Do you offer professional development?

Do you offer professional development?

Yes! We offer a variety of professional development sessions. We recommend beginning with our full curriculum training. This is a three-hour workshop where participants leave able to:
      ● Teach the critical foundational writing skills that all young writers need.
      ● Differentiate instructional strategies to meet the writing needs of ALL students.
      ● Successfully navigate through the lessons for expository, argumentative, and narrative essays and prompts.
      ● Strategize activities for struggling writers and enrichment activities for advanced writers.

We can facilitate this training in three ways.
      1. In-person professional development: The cost for a half-day in-person PD is $1,500. This would include one session. A full PD is $2,500 and would include two sessions. There is an additional travel cost for schools outside of Florida.
      2. Live Zoom professional development: The cost is $1,000 for a half-day Zoom and $2,000 for a full day.
      3. On-demand professional development: This is a recorded version of our full curriculum training divided into multiple sessions; each session focuses on one specific topic. This option includes full school access for an entire school year. Each teacher in the school will receive their own digital PD account and can access the training modules as many times as they wish. Each session is 30-60 minutes, so it can be easily viewed during a faculty meeting, team meeting, PLC, or grade-level meeting.
*This course is included at no additional cost with each Teacher Digital License. To purchase separately, the cost is $500.

For a list of additional training options we offer, please email Jen@topscorewriting.com.

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