Dr. Cox- Meadows will want to learn more about your school in order to tailor a training or coaching cycle to best meet your needs. Below are some examples of PD workshops that Dr. Teri Cox-Meadows has recently offered in schools:

25 Tips & Tricks for Inclusive Classrooms
Gain some quick ideas for making teaching in the inclusive classroom easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable. Teri shares 25 tips and tricks for setting up your classroom, working with paraprofessionals, creating on-the-spot adaptations, increasing student participation, and maximizing learning.
 
ADHD & Spectrum Disorders: Myths vs. Reality
New research surrounding ADHD & Spectrum Disorders leads to rich discussion. In this session, we will focus on how to help students learn, no matter the label, and deepen their understanding of ADHD and Spectrum Disorders. Walk away with tips to begin more effective teaching and learning, as well as ways to manage behaviors and needs.
 
ADHD: Myths vs. Reality       
It's a fact. Teachers are seeing more children who have been diagnosed with ADHD. To help you better meet the needs of these learners, Teri shares sound practices and solid theories backed by examples of her own experience working with these children. Plus, you'll discover new facts and bust several myths about ADHD.
 
Aiming High: Rethinking Special Education and Mathematics
Mathematics is not simply the sum of its parts; simply reducing mathematics to sequential skills and memorization robs exceptional education students of the tools that they depend on to learn. Instead, target the same outcomes for these students that you have for all students! Aim high, provide them with clarity, and know that these students can succeed in mathematics. Teri will share the mathematics instructional tools she has used for a decade to help these students succeed in mathematics.
 
Applying Singapore Math Strategies to the Standards
By zeroing in on a narrow grade span, this training focuses on the standards you will be addressing in your classroom. Attention is given to key standards in each of the domains, so You'll see how to use Singapore math strategies to build conceptual knowledge while at the same time embedding important aspects of the Math Practices into your teaching.
 
Applying the Standards of Mathematical Practice in Your Classroom
Did you know the 8 integrated Standards for Mathematical Practice that describe a set of skills, processes, and habits of mind that all students should develop as part of their study of mathematics? Discover what the Standards for Mathematical Practice are, how to talk about them with students, and how they relate to every part of your math instruction. Increase your understanding of what the practices mean to you and your students and answer essential questions to identify the impact the practices have on your instruction. Learn what successful implementation of the practices looks like, what you'll need to implement the practices, and what implications they have for assessment and grading. Let's build Mathematical Thinkers!
 
Best Practices in the Art of Teaching
What are best practices and how do they work inside the classroom? This will be the focus of Best Practices in the Art of Teaching. We will explore student centered learning environments, high expectations for all, active learning, background knowledge, learning styles, multiple intelligences, brain-based teaching and learning, student engagement, authentic projects and tasks, problem solving, and much, much more. Join us as we learn and grow in the art of teaching!
 
Brain-Based Learning: How Special Education Children Learn
Join Teri to explore exciting brain-based strategies you can use to motivate all your students to learn! You'll gain a better understanding of how your special children’s brains work in a classroom setting. You'll discover new ideas to enrich your instruction and to build a stress-free, safe and secure, classroom community.
 
Co-Teaching that Works
Co-teaching is a proven approach for reaching the wide range of student needs in today’s inclusive classrooms. Teri clearly describes several co-teaching styles and shares practical ways for defining your roles, plans for and providing instruction that works, and tips for maximizing the value of each team member.
 
Co-Teaching with DI Approaches     
Expand your repertoire of co-teaching tools using DI approaches. Explore how to collaborate, share, and play nicely in front of each other, students, related staff, administrators, families, and behind the scenes, too! Learn how—like students—co-teachers come with different levels, interests, motivators, and learning profiles. Apply DI approaches to transform your co-teaching!
 
Co-Teaching: Collaboration between the Regular Ed Teacher and the Special Ed Teacher
Two heads are better than one; yet how do two professionals share ownership of a special needs student? Join Teri for a fast-paced common-sense approach to joint ownership and instructional collaboration. Finally understand who does what, when and how for the special needs student who is placed in the general education setting for all or part of the day. Key topics include:
• What are common expectations in your state
• How can all grade levels support these standards
• How can two teachers plan and prepare for the co-teaching journey
• What should your principal see in a Co-Teaching observation.
 
Coaching Teacher Leaders
Why does it take to raise up the generations of leaders inside school walls? How can we equip and support novice teachers or those who have not yet taken on leadership positions? Coaching Teacher Leaders will offer practical tools and important insights into authentic coaching, school culture, changing climates, developing leaders, and keys to communication, in this invaluable session.
 
Creating a Math Culture through Reasoning
Create a math culture and learning community in your classroom that engages you and your students. Discover how to implement effective math questioning and how to get students to take ownership and explain their mathematical thinking. Through live classroom videos integrating all 8 Mathematical Practice standards, see first-hand how to become a co-learner with students and build a culture that promotes lifelong mathematical reasoning.
 
Differentiating Instruction and Assessments in the General Ed Classroom for SpEd & ELL Students
Unleash the power of students to succeed with renewed hope, increased confidence, and powerful strategies. Explore how to skillfully use research-supported practices for instructional focusing, pacing, chunking, scaffolding, monitoring, and accountable peer-to-peer interaction. Feel five powerful skills that empower special needs and ELL students to efficiently store and retain, process, transfer, and apply content material and skills. See how you can help students win at school, watering down your content material and lowering standards.
 
Early Numeracy
Discover strategies and tools to help children build a strong understanding of numbers in Grades PreK-2. Help children visualize the math they are learning and using, preparing them to add more challenging math concepts later that build on a solid foundation of numeracy. Learn proven methods to avoid rote memorization of rules and math facts, and instead develop mathematical thinkers who are set up for success in the early grades and beyond.
 
Early Numeracy Skills for Students with Disabilities
Students with disabilities often have difficulty acquiring numeracy skills and early mathematics principles. This workshop aims to show effective ways to teach quantity recognition, numeral-number connections, counting principles, and place value.
 
Empowering Teacher Leaders
Join us as we learn what research has to say about the transformation that can take place when teacher leaders are given autonomy. A collegial and collaborative discussion of the difficult issues that can surround this paradigm shift will offer attendees new ideas and insight. This session is for you if your school is reading to move beyond a single-person leadership model. Learn creative strategies and concepts for helping teacher leaders emerge, grow, and empower others.
 
Foundations of Number Sense
Give students a deeper understanding of numbers, setting them up for current and future success as mathematical thinkers. Learn how to build foundational number sense not through memorizing rules and facts, but through a clear understanding of numbers, their magnitude, and their relationships with other numbers. Learn new methods for building number sense and teaching computation in ways that make sense to both you and your students. With this solid foundation, you will prepare them to develop higher-level math skills and reasoning ability for years to come.
 
Fractions        
Fraction instruction must include a variety of visual models and hands-on activities to help build students’ conceptual understanding of fractions. Students need to be able to see how fractions work in both concrete and visual ways before algorithms, and abstract equations will make sense. This training covers the foundational concepts needed to understand fractions and also how to perform the four operations with fractional numbers.
 
From Here to There: Assessing and Developing Basic Numeracy Skills
Discover why more and more children are lacking the foundation for numeracy development. Find out the key stages every child must experience to succeed in their mathematical learning. Gain an in-depth understanding of how to formatively assess student skills to group students for effective instruction. Learn about a variety of activities that will support students.
 
Guided Math: A Framework to Maximize Instruction During Your Math Block
Do you struggle with how to fit everything into your math block? Do you have a classroom that promotes a numeracy-rich environment? Discover how to set up your math time using a guided math framework. Guided math, similar to guided reading, encompasses all areas of your math curriculum while utilizing both whole-group and small-group components to maximize learning time. You'll learn how to use this framework for daily number sense routines, whole-class instruction with formative assessment, and how to provide differentiated instruction through small groups and centers. Teachers will learn to embed math journals, language development, fluency, and critical thinking skills into all framework aspects.
 
High-Impact Inclusion
What are the research-based characteristics of successful inclusion programs? What questions should you consider before beginning an inclusion program or before restricting an existing program? Get the answers to these and other complex issues surrounding inclusion. Teri focuses on inclusion from both the special educator's and regular educator's perspectives and considers the administrator's role in successful inclusion programs.
 
Inclusion Do’s, Don’ts, and Do Betters
Investigate how to connect your differentiated instructional strategies to the characteristics of students with specific disabilities and their struggles in your inclusive classroom. Teri shows you how to adopt instructional units with lessons that infuse evidence-based interventions for core planning, instruction, and assessment in literacy, mathematics, and across disciplines. Learn how to replace anxiety and apprehension with tangible mindsets and responsive, inclusive interventions. Teri addresses the role of positive attitudes, inclusive research, specially designed instruction, and multi-tiered systems of collaborative support and shares practical professional resources.
 
Inclusion Strategies for Adolescent Learners          
Adolescents with and without disabilities often struggle to achieve academic goals, peer acceptance, and feelings of self-worth. The ultimate objective of secondary education is to prepare adolescents with school successes that invite productive postsecondary transitions. This requires that educators employ an array of inclusion strategies that go beyond classification labels and into the abilities and interests of adolescent learners. Be prepared to connect the curriculum standards and inclusion strategies to students in middle school and high school classrooms by learning how to:
• Relate cognitive and psychological theories to adolescents
• Address the needs of students with ADHD, autism, Asperger’s, communication, developmental, learning, social, emotional, behavioral, perceptual, sensory, and physical differences
• Include interdisciplinary lesson connections that value music, technology, global awareness, and collaboration skills.
• Differentiate the instruction with constructivist approaches
• Collaborate with grade-level teams, co-teachers, support staff, and families.
 
Leadership Development & Coaching          
Leadership development, vision casting, and building functional plans and programs take time; sometimes, an outside facilitator is needed. If your leadership team needs an executive coach or a thinking partner to take your school to the next level or rework programming, Dr. Cox would love to come alongside you for rich conversations that move you all forward.
 
Leadership Masterclass
This is a sustained professional Development opportunity for your leadership team members. Eight sessions will be held during the school year to train leadership.
 
Making Math Real for Elementary Students
Make math come alive in your classroom through manipulatives, technology, and hands-on instruction. Learn how to use different tools and differentiated instruction to make it real for students. Teri equips you with practical ideas, tools, and lessons to help students see that math surrounds them daily.
 
Making Math Real for Middle-Level Students
Make math come alive for students through manipulatives, technology, and hands-on instruction. Learn how to use different tools and differentiated instruction to make math real. Leave with practical ideas, tools, and lessons to help students see that math surrounds them every day.
 
Managing an Effective Math Classroom
You can't teach a class you can't manage, and you can't cover the necessary content if you haven’t planned well. Discover how daily routines; centers; and a well-organized, student-friendly environment can help you run an effective math classroom. Learn the key elements of an effective math lesson, ensuring your instructional time is focused, engaging, and building lifelong mathematical thinking. (K-5) (6-8)
 
Math & the Middle School Mind
Math can be a challenge to teach and learn in the middle school grades. Teri shares practical tips and proven techniques for helping students to wrap their brains around more complex math concepts such as fractions, decimals, percentages, and more.
 
Math Interventions
Discover how to meet struggling math students where they are and offer them tailored feedback and meaningful intervention. Learn how to accurately diagnose student errors, uncover the root issues, and efficiently correct gaps in learning. Study common errors to intervene when concepts are misunderstood and to avoid re-teaching concepts that have been mastered. Apply this powerful and proven approach to enable all students to be successful in math.
 
Meeting the Needs of Special Education Elementary Students
Adolescents with and without disabilities often struggle to achieve academic goals, peer acceptance, and feelings of self-worth. The ultimate objective of secondary education is to prepare adolescents with school successes that invite productive postsecondary transitions. This requires that educators employ an array of inclusion strategies that go beyond classification labels and into the abilities and interests of adolescent learners. Be prepared to connect the curriculum standards and inclusion strategies to students in middle school and high school classrooms by learning how to:
• Relate cognitive and psychological theories to adolescents
• Address the needs of students with ADHD, autism, Asperger’s, communication, developmental, learning, social, emotional, behavioral, perceptual, sensory, and physical differences
• Include interdisciplinary lesson connections that value music, technology, global awareness, and collaboration skills.
• Differentiate the instruction with constructivist approaches
• Collaborate with grade-level teams, co-teachers, support staff, and families.
 
Meeting the Needs of Special Education High School Students
Inclusion can be a practical classroom reality when the right interventions are applied. Teri introduces practical instruction adaptations and curriculum accommodations to meet all your high school learners' needs. Learn how to engage even your most reluctant learners with these strategies for success.
 
Meeting the Needs of Special Education Middle-Grade Students
Inclusion can be a practical classroom reality when the right interventions are applied. Teri introduces practical instruction adaptations and curriculum accommodations to meet all your middle-grade learners' needs. Learn how to engage even your most reluctant learners with these strategies for success.
 
Molding the Middle School Mind
Discover how to create a brain-friendly classroom that fosters student achievement. In this session, You'll examine the impact that brain-research and multiple intelligence strategies can have on middle-school learners. And, you'll learn practical ways for reaching, teaching, and engaging young minds—from struggling students to gifted and talented learners.
 
Novice Educator Training
Novice educators need more support and frequent feedback. Allow Dr. Cox to become a mentor and trainer for novice educators who need assistance with standards, planning, behavior management, classroom management, and so much more.
 
Observations & Feedback for Teaching
Sustainable professional development often begins with regular observation, timely and effective feedback, and conversations focusing on education growth. Allow Dr. Cox to observe and offer feedback to your teaching staff. Coaches are welcome to join the feedback sessions and debriefing times following observations. Professional development can also be tailored to the needs of observation data.
 
On the Spectrum: Autistic Students in the Regular Classroom
The number of students on the Autistic Spectrum has dramatically increased in the last five years. Join Teri in this fast-paced session to determine who is “on the spectrum.” You'll discover practical classroom strategies to ensure the success of your students with autism in the regular classroom.
 
PBIS
Positive Behavior Intervention Support: What is PBIS? How can it impact school culture, behavior intervention needs, and Teri 1, 2, and 3 behaviors school-wide? If you are looking for a tool to increase engagement and decrease behavior problems, let's talk PBIS.
 
Performance Tasks: What Math Connections Look Like Every Day
What’s all the buzz about implementing performance tasks into math instruction? Performance tasks provide students with real-life situations to apply their math knowledge. Integrating performance tasks into your math instruction isn't as daunting as you may think. Learn performance tasks that integrate cross-curricular components and can be used right away. You will walk away with not only new-found knowledge but also an in-depth understanding of how to assess students’ understanding, reasoning, and ability to communicate their math knowledge. (K-5) (6-8)
 
Planning with a Purpose
Planning should be designed around the standards, engaging activities, open-ended questions, and authentic learning opportunities. The session will deep dive into lesson planning with a purpose. No matter what curriculum is being used, planning should begin with the end in mind and consider all learners for each lesson and unit. This is a practical planning and brainstorming session.
 
Positive Classroom Management
Brain research and differentiated instruction show the importance of a safe classroom and learning environment. Positive Classroom Management will discuss these crucial pieces and focus on tools and strategies that can be implemented to encourage positive rapport, build a safe student-centered learning environment, and set boundaries for acceptable behavior. If your classroom or school is in chaos or your focus is often taken to negative or consequential management, join Teri to explore and learn how to increase positive classroom management options.
 
Project-Based Learning: Learning Brought to Life
What is PBL? How does it work and why is it a great way to engage and reach students? Learn the answers to these questions and more as you work through actual Problem-Based Learning activities that require critical thinking and cross-curricular knowledge. PBL brings learning to life and teaches students how to live, learn and cope with issues inside and outside of the classroom. Come join this session and take your students on new adventures inside your classroom walls. (K-2) (3-5) (6-8)
 
Pump It Up: Mental Math Strategies That Build Accuracy, Efficiency, and Flexibility
Math facts are to math as sight words are to reading. As such, students must be fluent with their facts. Teaching and practicing mental math strategies requires active classroom discussions and attention to precision. Mental math helps prepare students to be strong mathematical thinkers by visualizing their solutions. Students become comfortable decomposing and recomposing numbers to make computation easier.
 
Purpose-Driven Assessments for Informed Instruction
Learn formative and summative assessment strategies that help you plan, deliver, and modify instruction. Discover how to develop, deliver, and interpret a variety of quick assessments that can be used daily in the classroom to determine prior knowledge, drive instruction, and assess student learning. Ensure all your assessments require higher-level thinking skills, not just recalling facts, preparing your students for success on high-stakes summative assessments. (K-5) (6-8)
 
Reaching Standards through Cooperative Learning – for ALL Learners in the Classroom!
In this session, you'll learn interactive and inclusive approaches to education designed to nurture your students' development academically, socially, and emotionally. Plus, discover how to create a cooperative, caring, and inclusive environment where students flourish academically!
 
Restorative Practices
Restorative Practices build safer schools and help students become accountable for their actions and interactions. Come learn how to honor community, unity, and restore broken relationships with this powerful tool for classrooms, schools, and communities who support them.
 
Social and Emotional Learning
Learn what SEL teaching is and how environments with SEL increase student learning, academic learning, and positive behaviors
STEM! All things STEM! If your teachers need STEM lessons or activities, ideas on how to integrate STEM, planning with STEM in mind, or anything STEM related this is your session.
 
Student-Centered Mathematics: One Size Doesn't Fit All
Toss out the one-size-fits-all way of teaching math and transform your classroom with a balanced, student-centered approach to learning. Join Teri to make-and-take various math games that support the standards and can be easily differentiated. Learn how to use manipulatives daily to enhance learning and prepare students to apply new skills. Have a great time while learning how to integrate game-based learning into your practice.
 
Teaching Students with Special Needs in the Regular Classroom
Tackle the important task of teaching and meeting the needs of students with special needs with a new understanding of their challenges. Attend this relevant session to gain a keen awareness of what it is like for students with written and auditory processing problems. Examine other types of disabilities and how they affect classroom performance and behaviors. Teri also offers ways to modify and differentiate for students with special needs and use multiple intelligences to help them feel and become more successful.
 
Tech Training for Teachers
Tech Training for Teachers can be designed to the needs of your campus from the following topics: Using Google Classroom with fidelity, Apps and Platforms for integrating more technology into teaching or learning, elementary teach topics and tools, secondary teach topics and tools, flipped classrooms and much more.
 
The Impact of Safe Learning Environments on Learning: No Bullies Allowed
Brain research and differentiated instruction researchers have explored the impact of a safe environment on a student’s ability to learn. If students don't feel safe, they do not engage. School cultures and climates can be made to improve safety, and classrooms can be safe zones for learners, provided that teachers, administrators, and students understand the importance of not bullying physically or verbally. During this session, we will delve into the necessity of safe environments and the hard issues surrounding bullying.
 
The Power of Common Formative Assessments & Teacher Collaboration
Regular and timely feedback helps keep teachers and students on track. Common Formative Assessments (CFA) give grade levels and departments a form of consistency that drives teaching and learning. Join Teri and learn what CFAs are, how they are designed, what they look like in a differentiated classroom, and the guidelines that drive their development and implementation. We will also take time to answer the all-important question of, “then what?”. What happens after the CFA is given? What are next steps and what does it mean for our future teaching and assessments?
 
Trauma: Its Impacts on Learning
Trauma and SEL needs are more real than ever, inside our school walls. If you have a high population of students with ACES and SEL needs, this professional Development will put real tools into your educator's hands and deepen their understanding of how to navigate teaching and reaching these students with critical needs.
 
What Does Executive Functioning Have to Do with Learning?
Gain a new understanding of the learning functions of the brain's executive center. In this fun and memorable session, Teri delves deeply into student self-regulation strategies and how to create intrinsically motivated students who want to achieve mastery of their standards. Get the research supporting the power behind student self-regulation and the tools to help your students get started.

Contact me to learn more about working with Dr. Teri Cox-Meadows!