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Classroom Teachers 3-8
Don’t Stop Making Sense: Orchestrating Word-Solving with Meaning (Webinar)
Start your Saturday morning with a 90-minute discussion of how you can support accurate, efficient, and independent reading by helping students use decoding and meaning to monitor their own reading.
Building Knowledge and Literacy Skills All Day Long
Learn how to identify and use the kinds of literacy that are required in science, math, and social studies to help children build deep content knowledge and vocabulary. Develop an understanding of how to reframe your instruction to integrate literacy into the content areas so children acquire disciplinary-specific skills.
Optimizing Your Time With Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ (Webinar)
During this 90-minute webinar, learn practical, time-saving ways to use Fountas & Pinnell Classroom ™ materials to integrate all of the essential elements of science-backed reading instruction (phonics, fluency, vocabulary, knowledge building and comprehension) in a way that works for you and your students!
Get Efficient with Fountas & Pinnell Interactive Read Aloud (Webinar)
During this 90-minute Saturday webinar you will learn effective and efficient ways to use the Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Interactive Read Alouds.
The Power of Fluency to Accelerate Learning
In this 2-day training, 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.
Making Word Reading Easy Grades 3-8
In this 2-day training, learn how to teach phonics, spelling, and word study across your day that allow intermediate students to learn and apply foundational skills in reading and writing.
How to Make Independent Reading Work in Your Classroom (Webinar)
During this 90-minute webinar, gain insights into creating an environment that fosters a love for reading among your students and explore the opportunities independent reading provides readers in developing their literacy skills.
Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades K-2
In this 6-day training, learn how to teach high-quality small-group, supplementary literacy intervention for accelerated literacy learning for students in grades K–2.
Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades 3-8
In this 6-day training, learn how to teach small-group, supplementary literacy intervention to accelerate literacy learning for the lowest-achieving students in grades 3-8.
Building Capacity through Continuous Professional Learning
In this 8-week online course, learn how to create a healthy culture of professional learning in your school.
Upcoming Professional Development
Shared Leadership for School Improvement
In this 8-week online course for coaches and teacher leaders, you’ll learn how to promote a culture of shared leadership that can energize school teams.
Phonics, Vocabulary, Spelling, and Word Study in Grades K-8
In this 8-week online graduate course for teachers, learn the importance of systematic instruction in vocabulary, spelling, and word analysis skills.
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.