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Shala Educational Consulting

Professional developmentthat actually sticks.

Every school is different. Every professional development plan should be too. We learn your school before we build anything — then create frameworks, training, and tools that fit.

Our Process

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Listen & LearnWe take time to understand your school's vision, values, and needs before recommending anything.
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Develop a PlanWe build a customized plan — frameworks, planners, or training — tailored to your goals.
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ImplementationWe work with your staff through in-services, workshops, or multi-day programs to bring it to life.
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Follow-UpSchools evolve. We offer follow-up visits and yearly revisions so your programs stay relevant.
We work with 🏫 Classroom Teachers 🏭 School Administrators 🌍 District Superintendents 🎓 Language & ELL Teachers
Customized to your schoolNo copy-paste plans
Flexible schedulingHalf day to multi-week options
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Free initial consultationNo commitment required
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For all school levelsEarly Years through High School
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Follow-up supportWe don't just show up and leave
What We Offer

Choose your area of focus

All services are tailored to your school's unique context. Select a category below to explore the available options.

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Empowering the Educator Within — Professional Development

Professional development tailored to every chapter of the book. Select an audience below to see what's covered — or custom-create your own program from any combination of chapters.

Half day to multi-week depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Outlining your school's vision
  • Designing an educational framework
  • Creating personalized planners
  • Implementing framework & planners
  • Maximizing impact at the school level
  • Creating multiple educational frameworks

Audience

  • Principals and vice-principals
  • Curriculum coordinators
  • Department heads

Add-ons Available

Follow-up visits Framework implementation Planner design Additional chapters
Half day to multi-week depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Outlining your classroom vision
  • Creating yearly planners
  • Designing unit planners
  • Building lesson planners
  • Playing with planners (experimentation)

Audience

  • Mainstream teachers (all levels)
  • Single subject & specialist teachers
  • Learning & language support staff

Add-ons Available

Planner creation sessions In-service follow-up Additional chapters
Half day to multi-week depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Outlining a district-wide vision
  • Designing educational frameworks at scale
  • Creating personalized planners across schools
  • Implementing & maximizing impact at the district level

Audience

  • District superintendents
  • District curriculum directors
  • Multi-school leadership teams

Add-ons Available

School-by-school rollout Follow-up visits Additional chapters
Half day to multi-week depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Building a global educational vision
  • Designing frameworks for diverse schools
  • Implementing & maximizing impact broadly
  • Creating planners for international contexts

Audience

  • All educators with a global outlook
  • International school staff
  • Multicultural school communities

Add-ons Available

International context focus Additional chapters
Half day to multi-week depending on scope

How It Works

Select any chapters from the book in any order. Mix and match topics to create a program that addresses your school's specific priorities. No fixed structure — just what you need.

Audience

  • Any educator or team
  • Cross-functional school staff
  • Individual teachers or whole school

Chapter Areas

Vision & Frameworks Planners Global Perspectives Planning for Students Mindset Shifts
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Educational Frameworks & Planners

Build the foundation everything else rests on. Whether you want us to design your school's framework from scratch, or you want to learn how to do it yourself — we can help. For schools not ready for a full framework, individualized planner options are also available.

Frameworks
Dependent on school size & scope

What's Included

  • Consultation on vision, values & philosophy
  • Whole-school educational framework design
  • Teacher handbooks & training manuals
  • Accompanying individualized unit & lesson planners
  • Timetable recommendations

Benefits

  • Bird's eye view of all curriculums
  • Specialist classes linked to mainstream
  • School-wide cohesion from EY to High School
  • New teachers can plug in immediately
  • Stronger student learning outcomes

Add-ons Available

Whole-school teacher training Department sessions Follow-up visits Reflection planners
Full day with optional follow-ups

What's Covered

  • Consultation on vision, values & philosophy
  • How to design & implement a whole-school framework
  • How to develop individualized planners to support it
  • Timetabling recommendations (add-on)

Best For

  • Schools who want internal ownership
  • Administrators building capacity in-house
  • Early Years through High School

Add-ons Available

Timetabling Enhanced impact sessions Growth planners
Planners
Half day or full day with optional follow-ups

What's Covered

  • Consultation on school vision & philosophy
  • Planner recommendations for diverse staff roles
  • Design tips & tools
  • Differentiation for mainstream, specialist & support staff

Benefits

  • Staff can grow at their own pace
  • Accounts for split-level & multi-level classes
  • Encourages professional reflection

Add-ons Available

Mentoring staff Student planner design
Half day or full day with optional follow-ups

What's Covered

  • Consultation on school vision & philosophy
  • Planner recommendations for consistent classroom setup
  • Design tips & tools

Benefits

  • Cohesive classroom look and feel across the school
  • Shared standards without losing teacher autonomy

Add-ons Available

Staff mentoring
Half day or full day with optional follow-ups

What's Covered

  • Consultation on program vision & philosophy
  • Planner recommendations for a specific program (guided reading, P.E., etc.)
  • Design tips & tools

Benefits

  • Consistent program delivery across the school
  • Teachers work together as a team

Add-ons Available

Multiple programs
Half day or full day with optional follow-ups

What's Covered

  • Consultation on school vision & growth goals
  • Planner recommendations for staff reflection
  • Design tips & tools

Benefits

  • Staff pursue personal growth with a shared school focus
  • Structured reflection without being prescriptive

Add-ons Available

Staff mentoring Student planner design
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Language & Literacy

From setting up an ELL/ESL department, to supporting language learners in mainstream classrooms, to teaching students how to read — practical strategies and tools for every language context.

Phonics & Early Literacy
Half day to full day

Topics Covered

  • Systematic vs. incidental phonics instruction
  • Phonics sequences and progression
  • Assessing phonics knowledge
  • Using Phonics Playground resources in the classroom
  • Creating phonics flipbooks and printables with the Phonics Book Maker

Audience

  • Early Years teachers (KG–Grade 2)
  • Primary literacy teachers
  • Learning support staff
  • ELL / ESL teachers

Add-ons Available

Follow-up classroom visits Assessment tools Resource library setup
Half day to several weeks depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Assessing students & forming guided reading groups
  • How to structure guided reading lessons
  • Integrating Phonics Playground resources into guided reading
  • Planners & student tracking tools
  • Progression and moving students between groups

Audience

  • Primary Years teachers (K–Grade 3)
  • Literacy coordinators
  • Schools establishing or refreshing a reading program

Add-ons Available

Classroom observation & feedback Follow-up visits Student tracking templates
ELL / ESL & Language Programs
Half day to several weeks depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Planning & assessment tools for ELL/ESL
  • Aligning ELL/ESL with mainstream & specialist classes
  • Report card comments for ELL/ESL students

Audience

  • ELL/ESL teachers & coordinators
  • International schools
  • Schools establishing an EAL department

Outcome

A linked ELL/ESL department with clear systems, tools, and alignment to the broader school program.

Half day to several weeks depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Triaging language needs
  • Conversational, functional & academic language types
  • Strategies for beginner, intermediate & advanced ELL students
  • Planning & assessment tools
  • Report card comments

Audience

  • Mainstream teachers with ELL/ESL students
  • Specialist teachers with little ELL support
  • Schools without a dedicated ELL department

Add-ons Available

Program alignment Follow-up visits
Half day to several weeks depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Using the CEFR or equivalent in Early Years
  • Scaffolding classroom activities for ELL/ESL students
  • ELL/ESL strategies for young learners
  • Planning & assessment tools for Early Years

Audience

  • Early Years mainstream teachers
  • KG & Pre-K teachers with ELL/ESL students

Add-ons Available

Program setup Follow-up visits
Modern Foreign Languages
Half day to full day; follow-ups available

Topics Covered

  • How to organize a Literature Circles unit
  • Lesson ideas for MFL classes
  • Organizing discussion groups
  • Evaluating students in all 4 language skills

Audience

  • Teachers of any Modern Foreign Language
  • Upper Primary & Middle School level
  • FSL, ESL, and other MFL classrooms

Benefit

Creates a dynamic environment for practicing reading, writing, listening, and oral skills in a second language.

Half day to several weeks depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Linking MFL to classroom themes
  • Using the CEFR or equivalent in Early Years
  • Planning & assessment tools for young MFL learners

Benefit

Early Years MFL classes become engaging and purposeful by connecting to what students are already learning in their mainstream classroom.

Add-ons Available

Program setup Follow-up visits
Half day to several weeks depending on scope

Topics Covered

  • Setting up a linked MFL curriculum
  • Planning & assessment tools
  • Activity & project ideas for cross-curricular MFL

Benefit

Connecting MFL themes to mainstream curriculum improves student learning and gives language classes a purposeful place in the school program.

Add-ons Available

Program setup Follow-up visits
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ESBPlanners — Plan Smarter. Collaborate Effortlessly.

ESBPlanners is a powerful online planning platform designed by teachers, for teachers. Build any type of planner — lesson plans, unit plans, rubrics, timetables, and more — fully customized to your schedule and teaching style. No more starting from scratch every week.

Software Training & Implementation
Half day to full day; follow-ups available

What's Covered

  • Full tour of ESBPlanners features
  • Setting up personalized planner templates
  • Using ESBPlanners for lesson, unit & yearly planning
  • Getting staff comfortable & confident with the platform

Benefits

  • School-wide adoption of a powerful planning tool
  • Consistent planning formats without losing individuality
  • Reduces planning friction for all staff

Add-ons Available

Ongoing support Custom templates Department sessions
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ClassFlipbooks — Create Beautiful Books for Every Reader

ClassFlipbooks lets K–12 teachers create beautiful flipbooks for their classroom — AI-guided or written from scratch — with narration, illustrations, interactive student pages, and a printable PDF. These workshops get teachers making and sharing books with confidence, and using the platform's full range of features in their daily practice.

Workshops & Training
Half day; follow-up session available

What's Covered

  • Overview of all four creation paths — AI-guided, write your own, student-fillable, and PDF upload
  • Working in the editor: text, images, layout, and page types
  • Adding narration — AI voice, your own recording, or both
  • Finalizing and sharing a book with your class
  • Printing as a PDF

Benefits

  • Every teacher leaves with a finished, ready-to-use flipbook
  • Confidence to create independently after the session
  • Practical starting point for classroom use the next day

Add-ons Available

Follow-up in-service Classroom setup support Department sessions
Full day; multi-session program available

What's Covered

  • All creation paths in depth, including student-fillable books for journals, projects, and portfolios
  • Differentiation — rewriting books at different reading levels and in other languages
  • Setting up My Classes: rosters, access codes, student PINs, and sign-in cards
  • Assigning books, tracking completion, and reviewing student work
  • Interactive pages — handwriting, drawing, typing, recording, and photo upload
  • Glossary and comprehension questions at the back of the book

Benefits

  • Full staff adoption with a consistent workflow from creation to delivery
  • Teachers differentiate reading materials without rebuilding from scratch
  • Students engaged with interactive, personalized books
  • Printable progress reports for parent meetings and IEPs

Add-ons Available

Ongoing support ELL & FSL focus sessions Early literacy track Department sessions
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AI in Education

Practical, grounded professional development on using AI in schools — from someone who has actually built AI tools for teachers and students. Not theory. Real strategies your staff can use tomorrow.

Half day to full day

Topics Covered

  • What AI can and can't do in the classroom
  • Age-appropriate AI use for students
  • AI as a planning and differentiation tool for teachers
  • Academic integrity in an AI world
  • Hands-on exploration of AI School Labs

Audience

  • All teaching staff
  • Administrators & coordinators
  • Learning & language support staff

Add-ons Available

Follow-up sessions Department-specific training Parent information session
Half day to full day

Topics Covered

  • Using AI to create lesson plans, unit outlines & rubrics
  • Generating differentiated materials with AI
  • Effective prompting — getting useful output from AI tools
  • Hands-on practice with AI School Labs
  • Maintaining your professional voice when using AI

Audience

  • All teaching staff
  • Administrators & coordinators
  • Learning & language support staff

Add-ons Available

Department-specific sessions Follow-up practice Custom prompt libraries
Half day to full day

Topics Covered

  • Age-appropriate AI use — elementary through high school
  • AI as a learning tool, not a shortcut
  • How to use AI School Labs effectively
  • Academic integrity policies for AI
  • Critical thinking in an AI-assisted world

Audience

  • All teaching staff
  • Administrators & coordinators
  • Learning & language support staff

Add-ons Available

Student workshops Parent information session Follow-up sessions
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