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Thoughtful Classroom Professional Learning Suites

There is no doubt whatsoever: Of all the factors that we can control as educators, the quality of classroom instruction has the greatest impact on student achievement. Hands down. By far. Nothing else is close.

So how can we help our teachers, instructional leaders, and school leaders zero in on instruction and work together to raise its quality—in a way that’s manageable and cost-effective?

Thoughtful Classroom Professional Learning Suites make it easier than ever to improve teaching and learning in classrooms and across schools and districts.

Designed and led by today’s top expert on instruction, Dr. Harvey Silver, along with the Thoughtful Classroom team, each suite focuses your team on important instructional goals and models specific instructional tools and strategies for addressing those goals.

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So Many Ways to Fuel Your Learning

Every suite provides your team with a wealth of learning resources to help you improve practice.

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Video Tutuorials

Brief and engaging presentations that show you how to use tools and strategies

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Key Content Cues

All the critical content from the tutorials in a handy PDF that makes it easy to review and plan

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PD Resources & Supplements

Targeted supports, including sample lessons, teacher tips, and classroom video segments

Planning and Reflection Guides

Fillable forms that make planning lessons and reflecting on the results a snap

Classroom Resources

Ready-to-use resources, including student handouts, reproducibles, and classroom posters

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Thoughtful Classroom Professional Learning Suites

TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Improving Reading Comprehension

A professional learning suite that makes it easy to build students’ reading comprehension skills and deepen their understanding of classroom content

TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Unlocking the Power of Comparative Thinking

A professional learning suite that will help you develop one of the most important critical-thinking skills in any classroom: comparison

TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Moving From Note Taking to Note Making

A professional learning suite designed specifically to help you help your students become active note makers and effective summarizers

The Four Cornerstones of Effective Classrooms

A professional learning suite that helps teachers improve student behavior, increase student engagement, and raise student achievement

The Instructional Designer’s Toolbox

A professional learning suite that helps teachers create more engaging lessons and units, unpack standards, and integrate instruction and assessment

TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Promoting Classroom Inquiry
TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Helping Students Connect Personally
to Learning
Developing Clear and Motivating Learning Targets
Using Formative Assessment to Advance Learning
Increasing the Power of Classroom Feedback

Want to Build Your Own Custom Suite?

No problem! We build custom suites for schools and districts all the time. We’re happy to work with you and your team to select a focused set of tools and strategies tied directly to your school improvement goals and priorities.

Check out the available tool and strategy tutorials below.

Building Positive Relationships
  • All for One & One for All
  • Check Your Mood at the Door
  • Community CIRCLE
  • Getting to Know You
  • Interaction in an Instant
  • Say “S” to Resolving Conflicts
Classroom Inquiry
  • Inquiry Frames
  • Mystery
  • Inductive Learning
  • If-Then
  • Yes-No Inquiry
Classroom Management
  • 7-Step Directions
  • Procedural PRO
  • Respectfully Yours
  • Rules to Live & Learn By
  • Student-Friendly Learning Targets
Comparative Thinking
  • Designing Great Comparison Lessons
  • Metaphorical Expression
  • Decision Making
  • Community CIRCLE
  • Forced Choice
Feedback
  • STAIRS (Principles of Effective Feedback)
  • Glow & Grow
  • What & Why Feedback
  • The “Ps” to Better Work
  • PEERS
  • Knee-to-Knee Conference
  • The Five Cs of In-Lesson Feedback
Formative Assessment
  • Clear or Cloudy?
  • Stop, Slow, Go!
  • Questioning in Style
  • Because
  • Graduated Difficulty
Improving Reading Comprehension
  • Power Previewing
  • Mind’s Eye
  • Single-Sentence Summaries
  • Scavenger Hunt
  • Reading Stances
  • 4-2-1 Summarize
  • Reading for Meaning
Increasing Engagement
  • Classroom Games
  • Divergent Thinking
  • Effort Tracker
  • Personal Best
  • Scavenger Hunt
  • Questioning in Style
Lesson & Unit Design
  • “Five Episodes” Design Framework
  • Essential Questions
  • A Study In . . .
  • Concept Word Walls
Note Making & Summarizing
  • Window Notes
  • Math Notes
  • Interactive Note Making
  • Three Ways of Webbing
  • Split Screen
  • S-O-S Graphic Organizers
  • 4-2-1 Summarize
  • AWESOME Summaries
Nurturing Thinking Skills & Habits
  • 3C Word Walls
  • Because
  • Forced Choice
  • The Power of Pause
  • Power Previewing
Setting Clear Learning Objectives
  • Learning Window
  • Student-Friendly Learning Targets
  • Post-Discuss Reference (PDR)

Perfect for Instructional Leadership Teams and PLCs

Does your PLC sometimes struggle to get that crystal-clear focus on instruction? Are you an Instructional Leader or part of an Instructional Leadership team looking for a better way to help teachers grow? Thoughtful Classroom Professional Learning Suites are the answer. The suites provide the focused content, practical tools, and “common language” that PLCs and ILTs need to promote schoolwide improvement. And as your needs and goals evolve, so can your suite. It’s easy to add new content, new tools and strategies, and new PD resources.

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Testimonial: Mary Belcher: Suites 2
“These on-demand suites empower both instructional leaders and teachers to use tools and strategies to improve instruction, engage students in deeper learning, and customize each teacher’s own professional growth path.”

Mary Belcher

Instructional Lead and Learning Acceleration Specialist,

Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) • Hazard, KY

Testimonial: Mike McQueen

“The Thoughtful Classroom Online Suites naturally and easily expanded my ability to deliver tailored and targeted professional development for my teachers. These suites have been a driving force in my school’s improvement process.”

Mike McQueen

Principal,

C.W. Davis Middle School • Flowery Branch, GA

Testimonial: Sharon Paver-Nepote

“The Thoughtful Classroom Online Suites naturally and easily expanded my ability to deliver tailored and targeted professional development for my teachers. These suites have been a driving force in my school’s improvement process.”

Dr. Sharon Paver-Nepote

Principal,

Wagoner Elementary School • Sauk Village, IL

Testimonial: Mary Belcher: Suites

“Together, the Four Cornerstones and Instructional Designer’s Toolbox suites provide the professional learning foundation that has made it possible for us to build a large-scale PD initiative focused on deeper learning.”

Mary Belcher

Instructional Lead and Learning Acceleration Specialist,

Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) • Hazard, KY