Virtual Professional Development

We offer three main categories of Professional Development: School Leadership & Process, Curriculum Development, and Instructional Strategies. Our team can support your work virtually with remote professional development in a synchronous or asynchronous format. We will work with you to create a plan consisting of single or multiple online sessions with targeted learning goals.

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Package Options

1 Virtual Session

$500

1 virtual professional development session (2 hours)

3 Virtual Sessions

$2,500

(value $3,550)

3 virtual professional development sessions (2 hours each)
Additional services listed below

5 Virtual Sessions

$3,500

(value $5,050)

5 virtual professional development sessions (2 hours each)
Additional services listed below

8 Virtual Sessions

$5,500

(value $7,550)

8 virtual professional development sessions (2 hours each)
Additional services listed below
1 additional hour of planning time to discuss goals and timeline for sessions with leadership

PD Services included in Virtual Package:

The specified number of 2-hour professional development sessions
1 virtual “office hour” immediately after each session for participants to ask questions
4 coaching hours (To be used within 6 months of the first session. This will be extended by 6 months with the 8 session bundle.)
1 hour planning call to discuss goals and timeline for sessions with leadership
1 hour consultative debrief to discuss progress with leadership

Virtual Session Topics

*We recommend limiting sessions to 40 participants per facilitator to ensure conversation, participation and direct feedback throughout the sessions.

Leadership & Process

Session #	Topic	Outcome
Session 1:Leadership & Process	Curriculum Process Foundation and Unit Template Design	Review the process and purpose of curriculum mapping and unit planning. Discuss how it can lead to a transparent and holistic view of the curriculum.
Session 2:Leadership & Process	Unpack Goals into Actionable Steps	Identify the purpose for this work at a district level, department level, and personal level. Explore participants’ key questions around curriculum, curriculum mapping, unit planning, and the needs of the district, departments, & students.
Session 3:Leadership & Process	Finalize Your Plan: Feedback and Resources	Outline or develop the goals and timeline for curriculum mapping. Define roles and responsibilities to guide the process for each department.

Curriculum Development

Session #	Topic	Outcome
Session 4:Curriculum Development	Part 1: Read and Bundle Standards into Units	Explore strategies to prioritize and unitize standards for a course.
Session 5:Curriculum Development	Part 2: Read and Bundle Standards into Units	Departments will explore and discuss how best to organize and use curriculum, based on the subject area and student needs.
Session 6:Curriculum Development	Unpacking Standards: Content and Skills	Unpack standards into clear learning targets by identifying the key nouns and verbs within the standard. Unpack standards in each unit.
Session 7:Curriculum Development	Unpacking Standards: “I Can” statements	Develop concrete “I Can” statements from the content and skills.
Session 8:Curriculum Development	Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions	Develop enduring understandings and essential questions that frame the major concepts, content, and focus of a unit.
Session 9:Curriculum Development	Assessing Learning: Formative and Summative Assessments	Learn how to develop assessments in Atlas and explore ways to meaningfully assess understanding.
Session 10:Curriculum Development	Learning Plan	Using Stage 1 and Stage 2 as a guide, thinking through how to create meaningful learning activities to help students achieve the learning targets in a unit.
Session 11:Curriculum Development	Atlas Basics: New Teacher Orientation	Support new teachers as they learn to use Atlas and develop units of instruction. The session will cover some Atlas basics, as well as best practices for curriculum writing.

Curriculum Review

Session #	Topic	Outcome
Session 12:Curriculum Review	Reports in Atlas	Learn how to fully utilize the reporting features in Atlas to support your role. Walk away with several reports saved for future use.
Session 13:Curriculum Review	Review Curriculum Maps/Unit Plans	Review unit(s) for quality and completion. Utilize reporting features in Atlas to support curriculum review.
Session 14:Curriculum Review	Develop Curriculum Review Protocols and Next Steps	Outline a curriculum review protocol to guide curriculum review. Create resources to guide the process.
Session 15:Curriculum Development & Review	Adapting Units for Remote Learning	Review and revise units around essential learning targets and with remote learning in mind. Create assessments and learning activities aligned to essential learning targets to support remote learning.
Session 16:Curriculum Review	Year-End Unit Review	Review what was covered during remote instruction and document changes that were made for specific courses. Identify essential learning targets and clarify what will need to be addressed the following year.
Session 17:Curriculum Development & Review	Prepare for a New Academic Year: Course Review	Work in vertical teams and review curriculum changes that occurred during 2020 remote instruction. Use reports to identify potential gaps in learning. Determine essential targets to be covered over the following academic year to ensure students meet grade level expectations.

Early Childhood

Session #	Topic	Outcome
Session 18:Early Childhood	Early Childhood: Template	Determine necessary elements to include in a written curriculum. Develop, modify or update unit templates to reflect the unique program structure of a school.
Session 19:Early Childhood	Early Childhood: Unit Development	Based on school’s template, explore the variety of ways to organize content/thematic information. Discuss ways to include and/or document non-thematic elements in a unit planner.
Session 20:Early Childhood	Early Childhood: Phonological Awareness	Break down the stages of development to understand the subtle differences between phonological and phonemic awareness.

English Language Development

Session #	Topic	Outcome
Session 21:English Language Development	Develop a Unit Template to Support Language Acquisition	Review current language supports in the curriculum. Create or modify unit templates to support language acquisition and provide clear expectations for teachers.
Session 22:English Language Development	Unit Planning to Support Language Acquisition	Align units with content & language standards and provide language goals for multiple English proficiency levels. Create or update a unit to guide students’ language acquisition.
Session 23:English Language Development	Scaffolding Instruction	Explore techniques and strategies for scaffolding language and content at various levels. Create or update units & lessons with intentional content and language scaffolds.

Differentiated Instruction

Session #	Topic	Outcome
Session 24:Differentiated Instruction	Planning for Differentiation	Review key elements of differentiated instruction. Explore differentiated instruction strategies and add specific strategies to current units.

Sample Virtual Packages

Here are a few examples of how schools have created their own packages based on their goals

Curriculum Writing

(3 Topics)

Read & Bundle Standards into Units (Session 4)
Unpacking Standards: Content and Skills (Session 6)
Develop Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions for Unit Plans (Session 8)

Sample Agenda

Curriculum Writing: Preparing for the Academic Year in Response to COVID-19

(3 Topics)

Year-End Unit Review (Session 16)
Prepare for a New Academic Year: Course Review (Session 17)
Adapt Units for Remote Learning (Session 15)

Sample Agenda

Leadership and Process

(3 Topics)

Curriculum Process Foundation and Unit Template Design (Session 1)
Unpack Goals into Actionable Steps (Session 2)
Finalize Your Plan: Feedback and Resources (Session 3)

Sample Agenda

Contact Us

Contact us for a quote or for general inquires:

Email
pd@fariaedu.com

Phone
+1 503 223 7600