Professional Learning & Workshops
Practical Strategies: Stronger Educators: Better Outcomes:
LJP Educational Consulting provides engaging, research-informed professional learning designed to turn ideas into action. From relationship-driven instruction and classroom success to leadership development, student support, discipline, and family engagement, each experience is customized to equip participants with practical strategies they can implement immediately.
Student Success & Instruction
NOBODY TOLD THEM THEY WERE SOMEBODY
Helping At-Risk Students Move from Barriers to Breakthroughs
Too many students enter school carrying barriers that affect engagement, behavior, attendance, and achievement. Drawing from his books, research, professional practice, and personal journey, Dr. Lorenza Pharrams equips educators with practical strategies for reaching students who have become disengaged, discouraged, or disconnected from school. Participants explore the At-Risk Success Pyramid and the power of Relationship, Relevance, and Rigor to create conditions in which students can thrive.
Ideal Audience: Teachers • Administrators • Counselors • Student Support Teams • District Leaders
Available As: Keynote-Style Training • Workshop • Half-Day/Full-Day Training • Multi-Session Series
You Can’t Teach Me If You Can’t Reach Me
Relational Strategies for Academic Success
Relationships are not separate from instruction. They help make effective instruction possible. This engaging experience equips educators with practical, research-informed strategies for strengthening teacher-student connections, increasing engagement, and creating classroom environments where students feel known, valued, and positioned to succeed. Participants examine the connection between relationships, regulation, motivation, behavior, and academic achievement.
Ideal Audience: Teachers • Instructional Coaches • Counselors • Administrators
Available As: Workshop • Half-Day/Full-Day Professional Learning
Relationship-Driven Instruction
The 3 Rs of Reaching At-Risk Students
In the pursuit of data-driven instruction and academic rigor, the human connection can be overlooked. Using the At-Risk Success Pyramid, participants explore the sequential power of Relationship, Relevance, and Rigor and learn how intentional connections can strengthen motivation, engagement, behavior, and achievement.
Ideal Audience: Teachers • Administrators • Instructional Coaches • Counselors
Available As: Workshop • Half-Day/Full-Day Training
Classroom Success
Beyond Classroom Management: Building Environments Where Students Thrive
Classroom management is more than rules, consequences, and compliance. The Classroom Success Program equips novice and developing teachers with evidence-based practices, practical strategies, and a comprehensive framework for creating organized, engaging, relationship-centered learning environments. The emphasis shifts from merely controlling behavior to building the conditions that support student and teacher success.
Ideal Audience: Novice Teachers • Alternative Certification Teachers • Teacher Mentors • Instructional Leaders
Available As: Workshop • Six-Week Development Program
Reaching Every Learner
Creating Equitable & Inclusive Classrooms
Today’s classrooms require educators to understand that treating every student exactly the same does not always provide every student what they need to succeed. Participants examine equity, inclusion, belonging, and practices that can unintentionally marginalize learners while identifying strategies that create meaningful opportunities for all students to succeed.
Ideal Audience: Teachers • Administrators • Counselors • District Leaders
Available As: Workshop • Half-Day/Full-Day Training
Presenter Credential: Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Cornell University
Social-Emotional Learning & Mentoring
Building the Skills Students Need for School, Work, and Life
Effective social-emotional learning helps students develop self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. LJP Educational Consulting works with schools to build an SEL and mentoring structure that supports academic achievement, self-regulation, problem-solving, positive behavior, and school climate.
Ideal Audience: School Leaders • Teachers • Counselors • Student Support Teams
Available As: Customized Workshop • 18-Week Implementation Program
Understanding and Reaching African-American Male Students
Understanding Barriers, Building Connections, Raising Expectations
This thought-provoking session examines historical, cultural, social, and educational barriers that can influence the achievement and engagement of African-American male students. Participants explore strategies centered on empowerment, high expectations, culturally responsive learning experiences, trauma sensitivity, positive identity, and meaningful relationships.
Ideal Audience: Teachers • Administrators • Counselors • Student Support Professionals
Available As: Workshop • Professional Learning Series
Mentoring & Student Support
One Caring Adult
A Schoolwide Mentoring Framework
Students need someone in the building who knows them, believes in them, and advocates for their success. The One Caring Adult Program helps schools develop a structured mentoring approach that intentionally connects students with supportive adults and promotes belonging, accountability, resilience, and growth.
Ideal Audience: Schools • Districts • Counselors • Faculty/Staff
Available As: Implementation Workshop • Schoolwide/Systemwide Program
Alternatives to Suspension
Keeping Students Accountable, Connected & Learning
This session explores research-informed alternatives that hold students accountable while reducing lost instructional time. Participants examine proactive supports, restorative responses, social-emotional learning, positive behavior supports, intervention systems, and relationship-centered approaches for addressing behavior while keeping students connected to school.
Ideal Audience: Administrators • District Leaders • Discipline Teams • Student Support Staff
Available As: Workshop • District Training
From Punitive to Restorative
Rethinking Discipline Through Accountability, Relationships & Repair
Effective discipline should do more than punish misconduct; it should help students understand impact, take responsibility, repair harm, and make better decisions. Participants explore restorative strategies that help students resolve disagreements, demonstrate empathy, rebuild relationships, and develop healthier responses to conflict.
Ideal Audience: Teachers • Administrators • Counselors • Student Support Teams
Available As: Workshop • Half-Day/Full-Day Training
Building a Framework for Alternative Placement Programs
Designing an Alternative That Is Truly Different
Alternative education should be more than traditional education in a different building. This session helps leaders rethink alternative placement through individualized learning, strategic programming, relationship-centered support, student accountability, and innovative instructional practices.
Ideal Audience: District Leaders • Alternative School Leaders • Student Services Teams
Available As: Consultation • Workshop • Program Development Series
Disproportionality in Student Discipline
Moving from Data Awareness to Equitable Practice
This session helps school and district leaders move beyond simply identifying disciplinary disparities to examining the practices, policies, decision points, and systems that may contribute to them. Participants explore strategies for strengthening consistency, fairness, accountability, and student support while maintaining safe and orderly learning environments.
Ideal Audience: District Leaders • Administrators • Student Services • Discipline Teams
Available As: Workshop • District Training • Leadership Team Session
Leadership & Organizational Development
Leadership Development Program
Developing the Leaders Your Organization Needs Next
This multi-session program prepares aspiring administrators, assistant principals, and current system leaders to lead with clarity, competence, and accountability. Participants strengthen their capacity in continuous improvement, teaching and learning, human resources, stakeholder relationships, technology, organizational management, ethics, and leadership decision-making.
Ideal Audience: Aspiring Administrators • Assistant Principals • Principals • District Leaders
Available As: 4–6 Session Leadership Development Series
Executive Coaching for School Leaders
Strengthening Leadership Through Reflection, Accountability & Action
Drawing from more than two decades of building-level leadership experience, including 16 years as a school principal, Dr. Pharrams provides individualized and team-based coaching designed to strengthen decision-making, accountability, communication, school culture, instructional leadership, and professional growth.
Ideal Audience: Principals • Assistant Principals • Aspiring Leaders • Leadership Teams
Available As: Individual Coaching • Leadership Team Coaching • Multi-Month Development Programs
Situational Leadership
Leading People According to What the Situation Requires
Effective leaders understand that one leadership approach will not work for every person or every situation. This interactive session helps leaders determine when to direct, coach, support, or delegate and practice matching their leadership response to the needs and readiness of the people they lead.
Ideal Audience: Principals • Assistant Principals • District Leaders • Leadership Teams
Available As: Workshop • Leadership Retreat • Multi-Session Training
From Manager to Leader
Building the Habits, Mindset & Skills of Effective Leadership
Designed for novice and experienced leaders, this interactive experience challenges participants to move beyond managing tasks and begin intentionally influencing people, culture, and results. Practical leadership strategies, team development, mindset, and principles drawn from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People help leaders examine how personal effectiveness affects organizational effectiveness.
Ideal Audience: Aspiring Leaders • Assistant Principals • Principals • Leadership Teams
Available As: Workshop • Leadership Academy • Train-the-Trainer Experience
Working With Me…Not For Me
Shared Decision-Making That Builds Ownership and Commitment
People are more committed to what they help create. This session explores shared decision-making as a leadership strategy for strengthening collaboration, trust, ownership, and organizational commitment while maintaining clarity, accountability, and forward movement.
Ideal Audience: Administrators • Leadership Teams • Teacher Leaders • District Teams
Available As: Workshop • Leadership Retreat • Team Development Session
Family & Community Engagement
Parental Engagement
Moving Families from Attendance to Authentic Partnership
Family engagement is most powerful when parents and guardians are treated as meaningful partners in student success. Dr. Pharrams works with school leaders to develop practical frameworks for strengthening communication, participation, trust, and home-school collaboration.
Ideal Audience: Parents/Guardians • School Leaders • Family Engagement Teams
Available As: Individual Workshop • Parent Academy • Multi-Session Series
How May I Help You?
Building Support Systems for Students, Educators & Families
Schools cannot address every barrier alone. This session helps leaders think strategically about building support systems for struggling learners, troubled youth, frustrated educators, and families through collaboration among schools, community agencies, businesses, families, and civic leaders.
Ideal Audience: Administrators • District Leaders • Community Partners • Student Support Teams
Available As: Workshop • Community/School Partnership Session
Allowing Your Son to Become a Man
Supporting the Journey from Boyhood to Young Adulthood
This parent-focused session explores the important roles parents, fathers, mentors, and other caring adults can play in helping young men develop identity, responsibility, confidence, and purpose, with particular attention to the experiences and needs of young Black males.
Ideal Audience: Parents • Fathers • Mentors • Community Organizations
Available As: Parent Workshop • Community Forum
CUSTOMIZATION: Every school, district, college, and organization is different. LJP Educational Consulting can customize professional learning experiences to address your specific goals, challenges, audience, and desired outcomes.
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