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High-Impact Literacy PD Is Personalized, Not Packaged

On-demand

This free edWebinar shows how personalized coaching bridges knowledge and classroom practice. Learn how a district leader and coach partner to break ‘sit-and-get’ PD cycles and drive lasting literacy improvement.
How to Maximize Your K-4 Literacy Block

On-demand

The goal of this free edWebinar is to empower K-4 educators and administrators with actionable, evidence-based frameworks to maximize every minute within their daily literacy block.
Rethinking Independent Reading

Sept. 14
Registration closes Sept. 14, 2026

Free! Make & Take Monday workshop – learn how to shift independent reading from a passive activity into an active, social, and intentional learning experience with a tool to track accountability, monitor progress, and foster student collaboration.
Connected Text: How Much Practice is Enough?

Sept. 23

Free! Webinar Wednesday – this live, virtual webinar explores the role of connected text practice in literacy instruction.
From “I Do” to “You Do”: Gradual Release Lesson Planning

Oct. 5
Registration closes Oct. 5, 2026

Free! Make & Take Monday workshop – discover how explicit instruction using the “I Do, We Do, You Do” model empowers student ownership of learning.
Understanding the Gradual Release of Responsibility

Oct. 21

Free! Webinar Wednesday – The Gradual Release of Responsibility model provides a roadmap for scaffolding instruction from teacher modeling to independent student application.

Resources

The Power of the Orton-Gillingham Approach

The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a direct and explicit, language-based, and multisensory approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling. Initially developed in the 1930s by Dr. Samuel T. Orton, a neuropsychiatrist and pathologist, and Anna Gillingham, an educator and psychologist, the Orton-Gillingham (OG) Approach is…
VIDEO: "Executive Function – Organization and Possessions"

In this video, Michelle Szabo, Program Manager for Instruction at the Stern Center for Language and Learning, discusses executive function skills and what they mean for your child at home and for your student in the classroom.
Unlocking Literacy for My Student

Have you ever had a student who did not know their letters and sounds coming into first grade? Who could not segment or blend sounds?