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
The Answer to Supporting Students Who Struggle in Math
This blog offers practical strategies for supporting struggling learners without requiring extra time or individualized plans. I provides clear, research-backed methods for differentiation, focused on developing conceptual understanding, and emphasizing equity and accessibility—all crucial elements for creating a positive, inclusive math classroom.
We Must Finally Put an End to Math Timed Tests!
This blog will give you insights into modern, research-backed approaches to teaching math that foster a positive learning environment and reduce anxiety. I highlight the importance of flexibility and understanding over rote memorization, offering practical strategies for enhancing students' math fluency.
“I do, we do, you do” Gradual Release Model is OUT!
The Gradual Release of Responsibility instructional model introduces a fourth component, 'You do it together,' to enhance collaborative learning and problem-solving among students. This revised model offers a more flexible, non-linear approach to teaching, promoting greater student engagement and deeper understanding.
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