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About Us

Overview

Tools for teachers, tools that work.

July 23, 2011

Knox Education develops customized teaching tools for dozens of schools and school districts. For over 20 years we’ve published these tools in books and videos. Now we’ve made it easier to work with us by building this website which includes access to the entire collection of materials and updated versions of documents. We post new material all the time, so be sure to check in often for what’s new!

Happy Teaching!

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Professional Development
A multi-faceted approach to training

July 15, 2011

Too often professional development programs use the expert workshop model where passive participation is a norm (Sparks, 1997). A selected expert lectures. Staff 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:

  • “Together is “Better”: transition to Common Core with integrated units for reading and writing
  • Year-long planning for Common Core in ELA using existing textbook material
  • Writing Intervention: differentiating instruction so that all writers can meet grade level expectations with the Common Core
  • ELD “all day long” and during the specific instructional block
  • Vocabulary Development for ALL
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