Ferry Consulting

Providing customized professional learning support for teachers, leaders, and coaches.

Dr. Laurie Ferry serves and supports school districts across the country to empower teachers, leaders, and coaches to move out of their comfort zones and to push themselves and their students beyond the status quo. While providing professional support for curriculum, instruction, leadership, and improved student achievement, Laurie walks alongside you as a partner in teaching and learning.

Customized Professional Learning

Providing professional learning for educators that is specific to their practice, collaborative, results oriented, focused on student learning, and content based can feel insurmountable. Dr. Laurie Ferry designs customized professional learning designed to district’s goals and current initiatives, as well as a comprehensive plan aligned to the Standards for Professional Learning (2022).

Math Professional Learning, K-12

As state standards are shifting to focus on building conceptual understanding in math content while supporting ALL students through concrete, representational and abstract models, teachers are grappling with how to alter their Tier 1 instructional strategies and differentiation approaches to match the content and pedagogical shifts. Dr. Laurie Ferry uses her 33 years of experience as a math educator to support teachers and leaders, K-12, in making this transition.

Instructional Leadership

Customized administrator, coach, and teacher leader professional learning to raise the bar on leaders’ instructional leadership expertise. Whether it is leading transformational change in your building, designing curriculum and instructional documents to support teaching and learning, or learning how to dig deeper in your professional support of teachers, Dr. Laurie Ferry will use her extensive experience as a building and district leader to support you and your team.

Curriculum Alignment and Mapping

Dr. Laurie Ferry’s work in this area includes design and development of curriculum maps to support the new standards and aligning a new curricular resource to current or newly developed maps. Her expertise lies in both ELA and mathematics, K-12.

Instructional Audits

Understanding the current state of your district’s teaching and learning is crucial to developing a professional learning plan to support your district’s student achievement goals. Is your goal to raise state assessment scores, increase graduation rates, create a culture of learning in your building, or shift pedagogical practices? Determine the state of the ‘state’ to move forward with the data you need to create the right pathway to achieve those goals.

Teacher Evaluation and Retention

Administrator support around how to build teacher efficacy and collective efficacy in your building is crucial to retain the rock star teachers you already have and to create more superstars in the future. Dr. Laurie Ferry uses her extensive experience as a district and building administrator, as well as her Department of Education experience in teacher effectiveness to provide professional learning to administrators who want to keep and build a great team of teachers.

Recent Blogs

Formative Assessment Data is Everywhere; We just have to look for it.

Formative assessment data, often misunderstood, is essential for understanding student progress and guiding teaching. Teachers should listen to students' thinking and use various methods, like visual models and collaborative tasks, to identify areas of misunderstanding and guide instruction accordingly. By using this data effectively, teachers can make informed decisions about when to revisit content and ensure students fully master the material.

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Mar 31, 2025

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