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      Inservice Opportunities
           Coaching
         Early Literacy Seminar
        The Leadership Seminar,
         Learning Lab: Taking theory into practice
         Instructional Resource Room
         Other Customized in-service  

You can take full advantage of The Learning Network®’s expertise through customized inservice. In consultationwith an experienced staff developer focused on meeting the needs of your school or district, you can choose the content, format, and timing that work best for you and your staff. These valuable learning experiences help you introduce and sustain new approaches -- or improve the effectiveness of current practices. Consider the following professional development opportunities, which can be held at your location and led by proven experts in staff development and school improvement. Effective Literacy Coaching – Learn from more than a decade of experience training successful literacy coaches, and receive support developing the right plan for your team. Successful Leadership of School Improvement – School and district leaders receive guidance and support in using their data to develop and enhance improvement plans. Data Analysis and Conferencing – Turn your data into a resource that guides educational activities through effective analysis and discussion at the district, school, or classroom levels. Using Assessments to Inform Instruction – Educatorslearn to use classroom-based formative assessments, plus summative data, to focus and differentiate their instruction. Learning in the Content Areas – Elementary, middle, and high school educators can receive customized support in applying language arts skills across the curriculum, in order to increase understanding of informational text as well as teach and evaluate content-area writing. Developing Early Literacy in Pre-kindergarten Classrooms – Learn about effective and appropriate strategies that build on young children’s strengths and knowledge, helping them understand how books and stories work, and introducing them to phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, sentence structure, and more.

Also see creating an Instructional Resource Room  inservice that help you make the best possible use of your reading materials and instruction. Or design your own inservice that focuses on one or more of the following topics: Assessment – Selecting assessments, interpreting results, monitoring progress Evaluation – Identifying strengths, recognizing needs, establishing next steps Planning – Determining objectives, choosing strategies, grouping students Instruction – Teaching effectively, providing support, remaining responsive Literacy – Guiding reading and writing, building vocabulary, increasing comprehension Leadership – Establishing goals, developing capacity, interpreting data Coaching – Training educators, mentoring reflectively, building teams Resources – Evaluating materials, choosing appropriately, using effectively Also Available: Learning Labs Enable Teachers to Experience Effective Teaching and Coaching in an Authentic Classroom Setting! These unique professional development experiences provide a dynamic exploration of effective assessment and instruction through a mixture of classroom observation, presentations and dialogue sessions. The opportunity to see theory and practice used in an actual classroom with real students makes the learning process extraordinarily insightful, engaging and realistic. To schedule a free initial consultation about a customized inservice or Learning Lab with an experienced staff developer, call 1-800-262-0787 today