Professional Development Services

Kathleen Butler and her worldwide network of associates are available to provide a variety of professional development services for educational organizations. Although each program is grounded in Kathleen Butler's work, each presentation or program is also tailored to the individual needs of the organization's goals and the participating educators.

An Introduction to Style for Classroom Teachers and Administrators

Keynote address, or one-day workshop
• to assist classroom teachers and administrators to be aware of their own styles of learning and teaching using ViewPoints on Style,
• to consider how style influences and affects teaching and learning.

A Workshop Series on Style for Classroom Teachers and Administrators (click for a photographic preview of this workshop.)

A four-session, hands-on workshop series for K-12 classroom teachers and administrators to

• Understand their own styles of learning and teaching using ViewPoints on Style

• Learn how to broaden their repertoire of techniques to bridge more effectively to students and their variety of styles.

• Develop "Differentiated Learning" using standards-based, outcome-focused lessons that engage learners in performance-based learning with style and get results for all learners.

• Design standards-driven, performance-based learning units incorporating the Strategy Chart for Learning Styles, Levels of Thinking, and Assessment and the Performance Assessment Chart.

• Maximize flexibility in working with students.

• Differentiate by style, by ability, by needs of students.

This popular workshop series can be tailored for elementary, middle, or secondary level. It is available with Kathleen Butler or her team of associates.


The Inclusive Secondary Classroom—New!

This three-session hands-on workshop is designed to assist content-area secondary-level classroom teachers to

• Understand their own styles of learning and teaching using Kathleen Butler's approach, ViewPoints on Style.

• Learn how to personalize appropriate adjustments and accommodations for students with mild learning disabilities in the content-area classroom.

Available only within the Northeast United States at the present time.

Leading the Way I:
Style for School Administrators

This program assists central office administrators, principals, assistant principals, and department chairpersons to

• Understand their own styles of learning and teaching using Kathleen Butler's approach, ViewPoints on Style.

• Work more effectively as a team.

• Relate more successfully to teachers.

• Collaborate more productively.

• Supervise new teachers more effectively.

• Guide veteran teachers more realistically.

 

Leading the Way II:
Curriculum Leadership for Principals

This program addresses the points listed above plus guides principals in applying the principals of Differentiated Learning in working with teachers.

"Region 10 Education Service Center has scheduled Dr. Butler multiple times as the "prestigious" presenter of the year for our Principal Leadership Academies. I found Kathleen to be
an exceptional, highly skilled speaker who immediately established a high level of credibility with the 100+ administrators in attendance at
each academy session. From my experience, Kathleen clearly ranks amongthe top one percent of presenters in the country." —Carlene Lenox, Professional Development Director at Region 10 Educational Service Center, Richardson Texas, and a highly-skilled independent presenter on educational leadership.

 

References for Kathleen Butler's professional development programs are available on request.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
—Colleen Wilcox