Too often professional development programs use the expert
workshop model where passive participation is a norm (Sparks,
1997). A selected expert lectures. Staffs rate the speaker
not the training or the impact on their professional skills.
Changes in practice are rare in passive learning environments.
This is not the Knox training model!
Knox Educational Associates believe change relies on making
connections — building relationships between people, concepts,
and prior knowledge. School change requires a comprehensive
system of professional development, which empowers staff to
emerge, develop, and prosper as partners building a learning
community through engaged interaction and discourse. Knox
staff development supports an increase of knowledge, skills, and
the capacity to perform well. It is an integrated process that
translates immediately into classroom practice.
The Knox menu of services is extensive and responsive to site
requests–we pride ourselves in providing services that are
customized to each school’s particular situation, rather than a
“one size fits all” program. It is possible to have an agent of
the firm come to the school and develop an individualized program
based on site observations in conjunction with council from site
leadership.
Our instructional skill building programs provide a multi-faceted
approach to training that includes:
Presentations: theory, demonstration, and application of
research-based strategies— extensive use of video clips and
photos bring practices to life
Demonstration lessons: use of the strategies with your
students in your classrooms
Grade level or department collaboration: integration of
the strategies with the site’s curriculum and pacing
Coaching: observations and feedback for individual
teachers or teams to support changes in teaching and accelerate
achievement
Development of customized tools: collaboration and data
analysis tools, organization of curriculum pacing documents,
student test chat forms etc.
Recent topics include:
Developing a School-wide writing campaign
Backwards mapping for the CST to align the tested with the
taught curriculum
ELD “all day long” and during the specific instructional
block
Vocabulary Development for ALL
The Thinking Person’s Test Prep
Building grade level teams for data analysis and
instructional planning
You’ll be able to access over 500 documents to support
standards-based teaching, and better align the curriculum you
deliver each day with the California Standards Test. These are
organized by grade level, and are also searchable.
We’ve also uploaded the entire contents of the 450 page book on
teaching writing, Backwards Planning for Success
with Writing. This section is organized by topic and includes
all the new material for teaching writing since the book’s 2009
publication. Finally, we have uploaded the ELD strategies
book, Information
Please to give everyone access to those instructional tools
as well.
Note: If you are only interested in the free resources we offer,
please feel free to go here and register your
email address with us (don’t worry, we never share or sell
it, just use it to send you valuable information about our
services and new content).
Subscription options:
Individual teacher:
Access to the full site for one user for 12 months ($129)
School Subscription:
Full access for all staff for 12 months. $1500 per school -
50% discount offered to all schools currently using Knox
Education Consultant services!
District Subscription:
Full access for all staff in a district. Contact Us to discuss
details and pricing!
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online using PayPal secure online payment, or will have the
option to send us a Purchase Order. By subscribing your email
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list.
Mike Schmoker (1996), the author of the renowned Results book
states,“Data can help us confront what we may wish to avoid and
what is difficult to perceive, trace, or gauge; data can
substantiate theories, inform decision, impel action, marshal
support, thwart misperceptions and unwarranted optimism, maintain
focus and goal orientation, and capture and sustain collective
energy and momentum.” Knox Educational Associates believe that
data must drive reform actions.
Data are crude information. The goal of data analysis is to move
crude information to knowledge.
