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Literacy Coaches and Teacher Leaders
Linking Assessment to Teaching: Reading, Writing & Word Study
In this 8-week online graduate course, teachers develop skills in systematic observation and analysis of student reading, writing, and language behaviors in order to plan effective teaching to meet student needs.
Word Study: Teaching Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling in Grades 3-8
In this 8-week online graduate course for teachers, learn the importance of systematic instruction in vocabulary, spelling, and word analysis skills in the intermediate grades and middle school.
Acquiring Coaching and Teacher Leadership Expertise
In this 8-week online graduate course, you’ll better understand your role as a literacy coach or teacher leader in a school.
Intentional Teaching in a Writers’ Workshop for Grades K-2
In this 8-week online graduate course for K-2 teachers, learn how writers’ workshops can develop student writing fluency.
Word Study: Teaching Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling in Grades K-3
In this 5-day training for teachers, learn about instruction in phonics, phonological awareness, vocabulary, spelling, and word study for children in grades K-3.
Upcoming Professional Development
Grow Your Teaching of Writing: Yearlong Support Through Virtual Coaching
Learn how to implement your yearlong writing curriculum by thinking and problem-solving with our faculty trainers and a cohort of teachers across the school year. Get ongoing, yearlong support through biweekly think-tank sessions and virtual coaching tailored to support your teaching of writing.
Leveled Literacy Intervention National Tutoring Scale-Up Model
Support readers and writers to make literacy progress in 12–18 weeks.
Introduction to Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™
This 2-day training introduces a system for teaching students that creates authentic experiences in reading, thinking, talking, writing, and reflecting in all classroom settings.