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Effective Instruction: Tier 1 Best Practices Institute
Sioux City, Iowa | October 7–8, 2025
Join us at the Effective Instruction Institute to elevate your instructional practices and boost student achievement! Effective Tier 1 instruction allows students to thrive while minimizing the need for additional support. By mastering grade-level essential standards, students build a solid academic foundation that supports lifelong learning. At the Effective Instruction Institute, teachers will sharpen their instructional skills to ensure student achievement. Learn how to support students to and through proficiency by attending the Effective Instruction Institute.
Engaging keynotes and targeted breakout sessions equip teachers with high-quality instructional practices to meet the learning needs of all students. Led by nationally recognized experts, participants will delve into research-based techniques and innovative strategies proven successful in various school and district settings. Whether you are an elementary or secondary classroom teacher or supporting teaching and learning as an instructional coach, administrator, or district level support, this institute will leave you with high-impact strategies to implement into daily instruction.
Throughout the institute, participants will:
- Gain an understanding of quality Tier 1 instruction for elementary and secondary classrooms
- Discover high-quality instructional practices for mathematics and literacy
- Attain key strategies for differentiating content in Tier 1
- Explore how to incorporate behavior support into instruction
- Understand how to use essential standards to drive instruction
- Identify the power of collaboration in identifying essential standards, unpacking standards, and incorporating rigor into instruction
- Learn key team discussions topics for analyzing and assessing student data
- Receive targeted grade-level (preK–2, 3–5, 6–12) instructional practices for mathematics and literacy
- Uncover strategies for effective and engaging vocabulary instruction
- Attain engaging literacy strategies for preK–2 students to encourage a strong foundation in literacy
- Explore how to make the content relevant to all students
- Build a commitment to learning in students
- Understand what effective student feedback looks like
- Learn how to strategically use AI to support lesson design
- Grasp brain research on student goal setting and monitoring
Investing in effective Tier 1 instruction not only prevents future learning challenges but also empowers students to engage in high levels of learning . The Effective Instruction Institute provides ready-to-implement strategies K–12 teachers can use during core instruction. This event will focus teams and teachers on the most effective strategies to ensure every student learns at grade level and above.
Included with your registration:
A one-year subscription to Avanti
Extend your learning beyond the Institute! With your registration, you’ll receive an exclusive subscription to Avanti—your on-demand hub for implementing and refining Tier I practices in your classroom or school.
VenueSioux City Convention Center 801 4th Street Sioux City, Iowa |
Schedule
On-Site Solution Tree Book Co-op Open Throughout Event
Agenda and speakers are subject to change.
Tuesday, October 7th
| 7:00–8:00 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00–9:30 a.m. | Keynote Presentation |
| 9:30–9:45 a.m. |
Break |
| 9:45–10:45 a.m. | Breakout Sessions |
| 10:45–11:00 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Breakout Sessions |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. |
Lunch (provided) |
| 1:00–2:00 p.m. |
Breakout Sessions |
| 2:00–2:15 p.m. | Break |
| 2:15–3:15 p.m. | Topic-Alike Discussions |
Wednesday, October 8th
| 7:00–8:00 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00–9:00 a.m. | Breakout Sessions |
| 9:00–9:15 a.m. |
Break |
| 9:15–10:15 a.m. | Breakout Sessions |
| 10:15–10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30–11:30 a.m. | Team Time |
| 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Lunch (provided) |
| 12:30–1:30 p.m. |
Breakout Sessions |
| 1:30–1:45 p.m. | Break |
| 1:45–3:15 p.m. | Keynote Presentation |
Accommodations
Events reach capacity quickly. Please confirm your registration before making travel plans.
While discounted rooms in our hotel room block may be sold out, the primary hotel may still have rooms available at their standard rates. Please inquire directly with the hotel.
Hotels
Primary Hotel
Courtyard Sioux City Downtown Convention Center
901 4th Street
Sioux City, Iowa 51101
712.202.2700
Discounted Rate: (single or double) $104 per night
Deadline: September 6, 2025
Events reach capacity quickly. Please confirm your registration before making travel plans.
Parking Information:
Discovery Parking Garage
All rates are per day and subject to change.
In order to receive the discounted hotel room rate, please mention Solution Tree. After the deadline listed below, rates will be determined by the hotel.
VenueSioux City Convention Center 801 4th Street Sioux City, Iowa |
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Additional Information
Product code: CFF849
Five Reasons to Attend a Solution Tree Event (PDF)
A Letter to Your Boss (DOC)
You will receive a certificate of participation 6 weeks after the event concludes. Please check with your department of education for CEU availability.
On-Site Solution Tree Book Co-op Discounts
- Buy 5 or more Solution Tree titles or resources and receive 30% off and free shipping
- On-site book co-op open daily throughout the event
Discounts above are for on-site purchases only. Does not include any non-Solution Tree product, toolkit, or sale table items. Purchase orders and credit cards accepted. We now accept Apple, Google and Samsung Pay onsite. Continental US only.
Included with your registration
The Big Book of Tools for RTI at Work™
Whether you’re in collaborative teams identifying grade-level standards, school leadership teams assessing Tier 2 interventions, or intervention teams helping at-risk students, this book offers educators the targeted tools necessary to create a highly effective multitiered system of supports (MTSS) that can ensure high levels of learning for every student.
Event Journal
We’re enhancing your event experience. In addition to providing presentations in digital format, Solution Tree is publishing retail-quality, perfect-bound notebooks expertly designed to support your learning. Any printed handouts or worksheets integrated into your sessions will continue to be provided.
Avanti: A Personalized Professional Learning Platform for Teachers
A one-year subscription to Avanti
Extend your learning beyond the Institute! With your registration, you’ll receive an exclusive subscription to Avanti—your on-demand hub for implementing and refining Tier I practices in your classroom or school.
