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WORKSHOPS & TRAINING SEMINARS
 

Sandra is a popular and well-known speaker and presenter.  She has trained thousands of educators, parents, medical & mental health professionals, and others. Sandra presents one and two-day workshops/seminars (tailored to the needs of the audience) on strategies and interventions for reaching and teaching ALL students - particularly those with ADHD, LD, and other special needs in general education classrooms. Sandra's training is packed with practical strategies to effectively differentiate instruction for diverse learners and manage challenging behaviors in the classroom.  She emphasizes best practices that are good for ALL students, and provides educators with an abundance of useful tools and techniques to take back to their classrooms.
 

SOME SPECIFIC TOPICS INCLUDE:

  • What we know about AD/HD, learning disabilities, and other neurobiological disorders
  • Critical factors for success  
  • Strategies for engaging and maintaining students’ attention and active participation
  • Strategies for increasing on-task behavior and work production
  • Proactive strategies for preventing/minimizing behavioral problems and creating the climate for success (in the classroom and other school environments)
  • Individualized interventions and supports for hard-to-manage behaviors
  • Differentiating instruction (what, why and how to…)
  • Common learning weaknesses and academic difficulties
  • Building organization, time management, and study skills
  • The battle with homework - and supportive strategies
  • Reading strategies and supports (in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension)
  • Written language strategies and supports (in grapho-motor, spelling, expressive writing/composition)
  • Other learning and academic strategies and scaffolds
  • Early childhood and upper elementary learning centers/stations
  • Working on several fronts/collaborative efforts  (between parents, educators, and clinicians or other care/service providers)
  • Educational rights of students with disabilities (IDEA/504)
  • Maximizing the effectiveness of the Student Support Team process to address the needs of at-risk students
  • Pre-referral interventions, creative student support team models, and school-wide safety nets

KEYNOTES

Sandra presents uplifting and motivating speeches addressing what it takes to make a difference, meet the individual needs of students, and successfully reach & teach ALL children (including those with learning, attention and behavioral challenges).

CONSULTING

Sandra's consultation to school districts includes:

  • Creating the school culture and climate for success
  • Establishing successful inclusive classrooms
  • Examining and developing interventions and support systems for at-risk students
  • Effective Student Support Team/Instructional Support Team models, processes and practices
  • School's role in the diagnosis, monitoring, and intervention of students with AD/HD (site-based procedures and processes)
  • Training general and special education staff in how to differentiate instruction and raise achievement through effective instructional, academic, and behavioral strategies
  • Training school staff in positive, proactive classroom management and behavioral support strategies
  • Implementing a continuum of academic and behavioral supports/interventions and Response to Intervention (RTI) approach - thus, reducing inappropriate referrals to special education

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