These sessions prepare teachers to uplift the critical thinking patterns of their students so they can become deep thinkers and lifelong learners. Educators walk away with strategies to positively impact their students' executive functioning, future-ready, and socio-emotional skills and behaviors.
We know there are loads of books, blogs, conferences, podcasts, seminars, social media, videos, workshops, etc., with information and resources. All of this content can seem endless to navigate through. Worst of all, getting your hands on exactly what you need for the unique and diverse needs of your school, staff, and students is for sure a challenge.
We prioritize practices, strategies, and resources that effectively promote access to high-quality education and fair treatment of all students, especially disadvantaged students, students from culturally diverse backgrounds, and students who are farthest behind.
We want to level the playing field for disadvantaged students, students from culturally diverse backgrounds, and students who are farthest behind. Therefore, we examine disparities related to equity issues facing schools and offer solutions.
We incorporate a strategic mix of culturally responsive approaches and educational technology in our professional services. This ensures teachers know students’ needs beyond the books and can provide equal opportunities for their students to have access, participate, contribute, and thrive in the learning environment.
We help teachers build more trusting relationships with their students and bridge cultural gaps in the classroom. Teachers are better equipped to prepare all students for successful future outcomes and honor the differences students bring, especially disadvantaged students, students from culturally diverse backgrounds, and students who are farthest behind.
The Equity and Excellence in Teaching Professional Development Series examines equity issues facing schools today that relate to:
Your educators will leave our sessions equipped with evidence-based practices they need and can implement right away in their classrooms.
We are LCT-E Learning Solutions, a premier educational consulting firm with a mission to lead, create, and teach to empower schools to greater student achievement. We focus on professional development and programs that give teachers tools and strategies specifically designed to bridge cultural gaps in the classroom and build quality relationships with their students.
With 20 years of experience in the field, LCT-E Learning Solutions is passionate about helping schools increase student achievement, enhance classroom instruction, support students from diverse backgrounds who are farthest behind, and prepare all students for successful futures. LCT-E Learning Solutions answers the call for innovation and inclusivity in teaching and learning by showing teachers how to meet their students' social, emotional, academic, and cultural needs.
Our professional services equip teachers with a toolbox to form more trusting and productive relationships with students as well as address cultural needs that result in an environment for high academic performance, improved communication, and equitable assets for all learners.
But more specifically,
CEO of LCT-E Learning Solutions, award-winning educator, National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT), International Speaker, and Best-Selling Author.
As an educator and professor for pre-service and in-service teachers, I know exactly what it is like to want quality relationships with my students, parents, families, community partners, administrators, and colleagues. I also know what it feels like to have disengaged, unmotivated, and underachieving students. They once sat in the back of my classroom with their heads lowered and voices silent.
Sadly, I experienced these lows and failures (growth opportunities) regarding relationships, instructional practices, assessments, and more. But I also experienced the highest of highs and great success in my teaching, with my students and stakeholders, and in my school setting.
In fact, the EQUAL methodology was born from these experiences, opportunities for growth, successes, and so much more. I took the lessons I learned and the extensive research I have done and continue to do as an expert in the field to design a framework that examines disparities related to equity issues facing schools, offers solutions, and positively impacts schools and districts across the globe.
My unique experience, diverse expertise, and deep empathy allow me to help educators embrace and implement culturally responsive instructional methods and digital tools. They, in turn, prioritize diversity and inclusion and improve their students' achievement. Furthermore, my dedication to equity and excellence in teaching has allowed me to serve over 30,000 educators worldwide using our methods. To say I am honored to do this purpose-focused work is an understatement.
As you can see, I am genuinely passionate about helping schools increase student achievement, enhance teacher instruction, and prepare their students for successful future outcomes. I also have a relentless drive to ensure the educational needs of all students, especially those from diverse cultural backgrounds, are met, and their gifts are cultivated. That is why I am committed to equipping teachers with the tools, strategies, and framework they can immediately implement in their schools and classrooms.
Teachers will leave this professional development series with the evidence-based practices they require to successfully meet their students' social, emotional, academic, and cultural needs.
The EQUAL methodology is at the heart of our professional development which has served K-12 educators worldwide. EQUAL examines equity issues facing schools today. EQUAL offers your educators solid, tangible, practical examples, and solutions. Your educators walk away from our sessions with ready-to-use teaching tips and resources they can use to take action right away with their students and in their schools.
Here are the five tenets of the
EQUAL METHODOLOGY
that have served educators worldwide!
1. School culture and climate
2. Teacher practices and pedagogy
3. Student skill set and mindset
4. Stakeholder relationships and partnerships
5. Equitable formative assessments
The content and resources educators receive in these professional development sessions are valued at well over $40,000. But the best part is that it is NOT your price. Your educators will be able to participate, learn, ask questions, gain access to teaching resources, and become part of a flourishing professional learning network at a fraction of that cost.
FORMAT
Online Webinar or on-site workshop
TIMEFRAME
1.5 hour per session (5 sessions total)
PARTICIPANTS
Minimum of 10 and a max of 25
The content and resources educators receive in the Equity and Excellence in Teaching Professional Development is valued at well over $40,000. Other online learning and educational services charge up to $6500 per workshop or webinars, and they are not customized to your school or teachers' needs.
With us, you get tailored lesson(s), live teaching, workbook(s), planning call(s), continuation session(s), and access to a learning community depending on the package you select. And it gets better because your price is NOT $40,000.
Your teachers will be able to participate, learn, ask questions, gain access to teaching resources, and become part of a flourishing professional learning network for as low as $5,000!
Click below to get a customized and special offer for your school or district.
Contribute to the success of the overall school culture and impact students positively.
Diversify their teaching practices and hold the space for diverse cultures and voices to be shared and represented.
Apply notable research-based SEL+ frameworks to deepen your students’ thinking skills and adjust their behaviors.
Craft creative communication to stakeholders in education who contribute to students' success.
Provide equitable assessment opportunities for students to share their learning with choice, voice, and authenticity.
EVALUATE SCHOOL CULTURE
These sessions evaluate how successfully the school culture promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. We start by looking within to identify individual strengths, limitations, and biases. Educators walk away with strategies to set high expectations, honor autonomy, and value their strengths so they can contribute skillfully to the success of the school culture and students' social, emotional, academic, and cultural well-being.
Sample topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Autonomy and well-being
- Community building practices
- Empathy and emotional intelligence
- Microaggressions and implicit biases
- Positive expectations and growth mindsets
*TECHNOLOGY TOOLS INTEGRATION INCLUDED
**SESSION SUBTOPICS MAY BE CUSTOMIZED
QUALIFY TEACHER PRACTICES
These sessions help teachers qualify their content, materials, curriculum, pedagogy, and practices to ensure they provide a pathway for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Educators walk away with strategies and steps that help them diversify their content and practices to represent students' cultures, backgrounds, unique learning styles, interests, etc., and those of their ancestors.
Sample topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Anti-racist teaching practices
- Authentic and relevant content
- Culturally responsive teaching
- Decolonizing the classroom
- Experts and guest speakers
*TECHNOLOGY TOOLS INTEGRATION INCLUDED
**SESSION SUBTOPICS MAY BE CUSTOMIZED
UPLIFT STUDENT SKILL SETS
Sample topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Future-ready skills / 21st-century skills
- Metacognition and memory
- Mindfulness and attention skills
- Self-management and time management
- Thinking strategies and learning styles
*TECHNOLOGY TOOLS INTEGRATION INCLUDED
**SESSION SUBTOPICS MAY BE CUSTOMIZED
ACTIVATE STAKEHOLDER RELATIONSHIPS
These sessions motivate teachers to activate a student success team of stakeholders, including parents, families, school staff, community businesses, experts, and organizations who work together as productive partners around their students’ achievement. Educators walk away with strategies and tools to invite and involve various stakeholders who work for the students.
Sample topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Collaboration between administrators and teachers
- Guest speakers, role models, and the hope gap
- Engaging, equitable, and empathetic communication
- Interdisciplinary connections beyond the classroom
- Virtual field trips and learning experiences
*TECHNOLOGY TOOLS INTEGRATION INCLUDED
**SESSION SUBTOPICS MAY BE CUSTOMIZED
LEVERAGE EQUITABLE ASSESSMENTS
These sessions equip teachers to leverage equitable assessment practices by understanding the value of diversity in the assessment process. Educators walk away with strategies and tools they can implement for their students to showcase their learning and mastery of the content in diverse and authentic ways and with choice and voice.
Sample topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Bias-resistant grading practices
- Authentic assessments and products
- Digital portfolios
- Fair and friendly feedback
- Gamification
*TECHNOLOGY TOOLS INTEGRATION INCLUDED
**SESSION SUBTOPICS MAY BE CUSTOMIZED
Teachers worldwide have shared how we have served them. One of the ways is by helping them implement responsive teaching approaches and technology-rich activities like multimedia storytelling and digital portfolios. By doing this, teachers were able to tap into their students’ strengths and allow them to show their learning in diverse ways.
We helped teachers increase their student's writing scores by 70% by implementing unique solutions for students who were not engaged. We designed opportunities for virtual field trips and author chats/interviews for student to dive deep into the writing process, learn from experts, and see writing modeled in a new way. Students, especially disadvantaged students, students from culturally diverse backgrounds, and students who are farthest behind, needed these innovating and inclusive approaches to the traditional content.
We helped over 30,000 educators globally implement strategies that fostered equity and diversity, including thousands of teachers from the fourth largest school district in the USA, Miami-Dade County, through our coaching, professional development, and online programs.
