GCS Summer Academy 2023

For her book series, Deliberate Teaching Practices, Brooke Cushwa uses several research-based strategies to deepen professional development, including incremental, granular improvements; self-reflection; increasing personal power and ownership; and celebrating successes. This workshop will help teachers and leaders to utilize more reflective practices and two-way dialogue to encourage leadership, morale, momentum, and methodology both for themselves and other educators.

Join experienced educators (over 45 years combined), Cindy and Jennifer, in learning ways to alleviate stress in order to reinvigorate and energize your teaching. If you are feeling overwhelmed, we have strategies to prepare you to be the best teacher you can be for yourself, your students, and your community. Focusing on stress relief and time management, we start you on a path of taking small steps day by day to find the best way to care for yourself and your students.

Participants will get an overview on co-teaching fundamentals. We will discuss the 6 models of co-teaching, planning with a co-teacher, and how to use variability & differentiatiation in an inclusive setting.

Help students with autism and other disabilities be successfull in the classroom with Structure Teaching. The WHAT and WHY of Structured Teaching. Structured Teaching is a system for organizing their environments, developing appropriate activities, and helping people with autism understand what is expected of them. Structured Teaching addresses challenging behaviors in a proactive manner by creating appropriate and meaningful environments that reduce the stress, anxiety and frustration which may be experienced by children with autism.