Featured Professional Learning Opportunities
See All Upcoming Professional DevelopmentThe First 20 Days of Literacy Coaching
PreK-8Join us for this two-day professional learning for literacy coaches to learn a variety of ways to organize and jump start your coaching in the fall.
Teacher Decision Making to Accelerate Learning in Leveled Literacy Intervention
K-8Learn to sharpen your analysis of student reading, writing, and word solving behaviors to make strong teaching decisions across the LLI lesson.
Teaching Strong Phonics and Word Study Skills Through Joyful, Shared Reading
K-3In this 2-day training, learn how to teach explicit, systematic phonemic awareness, phonics skills and word study skills using whole group or small group shared reading.
Over 30 Years of Academic Excellence in Literacy Learning
The Center for Reading Recovery & Literacy Collaborative at Lesley University has been engaged in thirty years of innovative, research-based, system-wide educational improvement efforts. We are focused on a single mission—to ensure that every child has the opportunity to live a literate life.
We have been working with educators in school systems to improve children’s literacy.
Evidence-Based? Research-Based? What does it all Mean?
Are you puzzled by the terms, evidence-based and research-based? Read on for some clarity and a bit of friendly advice.
Centering What Matters to Children: How to Connect Your Teaching to Your Students’ Passions and Inquiry Questions
How do you decide what to focus on in your teaching? Our Kids, Books & Anti-Racism series speaker Vivian Vasquez starts by observing what her students care about.
Teaching for Fluency All Day, Every Day
Here are a few tips to integrate intentional teaching for fluency, without adding anything new to your day.