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Test Prep: How To Set Your Students Up For Success!
In this one-day training, learn how to help students understand testing as a genre so they can confidently meet the challenges of standardized testing and experience success.
Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Texts Grades K-8
In this 8-week online course, learn how to support students in thinking deeply about their reading and in expressing their ideas through talk and writing.
Linking Assessment to Teaching: Reading, Writing & Word Study
In this 8-week online course, you’ll develop the skills to systematically observe and analyze students’ reading, writing, and word-solving behaviors.
The Effective Instructional Coach: Leading Growth, Navigating Challenges
This 4-day training is designed for all school-based coaches including instructional coaches and those who support literacy, math, science, social studies and/or technology. You’ll learn how to better understand your role and how to effectively coach teachers at your school.
Register to participate in-person at Lesley University or virtually!
The New Benchmark Assessment System 2.0 (System 2, Levels K-Z)
In this two-day institute learn how to use BAS 2.0 to pinpoint students’ reading behaviors and instructional needs with word-solving, fluency, and comprehension.
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 institute learn how to use BAS 2.0 to pinpoint students’ reading behaviors and instructional needs with word-solving, fluency, and comprehension.
Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Texts
In this 8-week online course, learn how to support students in thinking deeply and critically about their reading so they can share their thinking through talk and writing.
The Power of Fluency to Accelerate Learning
In this 2-day training, the dimensions of reading fluency will be defined and you will learn how to assess fluency and teach for automaticity and fluency during whole group, small group, and individual teaching opportunities.
Upcoming Professional Development
Engaging Writing About Reading: Building Thinking, Independence, and Test-Ready Writers
How do we help students write stronger responses to text that supports deeper comprehension? This one-day session focuses on writing about reading as a thinking practice that supports comprehension, engagement, and builds students’ confidence with on-demand writing.
The Six Essential Elements for Systemic Literacy Improvement (Complimentary Webinar)
Join us for this 45-minute webinar to explore what it takes to improve literacy outcomes across your school or district.
Joyful Writing: Fostering Young Writers in PreK and K
This workshop guides early childhood teachers in building joyful writing communities through play, storytelling, book making, and drawing. Participants learn to view children’s early writing with fresh insight and plan purposeful lessons that build confidence, develop craft, and support foundational writing conventions.