On-Site Learning Opportunities​

Dr. Tammy Pawloski provides a menu of services designed to explore the impact of limited resources along with strategic shifts that yield powerful outcomes.  Standard and customized professional study options are available that can be focused directly on your goals. Common project objectives developed by schools and districts include:

  • Understand ways in which life with limited resources may impact brain development and school achievement
  • Identify common threats to achievement linked to limited access to resources
  • Gain resources for understanding and meeting the challenges that poverty can present
  • Explore 25 evidence-based, goal-directed, and high-yield practices that can positively impact school success
  • Take away a simple action research model for in-school implementation of practices that matter

Keynote Presentations and Workshops

Join Tammy Pawloski in a custom-designed, high-energy event that will inspire shifts in thinking and action. Music and video, powerful graphics, and real examples from the field are used to explore both the impact of limited access to resources on school and life success and evidence-based strategies that yield powerful outcomes. Tammy’s passionate delivery includes an uncommon combination of research, practice, and compelling stories from the field that both empower and challenge. Learn how to reframe the challenges faced by teachers in high-poverty schools as opportunities for changing the futures for under-resourced (and ALL!) learners.

Popular Keynote Presentations and Workshops

  • Leveraging the Power of Grace:  Supporting Every Kid Every Day
  • Why Poverty Matters and Why YOU Can Matter More
  • Why Access to Resources Matters and Why YOU Can Matter More
  • Challenges and Opportunities:  Revealing the Hidden Potential of Every Kid Every Day
  • Brain Power:  Using the Science of Learning to Elevate Teaching and Learning
  • Brain Hacks:  Leveraging Cognitive Neuroscience to Save Time and Improve Outcomes
  • 25 Evidence-Based Practices that Matter Most
  • Other topics?  You design!

Sustained Professional Study in Schools or Districts

Tammy’s model for sustained professional study has been utilized by schools and districts in South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and Michigan. Grounded by a simple, but effective, action research format, session participants study a new topic each month and develop a personalized plan for application of that content. Those plans are then strategically implemented in their own settings over the next weeks. Participants then return to review results and to layer in the next level of content.  

The model includes critical components of successful professional study:  the research foundation, real-life application, manageable data collection tools, and a follow-up focus on outcomes…not merely outputs! Tammy provides ongoing support for school leaders to ensure that their efforts remain focused and effective, and a menu of data point collectors are available for those organizations that wish to explicitly measure project success.

Example success stories include the initial pilot project implemented in a rural SC high school that registered ESEA grade movement from ‘F’ to ‘A’ in a single year; and implementation five years later by a committed K–5 school leader that resulted in an EVAAS growth measure increase from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), also in only one year. Tammy has facilitated this study in schools and districts across South Carolina due to the generous support of the South Carolina Department of Education.

Distance Learning – Individual or Groups – Live or On-Demand

Traditional face-to-face learning has been the mainstay in education for generations, but sometimes that model is just not logistically feasible.  Tammy has responded to the need for distance learning, especially during the national health crisis, with live distance events for large and small groups. Additionally, on-demand distance learning materials have been developed in response to the needs of those who desire non-traditional learning opportunities. Videos and accompanying study resources are available to guide individual or group professional study that can be conducted independently or facilitated by Tammy at your convenience. Select an individual topic of interest or a series of topics that specifically meet your needs.

25 Practices that Matter Most — On-Demand Modules