Do you have a few educators that could benefit from a particular training? Or maybe you want to attend a session to see about bringing it to your district or campus? Open sessions provide an opportunity to get the lead4ward professional learning experience you depend on. Questions? Email [email protected] or call us at 512.201.2999 ext. 5.
open sessions
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October 6, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
ESC3 (Victoria, TX) |
coming soon! |
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October 7, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Klein ISD Multipurpose Center |
audience: campus and district leaders
Do you need effective structures and strategies to support diverse learning needs in your classroom? Successful intervention goes beyond identifying what students need to learn – it also considers how they approach learning.
We’ll explore strategies to help learners who struggle with both content knowledge and the cognitive processes necessary for success. Using the lead4ward framework, we’ll focus on practical tools, scaffolds, and strategies that equip teachers to build students’ confidence, strengthen their skills, and improve academic success.
Whether your students need support with complex problem-solving, foundational concepts, or critical thinking skills, this session equips educators with strategies to bridge learning gaps and make learning accessible and meaningful for all.
what you’ll learn:
- How to identify the root causes of learning gaps (process weaknesses) and implement targeted interventions that address both content and cognitive challenges.
- Strategies to streamline intervention processes for individual, small-group, and whole-group instruction after campus and district assessments.
- How to meet HB1416 intervention requirements effectively.
special education open sessions
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October 7, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Klein ISD Multipurpose Center |
audience: special educators, classroom teachers, and leaders
Educators have multiple resources they are expected to internalize and implement with integrity. And classrooms are increasingly diverse places, full of students with a variety of strengths and needs. What if we could find better ways to incorporate that diversity into the lesson internalization process and remove barriers to achievement for ALL learners?
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a framework for removing barriers to access by incorporating high-yield supports that promote understanding, engagement, and genuine evidence of learning. This framework has been found to have additional benefits to student memory, effort, and behavior. But how does it fit with our instructional resources, including our state-identified HQIMs? What is the role of the special educator? The classroom teacher?
This session engages special educators and classroom teachers serving diverse learners in an interactive learning experience around accessible instruction. We’ll explore options for universal accessibility within your instructional materials that ensure access to the rigor of instruction and, ultimately, support growth on STAAR.
participants will:
- examine principles of universally designed instruction and how they connect with the instructional cycle
- enhance the lesson internalization process to ensure that rigorous learning experiences meet the needs of ALL learners
- explore options for engagement, representation, and expression that reduce barriers for diverse learners across content areas
- practice teaching strategies that support effective classroom behavior management
emergent bilingual open sessions
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October 7, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Klein ISD Multipurpose Center |
audience: teachers and leaders of emergent bilingual students (all grades, all content areas)
Effective intervention for emergent bilinguals begins with meaningful access. We’ll explore how language development intersects with content learning and how to build students’ thinking with intentional support. Using lead4ward resources and the Proficiency Level Descriptors (PLDs), participants rehearse practical ways to scaffold and deliver instruction that helps EBs succeed with grade-level content. Whether you’re supporting EBs in core classrooms or small group settings, you’ll leave with actionable strategies that support academic vocabulary acquisition, student discussion, reading comprehension, and writing while connecting language learning directly to your instructional goals. All student resources will be available in English and Spanish.
open sessions
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October 7, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Klein ISD Multipurpose Center |
audience: 3-EOC teachers and leaders
Do you need effective structures and strategies to close achievement gaps for students receiving tier 2 intervention? Successful intervention goes beyond identifying what students need to learn – it also considers how they approach learning.
We’ll explore strategies to help learners who struggle with both reading comprehension and the cognitive processes necessary for success. Using the lead4ward framework, we’ll focus on practical tools, scaffolds and routines that equip teachers to build students’ confidence, strengthen their skills and improve academic success.
Whether your students need support in developing implicit and explicit comprehension or critical thinking skills, this session equips educators with strategies and routines to bridge learning gaps and make learning accessible and meaningful for all.
what you’ll learn:
a standardized and systematic framework for tier 2 support that:
- prioritizes which students need support and which strategies and routines will maximize access and understanding over time
- focuses on sequenced processes, evidence-based strategies and focused routines that ensure concept development to close achievement gaps
- integrates formal and informal measures to monitor progress and student growth to inform instruction and intervention
- meets HB1416 intervention requirements effectively
open sessions
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September 22, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Plano ISD Sockwell Center |
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October 7, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Klein ISD Multipurpose Center |
audience: 3-EOC teachers and leaders
Do you need effective structures and strategies to close achievement gaps for students receiving tier 2 intervention? Successful intervention goes beyond identifying what students need to learn – it also considers how they approach learning.
We’ll explore strategies to help learners who struggle with both content knowledge and the cognitive processes necessary for success. Using the lead4ward framework, we’ll focus on practical tools, scaffolds and strategies that equip teachers to build students’ confidence, strengthen their skills and improve academic success.
Whether your students need support with complex problem-solving, foundational concepts or critical thinking skills, this session equips educators with strategies to bridge learning gaps and make learning accessible and meaningful for all.
what you’ll learn:
a standardized and systematic framework for tier 2 support that:
- prioritizes which students need support and which content will maximize conceptual understanding over time
- focuses on effective processes, evidence-based strategies and routines that ensure concept development to close achievement gaps
- integrates formal and informal measures to monitor progress and student growth to inform instruction and intervention
- meets HB1416 intervention requirements effectively
open sessions
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September 22, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Plano ISD Sockwell Center |
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October 7, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Klein ISD Multipurpose Center |
audience: 2-12 science and social studies teachers
Data tables, diagrams, graphs, maps, and political cartoons – there’s no shortage of content-related visuals in science and social studies. These stimuli, along with strong vocabulary, are essential avenues to helping students learn and demonstrate mastery of science and social studies concepts. By using tools and strategies that challenge and engage, we can build students’ fluency with a variety of stimuli and academic language, leading to deeper analysis, richer discussions, and thoughtful inference-making.
learn how to help students:
- be engaged learners of academic vocabulary
- boost thinking and academic discourse
- analyze and use complex visuals
- make connections and apply their learning in a variety of ways
To ensure concept mastery, content that is heavily dependent on visuals and vocabulary often requires loopback for all, intervention for some, or supplemental instruction for a few (i.e. HB 1416). This session supports educators in leading intervention that builds student confidence, agency, and autonomy; strengthens their skills around priority concepts; and improves academic success.
The lead4ward thinkalong plan provides a manageable and strategic way to address comprehension, response skills, content, and thinking with renewed intention!
participants will learn:
- a simple, engaging routine that streamlines intervention processes and supports both content understanding and the thinking skills students need to succeed
- strategies for whole group, small group, and supplemental instruction (HB 1416)
- how to support responsive instruction with loopback or spiral review, focusing on high-impact learning, visuals, and vocabulary
- how to use a metacognitive routine to reinforce fluency and flexibility with vocabulary and visuals for improved learning and long-term transfer
open sessions
| date | time | location | registration link |
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September 22, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Plano ISD Sockwell Center |
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October 7, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Klein ISD Multipurpose Center |
audience: 2-12 science and social studies teachers
Data tables, diagrams, graphs, maps, and political cartoons – there’s no shortage of content-related visuals in science and social studies. These stimuli, along with strong vocabulary, are essential avenues to helping students learn and demonstrate mastery of science and social studies concepts. By using tools and strategies that challenge and engage, we can build students’ fluency with a variety of stimuli and academic language, leading to deeper analysis, richer discussions, and thoughtful inference-making.
learn how to help students:
- be engaged learners of academic vocabulary
- boost thinking and academic discourse
- analyze and use complex visuals
- make connections and apply their learning in a variety of ways
To ensure concept mastery, content that is heavily dependent on visuals and vocabulary often requires loopback for all, intervention for some, or supplemental instruction for a few (i.e. HB 1416). This session supports educators in leading intervention that builds student confidence, agency, and autonomy; strengthens their skills around priority concepts; and improves academic success.
The lead4ward thinkalong plan provides a manageable and strategic way to address comprehension, response skills, content, and thinking with renewed intention!
participants will learn:
- a simple, engaging routine that streamlines intervention processes and supports both content understanding and the thinking skills students need to succeed
- strategies for whole group, small group, and supplemental instruction (HB 1416)
- how to support responsive instruction with loopback or spiral review, focusing on high-impact learning, visuals, and vocabulary
- how to use a metacognitive routine to reinforce fluency and flexibility with vocabulary and visuals for improved learning and long-term transfer
open sessions
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September 22, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm CDT |
Mabank ISD |
audience: aspiring district mentors
Mentoring is key to new teachers’ success! This training explores the tools and skills needed to effectively coach and mentor new teachers. Administrators, teachers, instructional coaches, PLC leaders, and others with a heart for teaching will leave the training ready to mentor new teachers in their district and on their campus.
Fee includes Mentoring and Coaching: Helping New Teachers Succeed training manual
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October 7, 2025 |
8:30am – 3:30pm |
Klein ISD Multipurpose Center |
audience: new teachers and mentors
How can we reach all learners, reduce the need for intensive intervention, and increase achievement with proactive, engaging instruction? By using lead4ward’s low-prep/high-yield instructional tools designed to meet students where they are—and move them forward!
This session will help you shift from teacher-centered, passive instruction to student-driven, highly engaging learning that opens multiple entry points for students. When we plan with intention and embed best instructional practices from the start, we prevent many common classroom challenges before they even arise.
Get ready to move, interact, and have fun as we rehearse activities that help students learn academic vocabulary, analyze visuals, comprehend text, and THINK! TALK! WRITE! You’ll walk away with tools you can use tomorrow to boost engagement, provide access for diverse learners, and build student confidence.
what you’ll learn:
- how to use lead4ward’s instructional resources as enhancements and complements to district curriculum and HQIMs
- how student-centered instruction helps prevent classroom management issues before they start
- how to align engaging instruction to teacher evaluation rubrics such as T-TESS
- how to promote proactive intervention and multiple learning entry points through lead4ward’s four instructional resources:
- instructional strategies playlist
- quickchecks
- think it up questions for teachers
- thinking stems for students
your solution for:
- reaching all learners through multiple access points
- preventing behavior and academic issues by embedding engagement from the start
- strengthening Tier 1 instruction
- infusing energy and effectiveness into direct teach, guided practice, intervention, and review