Bullying Prevention – Stop bullying by investigating the psychological, social and educational impact of bullying behaviors, including cyber-bullying.

Calm Amid Chaos: Career Sustaining Mindfulness – Today’s educators need methods to add career sustaining practices into their hectic days. This presentation offers effective strategies that assist in dealing with the daily stressors of teaching and managing mental health amid today’s challenging education environment. 

Classroom Management – Techniques to pique student involvement and reduce classroom management problems.

Communicating Professionally and Effectively with Parents, Students, & Colleagues – How we engage with each of our audiences as educators can have significant benefits and repercussions! Learn about the ethical, professional, and practical considerations of both your spoken and written words as an educator.

Developing Routines and Procedures That Work! –  One key to consistent and effective classroom management is well thought out and intentional routines and procedures. This presentation will focus on developing a plan that works for you and your students, including how to begin immediate implementation. 

Differentiation: Designing Curriculum for Individual and Classroom Engagement – One of the benefits of really knowing your students well is making differentiation accessible and engaging for both them and you. Differentiation is the process of modifying content, process, product/assessment, and the learning environment to better reflect student readiness, interest, and learning profiles. This student-centered method of curriculum development is best suited for teachers with several years of experience. 

Educator Ethics – Develop the professional judgement needed to perform your duties with honor and integrity and to protect yourself form poor evaluations, administrative actions, and professional liability.

Improving your TLE Score through Artifacts and Advocacy – During the TLE evaluation process, you can improve your final TLE score by documenting your accomplishments in the Domains that most impact your practice.  Learn how submitting meaningful artifacts and engaging in self-advocacy can work in your favor!

Lesson Planning for Engagement – Explore strategies and questions you can utilize to make your lessons and curriculum more engaging and more memorable! We don’t want to just “present” curriculum to kids. Using a student-centered classroom will allow you to move towards facilitating learning rather than solely giving lectures and direct instruction. 

The Role of Resiliency – For Oklahoma students impacted by poverty and trauma, resilience is a key characteristic for success in school. Learn classroom practices to help build resiliency.

Coming Soon –OEA Instructional Strategies Cadre in-person presentations and OEA Lead and Learn online courses for Trauma-Informed Classroom Management and Engagement Strategies!

Other professional development trainings can be created per district needs and requests.