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20. Available Presentations

©2007 Ron Fitzgerald, D. Ed.

This website is dedicated to the improvement of student achievement.  Each of the following presentations and workshops is designed to help interested parties pursue that improvement.  Each provides researched, tested, and practical suggestions that can be translated into powerful action in any district, school, or classroom.  The presentations described below are available subject to agreement on scheduling and other details.

Topic A:  The Pathway to Quality - - Grow It or Lose It

  1. Category:  Speech with visuals and handouts.
  2. Audience:  Administrators, instructional leaders, school board members.
  3. Duration:  From 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on detail and time requested.
  4. Theme:  Promoting permanent quality in learning progress in your district or school.
  5. Focus:
    1. How to promote continuous improvement in learning.
    2. The power of concept models under your mission.
    3. Chaotic vs. strategic management.
    4. Using institutionalization procedures (How not to waste workshops!).
    5. An example.
    6. How your school rates.
  6. Equipment to be provided locally:
    1. Bright overhead projector appropriate to size of room and audience.
    2. Large screen.
    3. Table for handouts adjacent to projector.
    4. Sound system and portable microphone depending on size of group.

Topic B:  The Basics of Quality Management in Schools

  1. Category:  Speech with visuals and handouts.
  2. Audience:  Organizations, administrators, instructional leaders, school board members, school staffs for awareness.
  3. Duration:  From 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on detail and time requested.
  4. Theme:  Using Deming’s Profound Knowledge principles to manage school operations.
  5. Focus:
    1. What is true quality as compared to NCLB standards?
    2. The power of the Profound Management principles defined by W. Edwards Deming.
    3. How to apply the principles in a school and classroom including tested examples.
  6. Equipment to be provided locally:
    1. Bright overhead projector appropriate to size of room and audience.
    2. Large screen.
    3. Table for handouts adjacent to projector.
    4. Sound system and portable microphone depending on size of group.

Topic C:  Eight Steps in Brain-Friendly Teaching

  1. Category:  Speech with visuals and handouts.
  2. Audience:  Organizations, administrators, instructional leaders, school board members, school staffs for awareness, parent groups.
  3. Duration:  From 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on detail and time requested.
  4. Theme:  Using learning research in a system that helps all students succeed.
  5. Focus:
    1. Steps you cannot ignore if you want the highest possible levels of student achievement.
    2. Planning.
    3. Preparing everyone.
    4. Motivating students.
    5. Giving style choices.
    6. Giving talent choices.
    7. Promoting mastery.
    8. Checking and adjusting.
    9. Celebrating and documenting.
    10. Institutionalizing the process.
  6. Equipment to be provided locally:
    1. Bright overhead projector appropriate to size of room and audience.
    2. Large screen.
    3. Table for handouts adjacent to projector.
    4. Sound system and portable microphone depending on size of group.

Topic D:  Using Data Where It Counts

  1. Category:  Speech with visuals and handouts and some interactivity.
  2. Audience:  Organizations, administrators, instructional and assessment leaders, school board members, school staffs.
  3. Duration:  From 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on detail and time requested.
  4. Theme:  Using data to increase learning in the classroom.
  5. Focus:
    1. Why is data so important?
    2. School data vs. classroom data.
    3. The big seven tools for analysis - -
        • Column charts including histograms
        • Pareto charts
        • Run charts
        • Scatter charts
        • Rubrics
        • Cause and effect diagrams
        • Spreadsheets
    4. How to learn to use the tools.
  6. Equipment to be provided locally:
    1. Bright overhead projector appropriate to size of room and audience.
    2. Large screen.
    3. Table for handouts adjacent to projector.
    4. Sound system and portable microphone depending on size of group.
    5. If available, an LCD projector with a USB cable ready to be connected to presenter’s computer. (Consult with presenter.)
Topic E:  How To Do Brain-Friendly Teaching
  1. Category:  Interactive workshops with visuals and handouts.
  2. Audience:  Teacher or staff workshop. NOTE:  Institutionalization and follow-up activities are recommended for full impact.
  3. Duration:  From 3 to 5 hours depending on time available.  NOTE:  The longer approach can be split into 2 shorter workshops.
  4. Focus:
    1. How to implement the eight critical steps you cannot ignore if you want the highest possible levels of student achievement.
    2. The steps:
        • Planning.
        • Preparing everyone.
        • Motivating students.
        • Giving style choices.
        • Giving talent choices.
        • Promoting mastery.
        • Checking and adjusting.
        • Celebrating and documenting.
    3. Institutionalizing the process.
  5. Equipment to be provided locally:
    1. Bright overhead projector appropriate to size of room and audience.
    2. Large screen.
    3. Table for handouts adjacent to projector.
    4. Sound system and portable microphone depending on size of group.
    5. Work tables with chairs for 3 to 6 participants at each table.
    6. Access to break refreshments and, in the case of the longer workshops, lunch.
    7. Copied handouts from provided masters.
Topic F:  How To Use Data Analysis in the Classroom
  1. Category:  Hands-on workshop with visuals and handouts.
  2. Audience:  Teacher or staff workshop. NOTE:  Institutionalization and follow-up activities are recommended for full impact.
  3. Duration:  From 3 to 4 hours depending on time available.  NOTE: The longer approach can be split into 2 shorter workshops.
  4. Focus:
    1. How to use the big seven tools for analyzing data in a classroom
    2. Column charts including histograms
    3. Pareto charts
    4. Run charts
    5. Scatter charts
    6. Rubrics
    7. Cause and effect diagrams
    8. Spreadsheets
  5. Equipment to be provided locally:
    1. Bright overhead projector appropriate to size of room and audience.
    2. Large screen.
    3. Table for handouts adjacent to projector.
    4. Sound system and portable microphone depending on size of group.
    5. An LCD projector with a USB cable ready to be connected to presenter’s computer. (Consult with presenter)
    6. Each participant OR every 2 participants seated at a computer containing this software - - Microsoft Excel 2003 with the statistical analysis toolpak enabled and QI Macros (Available at www.qimacros.com).  NOTE:  A maximum of 24 participants is suggested.
    7. Copied handouts from provided masters.
If you wish to explore the possibility of one of these presentations, send an email to rfinfo@smartteaching.org and describe:
  1. What topic (by letter).
  2. Exactly where and when (or alternate dates if you wish).
  3. Audience composition and number.
  4. Your name, title, organization address, and telephone number.

You will then receive a response.

Only presentation or consultation requests are reviewed at this email address.