Dr. Nicki Newton is an education consultant who works with schools and districts around the country on elementary math curriculum (including best practices, guided math and math centers) as well as curriculum mapping. She has taught elementary school, middle school, and graduate school. Having spent several years as a bilingual teacher and staff developer, she has an extensive background in Sheltered Instruction and English Language Learner Strategies.
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We provide a variety of parent/family mini-workshops in both math and literacy. These include math and literacy family nights; parent university and parent test prep academy.
Cost: (2 hour sessions) $825
We can customize any of our workshop topics for your specific needs and wants. If you don’t see a topic that you are interested in, please contact us to discuss it.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
We provide in-school support coaching teachers on the social, emotional aspects of learning, Topics include: SEL, SEL Intervention; Self Awareness in Teaching; Self Awareness in Leadership; Mindfulness; Emotional Intelligence; 5 Core SEL Competencies; Integrating Social Emotional Learning throughout the School Day
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
We provide research based professional development in different areas: One-on-One coaching, grade level team planning and lesson implementation, building content knowledge,gathering formative assessment data, demo/co-teaching lessons after planning with teachers, teaching comprehension of word problems, teaching strategies for test-readiness, curriculum planning and unpacking NYS Math Standards.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
Package of 10 hours: $3850
We support leadership teams in developing a lens for looking at mathematics instruction that is grounded in research and how children learn math. We organize and coordinate professional development experiences based on SMART goals.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
Package of 10 hours: $3850
We provide direct support to principals on how to be an instructional leader. We can focus on a variety of topics, including math, literacy, special education, inclusion, English Language Learners and more. We can help leaders develop their talents and competencies so that they can build strong, effective, competent
teams
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
Package of 10 hours: $3850
Dyscalculia is a workshop designed to introduce the Math Learning disability Dyscalculia to elementary teachers and administrators. Throughout the workshop we will discuss the specifics of preparing to work with students who have Dyscalculia, working with them and assessing them.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
In this workshop we explore building number sense by using formative assessments, differentiation and games. We look at how strategic, targeted use of games can be an anchor to a math intervention program that motivates and energizes students. We focus on a variety of protocols that help teachers navigate the terrain
of math intervention. The focus is on finding strengths and building on them to close any gaps around counting, cardinality, operations and algebraic thinking, place value, fractions and decimals.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
In this workshop we focus on Tier 2 Interventions. What works? When? How? Well the research has a lot to say about succeeding at Tier 2 and we show you how to do it. In this workshop you will receive research-based practical strategies and tools for implementing Tier 2 instruction and intervention in mathematics. We will look at how to build collaborative teams, design targeted and specific interventions, provide powerful scaffolds throughout instruction and create schedules that work.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
We provide professional development workshops on how to accelerate instruction using the 8 recommendations of Math Intervention. We teach teachers how to plan, teach, progress monitor and then reteach until all students are able to reach grade level standards.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
In this workshop we look at how to accelerate learning so that all students can work on grade level. We will take a deep dive into the various aspects of making acceleration work so that all students can achieve success. Dr. Nicki will highlight the topics and examples in her new book on Accelerating Math Instruction.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
In this workshop teachers explore the many ways that students can write about math. We look at writing to explore, defend, prove, explain, justify and much more. We talk about different writing tasks such as entrance and exit slips, various reasoning routines and explanations of work We also explore using the math journal as a great ongoing space for writing in math class. There are many ways to get students to write in math class at all grades and this course can jumpstart that initiaive.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
We provide in school and virtual school support teaching reading or math. We have a variety of tutors who can do in school or virtual tutoring that is focused on specific grade levels and topics.
Cost: Full Day: $850.02 Half Day: $425.01
We can train your team to be confident, competent, knowledgeable tutors. We focus on content knowledge and pedagogy as well as building relationships with the students
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
We provide math fact fluency tutors that are trained in Math Fact Fluency Running Records. They focus on developing basic fact fluency with students. (We recommend a cycle of 12 30-minute sessions per student).
Cost: (Experience Tutor) Full Day: $850.02 Half Day: $566.68 (4hours) (Beginning Tutor) Full Day: $402 Half Day: $268
Math Problem Solving in Action is a workshop designed to introduce the teaching of word problems. Throughout the workshop we will discuss how to set up, implement and assess problem solving routines, do problem solving in guided math groups and set-up and manage the word problem math workstation. The
goal of this workshop is that teachers fully understand how to teach problem solving by the end of the workshop. Teachers should be able to describe what it is, how to do it, how to organize the classroom for problem solving, how to meaningfully implement problem solving activities with their current curriculum and how to
assess students in and to evaluate their effectiveness with problem solving.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
The goal of this workshop is that teachers understand the idea of curriculum mapping and can design a curriculum map. Teachers should be able to describe what it is, how to do it, why to do it, how to use it and how it is a “living document” that changes with time.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
In this workshop teachers explore the many ways that students can write about math. We look at writing to explore, defend, prove, explain, justify and much more. We talk about different writing tasks such as entrance and exit slips, various reasoning routines and explanations of work We also explore using the math journal as a great ongoing space for writing in math class. There are many ways to get students to write in math class at all grades and this course can jumpstart that initiaive.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
In this workshop we take a deep dive into the early learning number trajectories. We will look at trajectories, activities and assessments. This is a session designed for work with prek, Tk, k and 1st grade. We will take a deep dive into counting, subitizing and composing and decomposing numbers.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
Developing Algebraic Thinking is essential. In this workshop we look at how to develop algebraic thinking through energizers, routines, rich tasks and workstations throughout the year.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
The goal of this workshop is that teachers fully understand and be able to design and implement math workstations. Teachers should be able to describe what they are, how to do them, how to organize the classroom for math workstations, how to manage the workstations, how to implement them with their current curriculum and how to assess student workstation work and to evaluate the effectiveness of the math workstations.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
In this workshop we look at the ways in which energizers and routines help to reinforce place value, fluency, vocabulary, fractions, decimals and more throughout the year. We look at over 25 easy to implement routines based on Dr. Nicki’s book series and more
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
Guided Math in Action is a workshop designed to introduce the teaching of elementary math through small guided math groups. We will look at the 6 elements of guided math: assessment, differentiation, standards-based, rigor, scaffolding and engagement.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
The goal of this workshop is that teachers fully understand and can implement a Math Workshop. Teachers should be able to describe what it is, how to do it, how to organize the classroom, how to manage the different rotations, how to implement the structure of Math Workshop with their current curriculum and how to
assess students in Math Workshop and to evaluate their effectiveness in using this instructional strategy.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
The goal of this workshop is that teachers fully understand and be able to design and implement math workstations. Teachers should be able to describe what they are, how to do them, how to organize the classroom for math workstations, how to manage the workstations, how to implement them with their current curriculum and how to assess student workstation work and to evaluate the effectiveness of the math workstations.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
Conferring with students is an essential part of any workshop. In these sessions we discuss, watch videos and unpack conferring. We explore why you do it, how to do it and how to evaluate it
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
Math Running Records is an Assessment System for Math Fact Fluency. During this workshop we train participants how to administer, analyze, interpret and use Math Running Records as a way to track grade level fluency data and plan for instruction.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
In this package of training we assess selected students (by achievement, class, grade, or whole school). We write a report and make a fluency plan for the school. We set up math fact fluency workstations and a system for rolling it out. We provide ongoing math fact fluency coaching to teachers.
Cost: Full Day: $850.02 Half Day: $425.01 (Plan for 4-8 days)
We provide professional development focused on assessment in the following areas: Balanced Assessments, Reading Running Records, Formative Assessments and Summative Assessments.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.50
We provide workshop and ongoing training on the use of spreadsheets to develop trackers of student progress. We also provide training/support on how to organize and implement data teams.
Cost: Full Day: $1925 Half Day: $962.5