Moving Florida’s Schools: Lessons from Exemplary Leaders is ideal for education leaders seeking ideas, exemplary practices, replicable frameworks/models and the process for implementing them successfully in their own schools. This four-hour seminar will empower leaders with knowledge for taking schools to the next level.

Available Dates and Locations

*  July 24, 2012: Tallahassee, FL

*  November 7, 2012: West Palm Beach, FL

*  November 8, 2012: Fort Myers, FL

*  November 9, 2012: Tampa, FL

Use the Register Online button to the right to reserve your seat(s) today!

Dr. Max Thompson, founder of Learning-Focused will facilitate this seminar. Moving Schools is designed for school and district administrators and teacher leaders looking for innovative and proven practices for making all students and all teachers successful. This workshop will empower leaders with the most up-to-date knowledge for accelerating achievement, no matter where they start.

Dr. Max Thompson has conducted over 200 school system evaluations and specializes in connecting exemplary practice in curriculum, instructions,assessment and school organization to increase learning and achievement in schools.

Who Should Attend?

School and District Leaders
     Leaders = administrative, principals, superintendents, federal programs, teacher
                      leaders, team leaders, department chairs, etc

Principals, bring your leadership team with you!

Session Agenda:

Leave the session with ideas and strategies that you can implement the next day!

* Lessons from Extraordinary Leaders
* Aligning Assessments and Assignments to Standards
* Extended Reading Passages
* School-Wide Focus on Higher Order Assignments and Questions
* School’s 2-3 Instructional Focus Areas
* High Impact, Rapid Response Strategies
* School-Wide Rubrics
* Implementing Initiatives Successfully
* School’s Focus Students

Cost: $75 per person. $60 per person if registering 2 or more from one school or district.

Includes continental breakfast, snacks, drinks, materials and information that will make significant differences in your schools.

Hassle-free, money back guarantee - if for any reason you don’t feel this session provided you with exactly the right ideas at the right time, we will not only give you your money back immediately, but also give you an additional $20 for your trouble.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to accelerate your schools. Space is Limited.

Systematic vocabulary instruction is one of the most important instructional interventions schools use to close the achievement gap and raise student achievement for all students!

Vocabulary Instruction introduces exemplary practices that provide teachers and students with “must have” vocabulary strategies. Help close the achievement gap for at-risk students by using tools that empower teachers to effectively implement exemplary vocabulary instruction.

Completion of this Training of Trainers certifies you to redeliver this workshop for 12 months.  Attendance at a Learning-Focused Trainers and Coaches Institute within 12 months of your initial workshop extends your certification for 24 months.

Moving Alabama’s Schools: Lessons from Exemplary Leaders is   ideal for education leaders seeking ideas, exemplary practices,  replicable frameworks/models and the process for implementing them   successfully in their own schools. This four-hour seminar will empower leaders with knowledge for taking   schools to the next level.

Available Dates and Location

February 28, 2012: Mobile, AL
     Location: Hilton Garden Inn Moible West I-65/Airport Blvd

February 29, 2012: Montgomery, AL
     Location: Embassy Suites Montgomery - Hotel and Conference Center

March 1, 2012: Birmingham, AL
     Location: Hilton Garden Inn Birmingham SE/ Liberty Park

March 2, 2012: Huntsville, AL
     Location: Hilton Garden Inn Huntsville South/Redstone Arsenal

Register Online today to reserve your seat!

Dr. Max Thompson, founder of Learning-Focused will facilitate this   seminar. At the AAESA/AASCD Fall Conference, in October, he conducted a similar session on “Instructional Strategies to Increase Student Achievement” This seminar will continue that conversation by focusing on   how leaders can accelerate their school, no matter where they start. .   This seminar will focus on how leaders can accelerate their school, no matter where they start.

Dr. Max Thompson has conducted over 200 school system evaluations and   specializes in connecting exemplary practice in curriculum,  instructions, assessment and school organization to increase learning   and achievement in schools.

Who Should Attend?

School and District Leaders
Leaders = administrative, principals, superintendents, federal programs, teacher leaders, team leaders, department chairs, etc
Principals, bring your leadership team with you!

Session Agenda:

Leave the session with ideas and strategies that you can implement the next day!

* Lessons from Extraordinary Leaders
* Aligning Assessments and Assignments to Standards
* Extended Reading Passages
* School-Wide Focus on Higher Order Assignments and Questions
* School’s 2-3 Instructional Focus Areas
* High Impact, Rapid Response Strategies
* School-Wide Rubrics
* Implementing Initiatives Successfully
* School’s Focus Students
* Attain Consistent and Pervasive with a Planning Framework

Cost: $40 per person. $25 per person if registering 5 or more from one school or district.

Includes continental breakfast, snacks, drinks, materials and   information that will make significant differences in your schools.

Hassle-free, money back guarantee - if for any reason you   don’t feel this session provided you with exactly the right ideas at the   right time, we will not only give you your money back immediately, but   also give you an additional $20 for your trouble.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to accelerate your schools. Space is Limited.

Moving Texas’s Schools: Lessons from Exemplary Leaders is ideal for education leaders seeking ideas, exemplary practices,  replicable frameworks/models and the process for implementing them successfully in their own schools. This four-hour seminar will empower leaders with knowledge for taking   schools to the next level

Available Dates and Location

February 2, 2012: Arlington, TX  Session is FULL!!

February 3, 2012: Arlington, TX

February 9, 2012: Laredo, TX Session is FULL!

February 10, 2012: San Antonio, TX

Register Online today to reserve your seat!

Dr. Max Thompson, founder of Learning-Focused will facilitate this seminar. At the Texas School Improvement Conference, in October, he conducted a similar session on “Successful Leadership in Struggling Schools.” This seminar will continue that conversation by focusing on how leaders can accelerate their school, no matter where they start.

Dr. Max Thompson has conducted over 200 school system evaluations and   specializes in connecting exemplary practice in curriculum,  instructions, assessment and school organization to increase learning   and achievement in schools.

Who Should Attend?

School and District Leaders
Leaders = administrative, principals, superintendents, federal programs, teacher leaders, team leaders, department chairs, etc
Principals, bring your leadership team with you!

Session Agenda:

Leave the session with ideas and strategies that you can implement the next day!

* Lessons from Extraordinary Leaders
* Aligning Assessments and Assignments to Standards
* Extended Reading Passages
* School-Wide Focus on Higher Order Assignments and Questions
* School’s 2-3 Instructional Focus Areas
* High Impact, Rapid Response Strategies
* School-Wide Rubrics
* Implementing Initiatives Successfully
* School’s Focus Students
* Attain Consistent and Pervasive with a Planning Framework

Cost: $40 per person. $25 per person if registering 5 or more from one school or district.

Includes continental breakfast, snacks, drinks, materials and information that will make significant differences in your schools.

Hassle-free, money back guarantee - if for any reason you don’t feel this session provided you with exactly the right ideas at the right time, we will not only give you your money back immediately, but also give you an additional $20 for your trouble.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to accelerate your schools. Space is Limited.

Moving Schools: Lessons from Exemplary Leaders is ideal for education leaders seeking ideas, exemplary practices, replicable frameworks/models and the process for implementing them successfully in their own schools. Moving Schools: Lessons from Exemplary Leaders addresses major concerns in education:

• Increasing achievement and accountability to match increasing state and national standards
• Decreasing the achievement gap -Racial — Economic— Language
• Catching up all of the students coming into school already behind
• Rapidly decreasing the number of students below grade level

Don’t wait - become a top school today!

Moving Delawares’s Schools: Lessons from Exemplary Leaders is ideal for education leaders seeking ideas, exemplary practices,  replicable frameworks/models and the process for implementing them successfully in their own schools. This four-hour seminar will empower   leaders with knowledge for taking schools to the next level.

Available Dates and Locations

*  October 29, 2012 in Dover, DE

Use the Register Online button to the right to reserve your seat(s) today!

Dr. Max Thompson, founder of Learning-Focused will facilitate this seminar. Moving Schools is designed for school and district administrators and teacher leaders looking for innovative and proven practices for making all students and all teachers successful. This workshop will empower leaders with the most up-to-date knowledge for accelerating achievement, no matter where they start.

Dr. Max Thompson has conducted over 200 school system evaluations and specializes in connecting exemplary practice in curriculum, instruction, assessment and school organization to increase learning and achievement in schools.

Who Should Attend?

School and District Leaders
     Leaders = administrative, principals, superintendents, federal programs, teacher
                      leaders, team leaders, department chairs, etc

Principals, bring your leadership team with you!

Session Agenda:

Leave the session with ideas and strategies that you can implement the next day!

* Lessons from Extraordinary Leaders
* Aligning Assessments and Assignments to Standards
* Extended Reading Passages
* School-Wide Focus on Higher Order Assignments and Questions
* School’s 2-3 Instructional Focus Areas
* High Impact, Rapid Response Strategies
* School-Wide Rubrics
* Implementing Initiatives Successfully
* School’s Focus Students

Cost: $75 per person. $60 per person if registering 2 or more from one school or district.

Includes continental breakfast, snacks, drinks, materials and information that will make significant differences in your schools.

Hassle-free, money back guarantee - if for any reason you don’t feel this session provided you with exactly the right ideas at the right time, we will not only give you your money back immediately, but also give you an additional $20 for your trouble.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to accelerate your schools. Space is Limited.

Moving Georgia’s Schools: Lessons from Exemplary Leaders is ideal for education leaders seeking ideas, exemplary practices,  replicable frameworks/models and the process for implementing them successfully in their own schools. This four-hour seminar will empower   leaders with knowledge for taking schools to the next level.

Available Dates and Locations

*  May 9, 2012 in Macon, GA

*  May 10, 2012 in Atlanta, GA

Use the Register Online button to the right to reserve your seat(s) today!

Dr. Max Thompson, founder of Learning-Focused will facilitate this seminar. Moving Schools is designed for school and district administrators and teacher leaders looking for innovative and proven practices for making all students and all teachers successful. This workshop will empower leaders with the most up-to-date knowledge for accelerating achievement, no matter where they start.

Dr. Max Thompson has conducted over 200 school system evaluations and specializes in connecting exemplary practice in curriculum,  instructions,assessment and school organization to increase learning and achievement in schools.

Who Should Attend?

School and District Leaders
     Leaders = administrative, principals, superintendents, federal programs, teacher
                      leaders, team leaders, department chairs, etc

Principals, bring your leadership team with you!

Session Agenda:

Leave the session with ideas and strategies that you can implement the next day!

* Lessons from Extraordinary Leaders
* Aligning Assessments and Assignments to Standards
* Extended Reading Passages
* School-Wide Focus on Higher Order Assignments and Questions
* School’s 2-3 Instructional Focus Areas
* High Impact, Rapid Response Strategies
* School-Wide Rubrics
* Implementing Initiatives Successfully
* School’s Focus Students

Cost: $75 per person. $60 per person if registering 2 or more from one school or district.

Includes continental breakfast, snacks, drinks, materials and information that will make significant differences in your schools.

Hassle-free, money back guarantee - if for any reason you don’t feel this session provided you with exactly the right ideas at the right time, we will not only give you your money back immediately, but also give you an additional $20 for your trouble.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to accelerate your schools. Space is Limited.

Moving South Carolina’s Schools: Lessons from Exemplary Leaders is ideal for education leaders seeking ideas, exemplary practices,  replicable frameworks/models and the process for implementing them successfully in their own schools. This four-hour seminar will empower   leaders with knowledge for taking schools to the next level.

Available Dates and Locations

*  May 31, 2012: Greenville, SC

*  June 1, 2012: Columbia, SC

Use the Register Online button to the right to reserve your seat(s) today!

Dr. Max Thompson, founder of Learning-Focused will facilitate this seminar. Moving Schools is designed for school and district administrators and teacher leaders looking for innovative and proven practices for making all students and all teachers successful. This workshop will empower leaders with the most up-to-date knowledge for accelerating achievement, no matter where they start.

Dr. Max Thompson has conducted over 200 school system evaluations and specializes in connecting exemplary practice in curriculum,  instructions,assessment and school organization to increase learning and achievement in schools.

Who Should Attend?

School and District Leaders
     Leaders = administrative, principals, superintendents, federal programs, teacher
                      leaders, team leaders, department chairs, etc

Principals, bring your leadership team with you!

Session Agenda:

Leave the session with ideas and strategies that you can implement the next day!

* Lessons from Extraordinary Leaders
* Aligning Assessments and Assignments to Standards
* Extended Reading Passages
* School-Wide Focus on Higher Order Assignments and Questions
* School’s 2-3 Instructional Focus Areas
* High Impact, Rapid Response Strategies
* School-Wide Rubrics
* Implementing Initiatives Successfully
* School’s Focus Students

Cost: $75 per person. $60 per person if registering 2 or more from one school or district.

Includes continental breakfast, snacks, drinks, materials and information that will make significant differences in your schools.

Hassle-free, money back guarantee - if for any reason you don’t feel this session provided you with exactly the right ideas at the right time, we will not only give you your money back immediately, but also give you an additional $20 for your trouble.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to accelerate your schools. Space is Limited.

Discover: What schools must do to move from typical to exemplary; The key elements that must be connected in order to focus on student learning; How to build stronger connections between all key elements to achieve more than each could individually; Knowing what will help to make these connections; Understanding if you don’t make connections you are probably not fully meeting possibilities; and Knowing who can help you make these connections.

• Abstracting

• Compare and Contrast

• Classifying and Categorizing

• Constructing Support

• Analyzing Perspectives

• Inductive Reasoning

• Deductive Reasoning

• Error Analysis

Each poster will enhance your classroom and provide your students   with the a resource for them to use while they are learning how to use   these strategies.

Each poster contains:

• The definition of the strategy
• Signal words
• Questions
• Possible Graphic Organizers

Buy now and turn your walls into a learning experience.

• Abstracting

• Compare and Contrast

• Classifying and Categorizing

• Constructing Support

• Analyzing Perspectives

• Inductive Reasoning

• Deductive Reasoning

• Error Analysis

Each poster will enhance your classroom and provide your students with the a resource for them to use while they are learning how to use these strategies.

Each poster contains:

• The definition of the strategy
• Signal words
• Questions
• Possible Graphic Organizers

Buy now and turn your walls into a learning experience.

• Main Idea and Details
• Literary Elements
• Text Features
• Sequencing
• Cause and Effect
• Inferences
• Compare and Contrast
• Fact and Opinion

Each poster will enhance your classroom and provide your students with the a resource for them to use while they are learning how to use these strategies. 

Each poster contains:

• The definition of the strategy
• Signal words
• Questions
• Possible Graphic Organizers

Buy now and turn your walls into a learning experience.

“Follow These Steps” have now been added to each poster.  This will your students to use these posters as they are learning the steps on each reading comprehension strategy.

The Learning-Focused Reading Comprehension Strategies Poster Set contains:

• Main Idea and Details  
• Literary Elem ents
• Text Features
• Sequencing
• Cause and Effect
• Inferences
• Compare and Contrast
• Fact and Opinion

Each poster will enhance your classroom and provide your students with the a resource for them to use while they are learning how to use these strategies. 

Each poster contains:

• Look for These Words
• Follow These Steps
• What Is It?
• Ask Yourself
• Example Graphic Organizers

Buy now and turn your walls into a learning experience.

*Note: If you have previously purchased this poster set you qualify for a $15 discount if ordered by December 31, 2011.  All orders will be checked for previous purchase.

• Create Acquisition (EATS) Lessons
• Create Extending Thinking Lessons
• Create Student Learning Maps
• Create Learning Units
• Receive unit writing assistance:
  • Descriptions of unit writing decisions
  • Video support
  • E-mail support
• Print and Share units in Toolbox with other Toolbox members
• Use integrated pacing and timeline features
• Easily develop exemplary lessons and units using the built-in step-by-step guide
• Publish units to pdf/web for sharing-each unit gets its own web address
• Be ensured that everyone is making connections between LEARNING-FOCUSED Strategies, classroom instruction, and the standards

Unit and Lesson Planning Tool members are able to work on the same units, lessons, course and activities at the same time on multiple computers allowing you to collaborate with other teachers and administrators within your school, district, or state. Since it is a cloud-based application you will be able to access it from any location.

• Create Acquisition (EATS) Lessons
• Create Extending Thinking Lessons
• Create Student Learning Maps
• Create Learning Units
• Receive unit writing assistance:
  • Descriptions of unit writing decisions
  • Video support
  • E-mail support
• Print and Share units in Toolbox with other Toolbox members
• Use integrated pacing and timeline features
• Easily develop exemplary lessons and units using the built-in step-by-step guide
• Publish units to pdf/web for sharing-each unit gets its own web address
• Be ensured that everyone is making connections between LEARNING-FOCUSED Strategies, classroom instruction, and the standards

Unit and Lesson Planning Tool members are able to work on the same units, lessons, course and activities at the same time on multiple computers allowing you to collaborate with other teachers and administrators within your school, district, or state. Since it is a cloud-based application you will be able to access it from any location.

Many of the people who go through Learning-Focused Training of Trainer workshops spend a great deal of their time coaching,  conferencing and supporting – not just presenting. The newly designed Learning-Focused Trainers and Coaches Institute provides trainers with strategies, information and content clarifications necessary to provide the best possible coaching, leadership and support to teachers and administrators. The Learning-Focused Trainers and Coaches Institute is a 2-day workshop that focuses on how to present, coach, monitor,  conference, and facilitate to support continuous improvement with quality.

The Learning-Focused Trainers and Coaches Institute addresses the following Essential Questions:

• What updates and refinements have been added to the workshop?

• How does purposeful planning lead to quality versus compliance?

• How do you assist teachers with designing quality instruction that extends student thinking?

• How do you support quality implementation for continuous improvement?

• How do you provide coaching support for quality implementation?

• How do you facilitate opportunities for professional growth?

The Learning-Focused Trainers and Coaches Institute fulfills your update responsibility necessary for retaining certification and accessing redelivery resources. This is the annual workshop that is required for all trainers to stay current and certified. The Learning-Focused Trainers and Coaches Institute is customized each time for the participants attending! Participants will always return to their school/district with new knowledge, strategies, and ideas for improving the quality of teacher and leading.

The Learning-Focused Trainers and Coaches Institute will be offered at the Learning-Focused Training Center 2 - 3 times annually. Schools and districts can also schedule with Learning-Focused to host a Learning-Focused Trainers and Coaches Institute at their site.

The cost for attendance is $600.00, which includes:

• Registration Fee

• Materials

• Shipping of materials from Training Center to your school/office/home

• 24 additional months of trainer support and certification to redeliver

If it has been longer than 1-2 years since you were trained, this is the required training in order to remain certified by Learning-Focused.  Starting January 2011, attendance at a Learning-Focused Trainers and Coaches Institute will extend your Certification for any Learning-Focused solution for 24 months. This is THE support trainers need (and request!) for focusing on quality (not just compliance!) implementation within their schools.

Learning-Focused provides a model for Acceleration instead of just having remediation, allowing students to build confidence in their own ability to perform and achieve! Students gain strategies for organizing, storing and internalizing knowledge and/or skills. Acceleration provides the greatest achievement gains by connecting the research on achievement and learning strategies.

Note:  Reading Comprehension Strategies Parent Workshop Kit 6-12 Presentations can be accessed by clicking here.   Once you have purchased a Reading Comprehension Strategies Parent Workshop Kit, an access code will be provided with your order.

The Reading Comprehension Strategies Parent Workshop Kit gives schools and districts the tools that reinforce strategies to increase student achievement:

Materials for the Reading Comprehension Strategies Parent Workshop Kit include:

1. Facilitator’s Presentation

2. Facilitator’s Guide

3. 1 set of full size posters

4. 1 Parent sets for the Facilitator

5. 25 Parent sets, which includes:

   • Parent Resource, which includes the definition of the reasearch-based strategy, signal words, graphic organizers, and the recording log.

   • Parent Activity Book, which includes steps in the process, everyday activities for home, activities for the classroom, questions to remember, and signal words

Note:  Learning-Focused can provide training on Parent Workshops for District/School Parent Involvement Coordinators to maximize the workshops effectiveness. We are also available to conduct workshops for your participating parents.

Note:  Higher Level Thinking Strategies Parent Workshop Kit 6-12 Presentations can be accessed by clicking here.   Once you have purchased a Higher Level Thinking Strategies Parent Workshop Kit, an access code will be provided with your order.

The Higher Level Thinking Strategies Parent Workshop Kit provides schools and districts with the tools to reinforce the number one strategies to increase student achievement:

Materials for the Higher Level Thinking Strategies Parent Workshop Kit includes:

1. Facilitator’s Presentation

2. Facilitator’s Guide

3. 1 set of full size posters

4. 1 Parent set for Facilitator

5. 25 Parent sets, which includes:

   • Parent Resource Guide, which contains strategy posters and activities chart

   • Parent Activity Book, which includes steps in the process, everyday activities, key words, and suggested books

Note:  Learning-Focused can provide training on Parent Workshops for District/School Parent Involvement Coordinators to maximize the workshops effectiveness. We are also available to conduct workshops for your participating parents.

Note:  Higher Level Thinking Strategies Parent Workshop Kit K-5 Presentations can be accessed by clicking here.   Once you have purchased a Higher Level Thinking Strategies Parent Workshop Kit, an access code will be provided with your order.

The Higher Level Thinking Strategies Parent Workshop Kit provides schools and districts with the tools to reinforce the number one strategies to increase student achievement:

Materials for the Higher Level Thinking Strategies Parent Workshop Kit includes:

1. Facilitator’s Presentation

2. Facilitator’s Guide

3. 1 set of full size posters

4. 1 Parent set for Facilitator

5. 25 Parent sets, which includes:

   • Parent Resource Guide, which contains strategy posters and activities chart

   • Parent Activity Book, which includes steps in the process, everyday activities, key words, and suggested books

Note:  Learning-Focused can provide training on Parent Workshops for District/School Parent Involvement Coordinators to maximize the workshops effectiveness. We are also available to conduct workshops for your participating parents.