Professional Development

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August 11-14, 2025

The Skillful Literacy Coach: What to Know, Say, and Do

Elevate your coaching knowledge, language, and actions to drive impactful instructional change in the new school year.

Institute
Days 1-3: August 12-14, 2025; Days 4-6: October 7-9, 2025

Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades K-2

Join us for a 6-day institute and learn how to deliver a structured, systematic small-group intervention with proven results in grades K–2.

Institute
Days 1-3: August 12-14, 2025; Days 4-6: October 7-9, 2025

Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades 3-8

Learn how to teach small-group, supplementary literacy intervention to accelerate learning for the lowest-achieving students in grades 3-8.

Institute
August 18-19, 2025

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.

Workshop
August 20, 2025

The Science of Literacy Interventions

Successful literacy interventions don’t exist in a vacuum. Getting the most out of evidence-based interventions requires the coordinated, thoughtful, and responsive work of every educator in the building. Join us to learn more about evidence-based interventions in literacy and how teachers, specialists, and school leaders can work together to make literacy interventions successful.

Workshop
August 20-21, 2025

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.

Workshop
September 3 – October 26, 2025 (Fall Term I)

Intentional Teaching in a Writers’ Workshop for Grades K-8

In this 8-week online course, you’ll examine how to plan and teach effective minilessons, lead small groups, and confer with individual writers—including multilingual learners.

Online Graduate Course
Days 1-3: September 29-October 1, 2025; Days 4-6: November 12-14, 2025

Leveled Literacy Intervention in Grades K-2 – Fall 2025

Join us for a 6-day institute and learn how to deliver a structured, systematic small-group intervention with proven results in grades K–2.

Institute
Days 1 & 2: September 30, October 1, 2025; Days 3 & 4: October 27 & 28, 2025

Leading for Literacy: What Every School Leader Needs to Know

In this 4-day institute for school principals and administrators, learn how to support literacy teaching in grades K–6. Learn how to improve student literacy outcomes by developing a coherent vision for literacy and a vibrant school culture that supports teamwork and continuous professional learning.

Institute
October 3, 2025

The Power of Fluency to Accelerate Learning

In this fast-paced workshop, you’ll explore the key dimensions of reading fluency and learn how to assess and teach for automaticity and expression across whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction.

Workshop