Professional Development
Clifton Strengths School invites you to select from our professional development offerings, each designed to meet your personal and professional continuing education goals as an educator, leader, or administrator. Click here to see all courses and start dates.
Strengths Advocate: This professional development program is designed for leaders responsible for conducting and facilitating strengths initiatives.
Strengths Development for Academic Success: This 4 week professional development course will provide a educator’s with the curriculum to help students gain a deeper understanding of their talents and how those talents not only enhance their academics but also other aspects of their lives.
Strengths-Based Classroom Manager: This professional development program is designed to help educators develop classroom management skills that promote healthy behavior and optimize student engagement and performance by focusing on strengths.
Strengths Performance Leader: This professional development program is designed for administrators. It introduces principles and practices of teacher quality through selection and development, measurement of student outcomes, and strengths success plans for leaders’ teams.
Gallup Student Poll Advisor: This professional development program is designed for educators who are leading school-based interventions using the Gallup Student Poll scorecard results. This program supports educators to achieve their goal to drive hope, engagement, and wellbeing measurements, thereby improving student outcome goals and growing an optimal learning culture in a school or throughout a district.
Certificate in Strengths-Based Education: This professional development program consists of four online courses and can be completed in four months. It is designed to give educators a comprehensive understanding of the building blocks of a strengths-based education and provide direction in implementing a strengths initiative.
Personal Development
Private one-hour coaching sessions around your unique 34 talent profile. During a session with a certified Strengths Performance Coach, you will gain deeper self-awareness through an in-depth exploration of your strengths. Focusing on your dominant talents, your coach will provide helpful insights and ask provoking questions about how you use your strengths to create your unique impact on the world. Building on this knowledge, you will grow in your ability to leverage your talents and enhance your ability to reach your goals more effectively. You also deepen your understanding of your nondominant talents and gain insights on how to manage them for optimal performance and relationship building. Please click here to message us.
Strengths Bank
As a valued student at Clifton Strengths School, your investment in education goes beyond the classroom. Every course you participate in is worth credit toward sharing strengths with others. Collect strengths credits as you continue your education, and redeem them for rewards. Earn strengths discovery codes that you can use with your students, your peers, and in your community.