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All workshops are accompanied by PowerPoint presentations and notes handouts. Elaine will provide books for purchase if desired. All workshops are stand-alone, however, and contain supplementary material not found in the books.

To obtain additional information regarding any of the following workshops, discuss tailoring a specific workshop to your needs, or inquire about fees or scheduling a workshop, e-mail Elaine at emcewan@elainemcewan.com.

Here's what educators across the country are saying about Elaine's workshops:

1. Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers:
   Using Cognitive Research to Boost Student Achievement
   Audience: Grades K-8 Administrators or Teachers.
   Time Frame: Full-Day Interactive Workshop
   Content: Participants will learn through hands-on activities how to personally use, model, and teach selected cognitive strategies in the context of their grade level or content area. If your students are passive, ineffective readers, teach them what they need to know to become effective readers who can extract and construct meaning from what they read. Participants are asked to bring fiction and non-fiction reading selections appropriate to their grade level for use in the workshop. A valuable companion resource to this workshop is Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement.

2. Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals:
   From Good to Great Performance
   Audience: Current and aspiring principals
   Time Frame: One to two-day Interactive Workshop
   Content: Participants will evaluate their personal productivity and effectiveness using the ten traits, acquire powerful tools to increase personal productivity, and develop and refine Rapid Rewards Goals that when implemented, produce immediate and positive results and feedback from teachers, students, and parents. A valuable companion resource to this workshop is Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance. The ten traits are aligned with the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards for School Leaders.

3. Catch Them Before They Fall: Preventing Reading
   Failure in Your Classroom and/or School
   Audience: Elementary Administrators and Teachers. Special education administrators and teachers. Title 1 administrators and teachers.
   Time Frame: Full-day workshop
   Content: This workshop focuses on the essential components of a reading program that need to be in place to catch the many students who are falling through the cracks in reading. Don't wait for them to fail and then remediate. Catch your students before they fall. A valuable companion resource to this workshop is Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids who Fall Through the Cracks.

4. Raising Reading Achievement in the Elementary School for Principals
   Audience: K-12 Administrators
   Time Frame: Full-day workshop
   Content: This workshop is based on the best-selling book by Elaine K. McEwan, The Principal's Guide to Raising Reading Achievement. Participants will: 1) identify twelve instructional and organizational variables that can be altered to raise reading achievement; 2) examine the essential learnings for students and determine what it takes over the long term to raise reading achievement; 3) acquire strategies, programs, and instructional approaches that can be used immediately in the school setting to impact reading achievement; and 4) clarify the role of principals in providing instructional leadership and support toward school improvement goals.

5. Raising Reading Achievement in the Elementary School for Teachers
   Audience: K-12 teachers.
   Time Frame: Full-day workshop
   Content: This workshop, suitable for motivating a school faculty or district staff to examine their beliefs about reading instruction and plan for change, is based on the best-selling book by Elaine K. McEwan, The Principal's Guide to Raising Reading Achievement (Corwin Press). Participants will: 1) identify twelve instructional and organizational variables that can be altered to raise reading achievement; 2) examine the essential learnings for students and determine what it takes over the long term to raise reading achievement; 3) acquire strategies, programs, and instructional approaches that can be used immediately in the school setting to impact reading achievement; and 4) clarify the role of teachers in using research-based materials and methods to ensure that all students learn to read. A valuable companion resource to this workshop is Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids who Fall Through the Cracks.

6. How to Create Primary Reading Programs that Get Results: Developing, Supervising, and Evaluating Reading Programs in Grades K-2
   Audience: Administrators, K-2 Teachers, Supervisors of Language Arts Programs
   Time Frame: Full-day workshop
   Content: During this workshop participants will: 1) be introduced to the components of a successful K-2 reading program; 2) discuss the ten traits of highly successful reading teachers; and 3) examine the specific things K-2 teachers need to know to effectively teach reading. The following titles are valuable companion resources to this presentation: Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids who Fall Through the Cracks and The Principal’s Guide to Raising Reading Achievement.

7. Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership
   Audience: K-12 Administrators
   Time Frame: Full-day workshop
   Content: This workshop is based on Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership (Corwin Press). Participants will: 1) understand instructional leadership and how it differs from leadership generally; 2) understand the relationship of instructional leadership to instructional improvement; 3) self-assess their own instructional leadership behaviors; 4) develop an action plan for change in one area of instructional leadership.

8. Building School Cultures that Get Results
   Audience: K-12 Administrators (Building Level and Central Office) This workshop is not designed for teachers.
   Time Frame: 1 day Interactive Workshop
   Content: Dealing with ineffective teachers and handling parents who are angry and troubled have always been challenges for administrators, but the stakes are much higher now. In today's results oriented educational world, even a handful of unproductive parents or unsupportive parents can cause schools and students to be left behind. When accountability for achievement is high, all teachers must be as close to peak performers as possible, and all parents must be involved and supportive of their children's educational experience.

   The goals of this workshop are (1) to provide principals with creative humane, supportive, timely, and tough ways to deal with teachers who aren't effective and parents who aren't supportive; and (2) to help principals build strong school cultures that energize and motivate all teachers and parents toward the goal of maximizing student learning and achievement. The following titles are valuable companion resources to this presentation: How to Deal with Parents Who Are Angry Troubled Afraid, or Just Plain Crazy and How to Deal with Teachers Who Are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused.