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Grades 3-8
Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades 3-8
Learn how to teach small-group, supplementary literacy intervention to accelerate learning for the lowest-achieving students in grades 3-8.
Reimagining Literacy Coaching: Customized Pathways for Expanding Teacher Expertise
Spend 30 minutes with us to learn how to participate in this exciting new offering.
Reimagining Literacy Coaching: Customized Pathways for Expanding Teacher Expertise
Spend 30 minutes with us to learn how to participate in this exciting new offering.
Reimagining Literacy Coaching: Customized Pathways for Expanding Teacher Expertise
Spend 30 minutes with us to learn how to participate in this exciting new offering.
Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling in the Reading & Writing Classroom in Grades 3-8
In this 8-week online graduate course for teachers, learn the importance of systematic instruction in vocabulary, spelling, and word analysis skills in the intermediate grades and middle school.
Summer Literacy Institute
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.
Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling in the Reading & Writing Classroom in Grades K-3
In this 8-week online course for teachers, learn about instruction in phonics, phonological awareness, vocabulary, spelling, and word study for children in grades K-3.
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.
Small Group Instruction: Teaching Comprehension, Phonics, Word Study, and Fluency in Grades K-8
In this 5-day training for teachers and literacy educators, learn how to plan for and teach intensive small group, differentiated reading instruction that focuses on essential components of evidence-based reading instruction in grades K-8.
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.
Upcoming Professional Development
Building Deep Thinkers Through Reading: Engaging Students in Robust Comprehension
Let’s teach readers to think deeply. Join us to explore robust comprehension as an active, layered, and dynamic process to synthesize ideas, make inferences, and critique texts – not just recall facts.
Wondrous Words: Igniting Children’s Passion, Purpose, and Skills for Writing
Join us for this two-day, hands-on workshop where you’ll strengthen your ability to read like a writer and learn how to use mentor texts to help students expand their repertoire of craft moves, grow their identities as writers, and deepen their understanding of writing as a meaningful act.
Word Study: Teaching Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling in Grades K-8
Deepen your understanding of the alphabetic linguistic system and learn how to teach for phonological awareness, phonics, word structure, vocabulary, spelling, and word analysis skills in grades K-8.