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Classroom Teachers K-3
Guided Reading: Responsive Teaching in Grades K-2
In this 8-week online course for teachers and literacy educators, learn how to plan for and teach effective small group, differentiated instruction.
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 and develop your facilitation expertise.
It’s Both/And: Teaching Each Child with a Variety of Texts
Learn how to provide a “healthy diet” of a variety of text types that are high-quality, engaging, culturally sustaining, and connect phonics skills with reading for meaning.
Extending Pathways and Possibilities for Writers
That every child can write is a critical belief for effective writing instruction. Join renowned author Melanie Meehan to consider and explore options that invite, engage, and inspire writers throughout their unique processes and challenges.
Growing Community and Family Collaborations All Year Long
Join Nawal Qarooni, a holistic literacy educator who designs family literacy programming in schools, for a day-long workshop to grow community and family collaborations all year long. Nawal will share a collective care framework developed over decades of research and her parenting of four multiethnic children.
Reaching All Learners Speaker Series
Cultivate your expertise in reaching and responding to the diverse strengths and needs of every one of your students to ensure each child grows up literate in our educational system.
Reaching All Learners Speaker Series: Patricia Paugh
Join us for the first event in our 2024 & 2025 Reaching All Learners Speaker Series. Register for the complete series or individual sessions.
New Teacher Academy
Gain practical skills so you can teach effectively, manage the classroom learning environment, and build competent and confident readers and writers.
Upcoming Professional Development
Reaching All Learners Speaker Series 2026
The Reaching All Learners Speaker Series brings you cutting-edge ideas and strategies to make learning engaging, inclusive, and meaningful for every student. These sessions will inspire fresh approaches to teaching and help you create classrooms where all children can thrive as literate, confident learners.
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.
The New Benchmark Assessment System 2.0 (System 2, Levels K-Z)
In this two-day workshop learn how to use BAS 2.0 to pinpoint students’ reading behaviors and instructional needs with word-solving, fluency, and comprehension.