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5 Ways to Start the Year with Literacy Coaching (Complimentary Webinar)

June 3, 2025

Get inspired with five impactful ways to build momentum, foster relationships, and launch a successful year of literacy coaching.

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

May 1, 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.

Guided Reading: Teaching Comprehension, Phonics, Word Study, and Fluency in Grades K-8

May 1, 2025

In this 5-day training for teachers and literacy educators, learn how to plan for and teach intensive small group, differentiated reading instruction that focuses on essential components of evidence-based reading instruction in grades K-8.

Word Study: Teaching Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling in Grades K-8

May 1, 2025

In this five-day institute designed for teachers, deepen your understanding of the alphabetic linguistic system and learn how to teach for phonological awareness, phonics, word structure, vocabulary, spelling, and word analysis skills in grades K-8.

The Skillful Literacy Coach: What to Know, Say, and Do

April 22, 2025

Elevate your coaching knowledge, language, and actions to drive impactful instructional change in the new school year.

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.

Tutoring That Works! (Complimentary Awareness Session)

March 11, 2025

What does it take to make literacy intervention effective? Join us for a complimentary webinar to explore the characteristics of effective tutoring interventions and learn what your school or district can do to ensure lasting impacts for readers who need support.

Literacy Collaborative: Next Generation (Complimentary Awareness Session)

March 11, 2025

Designed for today’s schools, Literacy Collaborative: Next Generation model provides a quick-start to improving student outcomes, focused on building teacher capacity by training an in-house literacy coach/ teacher leader and by providing direct professional learning support to teachers and administrators.

Why is Everyone Avoiding Me? Problem-Solving for Literacy Coaches (Complimentary Webinar)

January 21, 2025

In this 1-hour webinar, examine the reasons why teachers may be reluctant to participate in coaching and identify strategies to overcome these challenges.

Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Texts

November 19, 2024

In this 8-week online course, learn how to support students in thinking deeply and critically about their reading so they can share their thinking through talk and writing.

Upcoming Professional Development

Days 1-3: October 8-10, 2025; Days 4-6: December 10-12, 2025; Days 7-9: February 4-6, 2026

The Effective Instructional Coach: Leading Growth, Navigating Challenges

This 9-day training is designed for all school-based coaches including instructional coaches and those who support literacy, math, science, social studies and/or technology. You’ll learn how to better understand your role and how to effectively coach teachers at your school.

$3500 (includes professional texts)
December 4-5, 2025

Thinking Beyond the Page: Developing Deep Comprehension

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.

$595 (includes professional text)
November 18, 2025

Teaching Foundational Skills and Fluency Through Shared Reading

Learn how to teach explicit, systematic phonemic awareness, phonics and word study skills and support fluency development using whole group or small group shared reading.

$295

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