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Text Levels – Tool or Trouble?
Highly effective teaching provides a range of opportunities with different texts for different purposes.
Fostering Identity and Community Through Storytelling
Storytelling is a powerful instructional tool in our classrooms. Storytelling acknowledges students for who they are and provides space for students to share their experiences in the world.
Get to Know Your Students in a Surprising Way
With an unpredictable start to the school year ahead, one thing’s for sure: you are preparing for all eventualities and thinking about what you will do to welcome your students.
Assuring Access and Equity in Early Childhood: Harnessing the Power of Diversity
It is our collective responsibility to continue to advocate for early childhood classrooms. These environments assure the opportunities for children to experience the imagination, wonder, and joy of childhood and develop the confidence and agency that every child deserves.
Literacy Collaborative Spotlight: Samantha Dormady
The Literacy Collaborative partnership builds schoolwide professional capacity focused on improving the literacy outcomes for all children. What does this mean for a teacher, interventionist, or literacy coach/teacher leader who becomes trained through Literacy Collaborative? Literacy coaches “in-training” immerse themselves into an initial year of training to refine their literacy learning and teaching. Through ongoing […]
Every Child, Every Day
The article Every Child, Every Day, authors Richard Allington and Rachael Gabriel explore six elements of reading instruction which don’t require much time or money – just educators’ deciding to put them in place.This 2012 article is still relevant today, especially during these resource constrained times. Here are a few key points that really resonate […]
Literacy Collaborative Spotlight: Eugenia DeLucca
Eugenia DeLucca shares her experiences as a Primary (K-2) Literacy Collaborative trained coach for Bay Shore Public Schools.
Upcoming Professional Development
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Small Group, Differentiated Reading Instruction, Grades K-8
In this 8-week online course for classroom teachers and literacy educators, learn how to plan for and teach effective small group, differentiated reading instruction.
(Spring Term II)
Building Capacity Through Continuous Professional Learning
Gain the skills you need to lead meaningful adult learning that strengthens teaching and advances schoolwide literacy goals. During this 8-week online course, you’ll learn how to foster a healthy culture of professional learning and develop your facilitation expertise.
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.