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Making Co-Teaching Work

This session explores effective co-teaching models in early childhood settings, with a focus on practical strategies that support students with diverse learning needs. Participants will learn how to plan collaboratively, implement differentiated instruction, and manage classroom routines as a cohesive teaching team. 
Participants will be able to:
Identify and implement at least three co-teaching models
Apply strategies for embedding IEP goals into daily instruction
Develop a simple co-planning structure for their classroom

Research Driven Learning Labs: Refining Instruction Through Microteaching Methods

This session explores microteaching and Learning Labs as powerful, research-based co-teaching models for professional growth. Participants will examine Hattie’s findings, experience the microteaching cycle, and analyze Learning Labs with peer feedback tools. Through planning and reflection, attendees will be able to design actionable steps to refine instructional strategies and accelerate student learning. Participants will learn how to engage in collaborative dialogue, strategy exploration, and digital interaction that honor multiple contexts and experiences. By centering evidence-based practices, the session fosters inclusive professional learning adaptable across grade levels, disciplines, and culturally diverse classrooms.

Our Students Are Speaking...Are We Listening

Our students are SPEAKING to us through their anger, silence, refusals, elopement, even absences. but are we LISTENING to what each of them are telling us? If you are looking for practical solutions to implement in your classroom or school tomorrow please join us. We will cover functions of behaviors, replacement behaviors, classroom expectations, and power struggles. We share real world examples and provide many strategies to provide guidance to regaining control of your struggling students.

Specially Designed Instruction in Action: A Walkthrough Guide for Instructional Leaders

This session equips administrators and instructional leaders with a practical framework for identifying and supporting specially designed instruction (SDI) during classroom walkthroughs in self-contained settings. Participants will learn what effective SDI looks and sounds like in aligned classrooms, with a focus on planning, differentiation, and access to grade-level curriculum. The session helps leaders move beyond compliance and surface-level observations to meaningful instructional leadership that improves outcomes for students with disabilities.

Science in Action: Making Inquiry the Core of Learning

This session will explore how to make hands-on science learning purposeful, rigorous, and central to instruction rather than an “extra” activity. Participants will examine strategies for designing labs and inquiry-based experiences that promote critical thinking, student engagement, collaboration, and deeper understanding of scientific concepts. Through real classroom examples and practical applications, educators will learn how to align hands-on learning with standards, increase student ownership, and use inquiry to drive instruction. Participants will walk away with ready-to-use ideas, planning strategies, and tools for creating meaningful, student-centered science experiences that move beyond worksheets and make learning truly active.

The Power of Support: How Instructional Aides Strengthen Co-Teaching Teams

This session explores the essential role instructional aides play in strengthening co-teaching classrooms that support students with disabilities. Participants will learn practical, real-world strategies for supporting instruction, improving student engagement, and assisting with classroom management in inclusive settings. The presentation highlights effective collaboration between teachers and support staff, including communication strategies, small group support, and individualized student assistance. Attendees will walk away with immediately usable techniques to enhance teamwork, build stronger co-teaching partnerships, and better support diverse learners in everyday classroom environments.

How to make co-teacing effective

I have been teaching in a co-teaching classroom for the past five years, and I would like to discuss the key qualities and practices that help create a successful partnership between the content teacher and the co-teacher. The focus will be on identifying strategies that make both teaching and the learning environment more effective, especially in classrooms with significant behavior and classroom management challenges.

Participants will explore how consistent communication, shared expectations, mutual support, and small collaborative actions between teachers can make a meaningful difference in student engagement, behavior, and overall classroom success.

Making Inquiry-Based Science Accessible in Co-Taught Classrooms

This session explores practical instructional strategies that make inquiry-based science accessible and engaging in co-taught classrooms. Participants will learn how to use structured inquiry, hands-on learning, scaffolds, and collaborative classroom systems to support diverse learners, including students with varying academic, behavioral, and learning needs. Through real classroom examples, attendees will examine ways to increase participation, improve engagement, and create meaningful science experiences while maintaining structure and high expectations. Participants will walk away with adaptable strategies, classroom-ready ideas, and tools that can be immediately implemented to support inclusive science instruction and student success.

Co-Teaching Choreography: From Tiptoeing to Teamwork

Don't tiptoe around your co-teacher, learn how to dance.
The Goal: Move past awkward boundaries to create a harmonious teaching partnership.
The Focus: Aligning distinct values, personal strengths, and classroom management styles.
The Takeaway: Actionable relationship-mapping techniques and ready-to-use graphic organizers.

10 minute mastery tools with Google Classroom and Google Sheets

Google Sheets offers a great opportunity to present students with a 10 minute exercise which 'cements' their basic skill levels in just about any discipline and at any level. It is a fantastic tool to use in break out sessions for students who find themselves a bit behind on the basic skills. It works seemlessly with Google Classroom in terms of assigning and grading.

Co-Teaching for Real-Time Literacy Support in Secondary Classrooms

This session explores a co-teaching model that replaces “just-in-case” intervention drills with “just-in-time” scaffolding, providing literacy support at the moment students struggle with grade-level text. Through collaboration between the English Language Arts teacher and Special Education teacher, participants will learn how embedded supports improve comprehension while maintaining rigor. In a Text-Unpacking Lab, attendees will design tiered supports, including morphology strategies, close reading prompts, and writing frames using a 9th-grade text. Participants will receive an Embedded Support Toolkit with co-planning templates and WTL prompts to apply these strategies in their own classrooms.

Co-Teaching That Builds Engagement and Student Confidence

This session will explore practical co-teaching strategies that increase student engagement, strengthen collaboration between educators, and support diverse learners in middle school classrooms. Participants will learn effective instructional techniques, classroom management strategies, and collaborative teaching methods that can be immediately implemented in co-taught settings. Attendees will leave with ready-to-use engagement ideas, planning tools, and strategies to help improve student participation, confidence, and academic success.

Co-Teaching by Design: Using Collaborative Models to Increase Student Voice, Access, and Engagement

This session explores how co teaching teams can use collaborative instructional models to increase student access, engagement, and voice in elementary classrooms. Participants will examine models such as station teaching, parallel teaching, alternative teaching, and team teaching while connecting them to Design Thinking and inquiry based learning. Using examples from the STEM Academy at Booker T. Washington, this session will provide practical planning strategies, instructional ideas, and collaborative structures that help co teaching partnerships become more purposeful, inclusive, and student centered. Participants will walk away with ready to use strategies, reflection tools, and ideas for strengthening collaboration to support all learners.

Instruction for Dually Identified Students in Math

How do educators adapt instruction to meet the needs of dually identified students in the elementary math classroom, especially when addressing language needs, math learning, disability, and Tier 1 instruction? Co-teaching teams have the opportunity to help students make growth by implementing research based strategies to provide math instruction for ELs with disabilities. Participants will learn how to made small adaptations that have a big impact on dually identified students, with all strategies taken from an extensive review of research. 

Participants will learn:
- What the landscape looks like for US students who are dually identified
- Particular strengths and challenges
- Practical tips for intervention and inclusion models
- Ways to implement those tips in a co-taught classroom

The Planning Payoff: Crafting Seamless Instruction, SDI, and Thinking Classrooms Together

True co-teaching begins at the planning table. When general and special education partners align their vision, it transforms everything from curriculum and instruction to assessment and classroom management.

Join a veteran inclusion pair to discover how a "Yes, And" mindset and daily routines allow them to seamlessly blend high-leverage strategies like Building Thinking Classrooms, Gradual Release, and hands-on learning.

Learn how proactive co-planning integrates Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) into Tier 1 learning, maximizes parallel and team teaching, and elevates small-group remediation. Participants will leave with a clear vision of instructional equity and actionable frameworks to transform their collaborative practice.

Building Word Nerds: Structured Literacy for ESL Success

This session introduces a structured literacy approach designed for newcomer ESL students. Participants will explore strategies for teaching phonics, vocabulary, and writing through engaging, scaffolded lessons. Attendees will leave with practical tools, routines, and resources to accelerate language development and build confident, independent readers and writers. 

Making Co-Teaching Actually Work for Students and Staff

Co-teaching often begins with good intentions: two educators, one classroom, and shared goals. But between rushed planning, unclear expectations, and the daily pressures of school life, many teams drift into survival mode instead of true collaboration.

In this session, collaborative teacher Cathleen Beachboard and principal Nick Brousse share practical strategies to build trust, improve communication, reduce planning stress, and create inclusive classrooms where both teachers are viewed as equal instructional leaders.

Co-Teaching with Purpose: Aligning Models to Curriculum, Instruction, and Student Needs

Explore how to purposefully implement co-teaching using Dr. Marilyn Friend’s six models, with an emphasis on high-leverage approaches that improve outcomes for students with disabilities. This session helps general and special educators align co-teaching models with curriculum, instructional goals, assessment practices, and diverse learner needs. Participants will learn practical strategies for selecting and adapting models across content areas and classroom contexts. Attendees will leave with a decision-making framework, examples of model implementation, and ready-to-use strategies to strengthen collaborative planning and instruction within inclusive classrooms.

Improving Outcomes Through Co-Teaching: What Leaders Need to Know and Do

Explore how school leaders can leverage co-teaching to improve outcomes for all students, including those with disabilities. Grounded in Dr. Marilyn Friend’s six co-teaching models, this session highlights high-leverage approaches and the essential role of administrators in supporting effective decision-making and implementation. Participants will learn strategies for observing and coaching co-teaching teams, providing actionable feedback, and aligning supervision with instructional goals. The session also addresses systems-level supports, including scheduling for shared planning and structuring collaborative practices. Attendees will leave with practical tools, leadership strategies, and a framework for strengthening co-teaching across classrooms to improve student learning schoolwide.

Meeting Multiple Needs Through Co-Teaching Instruction

Co-teaching in an elementary school classroom offers many opportunities to support students with a variety of needs. This classroom teacher and special education teacher will share how their co-teaching instruction has supported student academic growth as well as students' social and emotional skills. In addition, their collaboration does not only support students with special needs, but is also designed to help new English language learning students and to extend learning for students in the advanced academics program. Their partnership allows them to better meet the needs of every student in the classroom. They will share about the intentional steps they have taken and strategies they use in order to plan and implement such instruction.

The S.T.E.P.S. to Stronger Co-Teaching Partnerships

Instructional leaders and coaches play a critical role in the success of co-teaching teams, but many schools lack the systems and structures needed to sustain strong collaboration. In this session, participants will explore the S.T.E.P.S. Framework, a practical leadership approach designed to strengthen communication, coaching support, shared responsibility, and long-term effectiveness within co-teaching partnerships. Attendees will learn strategies for setting a clear vision, identifying team needs, equipping educators with meaningful support, and creating sustainable systems that improve collaboration and student outcomes. Participants will leave with actionable leadership tools and coaching strategies they can immediately apply within their schools and districts.