Bring Wylde Leadership to Your Team
Looking for professional development that connects educational concepts with practical application?
Wylde Leadership offers individual workshops, customized workshop series, and extended professional-learning experiences for schools and educational organizations.
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Need a more comprehensive experience? We can discuss combining workshops into a larger professional-development program.
TEACHING
LEADERSHIP
Leadership Education That Moves From Concepts to Practice
From understanding leadership to demonstrating leadership.
Help educators move beyond teaching leadership as a collection of concepts and vocabulary words. This workshop explores how to create learning experiences that help students understand, practice, and apply leadership skills in realistic situations.
Participants will learn to:
- Distinguish between teaching leadership concepts and developing leadership skills.
- Connect leadership objectives to meaningful student practice.
- Incorporate reflection and application into leadership lessons.
- Identify opportunities for students to demonstrate leadership in everyday situations.
Participant takeaway:
A framework for moving one leadership concept from introduction through practice and reflection.
45-60 MINS
Beyond the Buzzwords: Teaching Leadership Skills Students Can Actually Use
Making leadership concepts meaningful, observable, and actionable.
Leadership, accountability, communication, and emotional intelligence are important concepts, but knowing their definitions does not necessarily mean students can apply them. This workshop helps educators turn abstract leadership language into practical learning experiences that students can understand and demonstrate.
Participants will learn to:
- Translate leadership vocabulary into observable behaviors.
- Design activities that help students practice specific leadership skills.
- Connect classroom learning to realistic situations.
- Evaluate whether students can apply what they have learned.
Participant takeaway:
A leadership concept translated into a practical learning objective and an activity that allows students to demonstrate the skill.
45-60 MINS
Emotional Intelligence in Action
Teaching students to recognize emotions, understand reactions, and navigate relationships.
Emotional intelligence becomes meaningful when students can apply it to real situations. This workshop explores ways to help students recognize emotional responses, consider different perspectives, and practice responding thoughtfully in interpersonal situations.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify opportunities to teach emotional awareness and self-management.
- Use realistic scenarios to explore emotional responses.
- Incorporate perspective-taking and reflection into instruction.
- Help students connect emotional intelligence concepts to everyday decisions.
Participant takeaway:
An adaptable activity framework for teaching an emotional intelligence skill through scenarios, discussion, and reflection.
45-60 MINS
Accountability Without the Shame
Teaching responsibility, ownership, and follow-through without turning mistakes into character judgments.
Accountability is more than identifying what went wrong or assigning consequences. This workshop explores how educators can help students recognize their choices, understand their impact, take responsibility, and identify constructive next steps.
Participants will learn to:
- Distinguish accountability from blame and shame.
- Use scenarios to explore ownership and responsibility.
- Guide students through reflection after mistakes or conflict.
- Help students identify practical steps toward repairing harm and improving future decisions.
Participant takeaway:
A structured reflection framework for helping students move from recognizing a mistake to identifying responsible next steps.
45-60 MINS
Teaching Leadership to Students Who Don’t See Themselves as Leaders
Making leadership accessible beyond titles, popularity, and the loudest voice in the room.
Students do not all demonstrate leadership in the same way. This workshop helps educators recognize different forms of leadership and create opportunities for students with varied strengths, personalities, and confidence levels to practice leading.
Participants will learn to:
- Recognize leadership behaviors beyond formal roles and visible confidence.
- Identify opportunities for students to demonstrate different leadership strengths.
- Design activities that give students varied ways to contribute.
- Help students recognize their own leadership potential through reflection and practice.
Participant takeaway:
An activity or reflection framework that helps students identify and practice leadership behaviors suited to different situations.
45-60 MINS
DESIGN
& ENGAGEMENT
From Worksheet to Experience
Helping educators turn learning objectives into connected, engaging student activities.
Help educators move beyond teaching leadership as a collection of concepts and vocabulary words. This workshop explores how to create learning experiences that help students understand, practice, and apply leadership skills in realistic situations.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify the intended learning outcome behind an existing assignment.
- Determine whether an activity supports that outcome.
- Adapt a workshop or task into a more interactive learning experience.
- Incorporate opportunities for practice, discussion, and reflection.
Participant takeaway:
A redesigned learning activity that connects an existing objective to meaningful student participation and application.
45-60 MINS
The Learning Arc
From individual lesson components to a connected learning experience.
Effective lesson do more than present information and assign work. They guide learners through a purposeful sequence that connects objectives, instruction, activities, reflection, and assessment. This workshop helps educators design lessons in which each component contributes to the intended learning experience.
Participants will learn to:
- Align lesson activities with intended learning outcomes.
- Identify gaps between instruction and student application.
- Structure lessons that move from understanding to practice.
- Apply a planning framework to an existing lesson.
Participant takeaway:
A lesson-planning framework and an opportunity to map a more cohesive learning experience.
45-60 MINS
Make it Stick: Turning Lessons Into Lasting Learning
Moving beyond exposure to information toward meaningful retention and application.
Students may understand information during a lesson without being able to recall or apply it later. This workshop explores practical strategies educators use to help learners revisit concepts, retrieve information, practice skills, and connect new learning to prior knowledge.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify opportunities to revisit important concepts.
- Incorporate retrieval practice and meaningful repetition.
- Use discussion, application, and reflection to reinforce learning.
- Build reinforcement strategies into existing lessons without redesigning an entire curriculum.
Participant takeaway:
A collection of practical reinforcement strategies adapted to existing lesson or learning objectives.
45-60 MINS
Beyond the Right Answer: Assessing Skills That Aren’t Multiple Choice
Recognizing learning when students must demonstrate what they can do.
Traditional assessments can measure important knowledge, but skills such as communication, collaboration, decision-making, and leadership often require additional forms of evidence. This workshop explores ways to assess skill development through observation, practical application, reflection, and clearly defined criteria.
Participants will learn to:
- Distinguish knowledge checks from demonstrations of skills.
- Identify observable evidence of student learning.
- Develop practical criteria for evaluating skill application.
- Incorporate reflection and feedback into assessment.
Participant takeaway:
A simple assessment framework with observable criteria for evaluating one targeted skill.
45-60 MINS
Practice Before It Counts: Teaching Through Scenarios and Simulations
Giving students opportunities to apply learning before facing real-world situations.
Students need opportunities to practice making decisions, communicating, solving problems, and navigating challenges in a supportive learning environment. This workshop explores how realistic scenarios, role-play, and simulations can turn abstract concepts into opportunities for meaningful practice.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify learning objectives suited to scenario-based instruction.
- Create realistic situations that require students to apply specific skills.
- Structure practice, observation, and debriefing.
- Use reflection to connect simulated experiences to real-world decisions.
Participant takeaway:
A scenario-based activity outline with a defined learning objective, student task, and reflection component.
45-60 MINS
RESOURCE DESIGN
Everyone Leads Differently: Creating Space for Different Leadership Styles
Helping students recognize that leadership can look different in different situations.
Leadership does not always look like giving directions, speaking first, or taking charge. This workshop explores how educators can help students recognize different leadership behaviors, understand how those behaviors contribute to a team, and practice responding to the needs of a situation.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify different ways leadership can be demonstrated.
- Explore the relationship between leadership behaviors and situational needs.
- Design activities that encourage students to recognize varied contributions.
- Help students reflect on their strengths and areas for growth.
Participant takeaway:
A reflection or discussion activity that helps students identify different leadership behaviors and when they may be useful.
45-60 MINS
From Group Work to Teamwork
Designing collaborative learning experiences with purpose, participation, and shared responsibility.
Putting students into groups does not automatically create effective teamwork. This workshop helps educators design collaborative experiences in which students must communicate, make decisions, contribute to a shared goal and reflect on how they work together.
Participants will learn to:
- Distinguish task-sharing from meaningful collaboration.
- Structure activities that require interdependent contributions.
- Establish clear expectations for communication and shared responsibility.
- Incorporate reflection on both the process and the outcome.
Participant takeaway:
A collaborative activity outline with a shared objective, defined expectations, and a team-reflection component.
45-60 MINS
Communication Is More Than Talking
Helping students practice listening, perspective-taking, and constructive communication.
Communication involves more than expressing an idea. It also requires listening, interpreting information, asking questions, and responding constructively when perspectives differ. This workshop explores ways educators can make communication skills visible, teachable, and practical.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify observable communication behaviors.
- Design activities that require active listening and perspective-taking.
- Use scenarios to practice disagreement and problem solving.
- Incorporate feedback and reflection into communication instruction.
Participant takeaway:
A communication practice activity built around a specific skill, realistic scenario, and structured reflection.
45-60 MINS
One Concept, Multiple Ways to Learn
Creating varied learning experiences without losing sight of the objective.
Different instructional approaches can help students engage with and apply the same concept in different ways. This workshop explores how educators can vary the learning experience through discussion, movement, scenarios, collaborative tasks, and independent reflection while keeping the intended outcome consistent.
Participants will learn to:
- Identify the essential learning objectives behind a lesson.
- Select different instructional approaches that support that objective.
- Adapt an existing activity into alternative learning experiences.
- Maintain alignment between learning activities and intended outcomes.
Participant takeaway:
Multiple activity approaches for teaching one learning objective, ready to adapt to different classroom contexts.
45-60 MINS
Ready to Use, Built to Adapt
Designing instructional resources that work in real classrooms.
A useful educational resource needs to do more than look polished. It must have a clear purpose, understandable directions, realistic timing, and enough flexibility to support different teaching environments. This workshop helps educators evaluate and improve the usability of their instructional materials without losing sight of the intended learning outcome.
Participants will learn to:
- Evaluate instructional resources for clarity and usability.
- Identify barriers that make activities difficult to implement.
- Incorporate flexible timing, extensions, and implementation options.
- Improve the connection between resource design and learning objectives.
Participant takeaway:
An instructional resource review checklist and a revised plan for improving one existing resource.
45-60 MINS