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Optimizing Your Time With Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ (Webinar)

January 16, 2024

During this 90-minute webinar, learn practical, time-saving ways to use Fountas & Pinnell Classroom ™ materials to integrate all of the essential elements of science-backed reading instruction (phonics, fluency, vocabulary, knowledge building and comprehension) in a way that works for you and your students!

Get Efficient with Fountas & Pinnell Interactive Read Aloud (Webinar)

December 19, 2023

During this 90-minute Saturday webinar you will learn effective and efficient ways to use the Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Interactive Read Alouds.

The Power of Fluency to Accelerate Learning

December 19, 2023

In this 2-day training, reading fluency will be defined and you will learn how to assess fluency and teach for automaticity and fluency during whole group, small group, and individual teaching opportunities.

Making Word Reading Easy Grades 3-8

December 13, 2023

In this 2-day training, learn how to teach phonics, spelling, and word study across your day that allow intermediate students to learn and apply foundational skills in reading and writing.

How to Make Independent Reading Work in Your Classroom (Webinar)

December 13, 2023

During this 90-minute webinar, gain insights into creating an environment that fosters a love for reading among your students and explore the opportunities independent reading provides readers in developing their literacy skills.

Not a Minute to Lose: Optimizing Coaching & Professional Learning Opportunities Across the Day 

December 7, 2023

In this 1-day training, learn about powerful coaching tools and protocols you can use to make the most of your time with teachers.

Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades K-2

November 21, 2023

In this 6-day training, learn how to teach high-quality small-group, supplementary literacy intervention for accelerated literacy learning for students in grades K–2.

Building Capacity through Continuous Professional Learning

November 15, 2023

In this 8-week online course, learn how to create a healthy culture of professional learning in your school.

Quick. Inexpensive. Efficient. Using Oral Reading to Guide Teaching (Webinar)

November 13, 2023

Spend 90 minutes of your Saturday morning with Cindy Downend and Wendy Vaulton and learn the five essential questions to deepen your analysis of oral reading.

Elevating Literacy Expertise Through Coaching

November 10, 2023

In this 8-week online course for literacy coaches, teacher leaders, and school administrators, learn about reading and writing processes to support your colleagues’ professional learning.

Upcoming Professional Development

December 9, 2024

It’s Both/And: Teaching Each Child with a Variety of Texts

Learn how to provide a “healthy diet” of a variety of text types that are high-quality, engaging, culturally sustaining, and connect phonics skills with reading for meaning.

$35
December 4-5, 2024

Not a Minute to Lose: Optimizing Coaching and Professional Learning Opportunities Across the Day

In this 2-day training, learn about a variety of powerful coaching tools and protocols you can use to make the most of the precious professional learning time you have with teachers – both individually and in small groups.

$595
November 19–20, 2024

The Genre of Testing: How To Set Your Students Up For Success!

In this two-day training, learn how to help students understand testing as a genre so they can confidently meet the challenges of standardized testing and experience success.

$595

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