Education Training

Professional Development

One-on-One Coaching

You care deeply about your teaching, but sometimes you need space to step back, think through a challenge, and talk with someone who understands the realities of the classroom. Let's talk about what's working, what's getting in the way, and what you want to try next.

One-on-One Teacher Coaching includes:

Two 60-minute individual coaching sessions
Conversation around a specific teaching challenge, goal, or area of growth
Reflection on current practices, classroom experiences, and student needs
Practical strategies and ideas tailored to your teaching context
Collaborative planning for a lesson, unit, writing assignment, or classroom practice
Personalized resources and suggestions to support your next steps

A good fit if:
You’re feeling stuck, trying something new, or simply want a thoughtful conversation with an experienced educator who can help you see your teaching from a different perspective.

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Dept. Writing Training

Together, we explore practical ways to make writing a more meaningful part of learning, strengthen instruction across classrooms, and help students develop the thinking and writing skills they need.

Department Writing Training includes:

Collaborative professional learning tailored to your department’s needs
Strategies for teaching writing across content areas and grade levels
Practical approaches to generating ideas, developing thinking, and strengthening student writing
Support for designing meaningful writing assignments and authentic writing experiences
Strategies for giving feedback without overwhelming teachers or students
Adaptable resources, examples, and classroom-ready practices

A good fit if:
Your department wants to strengthen writing instruction, develop more capable and independent writers, or create a more consistent approach to teaching writing across classrooms

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Culture of Compassion

We work together to create small shifts in classroom practice, relationships, expectations, and communication that create a culture where students feel supported while still being held to meaningful standards.

Cultivating a Culture of Compassion includes:

Professional learning around compassionate, proactive classroom practices
Strategies for building trust, connection, and a sense of belonging
Approaches to responding to challenging behavior with curiosity and consistency
Practical ways to balance compassion with clear boundaries and high expectations
Reflection on classroom routines, language, relationships, and student experience
Strategies for creating classrooms where students can disagree, take risks, and learn from mistakes

A good fit if:
Your school or department wants to strengthen relationships, create more supportive learning environments, and develop a culture where compassion and high expectations work together rather than against each other.

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Presentations & Trainings

Curiosity Through Composition: Rebuilding Engagement in Student Writing

"Curiosity Through Composition" is a practical, classroom-ready approach that helps teachers move students from passive writing to purposeful thinking, observation, conversation, and reflection. In this engaging professional learning experience, educators explore a simple process for helping students discover meaningful ideas, develop their own voice, and write with greater clarity and purpose.

The training combines research-informed practice, classroom strategies, modeling, and hands-on activities teachers can take directly into their classrooms.

One-hour presentation or half-day training. Contact me for details and rates.

The Compassionate Teacher: Building Stronger Students, Healthier Classrooms, and a more Human Education

Compassionate teaching isn't about lowering expectations or avoiding difficult conversations, but about understanding students as whole people while maintaining the structure, boundaries, and expectations they need to grow. This training explores practical approaches to relationships, classroom culture, communication, accountability, and student behavior that create classrooms where students feel known, respected, and capable.

One-hour presentation or half-day training. Contact me for details and rates.

E-Books

PURCHASE

Live Writing: Effective Composition Techniques for Secondary Grades

Live Writing offers a practical approach to teaching composition that brings the writing process into the classroom, where teachers can guide, encourage, redirect, and teach students as their writing develops.

For too long, writing instruction has often followed the same familiar cycle: assign the essay, send students home to write it, collect it, spend hours commenting on it, return it days later, and hope students read the feedback and apply it to their next assignment. Meanwhile, students struggle through writing without support, teachers spend their personal time grading, and valuable opportunities for connection and instruction are lost. Live Writing offers another way.

Developed through nearly two decades of teaching writing with secondary and post-secondary students, Tanner Jones's Live Writing approach treats writing as a living process rather than a finished product. Students write during class while teachers actively move through their work, providing timely feedback, asking questions, scaffolding skills, identifying misconceptions, and celebrating progress as it happens.

Educational Resources

Teachers Pay Teachers

Excellence in English provides high-quality teaching resources for secondary English Language Arts, including materials designed for rigorous courses like AP Language and Composition. Each resource is built by an experienced classroom teacher to support critical thinking, strong writing, and meaningful engagement with literature and rhetoric. The store focuses on practical, ready-to-use lessons that help teachers challenge students while saving valuable planning time.

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