Dates: Monday, January 27, 2025 - Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
Location: Online, via Zoom
Who Should Attend: Grades K-8 teachers, coaches, and school leaders
Cost: $700 per person
This institute will provide you with high-leverage small groups that you can use and adapt to provide responsive instruction that accelerates your students’ progress towards crystal clear goals. By the end of the institute, you’ll have a toolkit ready to use to make your teaching more concrete, responsive, and efficient. When you have a rich toolkit of resources on hand and an armload of tried-and-true formats for small groups, teaching responsively becomes vastly easier.
In this institute, you will:
Learn the all-important work of studying your own students’ reading and writing and determining responsive assessment-based ways to move them forward.
Study the architecture of small groups through role play, modeling, and coaching to finesse the delivery of small groups when you return to your classrooms.
Learn to use universal screeners, standardized test scores, and formative assessments to set goals with and for students, and you’ll learn to use your knowledge of research and reading development, as well as levels of phonics and text complexity, to identify the decoding, fluency, comprehension, and reading habits all children need.
Learn to use rubrics, checklists, and benchmark texts to locate where your students fall in writing development progressions and then draw on grab-and-go small groups with confidence and ease.
Gain powerful insights into the standards-based skills that pose special challenges and work to develop pathways of progress that lead to success with these skills, and think about lean and accessible ways to scaffold student progress.
Leave feeling equipped to support your classrooms' wide range of learners and provide differentiated instruction.
Study Group: Rethinking, Deep Thinking, and Classroom-based Research around Matching Readers to Books
Using Decodable Texts (Including Jump Rope Readers), a Decoding Assessment and an Understanding of Phonics to Help Readers Apply and Extend their Phonics Knowledge
Bring the Science of Reading into Your Upcoming Nonfiction Units: Tap the Power of Text Sets, Vocabulary, Close Reading and a Few Under-Emphasized Nonfiction Reading Skills
A Deep Dive into Spelling: Supporting Students’ Spelling Development
November Heinemann Office Hours Featuring Units of Study
Exploring AI: Technology that Can Support Teachers and Students
Implementing Structures and Methods to Provide Tiered Support through RTI and MTSS: Practical and Effective Ways to Support Students’ Literacy Growth
Expecting and Turbo-Charging Growth in Writing: Studying Student Work and Planning for Teaching that Moves Kids Forward
Tailor Your Structures and Methods to Provide Students with IEPs What They Need
EdWeb: Decodable Texts: Tap Into the Power to Support Beginning Readers