Customized Professional Development & Consulting
If you cannot attend a regional Foundation Course and/or would like to explore setting up an on-site Foundation Course at your school, please contact us to discuss our Customized Professional Development options (liz@passageworks.org).
Our Customized Foundation Course (22-hours) is tailored to meet your school’s specific needs and population of teachers. Methods learned in this course prepare participants to implement each of our K-12 transitions curricula and provide tools that educators can integrate into any classroom or content area to enhance student engagement, build community, and improve academic outcomes. In addition, this customized course offers faculty members the opportunity to strengthen collegial bonds and build community–both of which are vital to enriching school climate and culture.
Our Follow-up Professional Development offers faculty the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the PassageWorks model and experience new PassageWorks activities. Follow-up professional development includes a troubleshooting and classroom management component to support teachers with challenging classroom situations. Additionally, follow-up professional development incorporates our “continual improvement model” of service, in which feedback of teachers, students and administrators is integrated into the overall implementation plan. PWI consultants collaborate with school leadership teams to provide this ongoing professional development on an individual or group basis through reflection and dialogue via telephone, email or site visits.
"PassageWorks was an essential part of me becoming a member of Doyle Elementary from the get-go. I hadn’t even spent a day teaching with this staff, and already, I felt like a member of the Doyle family. I couldn’t have done that without PassageWorks. It was a great “ice-breaker” for me as a new teacher. I think that schools should have this kind of thing more often. I am very thankful to have a principal who cares enough to implement such a program in our school."
-Second Grade Teacher, Doyle Elementary School, East Prairie, MO
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