Here are some Workshop Descriptions and Examples, If you see a title from the main page that you like, I will give you a description if it is not included below.
Every workshop or topic can be customized for your needs. These workshops can be done for 60-75 minutes, half-day and full-day.
Presentations
The Wheels on the Bus…are falling off! Executive Functioning in Children
*Learn what EF skills are and why they are so critical to school (and life) success
*Learn what self-esteem has to do with EF skills and how to improve positive attitudes toward success
*Participate in activities that not only improve EF skills but also improved attention and decrease in discipline issues
Brain Food and Eye Candy
* Nurturing the brain to best aid learning
* Tips for adding variety to visual cues and techniques to aid
students with maximum focus and attention
* Techniques, ideas and activities that help with visual recall
* Tips to understand the brain, increase concentration, help with attention and overall success in the classroom
Ready to Write: Tips and Techniques that help develop fine motor coordination and strength in young children
*Learn about the whole arm and how all muscles help the fingers and grip
*Learn and do exercises and activities to use immediately in the classroom for fine motor
*See how to integrate all tips and trick into your existing curriculum
*Find research based ideas to help all children improve their writing, coloring, painting, cutting and using their hands and fingers
*Learn shoulder exercises, about the Palmer Arch, what to do about wrist control
Executive Functioning in Young Children
*What is Executive Functioning (EF) and why does it matter
*What are the subsets that make up EF
*Implications in the classroom for children without good EF skills
*Ideas for use in the classroom to improve EF skill sets
*Tips and tricks to use tomorrow in your classroom, while supporting all learners
Boys: How to Teach Them: How to Reach Them
*Boys and girls learn differently and when we understand the brain, learning styles, academic and physical nature of each gender we can better address classroom learning and behavior
*Get an in-depth look at how boys and girls learn
*Learn tips and tricks for teaching that you can use immediately in your classroom
*Gain new insights, understanding and useful ideas and classroom strategies to optimize, not only boys but all learners
Tricks of the Trade: How to Organize and Manage Your Classroom
*Learn new twists to old tricks, like tattling, lying, walking from place to place and more
*Learn how to cut down on time spent creating new materials
*Gain effective ways to communicate with parents
*See how to get parents on “your side” right from the start
*create a classroom community that will work right from the start
The ABC’s of Brain Change: Move Your Body, Engage Your Brain
*Learn why the brain has to be engaged in active learning to really have an impact on memory
*Learn how the brain works and what you can do in the classroom to improve retention of all concepts
*Learn activities that will fire the neurons in the brain
*Participate in activities to increase “brain power”
*See the connection between movement and active brain engagement
*Learn brain based activities that engage the two hemispheres of the brain
*Experience cross brain movement that increases retention
*Awaken parts of the body that will facilitate better listening during class and instruction time
Success for Struggling Learners: Ideas to use immediately in the classroom for kids who struggle to learn, behavior and pay attention
*Learn ways to adapt your instruction when working with children who learn in different ways and at different rates
*How to identify a struggling learner
*Practical ideas and strategies to help all learners succeed
*Enhancing what you are already doing to target the struggling learner
*Developing insights into the struggling learner’s capabilities and needs
*How to help even without a diagnosis or IEP
Resilience in Children: How to Survive the Hiccups and Hurricanes of Life
*What is resilience and grit
*How to cultivate resiliency in children
*Ways to model grit and resilience
*Really important actions that help in resiliency and its development
*Learn how to help parents help their child and support your efforts at school
6-Traits Writing: How to teach young children how to write (and write well!)
*Learn what the 6-traits of writing is and how to help
*Learn which picture books helps with each of the 6 traits
*Learn ways to encourage reluctant writers to LOVE writing
*See how to move along in a way that makes writing easy and understandable to all your writers
The Best of the Best: Ideas for the Early Childhood and Elementary Classroom
*Hear the best ideas from Peggy’s seven books for teachers
*Get idea after idea to use immediately in your classroom
*Find ways to jazz up your classroom and routines to help you and all students
*Get research based strategies to help all learners succeed
Reading, Writing and Word Walls
*Learn the basics of running an outstanding literacy
*learn proven strategies for helping every child in your classroom become a more successful reader and writer
*How to use reading to teach writing and writing to teach reading
*Learn what brain research says about early literacy
*Ways to teach and learn sight words that makes reading easier
Sight Word Bonanza: How to maximize the learning and retention of sight words
*Learn why sight words are the bedrock of reading.
*Where should your sight words come from
*How to create wandering word walls
*Learn ways to highlight and display words so students use the
*Participate in learning games like snowball words and Inside-Outside Circle
*Get ideas to make sight word acquisition easy and fun
I am soooo stressed out! A workshop on stress, the brain and how to help all kids cope and learn
*Learn what factors help or hinder learning.
*What is good stress and what is bad stress
*How attitude affects learning
*The positive effects of posture
*How to help children help themselves
*Ideas to distress your life as a teacher
*Calming techniques for every student
*Brain based activities to jump start learning
I Teach Kindergarten! What to expect and do as a kindergarten teacher
*Learn the first crucial things to do at the beginning of the year
*See how the year should move along each month
*Learn tips and tricks to make your days, weeks and year go well
*Learn parent relations tips and how to gain trust and keep it
*See how classroom management matters and how to set the tone right away
*Experience the JOY of teaching Kindergarten
*Take a pictorial walk through the Kindergarten year
Warm Hearts and Funny Bones: How to keep your sense of humor and thrive in teaching
*Teaching is not for the faint‑of‑heart
*Learn how to keep your tenderness and sense of humor
*Through this endearing and inspirational workshop Peggy presents a unique perspective on our profession that will touch your heart
*Let’s re‑energize our spirit and bring a smile to our faces
The Top 15 Tips & Tricks to Manage Group Work, Cut Down on Interruptions & Tattling & Facilitate Smoother Transitions
*Do the little things derail your day?
*Do you want to have more time to teach and have the students be ready to learn?
*Come and learn tricks of the trade to manage those pesky interruptions that can disrupt lessons
*Manage reading groups and facilitate smoother transitions
*Curb tattling, lying and bullying. This workshop has it all!
Welcome to your classroom! Now what do I do? Tips for beginning teachers
*Get classroom‑tested secrets from a veteran teacher
*Learn tips every new teacher needs to know, but aren't taught in college!
*Get practical ideas to help you maintain your sanity
*Learn ideas, tips and tricks to deal with challenging students and parents
Every workshop or topic can be customized for your needs. These workshops can be done for 60-75 minutes, half-day and full-day.
Presentations
- The Wheels on the Bus are falling off! Executive Functioning in Children
- Brain Food and Eye Candy
- Resilience in Children: How to Survive the Hiccups and Hurricanes of life
- Reading, Writing and Word Walls
- Fight, Flight, Rest, Digest and De-Stress
- Ready to Write
- Brain Based Reading and Writing
- Memory and the Brain
- Get a Grip: Ideas to Improve Fine Motor Control
- Boys: How to Teach Them, How to Reach Them
- Executive Functioning in Young Children
- ABC’s of the Brain-Body Connection
- The Best of the Best: Ideas for the Early Childhood Classroom
- Proven Strategies For Teaching Struggling Learners, Grades PreK-2
- Reading and Writing With Young Children
- How To Organize and Manage Your Kindergarten Classroom
- Enhancing Classroom Practices With Authentic Assessment
- Mapping and Geography
- Beyond Ten Black Dots: Math Ideas to Count On
- Sight Word Bonanza
- What About the Kid Who?…Ideas to Help Students Who Struggle
- Reading with Kindergartners
- Writing with Kindergartners
- Arm Wrestling: Ideas for Small Muscle Control
- Stress and the Brain
- Brain-Body Connection
- Six-Traits Writing
- Group Writing: How Writing Teaches Reading
- 8 Crucial Weeks: What to do before, during and after the first month of school
- A Year in Review: A pictorial walk through the Kindergarten year
- Move Your Body: Engage Your Brain
- Teach Me to Read
- Little Things that are a Big Deal: Classroom Management Made Easier
- What to Expect when you are expected to teach Kindergarten
- Brain Based Reading and Writing Strategies
- Arm Wrestling: Total Arm Strength for Maximum Fine Motor Control
- I Teach Kindergarten!
- Get a Grip: Fine Motor Coordination
- The ABC’s of Brain Change
- The Stress Factor
- 6 Traits Writing in the Early Grades
The Wheels on the Bus…are falling off! Executive Functioning in Children
*Learn what EF skills are and why they are so critical to school (and life) success
*Learn what self-esteem has to do with EF skills and how to improve positive attitudes toward success
*Participate in activities that not only improve EF skills but also improved attention and decrease in discipline issues
Brain Food and Eye Candy
* Nurturing the brain to best aid learning
* Tips for adding variety to visual cues and techniques to aid
students with maximum focus and attention
* Techniques, ideas and activities that help with visual recall
* Tips to understand the brain, increase concentration, help with attention and overall success in the classroom
Ready to Write: Tips and Techniques that help develop fine motor coordination and strength in young children
*Learn about the whole arm and how all muscles help the fingers and grip
*Learn and do exercises and activities to use immediately in the classroom for fine motor
*See how to integrate all tips and trick into your existing curriculum
*Find research based ideas to help all children improve their writing, coloring, painting, cutting and using their hands and fingers
*Learn shoulder exercises, about the Palmer Arch, what to do about wrist control
Executive Functioning in Young Children
*What is Executive Functioning (EF) and why does it matter
*What are the subsets that make up EF
*Implications in the classroom for children without good EF skills
*Ideas for use in the classroom to improve EF skill sets
*Tips and tricks to use tomorrow in your classroom, while supporting all learners
Boys: How to Teach Them: How to Reach Them
*Boys and girls learn differently and when we understand the brain, learning styles, academic and physical nature of each gender we can better address classroom learning and behavior
*Get an in-depth look at how boys and girls learn
*Learn tips and tricks for teaching that you can use immediately in your classroom
*Gain new insights, understanding and useful ideas and classroom strategies to optimize, not only boys but all learners
Tricks of the Trade: How to Organize and Manage Your Classroom
*Learn new twists to old tricks, like tattling, lying, walking from place to place and more
*Learn how to cut down on time spent creating new materials
*Gain effective ways to communicate with parents
*See how to get parents on “your side” right from the start
*create a classroom community that will work right from the start
The ABC’s of Brain Change: Move Your Body, Engage Your Brain
*Learn why the brain has to be engaged in active learning to really have an impact on memory
*Learn how the brain works and what you can do in the classroom to improve retention of all concepts
*Learn activities that will fire the neurons in the brain
*Participate in activities to increase “brain power”
*See the connection between movement and active brain engagement
*Learn brain based activities that engage the two hemispheres of the brain
*Experience cross brain movement that increases retention
*Awaken parts of the body that will facilitate better listening during class and instruction time
Success for Struggling Learners: Ideas to use immediately in the classroom for kids who struggle to learn, behavior and pay attention
*Learn ways to adapt your instruction when working with children who learn in different ways and at different rates
*How to identify a struggling learner
*Practical ideas and strategies to help all learners succeed
*Enhancing what you are already doing to target the struggling learner
*Developing insights into the struggling learner’s capabilities and needs
*How to help even without a diagnosis or IEP
Resilience in Children: How to Survive the Hiccups and Hurricanes of Life
*What is resilience and grit
*How to cultivate resiliency in children
*Ways to model grit and resilience
*Really important actions that help in resiliency and its development
*Learn how to help parents help their child and support your efforts at school
6-Traits Writing: How to teach young children how to write (and write well!)
*Learn what the 6-traits of writing is and how to help
*Learn which picture books helps with each of the 6 traits
*Learn ways to encourage reluctant writers to LOVE writing
*See how to move along in a way that makes writing easy and understandable to all your writers
The Best of the Best: Ideas for the Early Childhood and Elementary Classroom
*Hear the best ideas from Peggy’s seven books for teachers
*Get idea after idea to use immediately in your classroom
*Find ways to jazz up your classroom and routines to help you and all students
*Get research based strategies to help all learners succeed
Reading, Writing and Word Walls
*Learn the basics of running an outstanding literacy
*learn proven strategies for helping every child in your classroom become a more successful reader and writer
*How to use reading to teach writing and writing to teach reading
*Learn what brain research says about early literacy
*Ways to teach and learn sight words that makes reading easier
Sight Word Bonanza: How to maximize the learning and retention of sight words
*Learn why sight words are the bedrock of reading.
*Where should your sight words come from
*How to create wandering word walls
*Learn ways to highlight and display words so students use the
*Participate in learning games like snowball words and Inside-Outside Circle
*Get ideas to make sight word acquisition easy and fun
I am soooo stressed out! A workshop on stress, the brain and how to help all kids cope and learn
*Learn what factors help or hinder learning.
*What is good stress and what is bad stress
*How attitude affects learning
*The positive effects of posture
*How to help children help themselves
*Ideas to distress your life as a teacher
*Calming techniques for every student
*Brain based activities to jump start learning
I Teach Kindergarten! What to expect and do as a kindergarten teacher
*Learn the first crucial things to do at the beginning of the year
*See how the year should move along each month
*Learn tips and tricks to make your days, weeks and year go well
*Learn parent relations tips and how to gain trust and keep it
*See how classroom management matters and how to set the tone right away
*Experience the JOY of teaching Kindergarten
*Take a pictorial walk through the Kindergarten year
Warm Hearts and Funny Bones: How to keep your sense of humor and thrive in teaching
*Teaching is not for the faint‑of‑heart
*Learn how to keep your tenderness and sense of humor
*Through this endearing and inspirational workshop Peggy presents a unique perspective on our profession that will touch your heart
*Let’s re‑energize our spirit and bring a smile to our faces
The Top 15 Tips & Tricks to Manage Group Work, Cut Down on Interruptions & Tattling & Facilitate Smoother Transitions
*Do the little things derail your day?
*Do you want to have more time to teach and have the students be ready to learn?
*Come and learn tricks of the trade to manage those pesky interruptions that can disrupt lessons
*Manage reading groups and facilitate smoother transitions
*Curb tattling, lying and bullying. This workshop has it all!
Welcome to your classroom! Now what do I do? Tips for beginning teachers
*Get classroom‑tested secrets from a veteran teacher
*Learn tips every new teacher needs to know, but aren't taught in college!
*Get practical ideas to help you maintain your sanity
*Learn ideas, tips and tricks to deal with challenging students and parents