NHLI | New Hampshire Learning Initiative
All Students Deserve a Quality Education
Our professional development programs in leadership and structural support, instruction, and feedback tools help deepen assessment practices and integrate student-centered learning into your district, schools, and classrooms.
Our professional development programs in leadership and structural support, instruction, and feedback tools help deepen assessment practices and integrate student-centered learning into your district, schools, and classrooms.
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Note: Any PD program for individuals (listed below) can be customized to run within a district
Think Like a Futurist: Preparing For, Anticipating, and Navigating Change in Education
Spend the day with Jason Swanson, Senior Director of Strategic Foresight at Knowledgeworks to make sense of the changing landscape of education, including artificial intelligence and other accelerating technologies, curricula and classroom practices, educator roles, and more.
8 am – 2:30 pm
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Grappone Conference Center
Concord, NH
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Click Here to Register for the Future of Learning Summit
Three virtual sessions on Fridays designed for building leadership and teachers to move toward a competency-based learning environment.
Sessions address (1) Shifting to a CBL System? Where Do We Start? (2) How Do We Lead the Work? (3) How Did We Do and Where Do We Go From Here?
The cost is $5oo/per person. Includes a copy of Unpacking the Competency-Based Classroom
9 am – 12 noon
February 14, 2025
March 28, 2025
May 2, 2025
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Click Here to Register for Leading Competency-Based Learning in Your School or District
The Summer 2024 OGAP Trainings are complete. Information on the 2025 Summer schedule will be posted early in 2025.
OGAP is an evidence-based formative assessment system that includes professional development, resources, and routines for teachers and leaders to continually adjust instruction to meet the diverse needs of students in grades K-8 mathematics. Four, consecutive, in-person, full days equip teachers with the knowledge and instructional practices to bring to their classrooms. Three follow-up virtual sessions during the school year to review student work and discuss the mathematics progressions, reinforcing their learning.
Four different trainings:
K-2 Additive Reasoning
3-6 Multiplicative
6-8 Proportional
3-5 Fractions
Teachers in a variety of roles and content areas want skills that build a foundation for leading and supporting innovative practices in their schools. This five Saturday session will present the skills to assist a district in moving forward in its competency-based education and equity goals. A stipend is available to full participants in the program. Email NHLI if you wish to enroll yourself or any of your teachers in this program.
Increase student engagement and agency in the K-12 classroom. This six-part, virtual series takes a deep dive into performance learning and meaningful assessments that produce high quality evidence of deeper learning.
12 – 3 pm
December 12, 2024
January 16, 2025
February 13, 2025
March 13, 2025
April 16, 2025
May 8, 2025
$600/participant
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Click Here to Register for Strategies for Assessment To Increase Engagement and Agency
NHLI and SNHU are offering 3 graduate credits for your full participation in this workshop.
Work Study Practices are four critical competencies students need for success in their career, college and life: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Self-direction. This program integrates these critical competencies into curriculum and instruction, allowing students to build the metacognitive practices necessary for success in whatever pathway they choose.
The POL is a collaborative process to define a vision (a north star) for student success after High School by identifying competencies valued by the entire community. Partners in this process include representatives from the district, the school(s), family, business and industry, and community members. NHLI believes this process needs to be developed over time and cannot begin in high school but is part of system thinking K-12. And that using data from all constituencies informs the process and keeps the Portrait sustainable. NHLI will conduct and guide the POL process from data gathering, to portrait development, to community reveal. Email NHLI if you are interested in developing or enhancing a POL.
This 3-part, in-person workshop is designed for new teachers, alternative certification teachers, and experienced teachers looking to deepen their understanding of competency-based learning. The workshop is based on the Aurora Institute’s definition of Competency-Based Learning and will cover student agency, performance assessment, systems of support, feedback cycles, active learning strategies, and equity.
8 am – 2:30 pm
March 27, 2025
April 17, 2025
May 15, 2025
NH Audubon McLane Center
Concord, NH
$600/participant
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Click Here to Register for Introduction to Competency-Based Learning for Teachers New To CBL
Research and practice have shown that competency-based teaching and learning works well for students who learn differently, leading to lower anxiety and higher achievement. The goal of this workshop series is to provide resources and strategies to help teachers and leaders support all learners in a competency-based system.
This three-day, in-person workshop on Project-Based Learning (PBL) or project-based instruction is a student-centered teaching method that encourages learning through engaging, real-world, curriculum-related questions or challenges.
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
June 24-25-26, 2025
9 am – 3 pm
NH Audubon McLane Center
Concord, NH
$600/participant
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Click Here to Register for Engaging Students Through Project-Based Learning
NHLI and SNHU are offering 3 graduate credits for your full participation in this workshop.
This two-day, in-person design workshop for science teachers supports the design of a student-centered, competency-based, instructional model aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.
There are three different Grade Level Options for this workshop.
(1) Middle and High School Teachers
Monday and Tuesday
November 4-5, 2024
8:30 am – 2:30 pm
NH Audubon Massabesic Center
Auburn, NH
$500/Participant
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(2) Grades K-12 School Teachers
Thursday and Friday
January 30-31, 2025
Common Man Inn and Spa
Plymouth, NH
$500/Participant
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(3) Elementary School Teachers
Thursday and Friday
April 10-11, 2025
NH Audubon McLane Center
Concord, NH
$500/Participant
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Click Here to Register for Elementary School Teachers Science Workshop
Elevate your project-based learning (PBL) experience! This three-part, virtual, PBL Fine-Tuning Lab delves into the art of refining and perfecting your PBL unit. NHLI designed the workshop for educators and learners alike who want to enhance the depth, clarity, and impact of their unit.
December 10, 2024
February 11, 2025
April 8, 2025
3 – 6 pm
$375/participant
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Click Here to Register for PBL Fine Tuning Lab: Elevate Your Work
I Can’t Do This Alone: How to Maximize the Collaborative Structures and Mindsets in Your School To Support All Students
4 Virtual Sessions
Offered Twice Each Day
8:30 – 11:30 am
or
12 – 3 pm
January 31, 2025
March 6, 2025
April 4, 2025
May 9, 2024
$500/participant
Click Here to Register for Collaborative Teaming for K-12 Educators
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Three virtual workshops designed to help schools develop grading practices and policies that support competency-based learning.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
Friday, March 14, 2025
9 – 10:30 am
$300/participant
Virtual through Zoom
Click Here to Register for Grading For Learning and Equity
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The NHLI conference this summer was so worthwhile! I found so many connections between presenters, but also, with what we’ve been learning about in our PD. I am excited to jump back into the CBL work in my district and look forward to bringing many of the resources I gathered from these expert presenters. So much of it is relevant to my work in the district.