Professional Learning Opportunities

Description: This interactive webinar is designed to address questions such as:

• What is the science of reading (SOR)?
• How can we reflect on our understanding and challenges with Balanced Literacy, without “throwing out the baby with the bath water”?
• How can align my MPPR goals with SOR instructional shifts?
• How can I provide targeted feedback to teachers, as they implement research-based programs and tools?

Everyone’s talking about it–but what IS it? This workshop explains what is, and what is not, the Science of Reading. We’ll learn how proficient readers and writers develop, and what interventions work when difficulties arise. Participants will come away with an understanding of:

• Reading Development and processing in the brain
• Components of skilled reading
• Ways to address the components of sckilled reading, specifically:
  • Increasing oral language and its connection to reading
  • Vocabulary development and acquisition
  • Phonological and phonemic awareness and phonics
  • Orthographic mapping
  • High-frequency word instruction
  • Word walls vs. sound walls

These key takeaways will allow participants to asses their own literacy curriculums, and classroom practices to consider shifts they might need to make to allow for more impactful, and science-based, reading instruction.

Join us for an engaging and interactive two-part webinar as we focus on the foundation to creating equitable learning experiences for our students. Participants will  journey together toward Cultural Proficiency. This webinar series is a chance to uncover your dimensions, explore cultural perceptions, and reflect on your impact as an educator. We encourage participants to attend both sessions.

Pear Deck flips the traditional instruction by actively engaging students in real-time. Want to use Pear Deck in your class? Here’s how!

Part 1: Fundamentals of Pear Deck. During this interactive session, we will discuss and share the fundamentals of Pear Deck for synchronous and asynchronous learning.