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SUMMER 2021: Professional Development Literacy Educators and School Leaders
Make the most of your summer! Check out these literacy professional development opportunities.
Learning to Read is Complex: No Reading Program is an Alternative to Teacher Expertise
As a literacy teacher, your understanding of the composite of competencies that are characteristic of effective reading and writing and how they change over time will set the pathway for your teaching.
Our Top Posts from 2020
Now that 2020 has come to a close, we are reflecting on some of our most read and revisited blog posts from the year.
$3 Million Gift Endows Dr. Gay Su Pinnell Fund for Reading Recovery®
Dr. Gay Su Pinnell generously endowed Lesley University with a $3 million gift to support the Center for Reading Recovery® and Literacy Collaborative within the Graduate School of Education. As a longtime collaborator with our director, Irene Fountas, Pinnell has more than three decades of partnership with Lesley.
Case Study: William Ellery Channing Elementary School
Learn more about the Channing School’s partnership with the Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative began in 2014 when the school was identified by the Massachusetts Department of Education as a turnaround school.
Time to Confront Learning Loss: Responsive Teaching through Leveled Literacy Intervention
The unprecedented circumstances of our world have illuminated the need to address the literacy needs of marginalized students in our educational system.
Spring 2021: Online Graduate Courses
Take your career to the next level, whether you are working in a remote setting or socially-distanced classroom!
Accountability for Independent Reading In-Person or From a Distance
Whether we are teaching in person or from a distance, the following are suggestions that will allow you to partake in genuine meaningful conversations about books and learn more about your students as readers.
Video: Debra’s Story—What does literacy mean to me?
To celebrate we’re featuring stories from educators who are passionate about literacy. Thank you Debra for sharing your story!
A New Kind of Virtual Coaching Cycle
While content coaching cycles can never replace classroom coaching cycles, they offer new opportunities to partner together around shared teacher learning and can be an important first step to deeper, more intense collaboration in the classroom, either in-person or virtually.


