Previous Professional Learning

Adolescent Literacy (Supporting Struggling Readers)

Accelerating Reading in the Secondary Classroom Links to an external site.: This session focused on six accelerators for improving reading for secondary students. (Recording Links to an external site.)
Improving Reading for Secondary Students Links to an external site.: This session focused on reading accelerators to support struggling secondary students. (Recording Links to an external site.)

Instructional Coaching

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.
- Coach Academy Day 1 (K-12) Links to an external site. (Recording Links to an external site.)

Effective PLCs: Using NC Check-in Data Links to an external site.: The purpose of this session is to promote the effective use of PLC practices to accelerate student learning.

Literacy Instruction Standards (LIS)

Aligned Instruction: LIS in PreK-5 Links to an external site.: 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 Links to an external site.)

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

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

LIS, SoR, NCSCOS, and LETRS Links to an external site.: 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 Links to an external site.)

Interactive Read Alouds/Close Reading: These sessions focus on intentionally planned interactive read alouds and close reading.

Rethinking Reading Links to an external site.: In this session, participants will explore engaging ways to teach comprehension of digital texts on the screen, be intentional when planning behind the screen, and transfer students’ learning beyond the screen. (Recording Links to an external site.)

Utilizing Text Sets to Build Knowledge: These sessions focus on building text sets to build student knowledge.

Social Emotional Learning

SEL is More than Teaching Kids to be Nice Links to an external site.: This session focuses on integrating SEL competencies into grade-level aligned instruction. (Recording Links to an external site.)

Writing Instruction

Engaging Writers in K-5 Links to an external site.: 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 Links to an external site.)

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) Links to an external site.: In this session, participants will learn strategies for teaching grammar in context to instructional planning. (Recording Links to an external site.)
Teaching Vocabulary in the Context of Writing (Writing PD Series) Links to an external site.: In this session, participants will learn strategies for teaching vocabulary through rich and varied writing experiences. (Recording Links to an external site.)

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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