About The Learning Collaborative
The Learning Collaborative transforms schools by bringing multifaceted organizational development to schools and organizations throughout the United States and internationally in four primary areas:
- Building your Instructional Leadership
- Organizational Development
- Transforming Schools, Cultures, and Systems
- Women in Leadership
Dr. Fran Prolman, president and senior consultant of The Learning Collaborative, is known for her depth of knowledge coupled with high energy and practical application of content. Fran incorporates a variety of training approaches as she works with educators. These include small group discussion, collaborative problem solving, videotape analysis, demonstrations and dynamic interchange.
Fran and The Learning Collaborative work with organizations in a variety of roles, including:
- Facilitating leadership retreats for administrators and school boards
- Delivers system-wide keynote speeches and workshops
- Coaching administrators in the building of professional learning communities, instructional supervision, evaluation and professional growth systems and the change process
- Leading workshops for teachers and administrators
- Offering synchronous and asynchronous courses
These workshops focus on:
- Differentiated instruction
- Formative and summative assessment
- Classroom application of instructional strategies that enhance student achievement
- Critical thinking
- Curriculum design for a Common Core standards-based classroom
