On-site Professional Development                        

On-Site Services

Traveling to off-site professional development workshops can be fun and educational, providing attendees opportunities to visit important cultural sites and gather new materials to take back to their schools. 

It can also be quite expensive. Can you imagine purchasing air fare, sleeping rooms, meals and taxi fare for your entire faculty?  Reduce your costs literally by thousands of dollars by bringing the workshop to your campus and/or district. For approximately $40/person/day (for 50 people) you can provide the same quality professional development to your
entire staff. 

Other benefits of on-site workshops: the entire faculty receives the information first-hand; local materials and resources are available to the participants which means more in-depth planning; faculty has a chance to plan together and get to know each other better - something most teachers just do not have time to do. This is not just a nice thing, it's vitally important to building community, and therefore, relevant, rigorous curriculum.

Whether it's one workshop or a complete Annual Plan, 21st Century Schools can bring it to you.  Choose from one of our regular workshops, or let us custom-design one for you.

Professional Development Topics

Curriculum Design -  Our curriculum design workshop, Designing the 21st Century Classroom, incorporates and addresses:

1.  Alignment to State and National Standards
2.  Multimedia and Technology - Design and delivery of curriculum via multimedia and technology
3.  Multiple Literacies required in the 21st century - from cyberliteracy to visual literacy, aural literacy, financial literacy, etc.
4.  Classroom Strategies which support a 21st century curriculum
5.  Brain-based research
6.  Multiple Intelligences
7.  Differentiated Instruction
8.  Project-based Learning
9.  Problem-based Learning
10. Interdisciplinary, Integrated, Thematic unit design
11. Critical Reading Strategies
12. Media Literacy - accessing, analyzing, critiquing and creating products in a variety of media.
13. Classroom Climate
14. Physical Environment
14. High Expectations
15. Emotional Climate
16. Cooperative and Collaborative Grouping
17. Global Classroom - how to take your classroom global, with or without the Internet
18. Service Learning projects
19. Student Motivation
20. Parental and Community Involvement - authentic involvement, truly contributing to the curriculum and instruction the learning process -  not the "please come to the school and run off these papers for me, or shelve these books, or cut out these items."  True, highly motivated and valuable participation.
21. Themes - what kind of themes you can select, and how to incorporate everything, taking learning to greater levels.


Other Topics We Offer  -  Other topics our experts can bring include:

1.  Smaller Learning Communities
2.  Specializing High Schools, particular thematic and technology/career high schools
3.  School Scheduling
4.  Video Production in the Classroom
5.  Multimedia Production in the Classroom
6.  Service Learning - what I regard as the ultimate 21st century curriculum
7.  School Design - literally the architecture/building for 21st century schools
8.  Environmental Education, or Ecoliteracy
9.  Visual Literacy
10. Financial Literacy -  incorporating into the curriculum
11. Multicultural Education
12. Character Education
13. Authentic Assessment, or Performance Assessment
14. Constructivism
15. Emotional Literacy
16. Parental and Community Participation
17. Finding, Obtaining and Using Technology
 

Multi-District Conferences

Let our talented and experienced team of consultants plan, organize and deliver a multi-district educational conference for you. By teaming with one or more other districts (or campuses), you can cut professional development expenses dramatically. All we need is the general theme of your conference, then we will discuss with you the development of the strands which you wish to offer the attendees. Based on an assessment of your district's needs we will organize the perfect educational conference - everything from coffee and pastries to the session evaluation forms!

Sharing expenses for a professional development event of this nature can even result in putting money into your pocket as you charge attendance fees to educators from other school districts. We also will look into alternative sources of funding for you.



Educate the Educator

In this scenario, consultants from 21st Century Schools will come to your district and work with a special team of people selected from each campus and the central office. We will then conduct intensive training which will enable these specialists to conduct the professional staff development sessions for the rest of the staff in your district. This is not only extremely cost effective in terms of dollars, but in terms of increased productivity, efficiency and morale. A spirit of teamwork and collaboration in creating needed growth and change for your staff is priceless.



Curriculum Design

Consultants at 21st Century Schools are here to assist you in designing and developing curriculum for your district and campuses. We will work with teachers, administrators and parents as you design and align your district/campus curriculum - vertically, horizontally and globally - to meet the needs of your students for the new millennium.

Vertical Alignment - addressing the flow of the curriculum in a PreK-12 perspective.

Horizontal Alignment - addressing the flow of the curriculum across disciplines within grade levels.

Globally Balanced - aligning the curriculum into a meaningful and complete whole which not only meets state and national standards, but is connected to the community as our society undergoes rapid changes due to the phenomena of technology, media and globalization in all aspects of life.

Pricing

Please follow this link for information on pricing for on-site professional development.