A step-by-step lesson planning process
Learn a replicable framework for designing high-quality lessons that can be used for the rest of your career.
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Instructional design
Build Teaching Confidence with Powerful Lesson Design
with Jennifer Gonzalez
Helping teachers build lasting instructional confidence through powerful, practical lesson design.
Explore this expert-led learning experience with Jennifer Gonzalez and tell RocketPD you would like to hear when a future offering is announced.
About this cohort
A cohort with Jennifer Gonzalez on building and maintaining instructional confidence through powerful lesson planning and design.
This learning experience is being considered for a future RocketPD offering. The core content, practical outcomes, and expert guidance are available to explore now.
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New Teachers
Build a strong instructional foundation from day one.
Veteran Teachers
Refresh and deepen your practice with a proven framework.
Instructional Coaches
Strengthen your ability to support teachers in lesson design.
New Hires
Get up to speed quickly with practical, replicable strategies.
Building Principals
Understand the lesson design framework your teachers are learning.
What you can learn
Practical outcomes to explore.
A personal toolkit of instructional strategies
Build a library of specific, ready-to-implement strategies for assessment, instruction, and differentiation.
Insights on lesson delivery
Gain the finer points of lesson delivery — the small moves that can make or break a lesson.
Model lesson plans to reference
Leave with a set of model lesson plans to refer back to in future planning.
Greater instructional confidence
Grow more confident in your ability to design and deliver outstanding instruction for all students.
Planned Learning Experience
Explore the learning progression.
Topics and sequence may be refined before a future offering is announced.-
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The Architecture of a Good Lesson
Using sample lesson plans as a model, the opening session introduces the steps of planning an effective lesson using the principles of backward design. Covers writing clear, measurable learning objectives, choosing the right assessments, selecting learning experiences to match your objectives, and designing the lesson flow from start to finish.
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Designing Assessments
Focus on designing assessments that directly measure student mastery of your objectives. Covers the purpose of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments, specific assessment strategies, effective rubric design, and what assessment looks like in a lesson.
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The Learning Experience
With assessment in place, choose learning activities that will develop the knowledge and skills students need to succeed. Covers creating an engaging opening, content delivery strategies, application strategies, and sequencing and timing.
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Differentiating Instruction From Multiple Angles
Build lesson plans that account for each student's unique blend of interests, talents, abilities, culture, and needs. Covers Universal Design, working differentiation into a lesson plan, specific differentiation strategies, diversifying materials, and how technology can help.
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Lesson Delivery
Explore techniques for delivering lessons to get the best results. Covers creating academic safety, managing instructional time with efficiency and flexibility, getting better participation, the importance of modeling, and mastering the use of silence.
Your Instructor
Jennifer Gonzalez
Great teaching starts with great planning. Jennifer Gonzalez is the creator of Cult of Pedagogy, a trusted destination for millions of educators looking for real strategies that work. A National Board Certified teacher, instructional coach, and best-selling author, Jennifer has spent her career helping teachers simplify what works in the classroom — and ditch what doesn't.
Lesson Planning & Design
Student Engagement
Teaching Efficacy
Instructional Leadership
What to expect
A practical, expert-led learning experience
Expert-led exploration of the cohort topic
Practical strategies connected to the published curriculum
Opportunities to learn alongside education peers
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What educators say about learning with Jennifer Gonzalez.
The practical scenarios and strategies for implementation that Jennifer Gonzalez shared has helped teachers and administrators in Frederick County Public Schools go beyond enthusiasm for learning to transforming instructional practices in the classroom.
Eric Haines Supervisor of Innovative Learning, Frederick County Public Schools, MDI can't recommend Jennifer Gonzalez enough as a speaker and thought leader. We featured Jennifer as a speaker to our community of over 50 million teachers and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Every pathway she shared got an "I love this" reaction from the audience.
Ashley Williams Global Teacher Community Lead, ClassDojoJennifer Gonzalez always brings her best to the table. Our objective was to refresh teachers and provide them with tools to construct classrooms that are based on sustainable practices, student-centric instruction, and a focus on well-being.
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