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Professional Development

The OnTrack Professional Development Series is purposed to assist administrators and teachers in meeting their professional goals through comprehensive and customized training along with OnTrack curriculum management and online lesson planning software. We work from the bottom-up to personally encourage, initiate and guide support to every part of a school – from administrators, teachers and to support staff. We bring best practices and customized materials that best fits the needs of every school. Initially, we determine problem areas and then we sculpt a meaningful series with workshops, individual coaching, collaborative team teaching and modeling to support the vision of your school.

 

The OnTrack Professional Development Series provides individualized Professional Development that is wholly customized for your specific teachers in your specific school or district. Our Professional Development experts immerse themselves in the culture of your classrooms to foster personal leadership skills and develop a curriculum that accelerates learning for all students. We work across ALL learning platforms! Whether you’re looking for quality review preparation, department reforms, resources to help students pass the Regents, or even if you’re facing under-credited challenges. We are your solution.

Professional Development workshops include:
Professional Leadership
Data
Curriculum and Instruction
Staff and Community
Resources and Operation

Professional Leadership
Foster a culture of excellence by investing leadership skills in your administrators and teachers that permeates throughout your entire learning community. Professional Leadership topics include:

  • Action Research
  • New School Development
  • School Culture Reform
  • School Quality Reform (SQR) and Quality ReviewPreparation

Data
Informed use of student data uncovers deeper insights into student needs and additional opportunities that will differentiate instruction by using data-driven decision making. ClassLink Data PD helps teachers and administrators use data to identify student learning trends, set goals, monitor and modify instruction there by increasing student achievement. Topics include:

  • Data-Driven Instruction
  • Teacher Data Binders
  • Data Collection
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Inquiry Team
  • Matriculation

Curriculum and Instruction
Leverage deep knowledge of curriculum, instruction and assessment to improve student learning. Discover how to better differentiate instruction, develop lesson plans and facilitate project-based learning with data. Curriculum and Instruction topics include:

  • Multiple Intelligence Model
  • Interdisciplinary Curriculum Planning
  • Reading Strategies
  • Writing Strategies
  • Differentiation
  • Art Integration
  • Project-based Learning
  • Lesson Plan Development
  • Test Preparation
  • Modifications for Special Education
  • Vocabulary for English Language Learners (ELL)
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Electronic Portfolio

Staff and Community
Staff and community workshops empower administrators to effectively develop staff, appropriately share leadership skills, encourage collaborative team teaching and strengthen professional learning communities within schools and across your entire district. Staff and Community topics include:

  • SMART Goals
  • Teacher Team-Building
  • Multi-cultural Education
  • Collaborative Team Teaching
  • Professional Learning Community
  • Documenting School Progress
  • Highlight Best Practices
  • Partnership Development

Resources and Operations
Develop and implement systems and processes to ensure operational effectiveness that supports and enhances student learning. Topics include:

  • Classroom Management
  • Classroom Rituals and Procedures
  • School Auditing Support
  • Teacher Observations

Contact us for further information about ClassLink’s Professional Development opportunities.