Our Events
We host events virtually and in-person across the world. Join us to study methods and plan curricula, revitalize our thinking, and most importantly, learn how to encourage our students to lead meaningful and active literate lives. Events feature celebrated authors, world-renowned staff developers, and other key leaders in the field of literacy and learning. Participants earn a certificate with professional development hours after each event.
Webinar January 9, 2025 January Heinemann Office Hours Featuring Units of Study 
Workshop January 14, 2025 Analyzing Spelling, Phonics, and Conventions By Looking at Writing–Then Teaching with New Clarity as a Result On this day, you’ll learn to look through a stack of your students’ writing to see patterns and next steps in their spelling. This will help you to understand what has–and hasn’t yet–stuck in their phonics development.
Workshop January 16, 2025 Making Vocabulary Instruction Practical, Powerful, and Playful, All Across the Day When students grow their vocabulary, they also grow their knowledge of the ideas that authors use– ideas like justice, evaporate, or revolve. They also grow their ability to capture their own powerful ideas in words, and share them with the world. Join us for a day that will help you feel more confident teaching vocabulary– and growing students’ worlds.
Workshop January 23, 2025 Tackle the Hard Parts of Independent Reading: Giving Specific Feedback When You Don’t Know the Book, Holding Readers Accountable, Raising Reading Levels, Igniting Enthusiasm On this day, we’ll help you feel more confident in your knowledge of the work kids need to be doing at varied levels of text complexity, while reading different genres, and at the beginning, middle and end of books, so that you have a criteria in mind with which to assess your readers’ work and clear next steps you can suggest. We’ll also help you to consider ways in which your feedback to readers can be part of a larger, more sustained plan for them, and we’ll share ways you can follow up and build upon your feedback.
Workshop February 4, 2025 What Matters Most in the Science of Reading Comprehension? Amping up Comprehension By Boosting Oral Language, Listening Comprehension, Knowledge Development, and Vocabulary With so much emphasis placed on phonics and decoding, you may be worried that comprehension is falling by the wayside. This workshop support comprehension, oral language, and vocabulary instruction across your day, in particular through read-aloud and shared reading.
Workshop February 6, 2025 Reading Test Prep Workshop: Preparing for the Demands of High-Stakes ELA Tests Across the Country This day will help you learn the most up-to-date information regarding your reading state test and The Reading & Project at Mossflower Reading Test Prep Units. Our staff developers will review tasks of the test so that you feel completely confident and prepared to teach them and will help you effectively use our resources as you prepare your students for the various high-stakes ELA tests they will take this spring.
Webinar February 6, 2025 February Heinemann Office Hours Featuring Units of Study Workshop February 13, 2025 Writing Test Prep Workshop: Preparing for the Demands of High-Stakes ELA Tests Across the Country This day will help you learn the most up-to-date information regarding your writing state test and The Reading & Project at Mossflower Writing Test Prep Units. Our staff developers will review tasks of the test so that you feel completely confident and prepared to teach them and will help you effectively use our resources as you prepare your students for the various high-stakes ELA tests they will take this spring.
Workshop March 1, 2025 Saturday Reunion: A Day of Free Virtual Professional Development Webinar March 6, 2025 March Heinemann Office Hours Featuring Units of Study Workshop March 10, 2025 Ensuring Access for Your Multilingual Writers This day will also help you plan how to lift the level of your conferring using the latest tools such as the writing checklist, exemplars, mentor texts, and craft cards. You will walk away with a toolkit of ways to mark your read alouds for teaching during conferences, small groups, or mini lessons.
Institute March 12, 2025 Coaching Institute on the Teaching of Writing Institute March 27, 2025 Thailand Writing Institute Webinar May 1, 2025 May Heinemann Office Hours Featuring Units of Study Institute May 5, 2025 Foundational Reading Institute