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Reaching All Learners Speaker Series: Patricia Paugh

August 23, 2024

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

July 10, 2024

Gain practical skills so you can teach effectively, manage the classroom learning environment, and build competent and confident readers and writers.

All Kinds of Books for All Kinds of Kids K-6 (One-Hour Webinar with Irene Fountas)

June 20, 2024

Invest in your text expertise to plan for high-quality reading instruction that addresses all aspects of effective reading for all children.

Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades K-2

June 7, 2024

In this 6-day training, learn how to teach a highly structured, evidence-based small-group intervention for students in grades K–2. Register to participate in-person at Lesley University or virtually!

Joyful Writing in Pre-K and Kindergarten: Fostering Young Writers

May 31, 2024

In this 2-day institute for early literacy educators, learn how to bring playful engagement together with oral language and foundational literacy learning to foster young children’s understanding of writing across the day.

Register to participate in-person at Lesley University or virtually!

Reimagining Literacy Coaching: Customized Pathways for Expanding Teacher Expertise

May 17, 2024

Spend 30 minutes with us to learn how to participate in this exciting new offering.

Reimagining Literacy Coaching: Customized Pathways for Expanding Teacher Expertise

May 1, 2024

Spend 30 minutes with us to learn how to participate in this exciting new offering.

Reimagining Literacy Coaching: Customized Pathways for Expanding Teacher Expertise

May 1, 2024

Spend 30 minutes with us to learn how to participate in this exciting new offering.

Summer Literacy Institute

April 22, 2024

Join us for this four-day institute featuring Stephanie Harvey and Lesley University Literacy Trainers to learn how to build every students’ content knowledge, vocabulary, and passion for reading and writing.

Grow Your Teaching of Writing: Yearlong Support Through Virtual Coaching  

April 9, 2024

Learn how to implement your yearlong writing curriculum by thinking and problem-solving with our faculty trainers and a cohort of teachers across the school year. Get ongoing, yearlong support through biweekly think-tank sessions and virtual coaching tailored to support your teaching of writing.

Upcoming Professional Development

February 26-27, 2026

Empowering Students Through Small Group Instruction

In this two-day workshop, you’ll learn flexible, practical ways to plan and deliver small-group instruction that can be used with your literacy curriculum. You’ll examine how to group students, learn generative instructional routines, and how to use AI to simplify planning and differentiation.

$595
February 11, 2026

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.

$150
January 13, February 9, March 19, April 15, 2026

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.

Price Varies (see below)

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