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Laurie Warner
Laurie is a highly experienced teacher in both general education and special education and has embraced leadership roles throughout her career to exemplify best practices and improve student growth.
Laurie Warner
As an educator for 27 years, Laurie Warner’s experience has been teacher focused. As a highly qualified teacher in both general education and special education, her passion for working collaboratively with teachers to embrace best practices and improve student growth has been fully realized in her role as a Professional Learning Communities at Work® trainer. In May 2021, her district received the distinction of being an international model professional learning community district. As a district PLC trainer, Laurie designs and provides training on all aspects of the PLC and RTI at Work ™ process.
Laurie is first and foremost a teacher--a role in which she takes great pride. She has received many accolades in her career, including DVUSD teacher of the year in 2017. Prior to becoming a coach, Laurie gained extensive experience with PLCs and collaborative teams in her own grade level, multi-school, and vertical collaborative teams. Her role as a facilitator drove her passion to seek opportunities to work with adult learners utilizing the PLC process.
In 2020, Laurie established Beyond the Gray Area LLC, to use the skills she gained as a PLC trainer to widen her impact on those young adults who have struggled after their high school experience. Her blog, A Day in the Life, focuses on her personal experience having a child in the “gray area.”
Laurie earned both her bachelor’s degree in speech and hearing science and her master’s degree in special education from the University of Arizona in Tucson.
PLC at Work®
PLC at Work® experts have proven success in leading the PLC at Work process in a school or district. Work with them to implement a focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and create a results orientation that leads to sustained, substantive school improvement.
Yes We Can!
Yes We Can! experts have proven success in improving outcomes for students with special needs. Work with them to develop collaborative partnerships in order to implement inclusive processes and programs that support every learner in your school community.
Presentations by Laurie Warner
- PLC Overview: A Guide to Action for Professional Learning Communities
- Response to Intervention (RTI) Overview: How do you respond when students don’t learn?
- All Means All But…
- The First Best
- Common Formative Assessments--Why? I Already Test My Students
- What if They Didn’t Get It? Analyzing Data and Developing Strategies for Implementing Tier 2 Instruction
- The Art of Pacing: Unwrapping Progressions and Targets~How Do I Get it All In?
