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IN FOCUS EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING, LLC

Sarah Harrington, Founder, Educator, Consultant, Speaker

ABOUT

​From tackling instructional decisions to reaching important milestones, my job is to guide you on the path of success. I’m fueled by my commitment to excellence and go the extra mile to make sure clients are fully satisfied with my work. I am Chasing 100!

As a professional consultant, I believe in maintaining a positive mindset, creating partnerships with purpose, and striving for significant outcomes. Contact me today for an initial consultation and find out more about how I can tailor my services to your needs.

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Services

Ensuring social, emotional, and academic success of English Learners (ELs) and Multilingual's (MLs) is inspiring and challenging. I provide English Learner and Multilingual's Professional Development (P.D.) and consulting for leaders, teachers, and families to assist ELs in reaching their potential.  Culturally Responsive Instruction P.D., Hope Science, and Trauma Informed Practices are a special interest of mine. I'm here to help you navigate through instructional development, assessment, growth, and management of your English Learner programs at the district and school site level. 

Multilingual Learner & Building Impact Series

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English and Multilingual Learner Instruction Workshop

How can you effectively teach English and Multilingual Learners? What do you do with a student who doesn't speak English yet? Do you need strategies that you can implement tomorrow? Do you want to know how to specifically target the growth of ELs/MLs in your classroom? Do you desire to determine exactly what your EL/ML knows and can do? Do you want assistance in the planning process? This is the p.d. for you!

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Culturally Responsive Instruction Workshop

What does it mean to be culturally responsive? How can you embed practices in your teaching that increase the success of students from different cultures? Let's learn how to increase culturally responsive practices without getting overwhelmed!

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EL Program Services and Assessment

Leaders-are the services in your building meeting the needs of your English and Multilingual Learners? Do you see sustained instructional practices in the classroom? What do effective practices look like? How can you offer specific feedback to grow teachers? Together, we dive into about effective practices for ELs/MLs, providing specific feedback for teacher growth, and reviewing your EL/ML program, instruction and services.

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Trauma Informed Practices

How does trauma impact learning? What does brain research say about trauma informed practices? Join me as we dive into instructional practices that help mitigate the impact of trauma on learning through a variety of instructional practices. 

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Growing the Leadership Team

How can you grow your leadership team in their leadership skills, knowledge, and mindset? What can be done to level up their leadership? How can the leadership team generate passion across the school? Join me as we work together to build leaders and grow school success!

"Sarah Harrington is one in a million. She's been a resource; a gold mine of support and guidance across many areas of educational practices and leadership. She's helped me to explore and define best practices for monitoring support to multilingual learners as well and helped me to plan professional learning for teachers to increase trust and efficacy in their work.  Sarah is people-centered, and her approach to teaching and learning builds, lifts and develops all-- learners, teachers and leaders alike. "

Janeene Mainor, principal

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CONTACT ME

Woodbridge, Virginia

202-677-5071

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