Staff Development Specializing in Differentiated Instruction
from Pieces of Learning

Carolyn Coil, Ed.D.

Carolyn is an internationally known speaker, author, trainer, consultant and educator. In her workshops, professional development courses, seminars and keynotes, she is an enthusiastic, motivating and energetic presenter. Carolyn works with teachers, parents and students offering practical strategies for raising student achievement, differentiating curriculum, implementing a variety of assessment strategies, and dealing with the problems and challenges associated with preparing ourselves and our children for living and working in the 21st Century. 

Carolyn has worked in the field of education and training for over 30 years. She currently teaches courses in gifted and talented education and does workshops for schools and school districts on a wide variety of topics. She has been an Adjunct Professor at several different universities and has worked in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, the Marshall Islands, Spain, Germany, Ecuador, Croatia, and South Korea. 

Carolyn's Sessions include:

Keynotes

• Are You a Thermometer or a Thermostat?
• Educational Leadership in a Time of Change
• Encouraging Achievement
• Sparkling Your "Sparkle" Throughout the School Year

Workshops

Assessment

• Solving the Assessment Puzzle
• Standards-Based Activities and Assessments for the Differentiated Classroom
• Criteria Cards: Tools for Formative and Summative Assessment

Differentiation

• Differentiating Curriculum for AP and Pre-AP Students
• Differentiating Curriculum for Middle School Students
• Differentiating Curriculum in the Multi-Ability Classroom
• Differentiating for Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom
• Differentiation for LEP Students
• Differentiated Instruction in American History
• Teaching Tools for the 21st Century
• Train the Trainer: Successful Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom
• Using Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences in the Differentiated Classroom
• Flexible Grouping:  It's More Than Just Moving Their Seats!
• Planning for Successful Schoolwide Differentiation
• Successful Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom

Gifted and Talented Education / Creative Thinking

• Developing Critical and Creative Thinking Skills
• Giftedness: What It Is - What It Isn't:  How to Deal with Those Who Are
• Creativity x 2
• "If It's on the Internet, It Has to Be True!"
• Using 'Questivities' to Develop Creative Thinking

Underachievement

• Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gap
• Challenging the "Hidden" Gifted Underachiever
• Encouraging Achievement:  Challenge, Responsibility, and Persistence
• Motivating Underachievers
• Seven Steps to Successful Student Achievement
• Surviving the Middle Years
• Top Ten Parent Questions
• Using the RTI Approach with Gifted Underachievers
• What to Do for Stressed-Out Kids: Dealing with Stress and Perfectionism

Response to Intervention

• Motivating All Students: Strategies to Use with the RTI Approach
• RTI and Differentiated Instruction: How They Work Together

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Carolyn is the author/co-author of the following books published by Pieces of Learning: (Click on a book for more information.)