Professional Learning and Services
From evaluation to all staff trainings, TIE's highly qualified and experienced staff offer a variety of specialties to meet your specific needs.
Pulse Check Survey
TIE offers a staff (or community / family) pulse check as a free service.
Customized Learning
A “learner-centered” focus is at the core of customized learning.
Menu of Services
Our Professional Learning menu may help you build your own service or training.
Projects
We offer a wide range of projects for individual teachers or groups.
Professional Learning and Services
Look at our menu of services and trainings, or customize your own!
Options include:
1 - 2 hour Webinar
1/2 day Professional Learning
Full day Professional Learning
Multi-day
Elementary Teachers
Middle School Teachers
High School Teachers
Administration
Clerical Staff
Paraprofessionals
Literacy / Language Arts
Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM)
Customized Learning
Teaching Strategies
Cultural Work
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
School Climate
Administration
Digital Literacy
Contact us HERE to complete a survey with your staff to gather their priorities and professional learning needs
Read these "Look Fors," from the Lindsay School District
Explore John Hattie's Visible Learning Influences to help prioritize your next Professional Learning
TIE offers the following services, and if you don't see it here, contact us HERE so we can customize to what you need
Certification Partners
Projects
We offer a wide range of projects for individual teachers or groups.
Humanity Videocast
Human Shaped Learning Videocast for teachers, by Scott Simpson and Sharla Steever.
Menu of Services and Training
Explore the menu of options. Professional Learning and Training is not limited to the menu below: this is to help you consider the possibilities! Contact us HERE for more information, to set up a contract, or to customize professional learning at your school or TIE services.
STARTERS / 1-2 hours
TIE Learning Specialists can provide brief, stand-alone training sessions for your staff. Examples of these types of trainings, include:
Zoom Presentation Basics
Intro to Blended Learning
Intro to Google Classroom
SOUP AND SALAD / half day
Facilitating a half-day training could include one of the following options:
Blended Learning Essentials
Google Slides and Docs
Google Forms and Sheets
School Climate / SEL
ENTREE / full day
TIE Learning Specialists can customize training content according to your staff’s needs. Here are some options for full-day sessions:
Google Classroom
Blended Learning
Assessment
Data Retreat
FULL MENU / multi-day
If you are looking for a more in-depth, multi-day approach, TIE Learning Specialists can facilitate professional development on topics, such as:
Flexible Learning
Flipped Classroom
Data Retreat
DESSERT / follow up
Continue the professional learning for your staff with options like:
Coaching
Online Classes
Schedule a follow-up training
SIDES / add-on
The following are examples of additional items you could consider adding to a scheduled training:
Family Survey
Graduate Credit Options
Specific Content Area Focus
A LA CARTE
TIE also offers services for programs and organizations:
Evaluation Services
Virtual Conference Support
Survey Facilitation
Free "Pulse Check" Survey
Not sure what your staff need? TIE offers a staff (or community / family) pulse check as a free service. Sign up to get started. We'll set up the survey, share it with you to send to your staff, then we send you a report with the results and our recommended next steps.
Get StartedCustomized Learning Services
Let TIE lead you through the entire process of Customized Learning implementation or assist with specific aspects of Customized Learning:
Professional Learning
A blended learning opportunity with face-to-face workshops and online classes for the changing roles of educators.
Structural Rebuild
A shift from an industrial model requires innovative district planning to remove barriers, enabling a customized, learner-centered environment.
Curriculum Redesign
Educator collaboration is crucial for molding curriculum, instruction, and assessment for a Customized Learning experience.
Watch the Documentary
A "Day-in-the-Life" of Customized Learning at a South Dakota school:
Professional Learning
While educators can develop their understanding of Customized Learning through stand-alone classes, we recommend the blended-learning combination of self-paced online courses, face-to-face sessions, and facilitated collaboration to give teachers a more complete customized learning experience.
The face-to-face component focuses on important topics for teachers to truly incorporate and manage Customized Learning, including:
- Higher order thinking and complex reasoning
- Grouping/regrouping students
- Assessment
- Technology immersion
- Mindsets
- Facilitator/mentor role
TIE offers a variety of self-paced online courses that align with the philosophy of Customized Learning:
Structural Rebuild
The CL Structural Rebuild utilizes evidence-based materials and processes for your district/building planning team to tackle the tough issues of weight-bearing-walls like:
- Grading practices
- Schedules and courses
- Grade level assignments vs mastery levels
- Rigid curriculum vs. flexible curriculum
- In-school learning vs. in-world learning
- 9-month school year vs. year-round learning opportunities
which can hinder progress toward personalized learning. A TIE Learning Specialist will work with your leadership team throughout the school year with onsite work days as well as online meetings. TIE also provides data tools to provide a snapshot of the instructional/learning practices in your district that can assist your leadership team for better analysis, strategizing, and decision-making.
Curriculum Redesign
The CL Curriculum Redesign examines the changes necessary for the curriculum to support a customized learning environment. There are three major areas of focus:
- Classroom-Specific Redesign – Facilitators/teachers work on classroom curriculum to add choice and voice for learners.
- Standards/Learning Outcomes Redesign -Sometimes referred to as a “standards evolution,” standards are reformatted to de-emphasize grade level orientation and repetition into a usable feedback and management tool for learners and facilitators.
- Flexible Curriculum Development – Highly flexible curriculum materials developed to accommodate customized learning in a sharable collection open and available for any facilitators and learners.