Teachers don't have to survive their classrooms. They can lead them with confidence, consistency, and compassion.
Classroom management profoundly affects a teacher's ability to teach and a child's ability to learn. Practical strategies help teachers feel confident, build positive classroom communities, and spend less time managing behavior and more time teaching.
Lorri Jimenez has been teaching in different schools, states, and countries for over thirty years. A Connecticut-certified professional educator with 20+ years of expertise in instructional leadership and adult learning, she is an expert in designing and delivering professional workshops that translate complex regulatory and pedagogical standards into actionable guidance for educators.
At Meriden Public Schools' Nathan Hale Elementary, she served as an elementary teacher and instructional lead, leading district-level initiatives that turned complex state mandates into clear, accessible training for fellow educators, mentoring new teachers on IEP and 504 compliance and student-centered instruction, and leveraging her trilingual fluency to lead inclusive parent and teacher workshops for diverse family backgrounds.
I want teachers to know that they don't have to survive their classrooms. They can lead them with confidence, consistency, and compassion.
As Project Coordinator and Lead Trainer for Refuge International, she designed and facilitated dynamic, multimedia-based workshops for community groups of 40 to 100+ participants, adapting teaching strategies for diverse, resource-limited environments, and spent 8 years directing a pre-K-8 school in Central America.
She is fully bilingual in English and Spanish, fluent in American Sign Language, and delivers Time To Teach training in either English or Spanish, one of the few national trainers who can. Beyond the training room, she tutors, teaches, translates, and is building new programs that bring languages and learning together. Explore her services.
Elementary teaching and instructional leadership at Meriden Public Schools, translating state mandates into training educators could actually use.
Eight years directing a pre-K-8 school in Central America, plus workshop facilitation for community groups of 40 to 100+ with Refuge International.
Trilingual facilitation for inclusive parent workshops, bilingual instruction, and training delivered in the language a room actually speaks.
Time To Teach classroom management training for K-12 schools and districts, in English or Spanish, on-site and virtual.
This was the best logical presentation on discipline I've had in twenty-three years of teaching. I have practical ideas I can use immediately. He demonstrated great knowledge of classroom practices, management, and what life is actually like in the classroom. So few do.
"One of the most immediately useful workshops I've taken. Even after 20 years."
"I've never seen anything like this. You get tools you can apply the very next day."
For K-12 schools and districts ready to give their teachers a day that actually changes Monday morning. Available across the United States.