Geoff Krall’s Professional Development and Coaching Services
Geoff is committed to delivering high quality math professional development and coaching resulting in positive outcomes for students. He currently offers four formats of professional development to best suit your needs: a one day workshop, a two-day experience, a three-day coaching cycle, and a virtual workshop. The concepts of each remain the same and are built upon the framework of Academic Safety, Quality Tasks, and Effective Facilitation.
In a commitment to delivering high quality PD equitably, Geoff offers reduced rates for schools with high populations of students enrolled in the federal Free and Reduced Student Lunch program.
Description of services: below you’ll find general descriptions of potential options for professional development. However, each PD is customized according to a specific context or focus area. All PDs come with leave-behind materials as well as a customized website so adult learning may continue after the day has concluded.
If you’re interested, feel free to reach out for additional information.
One-Day Workshop
Description of workshop
This one-day workshop gives participants an experiential overview of Necessary Conditions by Geoff Krall, which identifies and explores the three elements of effective math classrooms: Academic Safety, Quality Tasks, and Effective Facilitation. Participants will unpack their and their students’ mathematical identity and learn how to treat issues of academic status. Teachers will walk away having experienced a high quality task and the knowledge of how and where to find and design others. Lastly, teachers will see, experience, and understand effective facilitation moves that support social and interactive learning.
Teacher Learning Targets
- I can define and explain the three pillars of effective math instruction.
- I can facilitate routines that produce high level mathematical discourse
- I can identify a high quality task
- I know where to find quality tasks and how to adapt existing tasks to make them more enriching
- I have a toolbox of facilitation moves that promote discourse and understanding for every student in my classroom
- I have a plan in place over the next month to incorporate quality tasks and assign academic status to each of my students and am committed to sticking to it
- All workshops and agendas are customized to best suit the need of your team and your students. The agenda presented here is only a sample. If you’d like to see examples of modified agendas, let Geoff know.
Leave-behind materials
- Necessary Conditions card sets
- Custom website with follow up resources
Good for: beginning or mid-year in-service days, schools with a relatively novice staff, schools looking to focus on one element specifically
Two-Day Experience
Description of experience
This pairing of workshops will dig deeper into the concepts around Academic Safety, Quality Tasks, and Effective Facilitation. In addition to the material in the one-day workshop, participants will also experience structures and routines for continual improvement, such as analysis of student work, rubric design, and peer and self observations. We will also dig deeper into specific elements around implicit bias and other identify factors that play into a student’s sense of self worth. Teachers will have an actionable plan to implement next generation assessments including meaningful rubrics, performance assessments, and student portfolios. These assessment will be placed in the context of the three aforementioned pillars.
Teacher Learning Targets
- I can design a four-column rubric that yields continual improvement.
- I can identify ten or more complex tasks over the course of a school year to utilize as portfolio problems.
- I can identify structures and systems that contribute to students’ mindsets about mathematics and about themselves as mathematicians.
- I can and know how to work explicitly to overturn structures that have perpetuated inequity.
- I have a plan to assess students and communicate their growth over the course of a school year
- I have a plan to observe a peer and be observed so I may give and receive constructive feedback
Leave-behind materials
- Necessary Conditions Card sets
- Custom website with follow up resources
Good for: Schools and districts looking to create a systematized approach to math instruction and assessment, sites with two PD days to offer teachers
Virtual Professional Development
With tightening school budgets and travel restrictions due to COVID-19, remote professional development may be the best option for your school. Geoff is currently offering virtual PD in two two-hour sessions, with some “do nows” in between.
Geoff is adept at facilitating virtually. While with New Tech Network he was responsible for transferring our entire on-boarding experience to a virtual setting. Using the Zoom platform, we will use the interactive features, such as polls and the chat window, while fostering rich discussion using the breakout room feature.
Geoff will still provide card sets for individual teachers to keep. Ideally participants would have the cards in hand throughout the virtual experience. As such, make sure to schedule your virtual sessions ASAP so he can ship the materials.
Shipped and leave behind materials:
- Necessary Conditions Card sets
- Custom website with follow-up resources
* – Schools and districts with a population of students receiving Free or Reduced Student Lunch exceeding 65% may be eligible for discounts. Please contact Geoff directly to discuss further.
About Geoff
Geoff Krall is an experienced educator, blogger, author, speaker, professional developer and mathematician. He taught math in Texas for eight years before moving to Colorado to obtain a masters degree. After that, he joined the New Tech Network of schools as a Math Coach, delivering coaching, training, and professional development to teachers across the country. While there he pioneered Problem-Based Learning as the primary mode of instruction at NTN schools, training hundreds of teachers and dozens of colleagues along the way.
His first book, Necessary Conditions: Teaching Secondary Math with Academic Safety, Quality Tasks, and Effective Facilitation was published in 2018 and is currently available from Stenhouse Publishers. He writes about math and education generally at emergentmath.com.
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