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Strategic Classroom Consulting (SCC) is a professional learning company that uniquely combines target training with concepts of teacher change to promote skill development in teaching. The primary goal is to improve pedagogy towards increased student achievement. SCC includes evidenced based best practices as identified in the Every Student Succeed Act (ESSA) with the most updated content information in its offerings.

SCC recognizes the need for flexibility when planning professional development with school districts. We are dedicated to offering customizable services to meet the needs of districts around the country. Services can be provided in face-to-face, virtual and blended formats.

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Professional Development Offerings

Strategic Classroom Consulting is the first to offer Mini-Topic Trainings. These offerings take sizable instructional concepts and breaks them down into discreet, manageable parts for targeted professional development. They are grouped into categories and fall under the following series.

Integrating Academic Language Across the Curriculum (IALAC) Courses

Virtual courses dedicated to providing teachers the knowledge and skills to integrate

rigorous academic language instruction for all students. Special attention is given to the unique needs of English Learners. Courses consist of 12 live sessions with independent coursework.

Mind-Full Teaching Series

This professional development series addresses teaching best practices needed for teaching in diverse classrooms that include special education and EL Learners. They integrate theoretical foundations teachers need to maximize instructional expertise.

English Learner Series

The EL Series contains Mini-Topic Trainings that focus solely on English learner development and achievement. It provides techniques and strategies to effectively teach English learners in all contexts.

Special Education Series

This series trains teachers on ways to differentiate classroom instruction for the learning disabled student as well as brain/mind principles that control executive functions for life-long learning.

Trainer of Trainer Series

Coaches are trained on the skills needed to effectively work with teachers towards change in practice. Focus is on cognitive coaching, change centered conversations and mentoring practices.

IALAC Level I

Course introduces learners to language acquisition and academic language development concepts. Instructional strategies that support these concepts are also explored.

IALAC Level II

Course looks closely at language development stages and how they affect classroom instruction, the way academic language is structured as well as specific instructional strategies across the curriculum that support academic language development. Prerequisite: ILAC Level I

IALAC Level III

At this level learners master the ability to highly align academic language instruction with targeted goals and outcomes. Prerequisites: ILAC Level I & II

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Academic and Professional Background

Years of Experience

My career began teaching special needs students in a small private school in New York City. I have been fortunate to educate general education students, students with all types of disabilities, as well as English Learners from Pre-K to grade 12. I have held positions as resource and classroom instructor, district consultant, curriculum coordinator, administrator, education specialist, project and program manager, professional developer, adjunct professor and applied anthropologist.

As an Education Specialist with Pearson Learning for 14 years, I served as a SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) trainer. In that capacity, I trained, coached and consulted with close to 30,000 teachers across the world in sheltered instruction, ELL strategies and classroom best practices.

I believe that teaching is a life long endeavor and that as teachers we need to dedicate ourselves to going from good to great and great to stellar. It is my goal to be a part of that process and to support teachers in any way that I can towards this mission.