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Professional Development


How we empower schools and teachers to meet the needs of every student

Our professional development, consultation and coaching for teachers and school administrators provides the training necessary to address neurodiversity in the classrooom as well as prevention for lagging academic, behavioral, or social skills.

We enable teachers to see their students’ behaviors as lagging skills instead of lagging motivation, thereby authentically promoting more positive interactions in developing teacher-student relationships.

These positive relationships become the driving force behind what leads to greater academic success for students. 


Kids do well if they can

REACH trains school administrators and teachers in ways that can be used with all students. But it is especially useful for helping teachers and administrators support students who have challenges learning.

Our philosophy is based on Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS), which is the idea that academic success is based on skill, rather than will. Using research-based methods, we offer professional development and training based on models of best practice and data-driven information.

Using CPS, we train and support teachers to guide student behavior in a direction that will have meaningful and sustained positive effects. This leads to more consistently positive student behavior and stronger overall student success.

REACH Menu of Professional Development Opportunities:

Collaborative Problem Solving

  • Re-thinking students with challenging behaviors
  • Lost at School by Dr. Ross Greene

Differentiation in the classroom

  • How to meet the needs of diverse learners in the same classroom
  • Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom by Diane Heacox

Choice Words

  • Teacher Language
  • Choosing our words wisely
  • Keeping our language judgment free
  • Choice Words by Peter H. Johnston

Understanding by Design

  • Meaningful curriculum development
  • Backwards planning
  • Designing lesson plans and considering goals
  • The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High Quality Units by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

Data Driven Instruction

  • How to collect student data
  • How to analyze student data
  • Using observable data to identify potential causes of behavioral challenges


Hidden Sparks’ Neurodiversity

  • The Learning Lenses
  • How learning works: “The systems of the mind”
  • Temperament and Classroom Environment
  • The interaction between personalities, classroom environment, and student learning
  • All Kinds of Minds by Dr. Mel Levine

…and much more!