Previous Professional Learning

Adolescent Literacy (Supporting Struggling Readers)

Instructional Coaching

Literacy Instruction Standards (LIS)

  • 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.
  • LIS & ELD: Oral Language Links to an external site.: 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 Links to an external site.: 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 Links to an external site.)

Reading Instruction

  • Interactive Read Alouds/Close Reading: These sessions focus on intentionally planned interactive read alouds and close reading.
  • Utilizing Text Sets to Build Knowledge: These sessions focus on building text sets to build student knowledge.

Social Emotional Learning

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.

Understanding the ELA SCOS

  • Up to Standards Links to an external site.: This session focuses on the importance of aligned instruction and provides strategies for educators to deepen their understanding of their content area standards.
  • Designing Aligned Instruction: This course focuses on standards alignment; selecting appropriately complex texts; matching texts to standards; and developing aligned questions, tasks, and activities.  The purpose of this course is to provide a flexible framework that can be easily adapted, integrated, or used with LEA or school-mandated lesson templates. This course does not include a specific lesson plan template complete with learning objectives, introductions/hooks, gradual release, etc.
  • ELA Self-Study: This course provides a guided self-study of the 2017 ELA NCSCOS. The purpose of the course is to deepen and clarify understanding of the standards including: the framework and organization, the differences between the 2017 and 2010 standards, and the impact of the revisions on instruction.

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