{"id":1301,"date":"2020-09-21T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizstevensphd.com\/?page_id=1301"},"modified":"2021-06-15T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T00:15:56","slug":"professional-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lizstevensphd.com\/?page_id=1301","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1575\" src=\"http:\/\/lizstevensphd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/liz-presenting-1440x960-1.jpg\" alt=\"Liz presents at a conference\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lizstevensphd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/liz-presenting-1440x960-1.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/lizstevensphd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/liz-presenting-1440x960-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lizstevensphd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/liz-presenting-1440x960-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lizstevensphd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/liz-presenting-1440x960-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Liz has provided professional development for educators across the United States, including New York, Kansas, Wyoming, Idaho, Georgia and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in setting up professional development for your school or district?\u00a0 <strong>Email me:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:estevens11@gsu.edu\">estevens11@gsu.edu<\/a> or fill out the form on the <a href=\"\/contact\/\">contact page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Possible PD topics:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Word reading instruction for students with word-level reading difficulties, including dyslexia<\/li>\n<li>Practices that support reading comprehension during ELA or content-area reading instruction (science, social studies)\n<ul>\n<li>Vocabulary instruction<\/li>\n<li>Main idea generation<\/li>\n<li>Question generation<\/li>\n<li>Word-problem solving schemas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Using clear and concise mathematics language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000099;\"><strong>Read what recent teachers had to say about Liz&#8217;s PD sessions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class='white' style='background:rgba(0,0,0,0); border:solid 0px rgba(0,0,0,0); border-radius:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;'>\n<div id='slider_1492' class='owl-carousel sa_owl_theme autohide-arrows' data-slider-id='slider_1492' style='visibility:hidden;'>\n<div id='slider_1492_slide01' class='sa_hover_container' style='padding:5% 5%; margin:0px 0%; background-color:rgb(208, 224, 227); '><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Hands down phenomenal presenter! She shared such great information!\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"I initially chose this session to fulfill the need for college credits. I am so glad I did! Elizabeth knows her stuff. She is highly informative and answered questions from viewers. I would be happy to be a part of future presentations by her.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Great resources! Excited to give them a try!\"<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id='slider_1492_slide02' class='sa_hover_container' style='padding:5% 5%; margin:0px 0%; background-color:rgb(208, 224, 227); '><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Liz was amazing and knowledgeable. This would be excellent for early to veteran teachers and staff. I feel like this would be a GREAT training for middle school and high school educators\/admin who may have not taught phonics\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"I am thankful I attended this session. It was very informative, and I will use what I have learned today to better myself as a teacher.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Great Presentation! Very Engaging!\"<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id='slider_1492_slide03' class='sa_hover_container' style='padding:5% 5%; margin:0px 0%; background-color:rgb(208, 224, 227); '><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Awesome information! Dr. Stevens is a wealth of information. I liked the books she recommended for us to read this summer!\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Such deep understanding and resource list for further learning. This was exceptional! Thank you!\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Incredibly helpful! Would highly recommend it to others!\"<\/span><br \/>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<div id='slider_1492_slide04' class='sa_hover_container' style='padding:5% 5%; margin:0px 0%; background-color:rgb(208, 224, 227); '><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Worthwhile and informative!\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"The most helpful webinar\/in-service training I have received in MANY years! Thank you so very much.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to get the slides to rethink and look forward to digging into these topics on my own.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"So in-depth! All our teachers need to hear her!\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Please have Dr. Stevens present more training in the future.\"<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id='slider_1492_slide05' class='sa_hover_container' style='padding:5% 5%; margin:0px 0%; background-color:rgb(208, 224, 227); '><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"I am so excited to receive all the resources via email that Dr. Stevens shared in this class. I feel so much more prepared for teaching next semester.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Stevens was very informative and provided beneficial strategies to promote student growth and achievement in the areas of vocabulary development and reading comprehension. I learned a lot from Dr. Stevens' presentations and would definitely appreciate and participate in future workshops given by her. Thank you!\"<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div id='slider_1492_slide06' class='sa_hover_container' style='padding:5% 5%; margin:0px 0%; background-color:rgb(208, 224, 227); '><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\"Stevens did an excellent job of blending together vocabulary strategies and comprehension strategies for helping struggling readers. I loved that she explicitly walked us through the \"Get the Gist\" procedure for teaching students how to identify the main idea in a text. I also love that she is either providing resources for us through an email, or she directed us to the website to find the applicable resources. 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