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Kim Geddie

Education Avenger

Kim Geddie has been providing teaching and learning experiences as a professional development trainer, coach, teacher, and administrator since 1988 and can customize any of the following topics as well as many others for elementary, middle, and high school. Sustained focuses can be planned to provide targeted growth across the school year in addition to short-term and long-term planning. Kim specializes in working with teachers and administrators to help new and experienced educators set and reach targeted professional development goals that connect to previous and ongoing goals.

She provides keynotes, professional development sessions, and coaching combinations that result in greater levels of student success. Kim’s participants consistently appreciate the realistic, eﬃcient, high-impact, low-preparation strategies and activities that simplify the educator planning process and bring higher levels of engagement and success to all students. Customized focuses can be created to best meet public, private, and charter district, parish, school, department, grade level, and administrator, teacher, and student needs.

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KEYNOTES

FROM ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY
Come enjoy this motivating keynote that helps renew excitement in reaching, teaching, and leading others. Enjoy the simple steps Kim takes you through to move from ordinary to extraordinary with those you impact in the midst of all the pressures in your teaching or administrative position!

REIGNITE THEIR PASSION & LIGHT THEIR FIRE
Get renewed in this motivating keynote that explores how to reignite your passion and passionately spur others on to reach their greatest levels of success. Understand speciﬁc ways to take care of yourself in order to be able to light the ﬁres of success in others.

TOPICS FOCUSING ON: ADVANCED TO STRUGGLING LEARNERS, CRITICAL THINKING, LEVELED QUESTIONS, DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION, ELA, CROSS-CONTENT, MATH, TEACH TO THE TOP AND CLOSE ALL GAPS!

“TEACHING UP” TO INCREASE CRITICAL THINKING & HIGHER LEVELED QUESTIONING
Explore an approach that focuses on ways to reach advanced and giied learners with high-impact, low-preparation strategies and activities that can be immediately implemented in any grade or content area. Explore how to increase critical thinking and questioning in any grade level and content area to teach targeted lessons with intentionally leveled questions. Equip students to answer and form rigorous questions through a variety of questioning techniques including leveled questions, reﬂective questioning, and student questioning through inquiry-based learning. Leave with practical, systemic approaches that result in all students achieving greater levels of success through target-based higher-order thinking and questioning.

CLOSE GAPS AND REACH NEW LEVELS OF SUCCESS WITH DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION
Take a deeper plunge into practical and eﬃcient ways to diﬀerentiate instruction of learning goals. Take content, process, and products to various levels of depth and complexity with a lesson format that includes mini-lessons, whole group and small group instruction, individual learning, and anchor charts with choice-embedded multi-level activities. Build on the standard-based “targeted lesson” framework by exploring speciﬁc strategies that provide ways to formatively assess eﬀectively chunked instruction, making a seamless connection between assessment and instruction.

USING “HIGH FIVE” TO REACH NEW HEIGHTS WITH ADVANCED LEARNERS
Explore the essential research-based “High Five” components to help teachers reach and challenge advanced learners. In addition to understanding what the “High Five” essentials are, participants will examine ways to manage classrooms with whole groups, small ﬂexible groups, and rotation stations/centers to ensure instruction is eﬀectively diﬀerentiated for the diverse learners in your classroom.

FEEDBACK, ASSESSMENT & DISAGGREGATED DATA: WHAT, WHEN, WHY & HOW
Explore what, when, why, and how feedback and assessment can be used to improve student learning. Understand the critical elements of successful feedback and assessment and practical ways to implement them throughout lessons. Learn how to eﬀectively utilize disaggregated data to help students strategically reﬂect on their work to consistently improve academic performance.

LANGUAGE ARTS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Come explore practical ways to diﬀerentiate instruction in all subject areas with language arts processing strategies that can be used across the curriculum. Take a look at high-impact, low-preparation strategies and activities that help students process and improve critical thinking skills in all content areas as they learn to read, comprehend, think critically, and provide evidence-based responses to informational text and all types of literature with diﬀerentiated questions and writing strategies.

THE WRITE CONNECTION: A DIFFERENTIATED APPROACH TO WRITING
Explore an approach to teaching writing that connects standards through targets including the six traits, the writing process, and GUM (Grammar, Usage, Mechanics) to help students improve writing in any grade and across all content areas. Leave with ready-to-use strategies and activities that improve writing in response to various types of questions and prompts. Learn how to help students accurately and eﬃciently communicate their ideas when they write. Kim is the co-author of "The Write Connection: A Diﬀerentiated Approach to Writing”.

MAKING YOUR WRITING STICK WITH GUM: GRAMMAR, USAGE & MECHANICS
Explore a practical approach to teaching writing that includes an eﬃcient weekly structure with targeted skills integrated into “real” writing. Learn approaches that can be spiraled across grade levels to provide consistency and alignment to simplify the process of helping students accurately communicate their message with improved grammar, usage, and mechanics in writing across all content areas.

CLOSING THE MATH GAP
Come enjoy an interactive workshop that includes eﬀective ways to close gaps and build a strong mathematics foundation for current and future mathematics experiences. Leave with realistic ways to teach the conceptual and procedural understanding of numbers and operations through the use of manipulatives, graphics, and abstract representation. Enjoy simple games and a variety of approaches that help students master the basics of place value, operations, critical thinking and problem-solving, and other mathematic targets necessary for algebraic and geometry success!

IMPROVING ACADEMIC SUCCESS THROUGH IMPROVED CONTENT VOCABULARY
Research shows that direct, explicit teaching of content vocabulary increases success with all levels of students and that poor vocabulary is oien connected to increased apathy and low performance. Come explore research-proven ways to improve student success with content vocabulary and improved comprehension of all types of informational text. Watch amazing results as reading comprehension and ﬂuency of all types of text improves as student content vocabulary grows.

SUCCESS WITH ELL/ESL STUDENTS
Understand how to bring ELL/ESL students to their highest level of success by gaining strategies to help as they progress through the stages of language acquisition. Gain strategies to help students work together to eﬀectively communicate through verbal and non-verbal means. Explore eﬀective ways to help students build listening and speaking skills, work with words, build academic and frequently used vocabulary, and increase success with reading and writing.

BACKWARDS PLANNING FOR ORGANIZATION & GREATER SUCCESS WITH STANDARDS
Explore how to help students plan for success with the completion of assignments, upcoming projects and tests, and independent ownership of material taught in school. Take a look at an approach that helps students learn to look ahead and prioritize where to put focus and eﬀort to receive more successful results. Help students make use of school calendars whether they are traditional or through a technology source. Learn how to simplify the “backward planning” of class assignments and learn to increase productivity and success.
*This session works well for administrators wanting to guide their teachers in this concept before training students. It results in campus proactive planning and organization that can make amazing diﬀerences in student success. State, district, school standards, lesson targets, and speciﬁc resources can be the focus. This component includes reﬂective journaling that has been strategically designed to utilize writing and reﬂections to enhance student success and connect work eﬀorts, planning, and academic success with cognizant reﬂection.

TOPICS FOCUSING ON: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT, PROBLEM-SOLVING, EXECUTIVE FUNCTION, SEL, ENGAGING INSTRUCTION, LEARNING PREFERENCES, COMMUNICATION, NEW/MENTOR TEACHER TRAINING SUPPORT

IMPROVING CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT FOR GREATER LEVELS OF STUDENT BEHAVIOR AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS
Explore a practical, diﬀerentiated approach to eﬀective classroom management that gives teachers the control necessary to implement eﬀective teaching strategies and enjoy teaching students in whole groups, small groups, pairs, and independent formats. Gain keys to the implementation of successful procedures and transitions, and ways to help students become responsible for their choices as they develop an internal locus of control through strength focus, prevention, conﬂict resolution, and problem-solving. As students gain the skills necessary to self-regulate their thinking through reﬂective questioning and critical thinking, they make better decisions and ultimately achieve greater levels of academic performance. This diﬀerentiated classroom management approach works with any teaching style to provide a balance of consistency, structure, and necessary diﬀerentiation for any classroom or school.

RQ4U: REFLECTIVE QUESTIONING FOR GROWTH MINDSET
In this session explore RQ4U, a four-step process that teaches students to ask and answer reﬂective questions so they will own and improve their decisions with a focus on reaching goals, taking initiative, planning ahead, and persevering to ﬁnish strong with quality work. Students gain the opportunity to maximize their potential when they utilize critical thinking with a growth mindset through RQ4U, “reﬂective questioning for your growth mindset”. Kim is the co-author of RQ4U: Reﬂective Questioning for Growth Mindset

POWERFUL, PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR UNDERPERFORMING “I DON’T CARE” STUDENTS
Explore how to develop a school-wide culture that utilizes practical short and long-term strategies to help challenging students begin to develop the desire to work, be productive, and put forth the eﬀort to ﬁnd success in school and life. Break the cycle of discouragement in students who “just don’t care” with practical strategies that help students learn to reframe negative thoughts and perceptions into a more positive growth mindset.

CREATING EFFECTIVE INDEPENDENT LEARNERS
Explore eﬀective note-taking, study, and independent working strategies to help students become responsible independent learners. Explore how much and what types of assignments increase independent student success, and how to put a system in place that utilizes whole groups, small groups, and partner work to improve independent success.

TEACHING FOR TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY SKILLS
Take a look at the skills essential for success in the twenty-ﬁrst century! Explore what skills students need to develop to be prepared to be contributing members of this rapidly changing society. Understand what future skills need to be developed and practical ways to incorporate them into standards-based, targeted instruction. Leave the workshop with practical ways to develop the rigorous critical thinking skills necessary to ensure your students are college or career ready.

IMPROVING COMMUNICATION WITH PERSONALITY & LEARNING STYLES
Explore how to reach individual and team goals by understanding various personality and learning styles. Take a look at the range of learning styles and personalities for individuals and how the various combinations can bring about a wide variety of results. Take a look at strategies that students understand better how to communicate eﬀectively, deﬂect conﬂict, and help resolve conﬂict that cannot be avoided. Learn how to get the best out of each style, as well as how to help individuals do their best as they work independently and as a team.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION THROUGH CONFERENCING, GOAL SETTING, REFLECTION, AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Enjoy an interactive workshop that focuses on the essential elements of eﬀective communication through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Explore strategies that bring about successful conferencing, goal setting, and reﬂection. Utilize user-friendly tools that facilitate success in achieving and surpassing individual and team goals. Leave with strategies that prevent conﬂict and help resolve conﬂict, resulting in even greater success with communication as well as individual and team success.

BULLYING: IDENTIFYING, ELIMINATING & PREVENTING
Take a look at what bullying is and how to identify bullying behavior. Recognize bullying victims and the causes of the aggressor-victim relationship as well as possible solutions. Explore the diﬀerences between explicit and covert bullying, the impacts of bullying, and how to utilize safe, defensive techniques in helping students respond to bullying and prevent negative impacts both as a victim and bystanders. Explore risks involved with passive responses, appropriate ways to take a stand against bullying, and safety guidelines to prevent and stop bullying.

INTERACTIVE AND ENGAGING TEACHING STRATEGIES
Enjoy an interactive and engaging session full of strategies that can immediately be taken back to class to involve students actively in lessons. Address all learning styles and multiple intelligences with a wide range of high-impact, low-preparation strategies and activities that engage students as they critically process information and concepts being taught. Reach all types of learners with strategies that utilize the latest research on engaging students in learning that improves long-term memory and student success.

LAUNCHING NEW TEACHERS TO HIGH LEVELS OF SUCCESS
Learn the essential components to keep new teachers out of survival mode and set them up for a successful launch. Help new teachers sustain success throughout the year with eﬀective classroom management and organizational procedures, standards and target- based lessons that are chunked to yield the highest level of academic success for their students, communication and collaboration components for successful team, student, and home interactions, and signiﬁcant elements of self-management and care to ensure they are set up for success the entire year and beyond! New teachers that have just started teaching, teachers new to the district, school, or grade level, and mentor teachers wanting guidance with the essential components to use in guiding new teachers will beneﬁt from the practical strategies and activities provided.
*This can be customized for school systems, schools, or individual schools or teachers and teachers-mentors as desired.

Books

RQ4U: Reflective Questioning for Growth Mindset

RQ4U: Reflective Questioning for Growth Mindset

RQ4U: Reflective Questioning for Growth Mindset is a practical book that includes activities, games, case studies, and multiple processing templates to help students to own their decisions with goals to improve. Walking students through the RQ4U process helps them utilize a growth mindset that results in improved academic skills. RQ4U is a four step process that utilizes reflective questioning to increase growth mindset and academic success.

You can purchase this book here

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