Professional Development

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July 21-24, 2025

4 Days, 4 Ways to Impact Every Reader

Join us for a 4-day institute where you’ll examine practical, evidence-based ways to build content knowledge, teach for transfer, select texts intentionally, and foster meaningful discourse—enhancing literacy instruction for every reader using any curriculum or program.

Summer Literacy Institute
July 28-August 1, 2025

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

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.

Institute
July 30, 2025

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

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

Webinar
August 4-8, 2025

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

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.

Institute
August 11-14, 2025

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

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

Institute
August 18-19, 2025

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

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.

Workshop
August 20, 2025

The Science of Literacy Interventions

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.

Workshop
August 20-21, 2025

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

In this two-day institute learn how to use BAS 2.0 to pinpoint students’ reading behaviors and instructional needs with word-solving, fluency, and comprehension.

Workshop
October 3, 2025

The Power of Fluency to Accelerate Learning

In this fast-paced workshop, you’ll explore the key dimensions of reading fluency and learn how to assess and teach for automaticity and expression across whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction.

Workshop
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.

Institute