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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.
Grow Your Teaching of Writing: Yearlong Support Through Virtual Coaching
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.
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.
Word Study: Teaching Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling in Grades K-8
In this 5-day course for teachers, 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.
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.