Professional Learning & Community
The power of networks and community.
Together we are creating a community of learning innovating for equity.
Overview
We all learn differently and education is innovating more rapidly than ever. Getting Smart offers multiple learning experiences to advance innovation for equity.
Looking to customize an experience for your organization? To meet the various needs of our community, we offer in-person and virtual school tours, speaking engagements, webinars, and workshops on what’s next in education.
Want to meet other innovative educators? Check out our free Getting Smart Town Halls or join Roots, our Getting Smart community. Interested in a deep dive? We design and facilitate Smart Sprints, short-duration learning cohorts that build innovation leadership skills to launch new learning experiences around the world.
Together we are creating a community of learning innovating for equity.
Workshops!
Getting Smart has created a series of professional learning workshops to support leaders and learners in building a learning culture and expanding their knowledge and understanding of mindsets and productive struggle. Our workshop includes hands on activities, personalized approaches and interactive content to really take your professional learning to the next level.
Services
Smart Sprints
Two week cohort-based design experiences that combine synchronous and asynchronous learning towards innovation.
Town Halls & Community Conversations
Monthly conversations with the Getting Smart community about trends in learning.
Webinars & Workshops
From design to delivery, create a webinar or workshop that delivers.
Keynotes
Thought provoking surveys of what’s next in learning led by a member of the Getting Smart team.
School Tours
We’ll handle the planning, logistics and on the ground learning. You bring your team or community, and together we’ll visit innovative schools that will help you imagine and realize what’s possible.
Coaching
On demand coaching for leaders as they envision and create the path forward for learners.
Testimonials
“I loved how you helped us have a clear understanding of the connections between mindset, self-talk, and working to change habits. The experiences were key to our understanding, and you scaffolded things well for us. I also loved your ability to stay connected to us by using names, reiterating points made, and showing your understanding of school culture.”
– Educator
“You guys were very energetic and inclusive of the audience so keep it up!”
– Student
“it was the perfect blend of instructional and hands-on learning!”
– Student
Featured Work

We took several groups of school leaders, teachers and community leaders on school visits across the nation. This included designing and facilitating the visits to bring the most value to those in attendance, hosting post trip discussions to dive into learnings and sharing reading and resources. This inspired the group and helped them better understand what’s possible so they could start to implement something similar in their communities.

We hosted a workshop for a group of school and district leaders in Michigan to support instructional model and framework builds. We looked at what it is, where to begin, what’s needed internally to make a Portrait of a Graduate a reality. This included creating pre-reading, designing an interactive workshop with large and small group working opportunities and a follow up with resources and next steps to support implementation and action.