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👩‍🏫 Professional Development Consulting

 

📌 Areas of Expertise


🏛 National Standards Alignment

  • NSQ (National Standards for Quality Online Learning)

  • Danielson Framework for Teaching

  • Common Core and content-specific standards

  • MICIP-aligned planning and goal-setting

🧱 Course & Curriculum Design

  • Designing for asynchronous, hybrid, and synchronous environments

  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

  • Competency-based and mastery learning models

  • Student voice, choice, and personalization strategies

💻 Online & Virtual Teaching

  • Effective practices for K–12 online teachers

  • Engagement strategies for asynchronous learners

  • Tools and platforms for virtual instruction

  • Reducing academic dishonesty with AI-aware teaching

👥 Instructional Coaching

  • One-on-one coaching cycles

  • Group coaching for PLCs or department teams

  • Building reflective, data-informed teaching practices

  • Coaching in virtual or hybrid models

📈 School Improvement

  • Data-driven school improvement planning

  • Alternative accountability models

  • Equity audits and student access reviews

  • Shared-time and homeschool-inclusive innovations

📚 Education Policy & Advocacy

  • Charter and virtual school policy in Michigan

  • State accountability and funding frameworks

  • Supporting innovation within compliance

  • Policy interpretation for leadership teams

💡 Custom Sessions Available

Every PD I deliver is customed designed with your needs in mind. 

📬 Let’s Work Together!

Want to bring practical, policy-smart professional development to your team?
Email me at springer@mi-coop.com

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