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Grades K-8

Don’t Stop Making Sense: Orchestrating Word-Solving with Meaning (Webinar)

February 6, 2024

Start your Saturday morning with a 90-minute discussion of how you can support accurate, efficient, and independent reading by helping students use decoding and meaning to monitor their own reading.

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.

Five Everyday Shifts Guaranteed to Improve Literacy Outcomes (One-Hour Webinar With Irene Fountas)

March 4, 2024

Learn five instructional shifts that you can easily integrate across the day to reach all learners.

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

March 5, 2024

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.

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

April 3, 2024

In this 5-day course 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.

Introduction to Writing Minilessons Grades 2-6

April 3, 2024

Provide high quality writing lessons in management, genres and forms, craft, conventions, and writing process.

Upcoming Professional Development

July 8 - September 1, 2024 (Summer Term II)

Intentional Teaching in a Readers’ Workshop for Grades 3-8

In this 8-week online course for K-2 teachers, learn the purpose, organization, and structure of a readers’ workshop.

Online Learning
August 2024– May 2025 (Virtual Schedule Below)

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.

10:30am-3:30pm (EST) for first 3 days of training - additional times below

Leveled Literacy Intervention National Tutoring Scale-Up Model

Support readers and writers to make literacy progress in 12–18 weeks.

Featured on the National Proven Tutoring Website!

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