EBE Learning Experience

Building equitable systems that expand access, agency, and expertise.

For STEM educators and instructional leaders committed to building classrooms where expertise grows through access, agency, and belonging. Most learning experiences are 2 hour sessions with the exception of the intensive which is a 4 hour experience.

Featured Experiences:

1.Getting Started: The Equity Builds Expertise Framework

--An introduction to the core mindsets and instructional shifts that help educators dismantle barriers to learning while building rigorous, expertise-centered classrooms.
Ideal for: faculty meetings, conferences, leadership teams

2. Wired with Words: Purposeful Vocabulary Instruction in STEM

--Practical strategies that help students access complex STEM concepts through language-rich instruction, discussion, and sensemaking. Participants explore how vocabulary can either accelerate learning or unintentionally become a gatekeeper.
Ideal for: STEM teachers, instructional coaches, department chairs

3. Know-Taking in STEM

-A rethinking of note-taking as a tool for processing, sensemaking, and agency rather than passive compliance. Educators explore structures that support deeper thinking and equitable participation.
Ideal for: STEM teachers, instructional coaches, department chairs

4. Equitable Grading in STEM

-A practical exploration of grading systems that prioritize accuracy, growth, clarity, and student learning over compliance and averaging practices.
Ideal for: STEM teachers, instructional coaches, department chairs

5. Grading for Growing Expertise Intensive

A deeper facilitated experience for teams ready to redesign grading systems, practices, and communication structures in sustainable ways. This one isn't just for STEM educators.
A 4-Hour Live Professional Learning Experience (Zoom experience available)

Grading isn’t just about scores. It’s a system that shapes learning, motivation, and opportunity. This live Intensive is for educators ready to rethink grading in ways that are accurate, humane, and academically sound without lowering expectations or burning themselves out.

Format options: half-day, full-day, multi-session support
Ideal for: All teachers, instructional coaches, department chairs, superintendents, principals, school leadership teams

WHAT WE’LL COVER

Reframing the Purpose of Grading

What grades are (and aren’t) designed to communicate,/li>
The difference between grading for compliance and grading for learning

Building Stronger Evidence of Learning

Rethinking zeros, averaging, and late work
Designing grading practices that reflect student understanding

Practical Shifts You Can Make Immediately

Flexible reassessment without chaos
Using grading as feedback, not punishment
Tools and routines from the Equitable Grading in STEM planner

Sustaining Change

Navigating resistance and questions
Language that builds trust instead of defensiveness
Making grading shifts without burning out

Are you ready to create equitable systems in your courses that build student expertise?

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Testimonials

"We proudly claim Shana Pyatt as a seasoned member of our annual Alternate Route Teachers' Conference faculty. She is a founding presenter who helped set the standard for what excellent facilitation looks like. Candidates and seasoned educators alike consistently rate her session very highly and have commented that she is an "excellent and engaging presenter," "a great demonstration of poise under pressure," and simply "amazing and very knowledgeable." Any school district or organization with an interest in seizing the opportunity to cultivate effective, transformational instruction for students should consider Shana deserving of your district/organization's investments."

-- Heather R. Ngoma, Director, Alternate Route Teacher Program, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, NJ

"Shana was SUPERB!! Such valuable information for new (and veteran) teachers. My folks were engaged from start to finish…It was one of the most important PD's that I've attended in a long time—My candidates definitely benefited from Shana's expertise!"