Templates

Launch session for a multi-part SEL series. Grounds educators in the why, what, and how of social-emotional learning.

A structured 3-hour workshop to welcome new teachers, introduce school culture, and set them up for a strong first year.

A friendly, hands-on 2-hour workshop designed to reduce tech anxiety and build practical classroom tech skills.

A 90-minute session to launch a coaching cycle, build trust, and co-create goals with a teacher.

A structured 60-minute team meeting for examining student data and planning responsive instruction.

A half-day retreat for a leadership team to align on vision, priorities, and 90-day action plans.

Launch a virtual book study for educators reading a common professional text over 6 weeks.

A 90-minute professional learning session to prepare teachers for peer classroom observations focused on literacy instruction.

A free, participant-driven unconference where educators collaboratively build the session board on the day of the event. No presentations — just conversations driven by experience, curiosity, and shared challenges. Follows the core Edcamp tenets: free & open, participant-driven, experience over experts, Rule of Two Feet, and vendor-free.

A single structured coaching conversation based on Elena Aguilar's Transformational Coaching approach. Focuses on the whole educator — beliefs, emotions, and dispositions — not just strategies. Use for 1:1 coaching or team reflection.

A structured 3-session instructional coaching cycle based on Jim Knight's Impact Cycle (Identify → Learn → Improve). Designed for 1:1 coaching with a teacher or adult learner over 2–4 weeks. Each session is 45–60 minutes.

An interactive workshop that teaches parents how to read *with* their child rather than just *to* them — using comprehension strategies, open-ended questioning, and discussion techniques that build deep literacy skills and a lasting love of reading. Appropriate for families of readers at all stages.

Participants post artifacts — lesson plans, student work samples, data, or ideas — into a shared digital space (Google Slides, Padlet, or Jamboard). Peers rotate through and leave structured written feedback using a commenting protocol. Builds a culture of sharing, inquiry, and peer feedback.

A focused, fast-paced virtual workshop where teams take an existing lesson and redesign it for multiple learner profiles — including students with IEPs, English learners, advanced learners, and those who struggle with access. Uses Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles as an anchor.

A virtual adaptation of the Japanese Lesson Study cycle. A small team of teachers collaboratively plans a research lesson, observes it via video or live stream, analyzes student learning, and revises the lesson together. Grounded in evidence of student thinking rather than teacher performance.

A structured virtual book study where participants read shared chapters asynchronously and come together for facilitated discussion rounds using breakout rooms, annotation tools, and reflection protocols. Builds a shared professional vocabulary and deep collegial connection around common texts.

A structured virtual session bringing together teachers from two or more schools to co-plan a shared unit, approach, or curriculum response. Builds cross-school professional community, surfaces diverse perspectives, and creates shared ownership of student learning beyond building walls.

A parent workshop grounded in the science of play-based learning. Parents explore why play is not the opposite of learning — it IS learning — and leave with a collection of simple, purposeful play activities that build literacy, math, social-emotional, and executive function skills at home.

A hands-on parent workshop that demystifies modern math instruction and equips families with simple, playful ways to support math learning at home. Grounded in 'low floor, high ceiling' tasks and everyday math, this session shifts parents from anxiety to confidence — no worksheets required.

A structured partnership session where parents and school staff look at a specific policy, curriculum change, or school challenge together using facilitated dialogue and design thinking protocols. Moves beyond 'informing parents' to genuinely co-creating solutions — building trust, transparency, and shared ownership.

An interactive parent workshop where families co-create a 'Family Media Agreement' — a shared set of norms and boundaries around screen time, social media, and digital habits. Grounded in digital citizenship rather than fear, this session empowers parents to have ongoing, productive conversations with their children about technology.