Educator Workshops & Keynotes

Growing Minds Consulting offers dynamic, research-driven workshops, keynotes, and professional learning experiences that are customized to meet the unique needs of your educators, leadership teams, and students. Whether you're seeking support for mathematics instruction, building inclusive systems, or energizing your staff with an inspirational keynote, we deliver sessions that are practical, engaging, and designed to spark sustainable change.

Sessions are available in-person or online and can be delivered as:

• Conference sessions

• Keynote addresses

• Half-day or full-day workshops

• Multi-part series

• PLC and coaching cycles

Math Pathway Professional Learning

Supporting Equitable Math Outcomes Through MTSS & UDL

We offer a strategic menu of math-focused professional learning aligned with a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) and rooted in Universal Design for Learning (UDL). These sessions are designed to build teacher capacity, improve instructional practices, and boost student achievement across all tiers.

Popular Math Sessions Include:

🔹 Math for All: Providing Inclusive, High-Quality Math Instruction
Explore how to design Tier 1 math instruction that is both standards-based and universally designed. Learn how to proactively remove barriers so all students can access and engage in rich mathematical learning.

🔹 Navigating the Math Intervention Maze: Tiers 2 and 3 Demystified
Unpack what effective Tier 2 and Tier 3 math intervention really looks like. Learn how to identify priority areas of need, implement strategies that work, and deliver supports that help students close gaps and accelerate.

🔹 Empowering Mathematical Minds: Strategies for Developing Proficiency
Explore the Five Strands of Mathematical Proficiency from Adding It Up and gain hands-on strategies to strengthen each strand in your instruction: productive disposition, conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, strategic competence, and adaptive reasoning.

🔹 Top Tips for Supporting Students with Disabilities in Math
Get specific strategies for accommodations, IEP goal-setting, and targeted support for students with disabilities in math. Ideal for both general education and special education teams.

Check out our Mini-workshop through Grassroots Workshops - How To Reach Math Students By Implementing Universal Design For Learning (UDL). If you feel overwhelmed because you have more students struggling in math than ever before and you don’t know what to do about it, this mini workshop is for you. It will help you feel more confident because you have strategies to plan for and support students regardless of their ability level.

Universally Designed Professional Learning & Culture Building

Facilitating Inclusive, Equitable, and Sustainable Systemic Change

We don’t just help you talk the talk, we help you walk it. These professional learning experiences are designed for school and district leaders, coaches, and instructional teams who want to create inclusive systems, shift culture, and elevate the impact of their professional learning.

Signature Sessions Include:

🔹 Professional Learning for All: Modeling UDL in Adult Learning
Experience UDL in action as a learner while discovering how to redesign your professional learning systems to honor variability, remove barriers, and increase engagement.

🌱 How to G.R.O.W. Your School Culture
Use the G.R.O.W. framework (Give support, Remove obstacles, Optimize strengths, Welcome feedback) to build a staff culture that retains talent, promotes joy, and sustains growth.

🔹 How to Design Inclusive, Learner-Focused Professional Learning
Apply UDL and adult learning theory to your district’s professional learning approach - across workshops, PLCs, coaching, and more. This session is ideal for central office staff and school leaders.

🎤 Inspirational Keynotes
Need a keynote that energizes your team and leaves them inspired to act? Naomi brings a high-energy, engaging delivery that blends research with humor, practical strategies, and heart.

Parent & Caregiver Learning Opportunities

These sessions are designed to empower families with research-based strategies and practical tools to support their children’s learning and success - at home and beyond. Perfect for parent nights, PTA/PTO events, or community education series.

Signature Sessions Include:

🔹 5 Strategies for Cultivating Successful Children

Parenting is a challenge… then add in a pandemic, social media, and “new math”! This session explores five simple yet powerful strategies that support the development of grit, confidence, and a love of learning. Discover how your words can make the difference between resilience and resistance; and how the right kind of praise can fuel academic and personal success.

🔢 6 Ways to Ignite Engagement in Math

If math homework has turned into a nightly battle, this one’s for you. This highly interactive session will reframe math as something joyful and doable at home. You'll walk away with six fun, low-pressure strategies, based on Jo Boaler’s research at Stanford, that help reduce math anxiety, increase motivation, and turn everyday moments into math opportunities. Spoiler: no worksheets required.

📘 Let Them Thrive Book Study Experience

Education today looks dramatically different than it did just a generation ago. In this facilitated book study experience based on Let Them Thrive by Katie Novak, parents and caregivers will explore how learner variability, Universal Design for Learning, and 21st-century skills intersect with parenting. The focus is on discussion, connection, and actionable insights to support your child’s success in a changing world.