Subject: PD Workshops Networks - February 13 2024

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BrightWorks is partnering with CORE Learning to offer multiple courses about Literacy / Science of Reading.

Online Language & Literacy Academy (OL&LA)


Available on or after March 11, 2024

45 Asynchronous Hours

3 one-hour CORE Facilitator-led virtual synchronous sessions

This training is a nine-module online course grounded in:

  • Science of Reading

  • Structured Literacy

  • Teaching Reading Sourcebook


OL&LA equips educators to provide all students - with a special focus on multilingual students, dyslexic, and developing readers - with both research-based reading and second language acquisition instruction.


This asynchronous course centers on inclusive learning principles.


Learn more and join CORE Learning for this 18 week asynchronous event. Register Here

OL&LA Cohort Leader (OCL) Certification


Available on or after March 11, 2024

50 Asynchronous Hours

Eight 90-minute CORE Facilitator-led virtual synchronous sessions

8 hours of independent practicum and reflection tasks

For district administrators, site administrators, instructional coaches, and leadership teams.


Participants will:

  • Cultivate internal capacity for sustained professional development post-course completion,

  • Become experts in OL&LA topics,

  • Adept at facilitating discussions with asset-oriented language,

  • Skilled in extending learning opportunities.


Learn more and join CORE Learning for this 8 week asynchronous event. Register Here

Reading Fundamentals Leader Institute


April 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25, 30 and May 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23

Virtual

16 -19 minute sessions

For district administrators, site administrators, instructional coaches, and leadership teams.


Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the Science of Reading and the components of effective reading instruction,

  • Understand key "look fors" for effective reading instruction,

  • Observe video model lessons and practice instructional strategies key to reading instruction,

  • Use effective tools and coaching techniques to improve reading outcomes,

  • Understand the leadership issues that impact program implementation,

  • Use date to identify what is working and who needs intervention,

  • Implement data team meetings as tools to support achievement growth,

  • Complete an on-going self-evaluation of components addressed during the training.


Learn more and join CORE Learning for this virtual event. Register Here

Adolescent Literacy Solutions


May 13 - 14, 2024 & May 28 - 29, 2024

3:00PM - 4:30PM

For school principals, assistant principals, district leaders, site-based leadership teams in partnership with principals.


This four-day courses focuses on preparing educators to develop:

  • Academic Vocabulary,

  • Comprehension Strategies and Text Structures,

  • Science of reading overview and decoding instruction for adolescents,

  • Fluency Development.


Learn more and join CORE Learning for this virtual event. Register Here

Leadership of Literacy


May 16 & May 17, 2024

8:30AM - 4:30PM

For school principals, assistant principals, district leaders, site-based leadership teams in partnership with principals.


Learning Outcomes:

  • Develop a foundational working knowledge of the Science of Reading an dhow it can be implemented in a system through transformative instructional leadership,

  • Utilize a clear process with aligned tools to assess school wide literacy structures,

  • Identify leadership actions that build school wide professional capacity to remove barriers and increase opportunities for students ot become successful readers and communicators.


Learn more and join CORE Learning for this virtual event. Register Here

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