Empowering Creative Minds LLC is a professional educational consulting firm, founded by Dr. Ida M. D’Ugo, serving primary and secondary schools in New York, Connecticut and beyond with virtual sessions. We provide instructional coaching and professional development for educators to meet the ever-changing needs of 21st Century Learners. Our coaching programs fuse pedagogy with instructional strategies that meet the demands of the real world and support student-focused achievement. Our programs include a variety of topics:
Our customized data-driven coaching programs support educators in increasing student academic growth and engagement. Each program is designed to support educators in honing critical 21st century skills in their students, specifically, enhancing problem-solving and critical thinking, collaboration and teamwork, effective communication and processing information, networking skills, integrity and professionalism.
Empowering Creative Minds LLC uses backwards curriculum design to help educators create a student-centered curriculum to help improve student learning.
Empowering Creative Minds LLC will work with your organization to establish goals and corresponding action steps to improve student academic achievement utilizing available resources.
From data collection and analysis utilized to make informed decisions pertaining to student academic achievement, Empowering Creative Minds LLC will guide you to formulate appropriate action plans.
Empowering Creative Minds LLC integrates inquiry-based learning into the curriculum to actively engage students in the learning process through exploration, discussion, and experience.
With Empowering Creative Minds LLC, learn how to engage students intellectually, emotionally, behaviorally, physically, socially, and culturally in the learning process to promote student interest and motivation and subsequent success.
Working with Empowering Creative Minds LLC, establish PLCs to foster collaborative learning among teachers to adjust practices to meet the needs of all learners and improve student academic achievement.
Empowering Creative Minds LLC utilizes transformational leadership to effect positive change in an educational community by developing leaders.