Professional Development

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January 9, 2025

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

This session will focus on how to provide rich, engaging experiences with language, sounds, and print in the PreK classroom.

Webinar
January 14-15, 2025

Phonics and Vocabulary Instruction in Intermediate Grades

Learn to teach your students how to use syllabication and their understandings of morphology (the meaning of word parts) to read and comprehend text.

Workshop
January 16, 2025

Growing Community and Family Collaborations All Year Long

Join Nawal Qarooni, a holistic literacy educator who designs family literacy programming in schools, for a day-long workshop to grow community and family collaborations all year long. Nawal will share a collective care framework developed over decades of research and her parenting of four multiethnic children.

Speaker Series
January 21-March 16, 2025 (Spring Term I)

Guided Reading: Responsive Teaching in Grades K-2

In this 8-week online course for teachers and literacy educators, learn how to plan for and teach effective small group, differentiated instruction.

Online Graduate Course
January 21-March 16, 2025 (Spring Term 1)

Guided Reading: Differentiating Literacy Instruction in Grades 3-8 

In this 8-week online course for teachers and literacy educators, learn how to plan for and teach effective small group, differentiated instruction.

Online Graduate Course
January 21-March 16, 2025 (Spring Term I)

Elevating Literacy Expertise Through Coaching

In this 8-week online course, you’ll explore a variety of ways to coach teachers and foster their independence, reflection and analysis of literacy teaching and learning.

Online Graduate Course
January 23-24, and March 20-21, 2025

Leading for Literacy: What Every School Leader Needs to Know

In this 4-day training for school principals and administrators, learn how to support literacy teaching in grades K–6. Learn how to improve student literacy outcomes by developing a coherent vision for literacy and a vibrant school culture that supports teamwork and continuous professional learning.

Institute
January 28 – 29, 2025

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

This two-day institute 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.

Workshop
February 4 – 5, 2025

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

Join us for this two-day institute to learn how to use BAS 2.0 to pinpoint student proficiencies and needs, including word-solving, fluency, comprehension and writing about reading, and examining how to transition from assessment to instruction.

Workshop
February 11-12, 2025

Quick Tips for Test Prep: Supporting Your Students for Success! 

Are you working to support your students to excel on standardized tests? In this 2-day training, learn how to deepen students’ understanding of the demands of standardized tests so they can respond confidently and successfully!

Workshop