Growing Educators Inc. Information

Growing Educators’ involvement in public schools is focused on improving literacy instruction for all students and supporting professional learning communities through research-based methods, teacher mentoring, school-site courses and workshops. Additionally, we work closely with teachers, teacher-leaders, coaches, and school administrators to sustain this growth by reviewing, evaluating, and reforming ongoing literacy work. The consultants at Growing Educators have worked with nearly 40 urban, suburban, rural, charter and private schools across the country and internationally to help establish state-of-the-art balanced literacy classrooms that include reading and writing workshops. Growing Educators is committed to helping teachers and learning communities plan, implement, and reflect on research-based instructional strategies that integrate language, content and standards of convention in literacy instruction. Growing Educators has extensive experience supporting the teaching and learning of culturally, economically and linguistically diverse students in grades K-8. We do so in various forms. Most of our work is done throughout in class demonstration ‘lab sites’ where teachers and Growing Educators’ staff work closely together to examine our methodology through various lenses much like a scientist does, so that we are constantly in state of reflection and outgrowing our best practices. We work on our own reading and writing, transfer those experiences into curriculum, practice & refine methods and explore a variety of options assessing students so that students drive our next steps in teaching. We’re guided by the following principles: ● We believe every child deserves a team of support. ● We believe learning is a lifelong process. ● We believe mindful educators committed to outgrowing their best practices are the driving force behind student performance and achievement.