Workshops and Training Modules

Whether you are looking for a school day in service session, a two-day workshop or a month to month sequence of modules combined with classroom follow up, learning walks and feedback, WholeSchools® tailors any of our inspiring products to fit your needs! 

We are experts in creating unique experiences designed with fresh innovative content connected to the themes and concepts you are looking to address at your school. Browse through our offerings and let us know what you are looking for so we can design the best experience for your community!

We work with all members of the school: faculty, administrators, school leaders, support staff and parents through our dynamic hands on WholeSchools approach which puts the learner at the center of the experience maximizing and deepening learning at every level. Rich and relevant skills and know-hows prepares participants to bring back a practical application to any setting within the school community.

INquiry Based Learning

Learning has little to do with teaching and much more with the construction of meaning. Inquiry is true differentiation, creating critical thinkers and supporting  meaningful action. This workshop engages participants in relevant and significant inquiry as they discover this true process and its practical application in any learning context!

šKey Factors of Finnish Education

There is a Finnish saying: “Real winners don’t compete”. We believe that what children learn to do together today, they can do alone tomorrow. This workshop explores the big lessons from one of the world's best school systems.

Join Hello Ruby in this hands-on workshop to learn how to teach computing in an unplugged way across the curriculum.  Participants of this workshop will be guided by Linda Liukas learning how to install curiosity and a creative attitude in their students without adding to their screen time. This workshop offers 20 lessons to bring creative computing to education combining storytelling, crafting and coding. All participants will leave with an understanding of how to include computers, technology and coding to everyday learning situations or curriculum. Teachers will receive two storybooks, educators guide with lesson templates and Scratch exercises and guidance for implementing the lessons and assessment.

Transdisciplinary learning

This workshop provides an extensive framework for designing and achieving transdisciplinary teaching and learning. The session provides tools to adapt curricula against a framework that examines transdisciplinary themes and concept-based ideas and inquiry to address the curriculum in a relevant, challenging and engaging way. Participants will also look at how skills and approaches to learing, are an essential element of curriculum mapping. We will explore how concepts and conceptual questions drive teaching and learning in a transdiscipinary context by exploring concepts in greater depth and through different lenses. Practical ways of assessing a learner’s conceptual understanding will be discovered. 

Play Based Learning

The world we live in is no longer ordered by industrial efficiency or repetition, but the exact opposite: unpredictability. But we still educate for factories—“educating people out of their creativity,” as Sir Ken Robinson would say—while today’s employers demand “changemaking” skills that include communication, teamwork, empathy, critical thinking, and imaginative problem-solving. Play can deliver!

Introductory workshop on the history, philosophy and educational practices of the educational project of Reggio Emilia. This session is suited to those who are wanting to know more about this remarkable place and its world renowned approach to education. Participants will hear about its values, principles and key concepts understanding how they shape the pedagogy and experience of an entire system of educators, children and families.

THe Environment as the third teacher.

This workshops breaks away from industrial age values in education embracing the child as a protagonist in the learning process. The environment plays a central role making learning meaningful and relevant as learners develop skills for the 21st century. Living spaces actively participate in the educative process, flexible environments that are responsive to the need for teachers and children to create learning together. 

Well-being is intrinsically linked to all aspects of a learner’s experience at school and beyond. Personal, social and physical education is integral to teaching and learning. This workshop explores the responsibility that all members of the school community have for the well- being of their students. 

Unlock potential and transform teaching and learning through our popular sessions in school dimensions and disciplines: 

1. Differentiated Instruction

2. Collaborative Planning

3. Assessment

4. Pedagogical Leadership

5. Classroom Management

6. Mindful Discipline

7. Technology

8.Physical Education

9. Visual Arts Music and Drama

10. Special Education