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As an instructional leader, I've worked with a variety of schools, school groups, and district organizations to lead professional development for teachers.
Professional Development Designed for Professionals
Professional Development Designed for Professionals
My professional development work is largely focused on expert, experienced teachers. This is a population that is often underserved by existing professional development. However, working with teachers who have mastered the basics and are trying to deepen their practice is often where systems leaders can create the greatest improvement in learning, and the greatest growth in students.
As a participant at my Stepping Into PBL workshop said, my sessions "provided an exemplary lesson that helped me realize that PBL, while seemingly daunting, is easily implemented with proper training. I feel as if I’ve come away having gained confidence in my teaching skills and the ability to weave his teachings into my lessons, even if I do not take a PBL approach."
Global Design Sprint: PBL for Global Climate Justice
Global Design Sprint: PBL for Global Climate Justice
Working with a team from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, and collaborators at 6 sites around the world, I led a group of 12 eucators from 4 countries in a 6-hour design sprint. During the sprint, teachers designed projects to address specific climate challenges in their communities, designed learning experiences to help students connect class content to the real world, and collaborated with participants at other global sites to share insights and resources.
Learn more about the UPenn Global Design Sprints here!
Global Schools Advocate Program Mentorship
Global Schools Advocate Program Mentorship
Since March of 2025 I've worked with the Global Schools Program to mentor teacher-advocates from around the world on how to build Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) values into their teaching practice. Over this time, I've worked with two dozen teachers, in half a dozen different countries.
In this context, I've worked with teachers not only on the 'international circuit,' but educators working in a variety of public, private, and parochial contexts. I beleive that education, like the environment, is everyone's concern, and my commitment to leading professional development at low or no cost to participants reflects that.
Mentor Certificate_Tristan Reynolds.pdfMentor Certificate_Tristan Reynolds.pdfNew Taipei City NEST Program
New Taipei City NEST Program
Over several months in 2026, I worked with 30 members of New Taipei City's NEST program, which brings foreign educators into Taiwanese public schools, to plan and implement Project-Based Learning units that crossed curricular, linguistic, and national lines.
Stepping Into PBL
Stepping Into PBL
Many teachers are hesitant about a big pedagogical shift like PBL. To help the NEST teachers make this shift, I used the Stepping Into PBL Toolkit. This is a PD package that walks teachers through how to use the processes they're familiar with, like backwards planning, to develop a PBL unit.
The Stepping Into PBL PD Package I designed is available under a Creative Commons 4.0 Noncommercial International License.
Managing Student Projects
Managing Student Projects
New PBL teachers often wonder about how to manage a student project once they've gotten started. To help the NEST teachers with overcoming this challenge, we reviewed a 3 common constraints and how to handle them, all helping students learn key information, and keep the course on-track.
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