ELAR Workshops

  • Want to increase engagement in your classroom? Discover easily implemented strategies to support active learning, encourage critical thinking and empower students to take ownership of their learning. Participate in student-centered learning experiences and leave with a variety of techniques to better meet the needs of all students. Come have FUN and be ACTIVELY ENGAGED!!

  • Consider how to meet the needs of struggling and resistant readers. Equip teachers with powerful strategies to support reading comprehension and students with tools to tackle expository text. Experience pre-reading, during reading and post-reading strategies to engage learners. Yes, we all teach reading!

  • Embrace lessons learned from remote learning to redefine and improve instruction. Examine the power and options found in a station rotation model to blend engaging strategies and effectively use technology in a face-2-face learning environment. Engage students with powerful strategies for collaboration, differentiation and meaningful learning!

  • Embrace lessons learned from remote learning to redefine and improve instruction. Examine the power and options found in a whole group rotation model to blend engaging strategies and effectively use technology in a face-2-face learning environment. Engage students with powerful strategies for collaboration, differentiation and meaningful learning!

  • Consider how to embrace lessons learned from remote instruction to redefine and improve what comes next for educators. Focus on blending engaging strategies and effective uses of technology in a face-2-face learning environment. Explore how to embrace, support and implement blending-learning models to expand opportunities to enhance instruction. Experience powerful strategies for student collaboration, academic conversations and quality station-rotation instruction embracing the best of both worlds.

  • Discover how to use notebooks as a powerful teaching and learning tool for students. Teach organizational skills and strategies for capturing and processing newly learned content in meaningful ways. Invite students to catalogue not only their papers, but also their ideas and thoughts as they create a personal “Book of Knowledge”.

  • Help each student discover the “power of potential” in the classroom. Experience strategies and gather tools to create and support a collaborative community. Equip teachers and empower learners to thrive in the classroom.

  • Do your students struggle with the vocabulary critical to content mastery? Experience powerful strategies to teach, reinforce and help students retain problematic vocabulary. Eliminate the assign, define and memorize approach to vocabulary as you experience a variety of tools and techniques to put Marzano’s theories to practical application for acquisition of vocabulary.

  • What must you and your students do to be successful on the STAAR 2.0? Examine the concepts and complexities of the new test and determine how it impacts teaching and testing in non-tested grades. Equip your students with powerful strategies to support the evidence-based thinking necessary for success. Gather tools to move your classroom beyond basic skills practice and memorization to meaningful learning with student-centered, active strategies.

  • Let s3strategies partner with you to coach your educators. You identify the objectives and initiatives. We will provide a quality s3 team member(s) to build relationships, model, observe, provide quality feedback and support growth. Together we can do it!

  • Consider how to meet the needs of your diverse students as you identify your teaching style and your students’ learning needs. Learn how to differentiate content, the classroom process and student products according to student intelligences, readiness and interest in a standards-driven classroom. Experience strategies that excite students and ignite their passion for learning

  • Learn instructional strategies that utilize questioning to expand student knowledge and encourage students to think creatively. Questions play an important role in every classroom. Student questions and teacher questions create an environment that supports inquiry. This highly interactive workshop equips teachers to create an active learning environment that encourages students to ask and answer questions.

  • So, your teachers utilize a variety of tools to assess student learning. But, do those assessments truly inform what teachers and students do next? If not, they’re not formative! Experience multiple ways to respond to data through processes to revisit, reflect, revise, review, reteach and reboot when determining how to use feedback to feed students forward in their learning!

  • Consider the role assessment plays in your classroom. Do your assessments accurately reflect student achievement? Do they help students improve? Do they impact what you, the instructor does? Learn powerful, easily implemented strategies to make assessment a friend to both teacher and student - a tool for learning, not just of learning

  • Improve language arts achievement with your science curriculum! Elementary teachers experience a variety of strategies that emphasize language arts standards in the science classroom. Special emphasis is placed on the use of visuals. The perfect marriage of instruction to create a “two for one” learning experience!

  • Improve language arts achievement with your social studies curriculum! Elementary teachers experience a variety of strategies that emphasize language arts standards in the social studies classroom. Special emphasis is placed on the use of visuals and primary source documents. ELA and SS? The perfect marriage of instruction to create a “two for one” learning experience!

  • Classroom culture is critical to student success. Know your students and how to best meet their needs to help them achieve their full potential. Learn a variety of ways to better know your learners to create an “I can!” culture that invites and encourages all to join the learning experience.

  • Vocabulary support? Make it fun! Making it meaningful! Make it intentional! The single, largest obstacle to student success…vocabulary! Not just identified, often, complex academic vocabulary but also problematic Tier II vocabulary. Experience more fast-paced, easily implemented strategies to equip your educators to teach, review and support acquisition of critical vocabulary necessary for success! Join us to enrich those vocabulary tool kits.

  • What must we do in our classrooms to prepare our high school students for AP success? What must students be able to do? Identify the necessary components for success and build a strong foundation to equip more students to step up to the AP challenge. Experience powerful strategies to engage students in active questioning, analysis, and the construction and communication of oral and written arguments. Maximize your instruction and student success as you eliminate duplication of efforts and omission of skills by scaffolding curriculum from one grade level to the next.

  • What must we do in our classrooms to prepare our advanced students for AP success? What must students be able to do? Identify the necessary components for success and build a strong foundation to equip more students to step up to the AP challenge. Experience powerful strategies to engage students in active questioning, analysis, and the construction and communication of oral and written arguments. Maximize your instruction and student success as you eliminate duplication of efforts and omission of skills by scaffolding curriculum from one grade level to the next.

  • Maximize student achievement through the use of learner-centered strategies designed not only to review but also to diagnose gaps in knowledge and skills. Experience a variety of review strategies designed to reinforce recall but also to challenge students to make powerful connections and meaningful applications. Put new tools in your teacher tool kits for student success! These materials energize teachers to equip their students to improve their test scores. How we review matters!

  • Maximize student achievement through the use of learner-centered strategies designed not only to review but also diagnose gaps in knowledge and skills. Experience a variety of review strategies designed to reinforce recall but also to challenge students to make powerful connections and meaningful applications. Put new tools in your teacher tool kits for student success! These materials energize teachers to equip their students to improve their test scores. How we review matters!

  • Rigor is not what we teach – it’s how we teach! Experience strategies that challenge students to move beyond memorization to powerful application of knowledge. Spiral thinking and deepen comprehension with carefully crafted open-ended questions. Create opportunities for students to make deeper connections for transfer of knowledge. Challenge and engage students! Rigor is not more, it’s different!

  • Consider how instructional strategies for reading, writing, speaking and listening are critical for student success. Provide teachers with tools for teaching and supporting English Learners in any classroom. Educators will experience strategies to implement that are powerful for all learners but essential to success for English Learners.

  • STAAR and EOC…first and foremost – what’s new in STAAR 2.0? What is the most important “need to know” information and how does it impact teachers and students? What must we do in the classroom to equip students for success? It's all about THINKING! Experience learner-centered strategies to integrate skills and higher-order thinking around critical content. Let’s think on that!

  • Write in your classroom – early and often to eliminate the “oh no” response to writing. Engage students with meaningful, authentic tasks to extend their thinking. Pick up that pen to work out thinking, deepen comprehension and demonstrate mastery. Empower students and elevate rigor with a variety of easily implemented writing strategies for the elementary classroom!