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Classroom Teachers 3-8
Joyful Beginnings in PreK & Kindergarten: Play Based Language & Literacy Learning
In this 2-day training, explore how to create a playful, literacy-rich prekindergarten or kindergarten classroom.
Guided Reading: Responsive Teaching in Grades K-2
In this 5-day training for teachers and literacy educators, learn how to plan for and teach effective small group, differentiated instruction in the primary grades.
Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series: 2022 Summer Literacy Institute
Register for this four-day Summer Literacy Institute, featuring Liz Kleinrock!
Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series: Gholdy Muhammad
Join us for a one-day workshop with Gholdy Muhammad.
Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series: Chris Hass
Join us for the first event in our Kids, Books, and Anti-Racism series.
Kids, Books & Anti-Racism Series 2022
This series is designed to deepen your understanding of how to cultivate anti-bias and anti-racist practices in classrooms and schools.
On-Demand Sessions: 32nd Annual Literacy for All Conference
Access 80 on-demand conference sessions from nationally renowned literacy and Reading Recovery experts.
Building Capacity through Continuous Professional Learning
In this 8-week online graduate course, learn how to create a healthy culture of professional learning in your school.
Thinking, Talking, and Writing about Texts
In this 8-week online graduate course, teachers use behavioral evidence of student talk and writing to design instruction to deepen the level of students’ thinking about reading.
Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment Systems 1 & 2 Seminar
In this 2-day training, learn how to use the Benchmark Assessment System to inform your teaching.
Upcoming Professional Development
Effective Reading Instruction: Community & Practice, K-8
This 8-week, online course will teach the rationales and organizational components of classroom reading instruction. You will examine effective instructional practices and strategies to strengthen reading development for a wide range of readers, including multilingual learners.
Building Deep Thinkers Through Reading: Engaging Students in Robust Comprehension
Let’s teach readers to think deeply. Join us to explore robust comprehension as an active, layered, and dynamic process to synthesize ideas, make inferences, and critique texts – not just recall facts.
Wondrous Words: Igniting Children’s Passion, Purpose, and Skills for Writing
Join us for this two-day, hands-on workshop where you’ll strengthen your ability to read like a writer and learn how to use mentor texts to help students expand their repertoire of craft moves, grow their identities as writers, and deepen their understanding of writing as a meaningful act.