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Last updated October 22, 2024.
Kylene Beers Presents: Notice and Note 201—Deepening Your Understanding of Signposts
Join us for this dynamic three-part series as we delve deeper into the Notice and Note Signposts. Perfect for educators who have already introduced signposts to their students or who have already participated in the ‘Signposts 101’ professional development, these sessions are designed to enhance your teaching methods and elevate critical thinking in your classroom.
Presenter: Kylene Beers
Grade Levels: 4-12
Dates and Time: Three 75-minute sessions from 6:00-7:15pm EST.
- Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- Monday, October 14, 2024
- Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Writing and Teaching Memoir: Fact, Imagination and Craft presented by Penny Kittle, Linda Rief, and Tom Romano
Our stories matter, for both teachers and students alike: especially when they are told well. The focus of this series is two-pronged: the craft of writing memoir, and teachers as writers. In writing memoir, story is elevated through the development of characters, scenes, plot, and significant detail. Presenters will share how they have taught students to write memoirs and have written memoirs themselves, even in their academic publications. Participants will write their own memoirs out of indelible moments in their lives and collect strategies, mentor texts, and vision for bringing writing alive in their classrooms.
Presenters: Penny Kittle, Linda Rief, Tom Romano
Grade Levels: 5-12
Dates and Time: Four 75-minute sessions from 4:30-5:45pm EST.
- Thursday, October 10, 2024
- Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Thursday, October 24, 2024
- Thursday, October 31, 2024
Heidi Anne Mesmer Presents: Ahead of the Curve—New Research Findings in K-2 Literacy and How to Apply Them
Effective teachers strive to stay ahead of the curve with research, yet keeping up can be overwhelming. Amidst the ongoing discourse on reading instruction methods, this workshop will translate reading science in ways that truly benefit the youngest (K-2) students. Led by Heidi Anne Mesmer, this workshop presents highly effective techniques for teaching phonics and reading multisyllabic words, as directly informed by the latest studies. Each session provides practical, classroom-ready tips to refine your teaching approach immediately. Join us to bridge the gap between research-based methodologies and classroom practice, enhance your impact as an educator, optimize student reading outcomes, and leave feeling undaunted!
Presenter: Heidi Anne Mesmer
Grade Levels: K-2
Dates and Time: Three 75-minute sessions from 4:00-5:15pm EST.
- Tuesday, October 22, 2024
- Tuesday, October 29, 2024
- Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Math in Practice: Transformative Math Coaching for Deeper Student Understanding with Sue O'Connell
Most teachers memorized math facts and algorithms when they were students in math class, but as teachers, they are now challenged to help their students develop a deep understanding of math concepts. Sue O'Connell and Math in Practice can help to unlock the full potential of K-5 math education with this transformative six-session course. Designed for teacher-leaders, school administrators, math coaches, and instructional specialists, these sessions offer cutting-edge coaching strategies to transform instructional practice and fostered deep mathematical understanding among students.
Presenter: Sue O'Connell
Grade Levels: K-5
Dates and Times: Six 60-minute sessions from 4:00-5:00pm EST
- Tuesday, October 22, 2024
- Thursday, November 21, 2024
- Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- Thursday, January 16, 2025
- Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Thursday, March 13, 2025
Essential Strategies for Thriving in Your First Year(s) of Teaching Presented by Berit Gordon
Berit Gordon, author of The Joyful Teacher, created this workshop for newer teachers and the coaches who support them. It offers actionable strategies to help teachers feel confident, excel throughout the year, and tackle challenges to achieve quick, energizing wins. These sessions will help newer teachers and their coaches get ahead of potential struggles before becoming overwhelmed. Sessions will address common challenges, including handling the workload, managing the class, establishing routines and relationships, and fostering student engagement and success.
Listen to Berit Gordon in discussion with Erin Bailey on the Heinemann podcast.
Presenter: Berit Gordon
Grade Levels: K-12
Dates and Time: Three 75-minute sessions from 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm Eastern Time (ET).
- Tuesday, October 29, 2024
- Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Free Event—Supporting Multilingual Learners: A Guided Book Tour with Lindsey Moses
Join Lindsey Moses as she shares a guided tour of her new book, Supporting Multilingual Learners: 50 Strategies for Language and Literacy. Building upon culturally responsive and asset-based approaches to instruction, Lindsey will present research-based scaffolds for supporting multilingual students across all proficiency levels. Additionally, she will share practical instructional strategies and classroom examples from the book that you can immediately apply in your teaching practice!
Presenters: Lindsey Moses
Grade Levels: K-6
Date and Time: October 29, 2024. 6:30-7:15PM EST.
Free Event—Helping Readers Build Prior Knowledge presented by Kelly Gallagher
Bestselling author Kelly Gallagher shares ideas from his new book, To Read Stuff You Have to Know Stuff: Helping Students Build and Use Prior Knowledge, in this live, one-on-one interview with Tom Newkirk. They’ll discuss the reading research that supports the vital role prior knowledge plays in comprehension, and specific things teachers can do to strengthen their students’ knowledge.
Presenters: Kelly Gallagher
Grade Levels: 6-12
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 6, 2024. 7:00-7:45pm EST.
Free Event—Engaging Secondary Students with Math Workshop: Join Jennifer Lempp and Skip Tyler for a Book Launch Exploration!
Join authors Jennifer Lempp and Skip Tyler as we celebrate their new book and delve into the Math Workshop Model and its benefits for secondary classrooms! This session will guide participants through the framework and principles of the Math Workshop, illustrating why it's the preferred method of instruction regardless of the math textbook, curriculum, or grade level. Experience firsthand how the Math Workshop approach can decrease anxiety, increase engagement, and support meaningful and sustainable instruction differentiation.
Presenters: Jennifer Lempp and Skip Tyler
Grade Levels: 6-12
Date and Time: Tuesday, November 12, 2024. 4:00-5:00pm EST
Andrea Honigsfeld Presents: Growing Language and Literacy—Multilingual Learners' Path to Success
Join us for an engaging and insightful session with Andrea Honigsfeld, author of Growing Language & Literacy*. This workshop, tailored for K-12 educators, will address key questions such as: What fundamental principles can guide us in effectively supporting multilingual learners? What proven, evidence-based strategies can enhance language and literacy development? We will explore how language and literacy development is a dynamic process that naturally evolves for multilingual learners. Additionally, we will discuss practical ways to consistently and purposefully support this development in our classrooms. Andrea will share successful strategies through a rich selection of authentic examples. This is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your teaching, collaborate with fellow educators, and learn how to create an inclusive and supportive learning environment where every student can thrive!
*Registration fee will include a copy of Growing Language & Literacy in either K-8 or 6-12, (or both for an additional fee) during registration. Attendees will leave this complimentary in-person event with valuable resources and inspiration to fully embrace the talents and gifts multilingual learners bring to their classrooms and schools.
Presenter: Andrea Honigsfeld
Grade Levels: K-12
Date and Time: December 3, 2024. 1:30-3:30pm EST.
*IN PERSON EVENT: At New Hampshire DOE. Concord, NH.
Free Event—Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation: A Book Exploration with Marilyn Pryle
What does critical reading mean in a time of social media, YouTube, algorithms, AI, and fake news? Join us for the book launch of 5 Questions for Any Text: Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation by Marilyn Pryle. This event introduces a practical framework that equips students to analyze any format—print, online, video, or audio—through five key questions. Discover how to guide students in exploring text influences, biases, and deeper meanings, fostering their ability to think critically, determine trustworthiness, and articulate original insights. Register now to discover Marilyn’s powerful teaching strategies, spark meaningful classroom discussions, and empower your students to connect more profoundly with any text!
Presenter: Marilyn Pryle
Grade Levels: 5-12
Date and Time: December 5, 2024. 7:00-8:00PM EST.
Implementing Math Workshop Strategies for K-12 Success with Jennifer Lempp and Skip Tyler
Unlock the potential of your students with Math Workshop! This transformative approach to mathematics instruction reduces anxiety, boosts engagement, and provides students with differentiated instruction. Through the use of whole group lessons, targeted small group instruction, and interactive learning stations, students explore mathematics, thereby fostering deep conceptual understanding. Math Workshop equips teachers with a structured approach to address student needs through inquiry and cooperative activities and offers a framework to optimize instructional time and pedagogy, which fosters student achievement.
Presenters: Jennifer Lempp and Skip Tyler
Grade Level: K-12
Date and Time: Monday, December 9, 2024. 10:00am-2:15pm EST.
Jennifer Serravallo Presents: Reading Strategies—Essential Research-Based Instruction for Every Classroom
Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a research-packed (700+ citations to the science of reading) revised and reimagined update to The New York Times’ bestselling resource, this workshop will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.
Presenter: Jennifer Serravallo
Grade Level: K-8
Date and Time: Wednesday, December 11, 2024. 10:00am-4:00pm EST
Free Event—Youth Scribes: A Book Launch and Live Conversation with R. Joseph Rodríguez and Stephanie Suarez
Participants will learn about youth scribes who write beside their teachers and gain scribal identities and rhetorical literacies in the language arts classroom. Teacher and author R. Joseph Rodríguez informs teachers how to dialogue with adolescents, so they can build their scribal identities and to move them toward the process of writing as invitation to create, become, and belong. A brief overview of his book will be presented and features activities, artifacts, assignments, and projects for immediate use—inside and outside of school.
Presenters: R. Joseph Rodríguez, Stephanie Suarez
Grade Levels: 6-12
Date and Time: December 11, 2024. 7:00-8:00pm EST.
Jennifer Serravallo Presents: Writing Strategies and Structures—Research-Based Powerful Teaching for Every Classroom
Don’t let reading instruction get all the attention—research is clear that in classrooms with near-even amounts of writing and reading instruction, students not only write better but they also read better. Join Jennifer Serravallo, author of The Writing Strategies Book; Teaching Writing in Small Groups; and other popular titles—and her colleagues for a full-day deep dive into strategies and structures for teaching writing that will make the biggest difference in your classroom, no matter your curriculum or approach.
Presenter: Jennifer Serravallo and Colleagues
Grade Level: K-8
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 22, 2025. 10:00am-4:00pm EST.
5 Questions for Any Text: Helping Students Become More Critical Readers with Marilyn Pryle
Based on Marilyn Pryle’s new book, 5 Questions for Any Text: Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation, these sessions provide a framework for improving students’ critical reading skills by encouraging the development of original thoughts and responses to texts. You’ll learn a simple, powerful, classroom-tested daily practice to help students habitually ask the 5 Questions for examining any text: the influences around it, the voices and sponsors, the craft and rhetoric, the intent and message, and one’s own reactions.
Presenter: Marilyn Pryle
Grade Levels: 5-12
Dates and Time: Three 75-minute sessions from 4:30pm to 5:45pm Eastern Time (ET).
- Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Monday, February 10, 2025
Free Event—The Artful Approach to Exploring Identity and Fostering Belonging Book Launch Party & Mini PD for Black History Month
Join us for a book launch celebration and mini-workshop: “Express Yourself: Celebrating Black Artists, Poets, & Writers for Black History Month!” Veronica and Rebecca will share a sneak peak of their new book and model their artful approach to celebrating cultural months. We will invite participants to write poems and create art inspired by poet Nikki Giovanni, illustrator/writer Ashley Bryan, and soundsuit artist Nick Cave. We will share student work, model writing moves for engaging with mentor texts and poetry, and give you tips for creating your own “Express Yourself” themed experiences for Black History Month at your school.
Presenters: Veronica Scott and Rebecca Bellingham
Grade Levels: K-8
Date and Time: January 30, 2025. 7:00-7:45pm EST.
Lindsey Moses Presents: Supporting Multilingual Learners—Strategies for Language and Literacy Instruction
This webinar series, designed for every K-5 educator, will introduce research-based strategies to support multilingual learners’ language and literacy development. It provides practical instructional ideas grounded in three core principles: assets-based approaches to teaching and learning; language-oriented planning, instruction, and assessment; and meaningful and interactive opportunities for authentic language use. During each session, research-based scaffolds will be introduced with easy-to-implement instructional strategies accompanied by classroom examples. Educators will be presented with an abundance of strategies they can implement in their context immediately.
Presenter: Lindsey Moses
Grade Levels: K-5
Dates and Time: Three 75-minute sessions from 6:30-7:45pm EST.
- Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Tuesday, February 18, 2025
R. Joseph Rodríguez presents Youth Scribes and Their Writing Process in Action
In this three-part PD series based on his new book “Youth Scribes: Teaching a Love of Writing,” R. Joseph Rodriguez will explore the question: What makes a student want to write? He will delve into strategies to help students with aversions to writing see it as an invitation to create, become, and belong. This series will explore how educators can empower meaningful writing by recognizing students as writers with diverse abilities, backgrounds, cultures, and interests.
Presenter: R. Joseph Rodríguez
Grade Levels: 6-12
Dates and Time: Three 75-minute sessions from 4:30pm to 5:45pm Eastern Time (ET).
- Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Thursday, March 6, 2025
Jennifer Serravallo Presents: Reading Strategies—Essential Research-Based Instruction for Every Classroom
Drawing from the newly-released The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, a research-packed (700+ citations to the science of reading) revised and reimagined update to The New York Times’ bestselling resource, this workshop will help you use strategies effectively in your instruction—no matter what approach to literacy you use, or the grade level, developmental levels, or ages of the students you teach.
Presenters: Jennifer Serravallo and Colleagues
Grade Level: K-8
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 5, 2025. 10:00am-4:00pm EST.
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