If any one phrase captures the heart of the Salvadori enterprise, that phrase would be professional development. We have devised strategies, techniques, and lesson plans that teachers can apply to their teaching so that their students can learn geometry by designing bridges out of tongue depressors, social studies by plotting a course for the transcontinental railroad, or physics by building and testing simple machines.

Salvadori Professional Development Programs can also provide on-site co-teaching, off-site mentoring through phone and email, and a continuing course of instruction to help sharpen classroom and administrative practice and integrate the Salvadori built-environment methodology into the curriculum's day-to-day activities.

The Workshops

Teachers and administrators interested in getting a "dose" of Salvadori can take one or more of our topical workshops. 

Participants can register to attend workshops here at the Center, or arrangements can be made to hold the workshop at a school.

 

   

Practical PD

In the PD-LEAD Program (Professional Development for Learning through Engineering, Architecture and Design), the Salvadori Center offers either full-day or half-day workshops where Salvadori Senior Educators work closely with teachers, administrators, curriculum specialists, and other school personnel to explore pedagogical topics ranging from the use of the built environment as a tool for STEAM education to specific content curricula, like the engineering of bridges, monuments and memorials, or green design.

 

Institutes

In our Turbo Institutes for regular and out-of-school time educators, participants engage the built environment of New York City through walking tours, visits to architectural and engineering firms and construction sites, and hands-on exploration of Salvadori lesson plans.

  

P-Credit Courses

The Salvadori Center will be offering courses through the After School Professional Development Program (ASPDP) in both the fall and spring. These courses explore the Salvadori methodology of using the built environment as a springboard for interdisciplinary learning.

The courses include practical ways of connecting social studies, English Language Arts and fine arts OR math and science to the spectacular architectural and structural features of New York City.