WORKSHOPS

Julie Wright Consulting provides timely, action-oriented support designed to create the knowledge, tips, tools, rituals, routines and confidence to make changes in practice immediately. Our work begins with a free consultation video or phone call to discuss your desired outcomes so that we can create learning experiences to maximize your learning communities’ needs and goals. These workshop examples will give you a glimpse of ways we can noodle plans and create support together through 1-hour, 2-hour, half-day, full-day, or multiple day experiences. Learning experiences are designed for whole group, small group or one-to-one experiences that are face-to-face, virtual/remote, or through a hybrid model. To see a list of recent professional learning sessions Julie has provided to schools, districts, organizations, and presented at conferences, click the link below!

Building Relationships: A Must-Do Move!

The more we know about our students and colleagues, the more likely we are to reach our shared goals.  This workshop provides timely tips, tools and strategies to foster positive relationships that you can use immediately.

Pivoting on the Spot

Addressing Students’ Immediate Needs

Do you feel equipped to pivot on the spot in order to meet students’ immediate needs?  This workshop will teach reflection protocols to help you create and implement responsive plans.

What’s Our Role?

Asset-Based Moves to Shape School Climate & Culture

Building and sustaining a positive school climate and culture doesn’t happen by happenstance.  Participants will learn ways to take stock of and shape a positive, collaborative school climate and culture in new and practical ways.

What’s Worth Saving?

What’s Worth Eliminating?

Sometimes one of the best things we can do is to push the pause button and reflect about the practices and policies guiding our decision-making.  This workshop focuses on a systems’ thinking approach to determine what’s worth saving and what’s worth eliminating at any point during the school year, taking into account the educational changes and challenges that come our way.

Re-imagining Small Group Learning

Looking to increase small group learning experiences, but not sure where to start?  Participants will learn practical tools and examples essential for launching and sustaining small groups that can be put into action immediately.

Short Texts, Mighty Mentors

Short texts are everywhere, and so are the readers who love them.  In this workshop, learn how to select, plan with, and use short texts to increase reading volume and inspire opportunities for writing across content areas.

Asset-Based Coaching: 10 Habits that Maximize Growth

Every child deserves a teacher who has a thinking partner.  That’s because our work in schools is too complicated and important to go it alone.  Whether you are an instructional coach, department chair, grade level team member, or administrator – this workshop will help you learn 10 asset-based coaching habits to create support structures and maximize growth.

What’s Our Response?

Creating Systems & Structures to Support Students

Time is never on our side.  Most educators agree, too much time is being spent in meetings to discuss students’ deficits and not enough time celebrating and utilizing their assets.  This workshop addresses 5 Problems of Practice with current RtI models and equips educators with ready-to-use, solution-oriented tools to create asset-based systems and structures to support student growth.

Kidwatching 2.0

Using In-the-moment Data to Inform instruction

Proximity matters.  That’s because being up close to students’ work, conversations and interactions creates connectedness and gives us a front row seat for understanding what students know, can do, and what they need next.  This workshop will focus on collecting data through Kidwatching and then using that intel to design whole group, small group and individual learning experiences.

Pivoting into Small Groups

Teacher Moves that Keep Learners Moving Forward

Teachers across the nation share the similar sentiment.  They want to differentiate by tailoring instruction to meet students’ needs, but pulling off regular and consistent small group work is difficult.   This workshop will focus on pivoting, or switching up groups regularly, so that we can respond to students’ curiosities, passions, habits, and needs.

Assessing Student Work

Looking at Students’ Work to Guide Planning & Decision-Making

If we want to know what students know and are able to do so that we can plan meaningful, responsive instruction going forward, using proximity to get up close to students’ work is essential.  In this workshop, participants will learn new ways of getting to know students through conversations and work products.  Together, we will learn new formative assessment tools, explore different types of work that can guide our planning and decision-making.

Curating Texts

Stoking Students’ Interests & Inspiring New Learning

When we inch closer to students and pay attention to what they choose to read based on their interests, we are better equipped to curate texts that are going to get kids jazzed up about reading across content areas.  This workshop gives participants an opportunity to use what they know about students and curate texts that will inspire new learning while also addressing instructional plans.  Together, we’ll explore systems, structures, rituals and routines for collecting, storing, and using the texts that have been curated for the whole class, small groups and individual students.

Planning: A Must-Do Move!

Keeping Students at the Center of Unit, Weekly & Daily Plans

The standards tell us what to teach, but we still have to do the work of putting it all together to design the how.  Thank goodness because the authors of the standards don’t know our students.  By accepting the responsibility of designing the how, we give our students opportunities to wrestle with the content, work to make meaning, and potentially create something new that can be added to the world’s knowledge.  In this workshop, participants will learn how to create year-long plans, units of study or learning progressions, and a calendar for weekly and daily lesson plans.

Launching & Sustaining Small Group Reading Experiences

The Get Up & Get Started Guide to Small Group Reading 

Working alongside teachers gives me insight into what questions come to the surface when they think about small group reading experiences.  They often ask, How do I know which students go in which groups? How long do groups last?  How many groups are happening at once?  What are the other kids doing?  What are the students reading, writing and talking about while in their small group?  How will I know the small group is working?  This workshop provides answers to those questions AND provides participants with 3 weeks of ready-to-use plans they can adopt or adapt and put into action immediately.