Instructional Leadership & Coaching

Intro to the LIS (Summer 2022): This session provides a high-level overview of the LIS for district leaders and provides guidance for completing the LIS form required in legislation regarding literacy curriculum and instruction. (Recording)

From Policy to Practice: This session provides an opportunity to dive deeper into the LIS by looking at the Look-Fors Toolkit while analyzing artifacts typically observed at the district and school level. The intent is to support leaders in looking for evidence for LIS alignment in their local setting. (Recording)
Coaching Academy: This two day session was designed to provide teacher leaders with guidance on how to incorporate fundamental coaching knowledge and skills into a coaching cycle. The intent is for teacher leaders to use this guidance in order to support LIS implementation through coaching practices.

LIS Learning Series 22-23

Aligned Instruction: LIS in PreK-5: In this webinar, participants took a deep dive into the PK-5 LIS to gain a better understanding of how the NCSCOS, SoR, and LIS all work in tandem with one another within the elementary classroom. (Recording)

Integrating the LIS: Content and Disciplinary Literacy 6-12: This session focused on integrating the LIS into the secondary content area classroom. (Recording)

LIS in the Content Areas: In these sessions, participants gained a deeper understanding of the literacy instruction standards and explored what the LIS could look like in practice within a specific discipline.

Engaging Writers in K-5: In this session, participants will build an understanding of the LIS as it relates to the ELA SCOS, walk through planning engaging writing tasks through the 4T’s protocol, and explore how to make writing tasks more engaging for our K-5 authors. (Recording)
Improving Reading for Secondary Students: This session focused on reading accelerators to support struggling secondary students. (Recording)

LIS Learning Series 23-24

LIS in the Content Areas: In these sessions, participants gained a deeper understanding of the literacy instruction standards and explored what the LIS could look like in practice within a specific discipline.

- Literacy in World Languages (Recording)
LIS, SoR, NCSCOS, and LETRS: In this session, participants made connections between the LIS, SoR, NCSCOS, and LETRS, while addressing a common misconception aligned with each of the five components of reading (Phonological and Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension). (Recording)

Writing Instruction

Teaching the Craft of Writing: These slides present viewers with an exploration of the content of each of the four recommendations found within the Writing Guidebook. The content suggests approaches to use within K-12 classrooms, across disciplines, for supporting compositional writing.

Teaching Grammar in Context (Writing PD Series): In this session, participants will learn strategies for teaching grammar in context to instructional planning. (Recording)

Teaching Vocabulary in the Context of Writing (Writing PD Series): In this session, participants will learn strategies for teaching vocabulary through rich and varied writing experiences. (Recording)

Writing in Response to Reading (Writing PD Series): In this session, participants will learn about the importance of literacy integration across content areas and the benefits of providing students with a variety of opportunities to write in response to reading. (Recording)
Timed-Constrained Writing for Secondary Educators (Writing PD Series): In this session, participants will learn about the benefits of timed-constrained writing tasks and explore ways to support student success and mastery with such tasks. (Recording)

ML Instruction

LIS & ELD: Oral Language: In this session, we focused on defining and building an understanding of the LIS (oral language) as it relates to the ELD SCOS. We identified and experienced oral language routines and structures and analyzed how oral language supports student learning.
Supporting MLs with the LIS: This professional development focuses on providing an overview of the Literacy Instruction Standards (LIS) and how they align to Multilingual Learners’ (MLs) supports. This session specifically focuses on the following LIS components: Reading Materials, Academic Language & Vocabulary, Comprehension: Discussion & Writing. (Recording)