Professional Development

Science-Aligned Read Alouds for Big Gains in Language, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. This evidence-based practice is joy-filled and grows children’s oral language, vocabularies, and comprehension.

In this two-day workshop, you’ll learn flexible, practical ways to plan and deliver small-group instruction that can be used with your literacy curriculum. You’ll examine how to group students, learn generative instructional routines, and how to use AI to simplify planning and differentiation.

Discover new ways to make learning about letters, sounds, and words joy-filled and meaningful for young children!

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.

In this 8-week online course, learn how to create a healthy culture of professional learning in your school and develop your facilitation expertise.

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.

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.

Expand your knowledge of the alphabetic system so you can teach foundational skills effectively to all of your students.

Our Center faculty will partner with you to design customized professional learning, workshops, and other job-embedded learning opportunities for educators, facilitated in-person or virtually.

An 18-credit online graduate certificate program.