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AI-Powered Literacy: Practical Tools to Plan, Engage, and Inspire

March 28, 2025

This hands-on training will equip you with practical strategies and the confidence to integrate AI tools into lesson planning, boost student engagement, and enhance critical thinking and creativity. Join us and take your literacy teaching to the next level with cutting-edge technology!

4 Days, 4 Ways to Impact Every Reader

March 28, 2025

Join us for a 4-day institute where you’ll examine practical, evidence-based ways to build content knowledge, teach for transfer, select texts intentionally, and foster meaningful discourse—enhancing literacy instruction for every reader using any curriculum or program.

The Science of Literacy Interventions

March 28, 2025

Successful literacy interventions don’t exist in a vacuum. Getting the most out of evidence-based interventions requires the coordinated, thoughtful, and responsive work of every educator in the building. Join us to learn more about evidence-based interventions in literacy and how teachers, specialists, and school leaders can work together to make literacy interventions successful.

Fostering a Healthy Book Diet

March 25, 2025

Discover how a well-rounded “book diet” can fuel literacy growth, including comprehension, foundational skills, and a love of reading! This one-day professional learning will support you in selecting the texts that match students’ needs, interests, and reading abilities, creating an engaging, effective reading experiences for all learners.

Words Matter: Engaging Vocabulary Instruction That Sticks for Grades 3-8

March 19, 2025

Ready to make vocabulary instruction stick? During this two-day workshop, you will learn evidence-based strategies to build deep word knowledge, foster curiosity, and create meaningful opportunities for students to use and apply new vocabulary for lasting academic success.

Spelling: So Much More Than Memorization

March 13, 2025

No more test on Friday, misspell on Monday! During this two-day workshop, you will learn about the multifaceted, frequently misunderstood concept of spelling and how you can teach for strong spelling skills.

Thinking Beyond the Page: Strategies for Developing Deep Comprehension

March 13, 2025

Comprehension is a complex process and the ultimate goal of reading. Join us to learn practical strategies to support your students to go from surface-level comprehension to deep, critical thinking about what they read.

The New Benchmark Assessment System 2.0 (System 2, Levels K-Z)

March 10, 2025

In this two-day institute learn how to use BAS 2.0 to pinpoint students’ reading behaviors and instructional needs with word-solving, fluency, and comprehension.

The New Benchmark Assessment System 2.0 (System 1, Levels A-P)

March 10, 2025

This two-day workshop will help you learn how to use the new BAS 2.0 system to pinpoint student strengths and needs as readers, including oral reading behaviors, fluency, comprehension, writing about reading, and phonological awareness and early phonics skills.

Early Literacy Success: Building Language, Sounds, and Print Knowledge in PreK

November 22, 2024

Children in PreK come to school with many different experiences with language, sounds, and print. This two-day workshop will bring to life what very young learners need to know and understand about letters, sounds, and words and how you can support their learning by building on what they already understand.

Upcoming Professional Development

May 12 - July 6, 2025 (Summer Term I)

Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling in the Reading & Writing Classroom 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.

$2,700 ($875/credit + $25/credit comprehensive fee) - required texts not included
May 12 - July 6, 2025 (Summer Term I)

Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling in the Reading & Writing Classroom in Grades K-3

In this 8-week online course for teachers, learn about instruction in phonics, phonological awareness, vocabulary, spelling, and word study for children in grades K-3.

$2,700 ($875/credit + $25/credit comprehensive fee) - required texts not included
June 25-26, 2025

AI-Powered Literacy: Practical Tools to Plan, Engage, and Inspire

This hands-on training will equip you with practical strategies and the confidence to integrate AI tools into lesson planning, boost student engagement, and enhance critical thinking and creativity. Join us and take your literacy teaching to the next level with cutting-edge technology!

$595

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