technology Standards, Designing Thriving Schools® will guide you toward integrating strategies, technologies and people to enhance curriculum, instruction and assessment. This program gives participants confidence to explore future possibilities and initiate action.

Designing Thriving Schools is unlike any seminar or in-service meeting you have ever attended in the past. It's a fun and energizing process that stimulates the free flow of ideas.

Designing Thriving Schools® combines. . .

  • • Concise information about new and existing technologies
  • • New insights into current, research-based teaching, learning, and organizational strategies
  • • The creativity and brainpower of your educational stakeholders
  • • And the consultative input of our experienced professional facilitator to generate actionable solutions to the unique
      challenges and opportunities facing your schools today.

Designing Thriving Schools® can help you now

There is really no limit to the types of issues that this process can help you address. Following are some of the areas in which Designing Thriving Schools® has generated powerful, effective ideas:

  • • Implementing “No Child Left Behind” mandates
  • • Revitalizing school improvement strategies
  • • Generating a new level of excitement about how technology can improve the teaching and learning process
  • • Coordinating support for bonds and referendum issues
  • • Improving personal communication and interaction among staff, students, parents, and community stakeholders
  • • Synchronizing technology, instructional, and staff development plans
  • • Establishing meaningful and productive dialog between technical staff and instructional experts
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Workshop Testimonials

"My recent participation in Designing Thriving Schools® has left me both dazzled and amazed. It is a wonderfully engaging process that produced some of the deepest educational dialog I have ever heard. this is truly the kind of experience that will make a difference for children!""

Dr. Kay Cornell, President, Oakland Country Assistant Superintendents Association,
Oakland County Michigan

"The Designing Thriving Schools® strategic thinking and planning process, cultivated through the simplistic card game format, was brilliant. I highly recommend the workshop to others. It is engaging and dynamic!"

Dr. Audrey Toney, Assistant Superintendent,
Pender County Schools, Burgaw, North Carolina

"Thank you for the full day interactive session Designing Thriving Schools®. The leadership teams from the schools in attendance were unanimous in their enthusiastic response to the day's activity. Participants cited the interactive nature of the session and the removal of perceived barriers toward creating a thriving school as key aspects of the session. The investment of your time, abundant energy, and expertise made a substantial impact."

Dr. Gene Chasin, Director,
National Center for the Accelerated School Project, University of Connecticut

"The response to Designing Thriving Schools™ was overwhelmingly positive by every single district. Positive comments continue, which means that people really internalized your message, and found the results useful both professionally and personally."

Dr. Bonnie Hamill, Director, Southwest Center for Accelerated Schools, University of Texas at Austin

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