Professional Development

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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.

Workshop
December 9 - 11, 2024

Literacy Coaching Essentials

Do you aspire to make the most of data to help improve student outcomes? Join Heather and Linda to refine your skills and expand your ability to use data in every aspect of your work with teachers.

Workshop
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.

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

Reaching All Learners Speaker Series: Nawal Qarooni

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
March 5-6, 2025

The Power of Fluency to Accelerate Learning

In this 2-day training, the dimensions of 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.

Workshop