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District and School Leaders
Shared Leadership for School Improvement
In this 8-week online graduate course for coaches and teacher leaders, you’ll learn how to promote a culture of shared leadership that can energize school teams.
Introduction to Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™
This 2-day training introduces a system for teaching students that creates authentic experiences in reading, thinking, talking, writing, and reflecting in all classroom settings.
Introduction to Writing Minilessons Grades 2-6
Provide high quality writing lessons in management, genres and forms, craft, conventions, and writing process.
Not a Minute to Lose: Optimizing Coaching and Professional Learning Opportunities Across the Day
In this 2-day training, learn about a variety of powerful coaching tools and protocols you can use to make the most of the precious professional learning time you have with teachers.
The First 20 Days of Literacy Coaching
Join us for this two-day professional learning for literacy coaches to learn a variety of ways to organize and jump start your coaching in the fall.
Five Everyday Shifts Guaranteed to Improve Literacy Outcomes (One-Hour Webinar With Irene Fountas)
Learn five instructional shifts that you can easily integrate across the day to reach all learners.
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.
Not a Minute to Lose: Optimizing Coaching & Professional Learning Opportunities Across the Day
In this 1-day training, learn about powerful coaching tools and protocols you can use to make the most of your time with teachers.
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.
Quick. Inexpensive. Efficient. Using Oral Reading to Guide Teaching (Webinar)
Spend 90 minutes of your Saturday morning with Cindy Downend and Wendy Vaulton and learn the five essential questions to deepen your analysis of oral reading.
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.