Professional Learning Services

StepUp provides numerous professional development opportunities, led by our incredible consultants brought to you in your schools. Talk to your consultant or contact StepUp to get started.

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Our Professional Learning Offerings

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Early Childhood Educator Training

Give your early childhood teachers the tools and confidence to help every young learner thrive!
Our hands-on training explores all seven domains of early learning and shows how to use the Missouri Early Learning Tools (MELTs) to bring play-based, developmentally appropriate instruction to life.
Each participant will receive a MELTS book and leave with ready-to-use lesson plans, strategies, and activities for immediate classroom application.
Highlights include: ✔ Clear breakdown of the Missouri Early Learning Standards
✔ Learning scales from Kindergarten to Toddlers
✔ Play-based strategies and cross-domain planning
✔ At-home activities to support family engagement
✔ Lesson planning using the MELTS framework
Empower your teachers today!

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SPED 101: Understand Standards-Based IEPS

Ready to empower your special education team with the knowledge and confidence they need to create meaningful, standards-based IEPs? We have an essential training designed to bring clarity and purpose to your IEP development process. Explore the foundations of standards-based IEPs and discover how to align goals with grade-level content standards while meeting each student's unique needs.
Each participant will receive ELA and Math Vertical Progression hardcopy books.
Highlights include:
✔ Clear understanding of standards-based IEP components
✔ Connecting grade-level standards to individualized goals
✔ Writing measurable, meaningful goals that drive instruction
✔ Collaboration strategies for general and special education teams
Empower your SPED team today!

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Skills for Core Alternatively Certified Educators

The number of alternatively certified teachers is rapidly growing — and with that comes the need for intentional, high-quality training to ensure every student receives excellent instruction.
Our comprehensive professional learning equips alternatively certified teachers with the foundational skills, strategies, and confidence they need to thrive in the classroom. Participants will explore best practices across ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies, learning how to design engaging, standards-aligned lessons that drive student success.
From classroom management essentials to research-based instructional strategies, this training provides practical tools teachers can use immediately. Each participant will also receive a hardcopy resource book containing the Missouri Assessment and Teaching Tools (MATTs) — proficiency tools for every core concept their students should master.
Highlights include:
✔ Understanding standards and curriculum frameworks in your content area
✔ Effective lesson planning and instructional delivery methods
✔ Classroom management strategies that work
✔ Assessment techniques and data-driven instruction
✔ Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs
Support your Alt-certified teachers today!

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Curriculum Organization, Pacing, and Auditing

Tools and Training Bundle. This K-12 training bundle comes with a curriculum management tool that easily organizes and audits current resources. This fast tracked process can be accomplished in as little as 1-2 days. The end results is a guaranteed and viable aligned to current resources in a one spot landing page. Ensure every teacher has access and visibility to state standards.

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Writing to Proficiency

This tool and training bundle includes an ELA Vertical progression for each participant as well as 2 1/2 days of training. Teachers will analyze what the standards say about writing proficiency and have K-5 (or K-12) discussions about vertical alignment expectations in the building/district. At the end of the training each grade level/content will have a clear vision of rigorous expectations as well as tools to put effective writing instruction into practice.

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Standard-Based Grading Practices

Ready to take your district to standards-based grading? We can provide districts with a clear phases and action steps to make this journey possible. Services include a 1/2 day training overview of the process to a customized contract of services days and support for teachers. Our approach not only includes clear action steps in each phase, it also includes clear exemplars of grade cards, proficiency scales and rubrics.

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Mastering Grade Level Content

This training tool and training bundle is targeted for K-5 teachers who want to dive deeply into their grade level standards. Each participant will receive a copy of our 4 Core grade level book (which includes proficiency for each Missouri Learning standard) paired with a 1/2 day of training. Training will provide clarity on the level of rigor for Tier 1 instruction needed for each grade, as well as supports, strategies and graphics to support effective Tier 2 instruction for all grade level standards. This training is ideal for new or alternatively certified teachers but can benefit any grade level teacher with the clarity and confidence they deserve.
Cost: $200 per teacher (this includes a book and 1/2 day training for each teacher).

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Customized Trainings

Don’t see the support or professional development you’re looking for?
We’d still love to help. Reach out at info@stepupconsultingservices.com and tell us about your district’s needs — we’ll design a training tailored just for you.