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Spring 2024: 8-Week Online Graduate Courses

December 1, 2023 Spring 2024 Online Offerings

Stay cozy this spring and improve your career with an online course, where you can learn at your convenience.

Tags: Latest News

Three Reasons Why a Writer’s Notebook is an Important Tool for Writers

October 16, 2023 Linda Murphy, Associate Director of Literacy Programs

Encouraging your students to keep a writer’s notebook can nourish their informational and literary writing all year.

Tags: Teaching

Inviting Writers Into the Process: Three Strategies for Increasing Access 

October 13, 2023 Melanie Meehan, Author & Elementary Writing Coordinator

Author & Elementary Writing Coordinator Melanie Meehan explains how she makes the writing process more accessible to students who are struggling.

Tags: Teaching

Trusting Emergent Readers

October 10, 2023 Hannah Schneewind & Jennifer Scoggin, Literacy Consultants

Literacy consultants Hannah Schneewind & Jennifer Scoggin discuss the importance of developing students’ reading identities.

Tags: Teaching

Restorative Reading for Educators

October 6, 2023 Stephanie Affinito, Author & Educator, University at Albany, NY

Enhance the reading experience to soothe the body, spark the mind, and connect readers together.

Calling All Coaches: Consider Small Language Moves for a Big Impact  

September 22, 2023 Irene Fountas, Director

If you are a coach, teacher leader, principal or other administrator, you may not fully realize how your language impacts each educator in your school community.

Tags: Coaching

Upcoming Professional Development

October 28 – December 18, 2024 (Fall Term II)

Linking Assessment to Teaching: Reading, Writing & Word Study

In this 8-week online course, you will develop skills in systematic observation and analysis of student reading, writing, and language behaviors in order to plan effective teaching to meet student needs.

Online Learning

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!
March 12, 2025

Reaching All Learners Speaker Series: Melanie Meehan

That every child can write is a critical belief for effective writing instruction. Join renowned author Melanie Meehan to consider and explore options that invite, engage, and inspire writers throughout their unique processes and challenges.

9:00 am–3:30 pm (EST)
Register for this individual seminar or all of the series!

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