An opportunity for instructional equity to shine!

 
QUARTERLY MASTERCLASS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL EQUITY LEADERS 

How to use Neuroscience & Culture to Leverage Teacher Growth & Accelerate  Student Success

Learn how to integrate the science of adult learning, culturally responsive teaching, and wise feedback loops to improve your leadership impact.

 

Teacher growth shouldn’t feel like an uphill battle, but for many instructional leaders, it does. Teachers may resist new strategies, disengage from feedback, or struggle to connect culturally with their students. This leaves you, the instructional leader, juggling the demands of fostering growth, ensuring equity, and driving measurable student success—often without a clear path forward.

In "How to Leverage Neuroscience and Culture to Transform Teacher Growth and Accelerate Student Success," you’ll discover the transformative power of merging cognitive neuroscience with culturally responsive practices. This masterclass equips you with actionable strategies to inspire measurable growth in your teachers, foster deeper connections, and drive equitable, high-impact learning across your school.

You’ll leave with immediate, practical tools you can implement the very next day, including a 5-minute feedback technique to guide teachers effectively, a neuroscience-based strategy to reframe how teachers view learning, and a rapid assessment tool to measure and enhance student engagement. It’s time to lead with clarity, transform your school culture, and achieve the student outcomes your teachers and students deserve.

 

ENROLL IN OUR MASTERCLASS

Sunday, January 19, 2025

6:00-7:30 PM CST

 

Frustration, isolation, and exhaustion don’t have to define your journey as an instructional equity-centered leader.

I know how overwhelming it feels to face resistance from teachers, shoulder the weight of trying to create equity and excellence in every classroom AND juggle the endless demands of daily management and administrative tasks while wanting to make a real impact on teacher growth.

You long to spend more time in classrooms, craft solid and impactful professional learning communities, design professional development workshops that resonate, and close instructional equity gaps. Yet, the constant whirlwind of responsibilities leaves you stretched thin, feeling like you’re barely keeping up—and often questioning if meaningful progress is even within reach.

But what if things could be different? PICTURE THIS...

  • You're leading with ease and confidence, knowing you’ve built systems where teachers are not only engaged but inspired to grow.
  • You've implemented feedback loops that ignite measurable improvement and classrooms where students thrive because your leadership strategies seamlessly align neuroscience with culturally responsive practices.
  • You're curating professional development that sticks, teacher teams that are collaborative and solutions-oriented, and instructional equity gaps that are closing right before your eyes—all because you’ve implemented actionable strategies and systems that work.

This masterclass will take you from feeling stuck to empowered. You’ll leave with tools and systems that enable you to lead with clarity, foster deep connection, and create transformative outcomes for your teachers and students.

It’s time to stop spinning your wheels and start leading with purpose. Let’s make it happen together.

 

During this masterclass, I will teach and focus on the following three major keys: 

MAJOR KEY #1

Learn how to design feedback loops that inspire measurable growth.

Take the guess work out of teacher growth and enact real growth in real time.

MAJOR KEY #2
Discover how to align cognitive neuroscience with culturally responsive practices to boost student achievement. 

Learn the power of the learning adult and youth brain and how to transfer those into sustainable, instructional practices that yield the growth results you've been waiting for.

MAJOR KEY #3
Develop systems to ensure equitable, high-impact learning across your school.

Create a rinse and repeat set of systems that combine equity and accountability to make an impact that lasts.

MEET YOUR GROWTH COACH

I'm Melanie Battles, aka Dr. Mel.

After working more than a decade in the K-12 school system as a classroom teacher and instructional leader, I've learned (through trial & error) the importance of building strong systems based on consistent critical reflection that connects to the souls of those we serve to reach our intended outcome: holistic student achievement via adult learning and growth.

Now I use the art of connecting with the souls of students and teachers to help educators in diverse capacities (especially instructional leaders) actualize their professional growth goals.  I work intentionally and impactfully to provide meaningful, engaging, and responsive professional learning opportunities that spark change from the inside-out, while normalizing culturally responsive teaching and leadership.

Learn more about the work.

The experience from session 1 to 2 has been refreshing. Dr. Mel is one to bring a bright and light spirit to the passionate work of educators. She is clear and concise in her delivery while exposing the truths and barriers that compete with student success.
 
- Anonymous (social worker)
Freedom Prep Charter School

Memphis, TN

Her excitement delivering the information makes you eager to put things into practice.
 
-Telleshia
Sankofa Learning Academy

Central Arkansas

As I have mentioned that I have gone through something like this before, this is different in a GREAT way. I enjoy how you make the connections to real encounters and experiences.
 
- T. Brown
Lisa Academy District

Central Arkansas

QUARTERLY MASTERCLASS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL EQUITY LEADERS 

Recognize the signs.  

Meet their needs.  

Support more teachers. 

Join us for 90 minutes of intentional reflection over your role as a supporter of teacher's instructional growth. You’ll learn how to reframe your perspective around wise feedback and prioritize the acceleration of teacher and student growth.

Our sessions are intimate which means that space is limited, so don’t wait! Save your spot today.

Click here for enrollment.