Professional Learning

For Teachers, By Teachers

Key Knowles Academy Features

Moving from Teacher-Centered to Student-Centered

Our goal is to support teachers in making the shift from teacher-centered to student-centered classrooms, ensuring that teachers can create engaging and effective learning environments, enhancing the learning experience for all students.

Building Teacher Capacity

We offer tools and strategies that build teachers’ capacity for high quality instruction regardless of the curriculum or courses they teach, increasing student engagement and deeper learning in math and science.

Closing Equity and Opportunity Gaps

Our courses are dedicated to addressing inequitable outcomes and closing the opportunity gap. We work to provide the tools and strategies needed to level the playing field for all students.

Addressing STEM Learning

Our professional learning is designed and delivered by math and science teachers for teachers, ensuring that it’s practical, relevant, and directly applicable to the classroom.

School & District Learning


We understand the ever-evolving landscape of education. Our professional learning services are designed to be flexible and responsive, ensuring they can be tailored to meet the needs of schools and districts. Teachers leave our professional learning energized, motivated and valued as professionals. 

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Coaching


Knowles Coaching pairs teachers with certified coaches from the Knowles Coaching Network for a full school year. These coaches are trained to address the teacher’s specific needs using three stances: cognitive, collaborative, and consulting.

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Courses & Workshops


We offer both in-person and online courses for all teachers. Our online courses include six-week options with the opportunity to earn graduate credit through SNHU, as well as 90-minute workshops. Additionally, we offer three-day in-person courses for more in-depth engagement and learning.

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Upcoming Courses & Workshops

  • Online Course
    Virtual Icon Increasing Participation: Strategies for Effective Groupwork
    7:00PM – 9:00PM ET 25.00

    What was groupwork like for you when you were a student? Do you want it to look similar or different? Are you enthusiastic about the idea of your students working in groups?In this workshop, teachers will learn how to leverage groupwork to provide students with more learning opportunities. Teachers will gain insights into productive groupwork while reflecting on their current groupwork practices. Facilitated by experienced teachers, participants will leave with small, practical changes that can be implemented to make groupwork structures more productive for all students. Dates: September 25, 2024, October 2, 2024, October 9, 2024, October 16, 2024, October 23, 2024, October 30, 2024

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  • Online Workshop
    Virtual-Icon Increasing Participation in Groupwork
    7:30PM–9:00PM ET Free

    What was groupwork like for you when you were a student? Do you want it to look similar or different? Are you enthusiastic about the idea of your students working in groups?In this workshop, teachers will learn how to leverage groupwork to provide students with more learning opportunities. Teachers will gain insights into productive groupwork while reflecting on their current groupwork practices. Facilitated by experienced teachers, participants will leave with small, practical changes that can be implemented to make groupwork structures more productive for all students.

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  • Online Workshop
    Teaching Fellow and Student laughing at table in the classroom of Knowles Teacher Initiative
    Virtual-Icon Mathematical Thinking to Deepen Physics Understanding
    7:30PM – 9:00PM ET Free

    Exploring the Science Practice of Mathematical Thinking to Deepen Physics Understanding Anchored in a foundational “Patterns & Inquiry” unit, the Patterns Approach to physics engages students in the work of scientists, including generating research questions, designing experiments, collecting data, identifying patterns, and using those patterns to successfully predict future data points. In this workshop, teachers will gain an overview of the Patterns Approach to physics, experience a Patterns-type lesson, and discuss how the Patterns Approach could be implemented in their classroom.

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Resources

Integrating Social Justice Issues in Science Classrooms

As the world faced COVID-19 and racial injustice, a science teacher sought ways to address racism in the classroom. Inspired by the connection between redlining and urban heat islands, they developed a physics unit on thermal energy tied to social justice. This led to creating resources and a course to empower teachers to integrate real-world issues into STEM education.

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The Power of Coaching

Typically, coaching meetings are conversational, with the Coach employing skills of deep listening, strategic paraphrasing, and asking questions to clarify, organize, and probe the Coachee’s thinking. Knowles Coaches effectively match their coaching stance (consulting, collaborative, and cognitive) to the needs of the Coachee so that the Coachee feels empowered to improve the educational experiences of their students and sustain their love for the profession.

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Newton North High School, Massachusetts

Knowles conducted a three-day course, “Increase Participation: Strategies for Effective Groupwork,” for 20 high school science teachers. Following the course, instructors led 10 monthly virtual department meetings to support their implementation.

 

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