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How much would achievement rise if students were on task ten more hours per week?
Every campus is losing instruction time to low-level disruption. Academics and discipline are not separate problems: they are the same problem.
PD that respects your teachers' time.
On-site training for K-12 schools from Mary Iovine, an educator with more than 30 years in Title I schools across the United States and abroad. Practical, proven strategies your teachers can use in their classrooms the very next day.
Backed by a program trusted by 200+ districts for over 30 years
What's included
On-site training, half-day or full-day
Printed handbook for every participant
Optional graduate credit via UMass Global
Classroom management isn't a soft skill. It's one of the most measurable levers a school can pull.
+20%
Achievement lift from systematic classroom management
Marzano, 2003
2×
Teacher impact vs. curriculum policy alone
Marzano, 2003
10 days
Instructional time lost yearly to disruption
Kraft, 2021
0.52
Effect size: above "year of progress" benchmark
Hattie's Visible Learning
Four questions every principal is asking right now
If any one of these sounds like your campus, the conversation is worth having.
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What could you accomplish if discipline challenges dropped by seventy percent?
Strong instruction without a working management system stays undelivered. We put the system in place, and your teachers carry it forward.
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Is teacher retention starting to keep you up at night?
Classroom management, or the absence of it, is the most cited reason educators leave the profession. The fix is teachable. The fix is fast.
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Did your last PD investment change anything on Monday morning?
Most professional development inspires for a day, then evaporates. Ours is built around what teachers can use in their very next class period.
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This training provided the best logical presentation, on discipline I've ever had in my 23 years of teaching. I have practical ideas I can use immediately.
NH
Neil Hudgens
23 years of teaching
Hear it from teachers.
Short videos from teachers who went through the training.
What your teachers take away
After one day, every teacher leaves with the same set of techniques to use in their very next class period.
A research synthesis of over 100 studies found that teachers' actions in their classrooms have twice the impact on student achievement as school policies regarding curriculum, assessment, or community involvement.
Marzano, R. J. (2003). What Works in Schools. ASCD.
- How to detect and correct problems without stopping teaching
- How to avoid power struggles and set effective limits
- Fifteen powerful desk arrangements for maximum performance
- How to teach students to behave in class and social settings
- How to never give multiple warnings or repeated requests again
- How to firmly but fairly carry out disciplinary actions
- How to build trust with the most challenging students
Never Lose Your Cool Again. The Teacher's Diffuser Library.
When a student challenges you in front of the class, you have 5 seconds to respond. This is the cheat sheet for those 5 seconds, 50+ proven phrases that defuse confrontation before it begins.
- 50+ exact phrases for the most common student challenges
- What to say when you don't know what to say
- How to maintain authority without raising your voice
- Built from 30+ years of classroom-tested practice
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Free PDF, Diffuser Library
Never Lose Your Cool Again
"I see that"
"Good point"
"Perhaps"
"I hear you"
"Noted"
"Thanks for sharing"
+ 44 more inside
5 seconds
Average time you have to defuse a challenge
Choose the training your campus needs first
Each is a single on-site day. Each leaves your staff with strategies they apply immediately.
Five components, delivered to your campus: self-control strategies, student-teacher relationships, teaching rules and procedures, responding to challenges, and classroom ecology and arrangement. Backed by 100+ studies showing measurable achievement gains.
See the full agendaFive pillars for re-engaging the classroom: promoting positive feelings, attention and interest, connectedness and relevance, student self-efficacy, and sharing best practices. Built for the reality of classrooms competing with every screen.
See the full agendaTake the training home.
Books, audio, and video resources to extend what your teachers learn on training day.
Classroom Management
Teach-To's: 100 Behavior Lesson Plans and Essential Advice
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Classroom Management
Encouragement, Empowerment & Excellence in Every Classroom
Print Book
Engagement & Motivation
Differentiated Instruction, Engagement & Motivation in Every Classroom
Print Book
Every student can shine.
For more than 30 years, Mary has worked in Title I schools across the United States and abroad as a math teacher, a special education teacher, an instructional coach, an MTSS specialist, and a national trainer. One of her specialties is guiding twice-exceptional students, gifted kids who also need support, to find their own path.
Her work rests on five words: relationships, respect, rapport, relevance, and rigor. Teachers leave her sessions with practical, proven strategies they can use the next day, without throwing out anything that already works in their classrooms.
Mary Iovine, M.Ed.
Academic & MTSS Coordinator
What teachers are saying
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The classroom management seminar was one of the most immediately useful workshops taken to date. Even after 20 years of education!
RM
Renee Matson
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I was going to retire this year, tired of all the nonsense and students who don't pay attention. This seminar has given me some great ideas to put into my classroom, I think I will be around a few more years. Thank you!
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Alice
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This training was absolutely outstanding. I've been around the block a few times and I've never seen anything like this...you get tools and strategies you can apply immediately, as in the 'very next day.'
LM
Lynanne M.
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If schools were permitted just one training, this is the one.
This training will help raise test scores for your students, decrease discipline challenges, and improve classroom rapport.
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