AI-Powered Literacy: Practical Tools to Plan, Engage, and Inspire
Learn how to empower your literacy teaching with cutting-edge AI tools!
This hands-on training will equip you with practical strategies and the confidence to integrate AI tools into lesson planning, boost student engagement, and enhance critical thinking and creativity. Join us and take your literacy teaching to the next level with cutting-edge technology!
- Classroom Teachers 3-8
- Interventionists/Specialists
- Literacy Coaches/Teacher Leaders
- Literacy Collaborative Affiliation Discount available
Have you been wondering about the role AI can play in your literacy instruction? Unlock the power of AI in your Grade 3-8 classroom by attending our engaging two-day workshop! Discover how AI can assist you in planning and designing instruction to help students engage with AI as a powerful tool for reading and writing. Learn practical strategies to integrate AI tools into your classroom to meet the diverse needs of your students as readers, writers, and thinkers.
Topics include:
- Discuss the benefits and challenges of using AI in the literacy classroom, including district guidelines and ethical use of AI
- Support students in developing critical literacy skills in the digital world
- Explore a variety of AI tools and identify possibilities for classroom use
- Identify opportunities for students to use AI throughout the writing process
- Consider how AI can streamline planning and assist you in developing models and exemplars to use in instruction
You will earn 10 clock hours in this training.
Linda Murphy, Associate Director, Literacy Programs 
Linda has worked in school districts in New York in a variety of roles and settings. Prior to her joining the center at Lesley University, Linda held positions as a principal of an intermediate school, a Director of English Language Arts, Social Studies and Reading, a district trainer for Literacy Collaborative Intermediate, a Reading Recovery Teacher Leader and a classroom teacher. Linda holds licenses in Elementary Education and School District Administration.
Nikki Drury, Literacy Trainer
Nikki worked as a literacy coach and teacher in public school for many years before joining the Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative as an Intermediate Trainer. She has experience as a primary and intermediate classroom teacher and literacy instructional coach at the intermediate level. Over the years, she has worked with students, educators, and administrators to improve literacy outcomes.
Cancellation Deadline & Refund Policies
You have until one week before the first day of this offering to cancel your registration. The cancellation deadline is Wednesday, June 18, 2025 and you will be charged a $50 processing fee. Email CRRLC@lesley.edu if you have a cancellation or substitution request. Regardless of weather conditions, if the event is held but you cannot attend, you will be billed for the full amount.
Registration Deadline
The registration deadline is 5pm on June 24, 2025.
Requirements for Participation
After the training, you will receive a certificate of attendance for your participation. To receive a complete certificate, participation during the specified times is required. Additional work may be assigned to meet the professional development hours.
In-Person at Lesley University or Virtual Attendance
You may choose to attend this training in-person at Lesley University or virtually in real time. Should any of the conditions change and it is determined the training will be offered virtually only, you will be notified as soon as possible. We recommend that you contact us before reserving travel and lodging.
If you choose to attend in-person, the training room will have Lesley University’s HyFlex Classroom Technology to support an engaging learning environment for in-person and virtual participants. If you have questions about in-person or virtual attendance, please email us at CRRLC@lesley.edu.
In-person participants are required to follow the Lesley safety protocols.
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