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Classroom Teachers Prek-K
Joyful Writing: Fostering Young Writers in PreK and K
This workshop guides early childhood teachers in building joyful writing communities through play, storytelling, book making, and drawing. Participants learn to view children’s early writing with fresh insight and plan purposeful lessons that build confidence, develop craft, and support foundational writing conventions.
Playful Pathways to Print: Learning about Language, Letters, Sounds and Words
Discover new ways to make learning about letters, sounds, and words joy-filled and meaningful for young children!
Dialogic Reading: A Research-Backed Way to Grow Young Readers
Science-Aligned Read Alouds for Big Gains in Language, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. This evidence-based practice is joy-filled and grows children’s oral language, vocabularies, and comprehension.
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.
Elevating Literacy Expertise Through Coaching
In this 8-week online course, you’ll explore a variety of ways to coach teachers and foster their independence, reflection and analysis of literacy teaching and learning.
Teaching for Transfer Through Shared Reading
Learn how to help children apply their phonemic awareness, phonics, and word-decoding skills to reading real books and delightful poetry during shared reading.
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.
Phonological Awareness: What Is It and Why Is It Important? (Complimentary Webinar)
This hour-long complimentary webinar will clarify what phonological awareness is and how it is essential to children’s reading and writing development.
Early Literacy Success: Building Language, Sounds, and Print Knowledge in PreK
Children in PreK come to school with many different experiences with language, sounds, and print. This two-day workshop will bring to life what very young learners need to know and understand about letters, sounds, and words and how you can support their learning by building on what they already understand.
Early Literacy Success: Building Language, Sounds, and Print Knowledge in PreK (Webinar)
This session will focus on how to provide rich, engaging experiences with language, sounds, and print in the PreK classroom.

