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Harvey Silver Harvey Silver is the cofounder of The Thoughtful Classroom, a national movement focused on "making students as important as standards," now a renowned professional development program. He also has pioneered a number of programs for state education departments, including the Georgia Critical Thinking Skills Program and the Kentucky Thoughtful Education Teacher Leadership Program. Silver is the author of The Thoughtful Education Guide to Reading for Meaning (Corwin, 2009) and several educational bestsellers, including Math Tools, Grades 3-12 (Corwin, 2008), The Strategic Teacher (2007), Tools for Promoting Active, In-Depth Learning (2001)—winner of a Teacher's Award in 2004 from Learning Magazine—and So Each May Learn (2000). Formerly a teacher and administrator at the elementary, secondary, and graduate levels, Silver has served as a trainer and consultant for hundreds of schools worldwide. He earned a doctoral degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

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The LSIS Resource Center

An essential part of Silver Strong & Associates' professional development training program, the Learning Style Inventory for Students (LSIS) Resource Center is based on the work of renowned psychologist Carl Jung and provides educators with the means for understanding and working with student learning differences in their classrooms.

Offering a wealth of information that includes powerful tips and strategies for working with diverse learning styles, the LSIS model is presented by trainers with more than 35 years of experience in professional development.

LSIS resources include the Learning Style Inventory™ for Students Kit to help educators developing meaningful plans and solutions for students whose academic performance falls below curriculum standards.

» Learn more about the LSIS Resource Center.

The Thoughtful Classroom: A Partnership in Learning

Becoming part of The Thoughtful Classroom community offers you the opportunity to build a partnership between your organization and ours, so that together we can customize the training and coaching experience to your unique needs. Silver Strong & Associates offers a range of site-based training services in the format that works best for your school.

Along with The Thoughtful Classroom partnership, Silver Strong also offers a series of intensive two-day workshops designed to get results quickly by addressing the most current issues and challenges in education. Workshops include:

1. Developing a Thoughtful Approach to RTI
2. Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century
3. The Craft of Leadership: Developing Professional Learning Communities That Really Work
4. The Eight C's of Student Engagement: Increasing Students' Commitment to Learning
5. Instructional Design: Five Steps to Building Strategic Lessons and Units
6. Leveling the Playing Field: Achieving Fairness and Equity in Education
7. Math Tools: Differentiating Instruction and Increasing Student Engagement in Mathematics
8. Comprehension, Inference, Interpretation: Helping Students Read for Meaning

To learn more about The Thoughtful Classroom, please visit www.thoughtfulclassroom.com. To request a Thoughtful Classroom professional development proposal, please contact questions@ThoughtfulEd.com.