Courses

EDU-1265: Cooperative Learning

Create full student engagement with Kagan Structures-simple yet powerful cooperative learning instructional strategies. Supported by a large body of scientific research, and proven effective in countless classrooms, schools, and districts, this revolutionary way to teach is transforming teaching and learning.

EDU-1273: Win-Win Discipline

Create discipline solutions where you win and your students win. Gain a new perspective on discipline problems and come away with tools that really work. Convert every disruption into a learning opportunity. Go beyond ending disruptions-teach responsible behaviors and life skills.

EDU-1263: Brain-Friendly Teaching (Brain I)

Brain science and research has direct applications to classroom teaching and learning. We ignore the research at the peril of our own success as well as at the success of our students. Teaching with methods that don't respect brain science is like swimming against the current: teaching is more exhausting, students learn less, and students like class and content less.

EDU-1350: Memory-Friendly Teaching (Brain II)

How do we make learning stick? Successful teaching is creating lasting memories for academic content and skills. But too often, our students struggle to remember what we have taught. Based on decades of memory research, this game-changing workshop helps you create unforgettable learning.

EDU-1256: Everyone Answers!

Kagan recently developed a brand-new approach to student engagement called Everyone Answers! This simple, yet powerful approach is now integrated into Kagan's signature workshop, Kagan Cooperative Learning. Teachers absolutely love it! Teachers rave that this new tool makes it easier than ever to create student engagement for every question and task.

EDU-1952: Social-Emotional Learning

Make your classroom more emotion-friendly! The emotion-friendly classroom is a far more effective approach for reaching the five goals of Social-Emotional Learning. Instead of learning about positive social and emotional behaviors, students acquire these skills as part of every lesson.

EDU-1257: Reading Between the Lines

Today's standards demand students think more deeply about more complex texts and support their thinking with evidence from the text. Consequently, students are expected to deal with and understand authors' ideas, not just the information stated directly in the text.

EDU-1283: Cooperative Learning, PreK-2

The early grades are a critical time in a student's education. Students come to class with vastly different abilities and experiences, and we want them all to experience early success academically and socially. Come learn the best Kagan Structures to engage all your little ones.

EDU-1463: Transform Your High-Risk Classroom

Do you teach in a "high-risk" environment where the majority of your students have a high probability of failing academically or dropping out of school? Are you new to Kagan, or have you experienced difficulties implementing Kagan Structures in your classroom due to your students' exceptional circumstances?

EDU-1268: English Language Learners

How can we best meet the needs of today's ELL students? How can we help limited and non-English speaking students acquire essential reading, writing, and speaking skills for success in language acquisition across the curriculum? Kagan Structures, cooperative and communicative teaching strategies, are wonderful tools to promote English fluency while covering academic content.

EDU-1262: Accelerating Achievement

Based on years of experimentation and field-testing, Dr. Spencer Kagan has perfected simple instructional strategies and structures that dramatically increase the achievement of all students, especially low-achieving and low-ability pupils. In this active workshop, you will experience these strategies, derive the rationale, and learn ways to adapt them to your own classroom.

EDU-1329: Thinking Skills

In this dynamic, hands-on workshop you will experience simple instructional strategies to engage and develop the 15 most fundamental thinking skills. Prepare your students for the information explosion with simple structures for categorizing, brainstorming, deducing, inducing, summarizing, shifting perspective, calculating, symbolizing, problem solving, predicting, synthesizing, and more.

EDU-1928: Growth Mindset

Students with a "growth mindset" persist in the face of setbacks. They are resilient. The result: higher achievement, greater optimism, and greater life success. The good news: We can foster a growth mindset as we teach, without taking time off our regular curriculum! Using Kagan Structures and other proven strategies, we provide our students a small shift in mentality that makes a huge change in attitudes and behaviors.

EDU-1264: Building Classroom Community

When students feel safe, included, and appreciated, they enjoy school more; they blossom socially and academically. When students feel threatened or that they don't belong, their minds shut down, they disengage, or they become discipline problems.

EDU-1282: Advanced Cooperative Learning

Step it up to the next level! This action-packed, high-energy workshop is the perfect next step for teachers having success with Kagan Structures. Discover 25 powerful new structures to add to your toolbox. Explore "hot off-the-press" structures that boost achievement, enhance thinking, save time, and release total engagement!

EDU-1267: Kagan Coaching

Support your teachers as they implement Kagan Structures in their own classrooms. This workshop is designed for administrators, staff trainers, mentors, and site-level leaders. You'll learn Kagan's breakthrough approach to coaching.

EDU-1260: Cooperative Meetings

Transform your staff meetings into cooperative meetings. Make them engaging, inspiring, and educational. Experience why Michael Fullan states, "Cooperative Meetings is a treasure chest of ideas, resources, and activities for staff developers and others wishing to engage in dynamic learning experiences.

EDU-1279: Instructional Leadership Academy

The demands of leadership are more challenging in this era than at any time in our past. Today's leaders are still expected to fulfill traditional job responsibilities (e.g., managing facilities, overseeing budgets, dealing with the public). However, new pressures now face instructional leaders as they strive to close the achievement gap that exists in schools across the country.

EDU-1251: School Trainer

Become a powerful Kagan trainer in your school. If you're experienced and successful with a range of Kagan Structures, and have responsibilities for training others at your school, you're ready for Kagan's School Trainer institute. You'll learn exactly what you need to know to train teachers. Practice the 13 steps of presenting a structure. Set up Structure-A-Month Clubs.

EDU-1261: Dynamic Trainer

Why has Laurie Kagan's Dynamic Trainer course become among the most popular courses ever offered by Kagan? Educational and business trainers rave about this fresh, dynamic approach to training adults. Must-know training concepts and techniques are interwoven with Kagan Structures to create unforgettable trainings every time. Come expecting to be physically engaged and mentally stimulated throughout this high-powered session.

EDU-1944: Instructional Coaches

If you coach any type of instruction, this is the course for you! You will work side-by-side with your colleagues to master the elements of effective instructional coaching: 1) Establishing the relationship that opens teachers to constructive input, 2) Enhancing communication skills....

EDU-1255: Literacy for Little Ones, PreK-2

Develop your primary students' foundational reading skills using highly engaging Kagan Cooperative Learning structures! Come learn how to engage all your little ones in the strands of the Scarborough Reading and Writing Rope. Add simple tools to your teaching toolbox to reinforce the foundational reading skills using whole group, small group, and center activities.

EDU-1258: Elementary Math

Add zing to your daily math lessons! Boost attention and retention with highly-engaging structures for math instruction. Instead of working independently on drill and kill worksheets, your students will be totally engaged with structures such as Jigsaw Problem Solving.

EDU-1259: Elementary STEM

Make your curriculum come alive as your students acquire science knowledge and skills by manipulating, exploring, and experimenting with real objects. This hands-on workshop teaches process-oriented teamwork aligned with the science standards. We discover ways to teach the key process skills. We develop the exploration of questions and critical thought by using a range of Kagan Structures.

EDU-1330: Elementary Literacy

Skyrocket your students' literacy skills with Kagan Structures! Come learn simple cooperative instructional strategies that make the Common Core English Language Arts Standards come to life. Develop students' speaking and listening skills as they engage in a range of collaborative discussions.

EDU-1250: The Elementary Writing Process

Would you like to see your students have passion for writing? Would you like to boost writing scores? Eliminate writer's block? Acquire editing skills? Create supportive peer response groups? This is the workshop for you. This practical, hands-on writing workshop demonstrates ways to use interactive Kagan Structures to enhance each stage of the writing process.

EDU-1266: Secondary Science

If you teach Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, or Physical Science, this is your dream workshop. Infuse your everyday curriculum with meaning and excitement. Amplify student learning with Kagan Structures. The day of the lone scientist is over!

EDU-1285: Secondary Language Arts

Be that unforgettable language arts teacher that students remember as the one who gave them skills for a lifetime! It's easy and fun with Kagan Structures for secondary language arts. Make each stage of the writing process more engaging and effective with interactive learning strategies.

EDU-1274: Secondary Social Studies

Whether you teach American or World History, Geography, Civics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, or Psychology, you will increase engagement in your classes when you start using powerful Kagan Structures. Foster participation, excitement, and accountability. Learn different ways to organize your classroom, and a dozen management tips! Align your teaching with NCSS Standards.

EDU-1276: Secondary Math

You can be the best math teacher your students will ever have, without having to work harder. We'll explore how to multiply mathematics mastery! With revolutionary Kagan Structures, activities, and ready-made worksheets, your students become more engaged, challenged, and excited about math.

EDU-1415: World Languages

In many world language classrooms, students learn about a different language, but they don't actually acquire it. Fluency develops when students have multiple opportunities to use the language in meaningful ways. In this eye-opening workshop, you learn practical teaching tools to dramatically increase both language production and meaningful language input.

EDU-1272: Music

Optimize musical learning for each and every student with this cooperative approach. You've heard the musical saying, "If you can SAY it, then you can PLAY it!" Well, this workshop will show you how to get students to say and play music in a way that maximizes engagement and learning for all using highly interactive Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures.

EDU-1275: Mighty Vocabulary

Increasing our students' vocabularies impacts nearly all academic subjects. Come update your vocabulary instructional practices to meet today's standards. You will learn engaging, easy-to-implement, classroom-ready structures to expand and refine your students' academic vocabularies.

EDU-1281: Cooperative Learning Institute (4 or 5 Day)

Create full student engagement with Kagan Structures-simple yet powerful cooperative learning instructional strategies. Supported by a large body of scientific research, and proven effective in countless classrooms, schools, and districts, this revolutionary way to teach is transforming teaching and learning.