Services
I offer services to meet any and all of your Professional Development needs.
From an individual teacher to an entire district, I've got you covered.
"We have used Shannon and Empower math now for several years in Orinda schools. Shannon has worked with a broad range of teachers, both new and experienced, and made a significant impact on their capacity to deliver high quality math lessons. She tailored her training to our needs, and helped us last year focus on creating structures and systems for differentiated math learning. Feedback from our staff was extremely positive and teachers felt more confident and positive about teaching math effectively. She has been an excellent resource for our staff."
David Schrag
Director of Curriculum and Instruction, OUSD
Customized Professional Learning
Building content knowledge alongside best instructional practices for individual teachers, teams, staffs, administrations, and districts.
Expert Level Demonstration Sessions
Seeing is believing. Through the modeling of best instructional strategies, expert classroom management and through the fostering of an equitable math talk community, demonstration lessons allow teachers to get a sense of pacing, lesson design, and pedagogy in an inquiry-based classroom.
Dynamic Individual or Team Coaching
A reflective teacher is an effective teacher. Opening our doors to others, our peers, etc. is one of the most effective ways to impact our teaching.
"After using the program for three years, it was so nice to see a lesson taught utilizing the parts of the program that we should all be using. Seeing it firsthand versus just being told was extremely effective. I not only enjoyed the math lesson itself, but also the behavior management strategies to make sure ALL students are engaged."
3rd Grade Teacher
Antelope, CA
Keynote Motivational Addresses
Motivate and inspire your administrative teams, full staffs, teacher leader teams, etc. with practical, yet impactful ideas to spark a season…
E-Learning Course Modules
Coursework on any of the above topics as well as on specific standard domains. Take it at your pace and get live support along the way.
Year Long Teacher Support Packages
Packages are designed for teachers needing more than just a one time overview. Like most of us, once isn’t enough.
"Thank you for what you do. In my 18 years of teaching and professional development and demo lessons you were by far the most effective and inspiring presenter I've seen. Your strategies were easily implemented in my math class. I really appreciate your passion for teaching. Thanks for inspiring me. "
2nd Grade Teacher, Sacramento, CA
Math Genius Squad
A professional development membership for Math Expressions Users
Differentiated support for teachers at all stages of math teaching and implementation. On-demand, fully aligned, and vetted by hundreds of teachers and teacher leaders nation-wide. It's PD when you need it, how you need it.
Used by more than 50 schools/districts, the Squad has transformed how teachers implement Math Expressions and most importantly, how they move students along the learning path.
I am so thankful for you and the {Math Genius} Squad. It was a blessing that I stumbled upon you while searching math Expressions on Facebook. I am an avid user of the Squad. I use all of your slide decks and watch each teaching video and unit overview. My class's beginning of the year benchmarking math data showed that 47.06% of my students were proficient/advanced in math. My class's middle-of-the-year benchmarking data showed that 88.24% of my students were proficient/advanced in math. Without the Squad and your coaching (through your videos), I truly believe that my students wouldn't be excelling as much as they are in math. Math Expressions is an amazing curriculum and the Squad gives me the tools needed to dig deeper and to take my instruction to the next level. Thank you!!!!
Angie Lory
Grade 1 Teacher Adams Friendship Schools, WI
Customized Professional Learning
Building content knowledge alongside best instructional practices for individual teachers, teams, staffs, administrations, and districts.
Save the cookie cutter presentations for the ‘olden days’ when we subconsciously thought, ‘You get what you get and don’t throw a fit!” When we know better, we do better. Just as we adjust to meet the needs of our students, I believe in adjusting to meet the needs of each staff. Choose from one of the topics below, or choose a topic of your choice, but either way, I will work with you to ensure you get the training you need! Learning is not one size fits all.
Up to 7 hours of customized professional development for groups up to 40 participants. These courses are designed to meet your individual district, school, or team learning goals. Offered as overview training in 2-3 hour sessions, although most impactful as either full day sessions or multiple sessions over several visits. The best model incorporates these learning courses into full learning cycles (PD, modeling, coaching, repeat). Please contact Shannon for full course descriptions, pricing and bundling suggestions for your specific goals.
Stand Alone Courses Zoom Delivered Paired with follow up check-in sessions Paired with Guided Staff PD powerpoint recordings for follow up staff meetings and admin/coach led professional learning blocks Paired with Staff Book Studies Paired with coaching cycles Paired with Demonstration Lessons 2-3 hour sessions, 6-hour sessions, or multiple days sessions"This was the best professional development I've been to in over 20 years of teaching."
4th Grade Teacher
Colorado Springs, CO
"It's only because of our work with Shannon that we finally started moving forward in math instruction."
Lisa
Math Specialist Bancroft Elementary, MN
A Sampling of Professional Development Topics
Learn the Math
Whether focused on specific standard domains across the grades K-6, or at a specific grade, we will dive into the math, the learning progressions, building concepts with concrete-representational- abstract procedures.
Pair this with the Math Genius Squad Membership. It's our most popular option.
Math Talk: Who's Doing the Most Talking?
Let's explore Math Talk through the lens of Community, Quantity, and Quality. We'll cover norms, sentence frames, ways to hold all students accountable and more. This is a critical component of any math lesson. Our goal is students are doing 70% of the talking in our math classrooms.Our goal is to hear every voice, every day. You'll leave this workshop inspired and with the tools you need to get kids talking!
Yo! I'll Solve it! Problem Solving Beyond Key Words
Problem solving doesn't have to be the worst part of our math block. Understanding the situations and 8 problem types with the corresponding math models will revolutionize how you teach problem solving in EVERY GRADE.
Who's Doing the Thinking?
Using an inquiry based approach can help reengage students, provide access to all levels of learners , and put the teacher in a facilitator role. In this workshop we will explore how to launch lessons, sequence and select student work, and how to anchor the learning. This is also a 6 week ecourse offered two times a year here.
Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Flexibility : Keys to Building Mathematical Fluency
Why don't kids have math fact fluency? In this workshop we'll explore the best instructional strategies, the progression of fact fluency, and how to build fluency that sticks.
Routines Matter
In this workshop, we wil focus on how math routines build mathematical fluency, language, and number sense. Quick Practices and daily routines are the base, how do we build from there?
Shannon is a phenomenal person with unparalleled knowledge of math! She gently showed me how I was doing too much of the thinking for my students. I was able to use her methods to let my students learn how to struggle on their own and therefore grow their brains and confidence in their own math skills. I can’t say it wasn’t difficult for them, but with time and patience, they were able to learn new strategies. Shannon is an excellent teacher and has a fantastic personality. You can count on Shannon to be motivating, encouraging, and honest!
Dawna Brandt
3rd Grade, CA
Open Door Coaching
A reflective teacher is an effective teacher. Opening our doors to others, our peers etc. is one of the most effective ways to impact our teaching. We know coaching is what takes our implementation of professional learning to new levels. Please reach out to learn more about each of the below coaching models and how they can transform your classrooms.
Individual Coaching Team Learning Lab Coaching (Student-Centered, Data Driven) Studio Team Coaching (a C0-Teach live coaching Model) E-CoachingKeynote Addresses
Motivate and inspire your administrative teams, full staffs, teacher leader teams, etc. with practical, yet impactful ideas to spark a season/ year of new learning initiatives, or reignite a passion or vision to keep momentum.
Beginning of the year: Start slow, start fast— but START. Make your start matter! Mid Year– Revisit, Reflect, Re-energize End of the year – It’s how you finish that is measured by most. Get inspired and motivated to finish as strong as you started.
E-Learning
Coursework on any of the above topics as well as on specific standard domains. You decide your needs, I'll provide an e-learning option. Take it at your pace and get live support along the way. Build content knowledge with the expert and collaborate with others.
The following courses can be delivered live, delivered live remotely, or purchased as e-courses with facilitation guides.
Partner Talk Level 1
Students need structures and rehearsal to be proficient with turn and talks. Do you struggle with dominators in your turn and talks? Do students just stare at one another? Do you have a hard time getting students on task, or to stop talking, or to regain control after a turn and talk? How do you even choose partners and how often do they need to be changed? All of these questions and more are taught in this mini course to get you started. The course includes a step by step workbook, videos, and activities. This course is available for individual teachers or for staffs. The staff package includes facilitation guides for whomever is facilitating the learning with staff.
Partner Talk Level 2
Now that you’ve completed level 1 through the first partner talk course, or through my live workshops, learning labs, or demonstration lessons, you are ready to take your student talk to a whole new level!! How do we get the quality of what students are saying to be even better and to go deeper? In this mini course I’ll walk you through step by step to getting basic and advanced talk moves set up so that partner talk is actually increasing student understanding each day in your classroom.
Small Group Instruction in Math Class- A Balanced Approach
Small group instruction has a needed place in our instructional math blocks. But, how do we make them meaningful? Is it possible to do a balanced approach? Can we meet individual needs in both small and whole group? In this course we will discover the possibilities for effective small group instruction, structures and routines to teach, and how to organize instruction. We will also explore when, who, and why of small groups. This step by step mini course will give you just what you need to get started!
Transformed Lesson Planning
15 clock hours. 6 Modules, 30 lessons. E-Workshop, self paced. 10 weeks of access.
Student centered lessons have students loving math class. Simply transform your current lessons into student centered experiences. In this workshop, you don't have to seek out additional resources.
We will use what you already have so that you can transform your teaching, learning, and lesson planning. We'll explore why the lesson plans you currently use may need transforming, and how to effectively begin a lesson to increase engagement, equity, and ownership of learning.
From there, we'll learn how to simply shift your questions and teacher actions so that students are doing most of the thinking.
You'll learn how to anchor learning so it doesn't go away the next day, and how to fill it all in within the pressing demands of your pacing guides.
Teacher Support Packages
Yes, YOU Can. Packages are designed for teachers needing more than just a one time overview. Like most of us, once isn’t enough. We need consistent support and resources to support our learning.
This package is designed to support new teachers to a district, school, or grade who may be new to the curriculum or for teams/teachers who need or want support on specific topics/units throughout the year. These support packages include community forums, live, individualized e-coaching and Q & A’s, etc.
Participants receive a 3-hour overview training to watch and rewatch at their leisure, with a team, or with a group of other new teachers in the district. They will then get NINE – 1 hour digital coaching sessions in which the cohorts will meet after-school online to continue their learning of utilizing their curriculum, get access to additional content and unit learning, and of course lots of time for Q & A. This is a rock-star deal to support teachers all year long
Staff Support Packages
Similar to the individual or team packages listed above, but for full staff support. Packages include professional learning and touch-point webinars or recordings to support administration and coaches as they continue the work in between professional learning, demonstration lessons or coaching cycle visits.
