On-Site Staff Development

Vera Blake is a retired middle school principal and a National Middle School Association author. She works with schools across the country dealing with student achievement. She also maintains an interest in curriculum supervision and administrator preparation.

Topics:

• Communication skills
• Diversity issues
• Leadership skills
• Standards based classrooms
• Student motivation
• Interdisciplinary teaching
• Instructional leadership
• Creating and maintaining exemplary middle schools
• Parent involvement and inclusion
• Interdisciplinary teaching and teaming
• Closing the achievement gap
• Teacher mentoring
• Technology integration with instruction
• Success is the only option
• Combining differentiated instruction with understanding by design
• Classroom instruction that works and classroom management