Services
Onsite and online professional development workshops (these are interactive sessions; not passive “sit and get” sessions)
Our training focuses on:
Personalized Learning
We cannot and should not teach the way we have been taught. The world has changed and continues to change. How can we empower students to learn who have spent their entire lives on screens? Do you need one person, a small group, or large group of your staff to gain the skills to:
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Get students' attention?
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Engage students in learning?
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Empower students to apply skills important for lifelong learning and success?
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Use AI to develop plans to meet student needs or work with students to learn crucial AI skills?
Call Welda! (608) 320-0069
Behavior Management
Go beyond the traditional rewards and punishments system.
Our training focuses on:
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Building strong, positive relationships as the foundation for effective behavior management
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Teaching our students what positive behavior should look like
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Understanding and addressing diverse perspectives, enabling meaningful communication with students in a way that resonates with them, and
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Providing strategies for working positively and collaboratively with students, supporting them throughout their learning journeys
Accelerating Learning
Welda Consults will Empower Your Staff to:
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Introduce grade-level skills to all students during core instruction time (while still providing support for struggling students)
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Identify essential skills
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Provide just-in-time support
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Facilitate the immediate application of skills by students
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Teach skills using various modalities—auditory, visual, and kinesthetic
Creating and empowering Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Welda Consults helps teams “gel”. Common goals, working together collaboratively, solving problems together and not alone, and using relevant and current data to decide the next steps for student learning are some of the many things that we will work on with your staff and PLCs.
Welda Consults has unique approaches to provide educators with the following:
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See the value of working together as a team
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Learn new problem-solving skills and approaches
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Use relevant, current data to create next steps for student learning
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Plan efficiently and effectively to improve student performance
Teaching creativity and critical thinking skills
Welda Consults equips educators with a foundational understanding of essential creativity and critical thinking skills. This knowledge is immediately applied through an immersive workshop experience, allowing participants to practice and refine these skills in real time. As students—and all of us—are increasingly inundated with information, the ability to discern what is factual and useful has become more critical than ever. By fostering creativity and critical thinking, educators can better prepare students to navigate and thrive in this information-rich environment.
Welda Consults provides experiences for educators to:
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Learn creativity skills through using these skills
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Practice the use of critical thinking skills in various scenarios
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Transfer the teaching, learning, and applying of these skills to the classroom
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Oh, and have fun while they learn!!
Meeting and exceeding the standards in math and literacy
Standards for math and literacy are demanding of many skills. To help students meet and exceed these grade-level standards, teachers need to restate these goals in learner-centered terms and break down each standard into its essential skills. Then, educators need to work with students on these skills in as many real-world contexts as possible, so students see the application of these skills.
With the Welda Consults team working from a place of deeply understanding the math and literacy standards at all grade levels, Welda Consults will empower educators to:
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Improve their understanding and skills at teaching the crucial components of math and literacy in classrooms
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Discover ideas for providing real-world experiences for their students
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Break down the skills into “manageable chunks” for students to grasp and apply quickly
Formative assessment
Formative assessment is an essential tool for monitoring student progress and tailoring instruction to address their individual needs. There are numerous methods available for implementing formative assessments effectively.
Welda Consults will provide educators with an experience that helps to:
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Demonstrate and model a variety of formative assessment techniques
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Provide a plethora of examples of formative assessment at various grade levels
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Showcase straightforward data collection methods and efficient data analysis tools
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The ever-changing world of technology demands that we help our students learn how to live and succeed through knowledge of and use of many different technological tools. Generative AI is growing and changing quickly. Welda Consults will provide up-to-date training to:
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Quickly familiarize staff with essential AI tools
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Address key concerns surrounding AI use in schools, including privacy and academic integrity
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Immerse staff in hands-on experiences with AI tools that enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and student engagement
Onsite, Online and Telephone Support
Available before, during, and after training empowers educators to:
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Solidify the concepts learned
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Effectively transfer new ideas and strategies into schools and classrooms
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Access support during the implementation phase
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Receive assistance in problem-solving as they experiment with new approaches