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For fifty years, The Thoughtful Classroom has meant the best in training, coaching, and supporting educators. By paying attention to what research and practice tell us about effective instruction and what motivates students, we’ve been able to help hundreds of schools and districts across the country raise the quality of teaching and learning.

For our team, “It’s All About the Learning.”

Dr. Harvey F. Silver

Thoughtful Classroom

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Helping Students Connect Personally to Learning

Tools and strategies for getting students more personally invested in classroom learning

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Teaching for Deeper Learning

Harvey Silver and Jay McTighe will show you why deep learning is so critical to student success, and how to make it work in your classroom, school, or district.

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“These Thoughtful Classroom 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: Robert Wilson

“I have used the Thoughtful Classroom approach to turn around four different schools with various demographic challenges. The combination of the research and practical tools is a marriage made in heaven.”

Robert Wilson

Principal

Cherokee Bluff Middle School • Flowery Branch, Georgia

Testimonial: Casey Vier

“Our adoption and continuing partnership with the Thoughtful Classroom is the single most important element of our school design, facilitating our building a cohesive school culture.”

Casey Vier

Principal

Children’s Aid College Prep Charter School • Bronx, NY

Testimonial: Georgia Rhett

“The Thoughtful Classroom PD team has given our staff a common language for building lessons and units that truly engage students—and instructional tools that make it easier for teachers to see what students need and modify instruction accordingly.”

Georgia Rhett

Assistant Superintendent

Arvin Union School District • Arvin, California

Testimonial: Dr. Donna S. Leak

“We chose Silver Strong & Associates/Thoughtful Classroom because they were the professional development partners who were best able to ‘meet us where we were.’”

Dr. Donna S. Leak

Superintendent

Community Consolidated Schools District 168 • Illinois

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