Reaching All Learners Speaker Series: Patricia Paugh
Learning to be Literate: How to Connect the Current Conversations About Literacy Productively to Your Own Students
A renewed focus on phonics and decoding has been a central topic in public conversations about literacy education. While all can agree the decoding of words is essential, it is one of many skills that are central to an effective literacy education.
- Classroom Teachers PreK–8
- Interventionists/Specialists
- Literacy Coaches/Teacher Leaders
- School & District Leaders
- Individual Speaker ($199
- Complete Series ($499)
- Discounts available for groups. Email CRRLC@lesley.edu to inquire.
Thursday, October 24
Learning to be Literate: How to Connect the Current Conversations About Literacy Productively to Your Own Students
A renewed focus on phonics and decoding has been a central topic in public conversations about literacy education. While all can agree the decoding of words is essential, it is one of many skills that are central to an effective literacy education.
Teachers are in the essential position to help young learners think deeply about ideas and language at the same time as they learn to work out the sounds and symbol systems of language. In this workshop, you will learn about a four-part framework to review curriculum, instruction, and students’ needs as well as consider new ideas for classroom practice.
Participants will:
- Examine literacy instruction through the Active Literacy Learning (ALL) framework that encompasses four interconnected dimensions:
- learning the codes,
- reading and writing with purpose,
- building confidence and competence, and
- engaging critically with texts.
- Explore and experience these four dimensions through case studies from classroom practices.
- Review and reflect on current curriculum, instruction, and the diversity of students’ needs.
- Choose a teaching idea related to the framework that you want to know more about and integrate it into a lesson or unit that taps one or more dimension(s).
Registered participants will receive a copy of the professional text, Learning to Be Literate: More Than a Single Story, co-written by Patricia Paugh and Deborah MacPhee.
This full-day workshop will be recorded. Registered individuals will have through April 12, 2025, to access this recording. Instructions to access the recording will be sent about 1-2 weeks following the session.
Patricia Paugh 
Patricia Paugh is a professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches literacy methods courses and is graduate program director for elementary education. Pat’s scholarship is centered on issues of early, critical, and disciplinary literacy in early childhood and elementary education, primarily through collaborative research with teachers in urban classrooms. She is the co-author of four books; the most recent is: Learning to be Literate: More than a Single Story. Her university work builds on twenty-years as a first grade and elementary reading teacher.
Cultivate your expertise in reaching and responding to the diverse strengths and needs of every one of your students. You may register for this individual workshop or the three-part series.
Reaching All Learners Speaker Series
Thursday, October 24, 2024, with Patricia Paugh
Learning to be Literate: How to Connect the Current Conversations About Literacy Productively to Your Own Students
Thursday, January 16 with Nawal Qarooni
Session Title: Growing Community and Family Collaborations All Year Long
Wednesday, March 12 with Melanie Meehan
Session Title: Extending Pathways and Possibilities for Writers
Click here for information about the complete 2024 & 2025 Reaching All Learners Speaker Series
Independent Learning Policy & Recordings
Each full-day workshop will be recorded. Registered individuals will have through April 12, 2025, to access a recording. Instructions to access the recording will be sent about 1-2 weeks following the session.
While series recordings will be available to those who have registered, attending in person will bring added value. Live attendance provides the opportunity to directly interact with speakers, ask questions based on your classroom, school, and community to explore specific implementation directions for moving forward.
Registration Deadline
We highly recommend registering at least five business days before the event to allow the minimum amount of time to ship the professional texts.
Cancellation Deadline & Refund Policies
Cancellation Policy: There is a $75 cancellation fee. We request any books sent prior to cancellation to be returned.
For Complete Bundle attendees, the cancellation deadline is October 17, 2024.
For Individual Seminar attendees, the cancellation deadlines are:
- Patricia Paugh – October 17, 2024
- Nawal Qarooni – January 9, 2025
- Melanie Meehan – March 5, 2025
If you request a cancellation after the above date deadlines, you will not be issued a refund.
Cancellations must be submitted in writing. Substitution requests are acceptable. Please e-mail CRRLC@lesley.edu.
Requirements for Participation
In order to receive your certificate of attendance, you will be asked to complete a digital one-page insight form. We will provide more information about this process after each session. Please allow our team 2-3 weeks to process your certificate.
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