About Michelle

Michelle Ventura is the co-founder of Advanced Collaborative Solutions. After thirty years of classroom experience, Michelle brings a unique and sensible perspective to professional development. She is passionate about the teaching profession as well as a student advocate who firmly believes all kids can learn. Michelle creates engaging adult learning opportunities that provide participants with immediate possibilities to improve teacher practice. She credits her success to other educators and students increasing her own ability to learn and grow.

Breakout Session

Top 25 Instructional Strategies for Coaching Cycles

According to Jim Knight (2019), there are three phases of instructional coaching, one being that the coach and teacher agree on a powerful, compelling, reachable and student focused goal. In order to accomplish this, the coach helps prepare the teacher to hit the goal by “clearly describing the strategy to be implemented and then provides a model of the strategy” (Hattie 2023).

If you are looking for an immediate “take away” session – here it is! Participants will learn how to combine our Achievement Teams Instructional Strategy Flip book (free digital download) with a high impact coaching cycle. Each strategy contained in this flip book has been selected based on its effect on achievement and progress. This means that the instructional strategies included have the ability to double the speed of progress for students – in one instructional year!