Consultant Network

Max Can Help You With

Grades K-12
●Creating suicide safety in schools
●Comprehensive Youth Suicide
●Next steps and challenges

Dr. "B" Can Help With:

Grades K-12

• Bridging Number Sense and Algebra
• Developing Academic Vocabulary
• Building conceptual understanding in math and STEM
• Questioning and reasoning in STEM classrooms
• Implementing a Performance Based Assessment Model

Amy Can Help With: 

GRADES K-12

• Understanding and assessing reading comprehension
• Utilizing academic vocabulary to increase reading comprehension
• Implementing the writing process in content areas
• Teaching grammar
• Utilizing Socratic Seminar to encourage student discourse

Jeffrey Can Help With:

• Strategies for Working with Students Who Challenge Us Most
• Managing Change in Schools
• Improve Lesson Plans with SEL

Wendy Can Help With:

• Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) Education
• The New York Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework

Steve Can Help With:

• Inspiring Keynote
• Leadership Development
• Innovative Ideas to Engage Students and Staff
• School Climate Strategies

Adele Can Help With:

● Restorative Justice Principles and Practices
● Leadership and Organizational Development
● Site-Based Management

Karen Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Mind mapping in the content areas
●Using a writer's notebook to unlock student potential
●Culturally Responsive Teaching
●Equity literacy for all learners

Johsua Can Help With:

• World Languages
• Language and Culture
• Authentic Language Learning
• Grammar as a Concept and in Context

Joan Can Help With:

• Social Studies Framework
• Instructional Strategies for Teaching SS Content
• Civic Seal

Laura Can Help With:

• Dr. John C. Maxwell Certified Leadership Trainer
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
• The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

Angela Can Help With:

• Differentiated Instruction
• AIS/MTSS Interventions
• Instructional Strategies

Glen Can Help With:

Grades 9-12
●Implementing engaging strategies to teach Living Environment
●Utilizing strategies to increase student success within the Science classroom
●Understanding the standards to improve lesson planning

Sarah Can Help With:

GRADES K-8
●Utilizing literacy assessments to inform instruction
●Writing Curriculum and units of study for using Google Docs
●Providing administrator/parent workshops in the area of literacy
●Implementing poetry Workshop

Bill Can Help With:

• The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Education
• Restoring Balance to Schools While Preparing Students for Their Future
• Learning 2025: National Commission on Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education
• Career Ready Trumps College Ready
• Moving Vision to Action
• Creating Future-Focused Schools

Jacqueline Can Help With:

• Instructional Strategies for English Language Learners (ELLs) and Multi-Lingual Learners (MLLs)
• Literacy in Content Areas Grades 6 – 12
• Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
• Teacher Induction

Wafa Deeb Can Help With:

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity
• Culturally Responsive Educators
• Strategies for English Language Learners/Multilingual Learners
• Federal Grants

Melissa Can Help With:

• Mindfulness and Movement
• Mindfulness and Meditation
• Self-Care

Joan Can Help with:

• Personalized Learning
• Problem Based Learning
• Instructional Strategies that Make an Impact
• Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
• Mathematics Best Practices
• Science Methodologies and Practices

Deborah Can Help With:

● Leadership and Organizational Development
● Social Emotional Learning
● Book Studies

Trish Can Help With:

• Mathematical Conceptual Understanding Within and Across Grade Levels 
• Building Fact Fluency
• Number Sense Routines in Mathematics 
• Formative Assessments in Mathematics
• Differentiated Instruction in Mathematics
• Math Discourse in the Classroom 
• Curriculum Writing/Scope & Sequence Aligned to Next Gen Math Standards

Kathleen Can Help With:

Grades 6-12
●Implementing AP, honors and Regents Chemistry curriculum
●Creating outdoor education lessons
●Planning NYSSLS-aligned lessons
●Enhancing instruction with three- dimensional teaching and learning
●Providing Sci21 training

Philip Can Help With: 

• Group Work in Mathematics Classroom
• Problem Solving in Mathematics
• Financial Literacy
• Engaging Students Math Classroom

Myron Can Help With:

• Grading Smarter, Not Harder
• Give Students a Say!
• Smarter Assessment Practices to Empower and Engage
• Generative AI
• Using AI sequencing from learning standards to assessment

Steven Can Help With:

Grades K-12
●Project Based Learning (PBL)-Including Introductions, framework, curriculum mapping, lesson planning, interdisciplinary studies; questioning techniques and applying Webb's depth of knowledge to lesson planning
●Curriculum development and planning
●Interdisciplinary teaming
●Developing professional learning communities

Paul Can Help With:

• Implicit Bias The Work Behind the Work
• Identity and Implicit Bias

Christina Can Help With:

• Teacher Mentoring for Administrators
• Introduction to Teacher Mentoring Program

Erik Can Help With:

• Deconstructing Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
• Good Questioning and Inquiry

James Can Help You With

Grades K-12
●Leadership Trainings
●Socially and Emotional Learning
●Search Inside Yourself (SIY)
●Powerful Practice of Mindfulness for building emotional intelligence and cultivating well being

Laura Can Help With: 

Grades K-12
●New Teacher Mentoring
●Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education
●ELL/MLL

Alice Can Help With

Grades 6-12
●Developing a Vertical Alignment Model for teaching Inquiry Skills
●Infusing literacy instruction into the Social Studies curriculum
●Integrating the teaching of historical thinking skills into Social Studies instruction
●Strengthening Advanced Placement History instruction as per the new Frameworks
●Pre AP/Vertical Teams in Social Studies
●Mapping Social Studies Curriculum 6-12 (Content and Skills) to integrate the elements in the new Social Studies Framework
●Providing US and Global History content support for teachers of Special Education and English Language Learners

Brian Can Help With:

• Growth mindset
• Emotional Intelligence
• Neurological health and mental resilience
• Teacher/Student communication
• Cooperative working environment

Jason Can Help With: 

• Navigating the Shift to Future-Ready, Equitable Learning Environments

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Foundations: Understanding and Exploring Generative AI

• Powering Up Student Engagement with Generative AI

• AI-Driven Differentiation-Tailored Learning for All

• AI Assistant: Reduce Your Workload as an Educator

• Using AI Responsibly with Students

Rebecca Can Help With:

• STEM Consultant
• Curriculum development
• NYS SMART NY grant team
• Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards

Francine Can Help With:

• Multi-Sensory Language (Orton-Gillingham)
• Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator (OGCE) Level
• Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator (30 hour course)
• Orton-Gillingham Practicum (100 hours)

Victor Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Creating standards based curriculum, units, lessons
●Implementing best practices for reading and writing promoting close reading, raising text complexity, developing argument
●Teaching literacy in the content areas
●Applying critical thinking strategies
●Utilizing teaching protocols and student collaboration

Ryen Can Help With:

Grades K-12
●Scaffolding Instruction of Mathematics
●Equity in Mathematics
●Using Differentiated Math Stations

Ray Can Help With:

● Boards of Education Retreats
● Leadership and Team Building Practices
● Strategic and Organizational Development

Emily Can Help With:

Grades K-12
●Introduction to NYSSLS Lesson Planning and Assessment
●Aligning Curriculum to the NYSSLS
●Developing NYSSLS-Aligned Formative and Summative Assessments
●Supporting English Language Learners in Science
 

• Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management
• Juvenile Risk Assessments
• Juvenile Forensic Assessments

Michael Can Help With:

● Coaching/Mentoring and Providing Feedback for Professional Growth
● Leadership Development
● SWOT Analysis and Decision Making

Andrea can help with:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Secondary ELA

Emma Can Help With:

● Organizational Development
● Data Driven Instruction
● Inquiry Teaming

Duncan Can Help With:

• Grit in Education
• Psychological Resilience
• Building Student Resilience

Lori Can Help With:

• Leadership Development
• Elementary Curriculum and Best Practices
• Navigating the SEAS: Social, Emotional and Academic Success in our Schools
• Inspiration and Motivation to Optimize our Personal and Professional Outcomes
• Implicit Bias
• Self Care / Self Love Keynote

Lauren Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Balanced Literacy
●Reading and/or writing workshops
●Role of readers' and/ or writer's notebook 
●Science of Reading

Diana Can Help With:

Grades K-12
●Mathematics Education Training for Elementary Teachers
●Implementing Research Based Best Practices for Mathematical Pedagogy K-12
●Increasing Rigor: deep conceptual understanding, fluency and application
●Understanding and applying mathematical practices
●Utilizing data driven instruction for differentiation
●Understanding Acceleration Pathways

Steven Can Help With:

GRADES 9-12
●Creating effective scheduling
●Manipulating and innovating the traditional schedule
●Increasing instructional time
●Maximizing the impact of the school day

Beth Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Implementing/ sustaining the co-teaching model
●Making curriculum accessible to all
●Providing inclusive Education
●School and District-Level Planning
●Developing classroom communities and social/peer interactions
●Completing individual student studies
●Applying Person-Centered Planning
●Implementing disability specific strategies

Leadership GRADES K-5
●On site consulting with elementary school administrators on ways to establish and maintain successful integrated co-teaching models in their elementary schools
●Additional (before & after) coaching & consulting with co-teaching teams will be scheduled to facilitate and secure the success of their ICT programs

Angela Can Help With:

Grades K-12
●Assessment based approach to learning
●Maximizing learning
●Supporting students as independent learners

James Can Help With:

• Strategic Planning 
• Survey development and implementation
• Goal setting and identifying key performance indicators
• Improving data literacy to inform instruction
• Data analytics

Tiffany Can Help With:

• Studying Skillful Teaching
• Foundations in Teaching: Preparing for the First Years
• Making Student Thinking Visible: With & Without Coaching
• Analyzing Teaching for Student Results
• Framework for Central Office Leaders

Kerry Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Dyslexia and/or Reading/Language-Based Learning
●Dyscalculia and Math Related Learning Challenges
●Executive Function
●How to Help Students Succeed
●Learning and Technology Tools and Assistive Supports for Students

Erik Can Help With:

• Science of Reading
• The Big 6 - NYS Literacy Briefs
• Integrating Balanced Literacy and Science of Reading 
• Curriculum Writing and Revisions to Support Knowledge Building
• Content Area Literacy 
• Text Based Discussion and Writing About Reading
• Vocabulary & Morphology 
• Small Group Instruction through the lens of Scarborough’s Rope 
• Workshop Teaching 
• Structured Literacy 
• Process Writing & Grammar Instruction 
• Guided Reading with Decodable and Leveled Texts
• Interactive Read Aloud & Shared Reading 
• Oral Language, Phonological Awareness, and Systematic Phonics
• Multi-sensory Phonics, Heggerty, Fundations, and Orton Gillingham 
• F&P Classroom and Units of Study Support
• Reciprocal Teaching 
• Book Clubs
• Data analysis and assessment-based instruction 

LGBT Can Help With:

• Creating safe spaces for LGBTQ people
• The Transgender Experience
• NYS Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students Guidance Document

Tom Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Distraction, Disruption, Motivation & Grit: Our Brains on Adolescence

Marisol can help with: 

• Updating pedagogical practices in world language education
• Mentoring and training for language educators
• Teaching strategies for equity and inclusion
• Mentoring and coaching for supporting multilingual learners
• Turnkey training on multilingual learners' education

Mark Can Help With:

• Motivational Wellness 

Dr. Martin Can Help With:

• MTSS – The framework
• Writing for Mastery
• Co-teaching a Comprehensive Approach

Carrie Can Help With:

Grades K-12
●Complying/sustaining TESOL mandates
●Implementing mentor programs and staff training
●Utilizing curriculum writing to enhance ENL/ELL student success
●Applying various instructional methods

Natalie Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Equity Institute Training
●Equity Action Planning
●Districtwide Equity Action Planning Services
●DEI Strategy Consultation
●Cultural Proficiency

Jay Can Help With: 

GRADES K-12
●UbD Curriculum Design
●Designing Authentic Assessments
●Rubrics
●Curriculum Mapping

William Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Assessing Cultural Competencies
●Implicit Bias, Equity & Cultural Competence in Schools
●Reaching the Sometimes Hard-to-Reach

Christine Can Help With:

• Math Talks
• Differentiated Instruction in the Elementary Math Classroom
• Fractions - including strategies specific for ELL/MLL & students of varied ability levels

Mike Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Behavior Consulting
●Managing Classroom Behavior
●Crisis Intervention

Erica Can Help With:

GRADES K-8
●Creating literacy rich environments
●Coaching and Modeling best practices
●Implementing a Balanced Literacy approach
●Developing literacy strategies

Stephanie Can Help With: 

• Develop trust and rapport

• Utilize conversation structures for planning, reflecting and problem resolving

• Utilize the coaching tools of pausing, paraphrasing, and posing questions

• Use data to mediate thinking

• Cognitive Coaching

Rose Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Every Student Succeeds Act
●Effective Instructional Practices

Pat (Schoolwide, Inc.) Can Help With:

• Leadership support and mentoring
• Integrating Grammar
• Promoting Agency, Identity and Goal Setting
• Supporting Writers and Process Writing
• Supporting the Development of Readers
• Lifting the Level of Writing About Reading
• Systems for Strategic Actions: Building Metacognition
• Office Hours: Quick Check-ins to Support New Staff
• Building an Assessment Toolbox
• Data Collection - Leading to Building Profiles of Learners
• Responsive Small Group Instruction
• Using Mentor Texts to Support Readers, Writers and Linguists (aka Grammarians)
• Building a Bridge: Using Conferring to Enhance Agency and Empower Risk Taking
• Establishing and Sustaining a Culture of Literacy
• Interdisciplinary Literacy: Integrating Science and Ss
• Building Multigenre Units of Study
• Enhancing Home-School Connections

Dali Can Help With: 

• English as a New Language (ENL)

Paul Can Help With: 

High intensity instruction that:

• Builds number sense, fluency and reasoning
• Enhances long term retention of essential concepts and skill
• Supports the cognitive process needed for mathematical language development

Diane Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Inclusive Education
●Co-Teaching
●Differentiated Instruction
●Para Professional Training
●Community Building

Mills Can Help With:

• Being A Champion For Kids
• Teaching Two-gether
• Inspiring A Mindset To Flourish As An Educator

Lizette Can Help With:

• Culturally Responsive Education through the Lens of MLL Students in All Content Areas
• Second Language Acquisition, Translanguaging, Scaffolding, Comprehensible Input 
• SIOP Methods-Language Objectives & Comprehensible Input
• Effective Communication w/ parents of ELL/MLL students

Anne Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Standards based grading

●DASA

●MTSS

●Standard Based

Charles Can Help With:

• Conversational Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Boards of Education

Concetta Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Dyslexia: What It Is and What to Do About It
●Specialized Program Individualizing Reading Excellence (SPIRE) Training
●Customized Trainings as needed

Nicolle Can Help With:

• Next Gen Math Standard
• Model small group math instruction
• Develop individualized math assessments
• Demonstrate Record keeping for formative assessments

Mubina Can Help With:

• Artificial Intelligence in Education
• Leveraging Virtual Reality as a Learning Space
• Educational Technology
• Using Educational Technology to Promote Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Skills
• Digital STEM Curriculum

Kristina Can Help With:

GRADES K-8
●Analyzing current literacy programs and setting goals for school-wide transformation and growth

●Equipping teachers to administer the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment with fidelity, analyze results, and teach with intention through small group instruction for accelerated growth

●Providing guidance on effective literacy teaching methods through whole-class, small group, and individual instruction, including Fountas and Pinnell Classroom

●Offering effective literacy workshops tailored for administrators, literacy coaches, and other leadership roles 

●Equipping parents with practical reading strategies to support student growth at home

Carol Can Help With:

• Critical Thinking in the Classroom
• The Question Formulation Technique
• Inquiry based learning/curious classroom
• Literacy Workstations
• Balanced Literacy
• Strategies for Teaching the Big Six for Effective Literacy Instruction
• Book Studies for Elementary Classroom Teachers
• Strategies for Phonemic Awareness and Phonics in the Intermediate Grades

Peggie Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Developing & Fostering positive school culture
●Teacher Mentor Training
●Social Emotional Learning

Rita Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Implementing and sustaining character education
●Applying effective behavior management strategies
●Understanding =instructional strategies
●Implementing administrative practices that impact culture and climate

Michelle Can Help With:

• Science of Reading
• The Big 6 - NYS Literacy Briefs
• Integrating Balanced Literacy and Science of Reading 
• Curriculum Writing and Revisions to Support Knowledge Building
• Content Area Literacy 
• Text Based Discussion and Writing About Reading
• Vocabulary & Morphology 
• Small Group Instruction through the lens of Scarborough’s Rope 
• Workshop Teaching 
• Structured Literacy 
• Process Writing & Grammar Instruction 
• Guided Reading with Decodable and Leveled Texts
• Interactive Read Aloud & Shared Reading 
• Oral Language, Phonological Awareness, and Systematic Phonics
• Multi-sensory Phonics, Heggerty, Fundations, and Orton Gillingham 
• F&P Classroom and Units of Study Support
• Reciprocal Teaching 
• Book Clubs 

Nancy Can Help With:

Grades K-12
●Designing learner active classrooms
●Designing equitable learning environment
●Building executive function

Catherine Can Help With:

Grades K-12
●Coordinating self- sustaining programs
●Increasing grant writing & management
●Implementing program planning and development
●Creating school & community partnerships

Andrea Can Help With:

• Learn and Understand AI
• Create opportunities for Global Learning
• Intercultural Learning
• Mentorship
• Project Based Learning

Alan Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Leadership Development
●Moving Schools from good to great

Jeanne Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Identifying and Supporting Students on the Autism Spectrum
●Assessing Students with Autism
●Strategies and Interventions for Students with ASD
●Making curriculum accessible to all
●Providing inclusive Education
●School and District-Level Planning
 

Brian Can Help With:

Grades 6-12
●Incorporating inquiry into the Science classroom
●Applying inclusion and co-teaching strategies in the science classroom.
●Developing curriculum that aligns science curricula with NY State Standards
Leadership GRADES 6-12
●Fourteen years as middle school and high school science department chairperson
●Responsible for comprehensive 6-12 science curriculum and master schedule
●Supervision of teachers including strategic planning and shared decision making
●Communication Skills
●Development and management of the 6-12 science budget

Todd Can Help With:

• What Great Leaders Do Differently
• How To Get All Teachers To Be Like The Best Teachers
• Rewiring and Recharging Your School Culture
• Classroom Management From The Ground Up
• Motivating People During Difficult Times
• Leading School Change: 9 Strategies to Bring Everybody On Board
• Reaching All Learners through Win-Win Discipline?
• Building and Enhancing Staff Morale/ Motivating & Inspiring Teachers
• Motivational Workshops and Speeches
• Supervision-Evaluation and Instructional Improvement
• Middle Level Development
• The Power of Positive Communication

Kirsten Can Help With:

• Science of Reading
• The Big 6 - NYS Literacy Briefs
• Integrating Balanced Literacy and Science of Reading 
• Curriculum Writing and Revisions to Support Knowledge Building
• Content Area Literacy 
• Text Based Discussion and Writing About Reading
• Vocabulary & Morphology 
• Small Group Instruction through the lens of Scarborough’s Rope 
• Workshop Teaching 
• Structured Literacy 
• Process Writing & Grammar Instruction 
• Guided Reading with Decodable and Leveled Texts
• Interactive Read Aloud & Shared Reading 
• Oral Language, Phonological Awareness, and Systematic Phonics
• Multi-sensory Phonics, Heggerty, Fundations, and Orton Gillingham 
• F&P Classroom and Units of Study Support
• Reciprocal Teaching 
• Book Clubs 

Debra Can Help With:

GRADES K-12
●Special Education Collegial Circles

Selene Can Help With:

• Instructional Strategies for students in special education, ELLS and MLLS
• Response to Intervention (RTI) and Multi-Tiered Support System (MTSS) strategies

Kelly Can Help With:

• Educator Self-Care
• Supporting Student Mental Health
• Creating Trauma Sensitive School Environments