Professional Development for the ACT®

Provide educators with expert training and resources to prep students with confidence

This professional development workshop offers proven test strategies, instruction techniques, and resources to ensure teachers prep students with confidence. Participants will leave this workshop knowing how to seamlessly incorporate ACT® prep into lessons, how to avoid prep pit falls, the secrets to ACT scoring, the reasons students struggle – and how to fix them.

How It Works:

We know how to boost scores schoolwide.

In this one-day course, teachers will learn everything they need to understand what the ACT measures and how it is scored.

The Decoding the ACT guide provides teachers with strategies for incorporating test-taking skills into their everyday core curriculum and motivating students to succeed on the ACT and in academics in general. Using our 3 pillars of mastery, teachers are equipped to prepare every student to achieve a college-ready score on the ACT.

What's Included:

Our in-person or virtual training will turn any educator in any subject into a master instructor for required assessments.

Decoding the ACT workbook for each attendee
Access to print material and tools for each participant
Subject-specific agendas for ELA, math, and science teachers
Half-day and full-day sessions available for each subject
Engaging, expert on-site or virtual facilitator
Online training also available
Ebook available

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Online professional development sessions are also available!

Decoding the ACT (Virtual PD)

Our expert instructors replicate our in-person professional development experience through an engaging virtual classroom environment.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

Virtual classroom environment for your teachers to learn the three pillars of college readiness success for their students: Time Mastery, Test Mastery and Content Mastery
Decoding the ACT workbook for each attendee shipped directly to their homes or a central location
Teachers will learn the test-taking skills and strategies their students need to succeed as well as how to present them to students
Access to print material and tools for each participant
Subject-specific agendas for ELA, math, and science teachers
Expert, engaging virtual facilitator
Half-day and full-day virtual sessions available for each subject
Online, self-paced training is also available as an alternative to a live environment
Ebook available

DELIVERY TIMELINE:

June-August, January, professional development days throughout the year

Success Story: Demopolis High School, Alabama

Demopolis High School serves 722 students. 60% come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and 51% belong to a racial minority.

Demopolis launched its ACT score improvement initiative with an onsite Decoding the ACT professional development program, and the results were immediate. In 2017, 15.1% of sophomores scored on track for readiness on the ACT Aspire test in math and 12.43% in science. In 2018, after the PD, readiness for those same students improved to over 40% in math and 25.7% in science.

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All twenty-four attendees at Demopolis High School rated the session a perfect five out of five!

“Excellent workshop and the presenter was wonderful.”

“Great presenter! Very informative and engaging! Loved it!”

“Great job by presenter. It’s a hard job. She makes it look easy.”

Demopolis High School, Alabama
Students Scoring "Ready" on the ACT