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 *New Course Summer 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia – gaylelumia@yahoo.com Course Credits: – 3 credits/45 Hours Course Description: Culturally responsive classroom education is at the forefront of teaching in the 21st Century. Students need to learn how to take educational risks and assume the responsibilities of independent work and collaboration. They need to be able to identify inequities and advocate for diversity within the classroom environment. In this course, participants will be able to learn how to create a classroom environment that represents and values all cultural backgrounds within the confines of their classroom. They will learn how to inculcate various perspectives throughout their respective disciplines and address ways in which empathy, conversations, backgrounds, and perspectives play a part in learning. The class will address the ways that students take ownership in their learning and view mistakes as ways to be constructive. *A Must for K-12 Educators* $250.00$280.00 |
 *New Course Summer 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia – gaylelumia@yahoo.com Course Credits – 3 Credits/45 Hours Course Description: Students go through the course of their days absentmindedly listening to teachers, abiding by rote rules of instruction, and mindlessly completing work. This course will instruct participants on leveraging their students’ ability to discover and reach their learning goals via self-awareness, goal setting, metacognition, and task analysis. Strategic learning behaviors will be analyzed for best practices, as well as learning to utilize the learning environment for students’ optimum success. *A Must for K-12 Educators* $250.00$280.00 |
 *New Course Summer 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia- gaylelumia@yahoo.com Course Credits- 3 Credits/45 Hours Course Description: The hallmark of high achieving students is the power of grit. Possessing this ability to persevere despite any adversity is something that needs to be instructed to our learners. Participants will learn how to recharge their students through commitment, long-term goal reaching, cultivation of ideas, passion for the disciplines they study, and inner dedication to themselves. A myriad of strategies will be discussed to unlock the mindset of their students, including small passages from historical freedom fighters, analysis of the grit characteristics, and remedies for facing challenges and obstacles. *A Must for K-12 Educators* $250.00$280.00 |
 *New Course Summer 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia – gaylelumia@yahoo.com Course Credits – 3 Credits/45 Hours Course Description: The goals of a multicultural education include celebrating all cultures and challenging all forms of discrimination. Shaping our students’ ability to recognize the beauty of other traditions is essential to their learning. This course will explore the vital aspects of diverse learning and the ways in which educators can inculcate multicultural values into their repertoire. Studies on diversity, equity, and twenty-first century pluralistic learning will be covered. *A Must for K-12 Educators* $250.00$280.00 |
 *New Course Summer 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia- gaylelumia@yahoo.com Course Credits- 3 Credits/45 Hours Course Description: Instructing all students to lead others, become independent thinkers, and take ownership in their learning is key to their success. This course will provide participants with the practices it takes to train their students to be at the top of their game including being proactive in their learning, finding their inner voice, and creating opportunities for themselves. Many tools will be provided that enable them to engage their students and direct them towards creating alternatives and goals in their lives, ones that cause them to be highly effective in all they do. *A Must for all K-12 Educators* $250.00$280.00 |
 *New Course Summer 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia- gaylelumia@yahoo.com Course Credits- 3 Credits/45 Hours Course Description: High academic achievement can create more opportunities for students indefinitely. The study skills, social skills, knowledge, and problem-solving abilities that students learn at school will support them throughout their entire lives. This course will cover the practical and effective ways to boost students’ academic achievement, as well as the ways in which to develop students’ missions, goals, and core strategies of learning. Participants will delve into the most efficacious ways to instruct their students, including problem-based instruction, differentiated modalities, technological sources, as well as many other creative modalities. *A Must for K-12 Educators* $250.00$280.00 |
 *New Course Summer 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia- gaylelumia@yahoo.com Course Credits- 3 Credits/45 Hours Course Description: Mastering the art of vocabulary instruction is tantamount to student success and must entice all learners. Vocabulary knowledge is the biggest predictor of student success. Within this course, participants will comprehend how to explicitly instruct vocabulary to their students. They will learn creative modalities that spark student interest and enable them to visualize concepts and relationships. Seven principles of vocabulary instruction will be explored, as well as evidence based literary strategies for all disciplines. *A Must for K-12 Educators* $250.00$280.00 |
| *New Course Summer 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia- gaylelumia@yahoo.com Course Credits- 3 Credits/45 Hours Course Description: Fostering deep and engaging classroom discussions is essential for promoting critical thinking and student engagement. Too often, classroom discussions tend to be blasé. This course will instruct participants on the tricks to tantalizing their learners. Teaching tools include effective communication and discourse, Socratic Seminars, innovative role-play, friends without pens, fishbowl, and many more! *A Must for K-12 Educators* $250.00$280.00 |
| *New Course Summer 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia – gaylelumia@yahoo.com Course Credits – 3 credits/45 Hours Course Description: Having the means to successfully maintain a positive classroom environment teeming with intrinsic motivation, enthusiastic students, minimal disruptions, and impactful lessons can be achievable via this new course. Participants will be able to identify the modalities in which students learn most efficiently – differentiated instruction, cooperative learning, guided research. Participants will be equipped perfectly and learn to manage and create optimum learning environments. *A Must for K-12 Educators* $250.00$280.00 |
 New Course Fall 2025 Instructor: Gayle Meinkes-Lumia – gaylelumia@yahoo.com As teachers know well, the onset of the school year can be extremely challenging for our students. Finding ways to initially connect with them is tantamount to their success. This course will broaden students’ perspectives and serve as a reference point for them, helping them recall and apply what they’ve learned. A wealth of anchor charts will be covered including reading, writing, math, science, interactive, classroom management, and many more. Teachers will be aware of the multitude of uses for the charts and will readily be able to adapt them to their respective classrooms. **A must for K-12 educators!!! $250.00$280.00 |
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