July 10-12 | 8:00-10:00am EST
Investment: $349
As teachers, we want to build joyful communities full of skilled readers and writers. While the field of literacy moves forward, we all want to know how to translate research into practice for the learners in our care. If you’re wondering what methods to lean on and how to spend your precious minutes in ways that maximize practice and transfer opportunities for your students, this course is for you!
In three clear, interactive sessions, you’ll learn the foundations of what matters most for readers and writers. You’ll walk away with knowledge to empower your practice, and ideas for effective, evidence-based literacy instruction whether you utilize a Workshop approach or not…
We’ll tackle:
- The science and art of teaching reading and writing
- Key instructional components for teaching reading and writing in K-2, 3-5, 6-8
- Predictable ways to structure days and weeks for impact
- Critical methods – mini-lessons, conferring, and data-informed small groups
- Ways to adapt content and methods for the international school setting
This course is always our most popular. Expect to connect with a global cohort of colleagues and leave ready to launch effective, evidence-based reading and writing instruction in your classroom.
Facilitators
Cailin Minor
Cailin Minor is an internationally experienced educator, literacy coach, and curriculum specialist. She has worked extensively with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Units of Study curriculum as well as teaching reading and writing through the workshop model. Cailin is passionate about instructional coaching, and holds an advanced certificate in Cognitive Coaching. She currently serves as a senior strategist for Erin Kent Consulting where she specializes in supporting schools in creating a"Next Generation" Readers/Writers Workshop model that supports current research and a school’s unique needs. Cailin works with schools to create a tailored literacy vision and model that supports the specific ELL and cultural needs of a student population, the host country's language, and the time and structures of the school. Cailin also works with schools to create a dynamic coaching program and collaborative practices that foster the literacy growth and goals.
Colleen Ackford
Colleen Ackford has worked as an IB classroom teacher, curriculum developer, reading specialist, literacy intervention teacher, and literacy coach in Canada, Japan, Thailand, Australia, and Chile. Colleen has extensive experience working alongside teachers to establish reading and writing workshops in which learners take ownership of their reading and writing lives, express curiosity, and grow their thinking with peers. Colleen has guided teaching teams with developing standards-aligned units of study, progressions of learning, transdiciplinary units, and assessments. She is passionate about both cognitive coaching and student-centered coaching, and has substantial experience with building and developing a coaching program and supporting individual coaches as they grow their practice. Colleen is based in Singapore.