About Your Instructor – Kelly Harmon

Uniquely Qualified Instructor

Kelly Harmon is an enthusiastic and engaging presenter with extensive experience teaching  second grade. Kelly's experience has provided her with a clear insight into the frustrations, challenges and rewards of teaching, and the issues teachers face daily as they work to balance the demands of the classroom while improving learning for all. Drawing from her many years as a classroom teacher, instructional coach and national consultant, Kelly's presentations are fast-paced, interactive and highly engaging, providing you with practical strategies to use in your second grade classroom tomorrow. You will receive dozens of classroom-proven ideas you can use to strengthen your reading, writing, math, science and social studies instruction and greatly increase all your students' engagement, understanding and achievement. Kelly has a wealth of ideas and strategies to help you refine your own second grade program.

She is co-author with Dr. Robert Marzano of the book, Practicing Skills, Strategies, & Processes: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Develop Proficiency and the author of Catching Up SECOND GRADE Students Who Have Fallen Behind, the extensive digital resource handbook she developed just for this strategy-packed seminar that can be used immediately in your classroom when you return. You won't want to miss this day filled with humor, fun and a wealth of practical information that will boost your approach to teaching second grade students.

What Your Colleagues Say About Your Presenter

"This seminar gave me a lot of strategies that I can immediately implement in my classroom to help my students."
– Lori Williams, Second Grade Teacher

"This was one of the best seminars that I have attended. The handbook has an enormous number of resources. Kelly was engaging and used specific examples to model strategies which makes it easy to implement in the classroom. Thank you!"
– Jaclyn Nolan, Second Grade Teacher

"Great seminar! I've learned a lot and loved all the strategies Kelly shared with us! This seminar also included a lot of information on assessments. I would highly recommend this seminar!"
– Sharon Waldron, Second Grade Teacher

"The content of the seminar was very specific and I am very appreciative of the treasure trove of resources you provided in the Google Drive. Thanks so much!"
– Sara Chapman, Second Grade Teacher

"Kelly was an amazing presenter. I learned some important big ideas (acceleration, not remediation) and many, useful ideas, links, websites and resources. A day well spent and I look forward to trying these out in my classroom. Thank you!"
– Lisa Naveh, Second Grade Teacher

"Thank you so much for the content. It will be highly beneficial for the rest of the year and for many years to come."
– Kara Troyer, Second Grade Teacher