PEBC Lab Classroom SeriesÂ
Community: December 10, 2024
Discourse: February 5, 2025
Workshop Model: March 5, 2025
Single Lab - $259 Early Bird / $285 Regular
Bundle - $659 Early Bird / $725 Regular
3 Separate Sessions:
7:30 am - 3:30 pm MT
Register for all 3 sessions: $659 Early Bird / $725 Regular (save 15% over individual registrations)
Or, you can register for individual sessions: $259 Early Bird / $285 Regular
Registration includes a boxed lunch.
LAB CLASSROOM OBSERVATION: Step Into Real Classrooms and Transform Your Teaching
Take your teaching practice to the next level with our Lab Classroom Observation Series! Whether you attend one session or all three, you'll dive into essential strategies that make a real difference in the classroom. These hands-on seminars focus on three game-changing aspects of Phenomenal Teaching—community, discourse, and the workshop model.
Spend your morning observing expert teachers in action, then engage in an afternoon of rich discussion with the classroom lab host and a PEBC staff developer. Together, you'll reflect, explore professional literature, and discover how to apply what you've seen to elevate your own classroom.
What You’ll Learn:
- Community: Build a classroom community where every learner feels empowered and supported.
- Discourse: Lead engaging, meaningful academic conversations that deepen student understanding.
- Workshop Model: Create dynamic learning experiences that challenge students and promote deep, conceptual understanding.
Join us for an inspiring day of learning, observation, and collaboration. See first-hand how these powerful strategies come to life in the classroom—and walk away with fresh ideas to implement in your own!
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Facilitators
Annie Patterson
PEBC Senior Director of Lab Networks
Tracy Wagers
PEBC Manager of Resident Development, Coaching and Mentoring Lead
Brooke O'Drobinak
PEBC Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation
Meet the Facilitators
Annie Patterson, Senior Director of Education, leads the PEBC Lab Network and has led extensive work with schools and systems to develop classrooms that bring equity, agency, and understanding to life in K-12 classrooms both locally and nationally. She is a lifelong learner who focuses on designing professional learning that brings learning communities together to create classrooms worthy of students. Through facilitating and coaching, Annie works closely with teachers, instructional coaches, and district leaders to customize professional learning to increase student achievement for each and every learner. A co-facilitator of the Thinking Strategies Institute, Investigating Thinking Strategies, Annie also leads teacher inquiry groups that focus on argument writing.
Annie joined the PEBC in 2002 and brings over 31 years of experience in education. A former middle school teacher, Annie taught Language Arts, reading, social studies and math. She earned her Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis in Reading and Writing, from the University of Colorado. She is the recipient of the 2012 O’Rourke Award from Learning Forward Colorado for distinguished achievement in educator staff development. When she isn’t learning in a classroom, Annie loves spending time hiking with her family and her dog, Henry.
Favorite children’s book: The Three Questions by Jon J. Muth.
Facilitating for Community, Discourse, and Workshop Model
Tracy Wagers (she/her/hers) supports new teachers as the Manager of Resident Development, Coaching and Mentoring Lead for PEBC’s Residency team. Her approach as a coach and instructor includes an emphasis on social-emotional learning, inclusion, and creating safe spaces for growth and reflection.
Prior to joining PEBC, Tracy served as principal of an alternative middle and high school for students with learning differences. She also taught secondary language arts in the Denver Metro Area for eleven years and has endorsements in special education and gifted and talented support.
Tracy earned a Master’s in Humanities from CU-Denver, focusing on creativity and spirituality in education, and a BA in English from CU-Boulder.
Tracy is the mother of twins, a girl and a boy, and sees her parenting as a crucial opportunity for anti-racist work. She believes that humility is key to being a lifelong learner. Tracy grew up on a wheat farm in eastern Colorado and is passionate about living in a way which prioritizes people over things.
Favorite children’s book: Anh’s Anger by Gail Silver
Facilitating for Community
Brooke O’Drobinak, M.A., believes that people and relationships are at the heart of school communities. As the Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation, her work focuses on issues pertinent to successful K-12 education, including leadership, school culture, professional learning, and overall wellbeing. She believes that cultivating conditions under which adults in school communities can meaningfully focus on students–both as scholars and people–is essential to the task of school leadership.
She is the co-author of the book Teaching, Learning, and Trauma (6-12): Responsive Practices for Holding Steady in Turbulent Times (Corwin, 2020). This body of work defines an integrated and comprehensive approach to student learning by weaving together effective practices in mental health along with those in the teaching and learning.
Most recently, Brooke has served in district administration in Aurora Public Schools. Prior, she served in school administration for 13 years at a high-functioning, urban Denver high school. She has been a classroom teacher, district staff developer, PEBC coach, university educator (DU and Regis University), senior state department consultant and school design consultant.
She earned her BA in Economics and English and a Post-Baccalaureate Degree in Secondary Education from the University of Arizona, Post-Secondary Degree in Spanish Language and Culture from the Universidad de Sevilla and her MA in Curriculum Leadership from the University of Denver.
Facilitating for Community
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