Embracing Literacy 2025 Events

Unlock the full potential of your MTSS with effective progress monitoring! In this engaging session, we’ll explore how data-driven progress monitoring can transform student support. Learn best practices for post-screening intervention planning and discover how technology can streamline decision-making, empowering educators with the insights they need to drive meaningful student outcomes.

Objectives 

• Differentiate progress monitoring assessment from other types of assessment
• Identify the placement of progress monitoring assessment within a data-based decision-making framework
• Learn how to use progress monitoring to change student outcomes within your MTSS

 Credit Reflection Questions: Applying Learning to Practice

• What new insights did you gain from the presentation, and how did they connect to your existing knowledge or experience?
• In what ways did the presentation deepen or enhance your understanding of the topic?
• How do you plan to apply what you learned in your work? Who will benefit from it, and what changes or improvements do you expect to see?

In this hands-on session, teachers will explore proven strategies to plan authentic disciplinary inquiry with curated text sets that promote reading comprehension. Authentic inquiry is essential for all students, as it is proven to develop critical thinking and language skills that are requirements in the classroom and in life. Investigating authentic disciplinary concepts through text sets supports growth in both fluency and comprehension, encourages increasing levels of reading stamina, and increases both motivation to tackle and engagement with stretch text. In this session we will unpack the strengths and challenges of curating useful text sets and planning authentic inquiry as we scrutinize effective strategies to help our students benefit from these inquiries to amplify their understanding of important disciplinary concepts.

Goals:
1. Describe the ways in which authentic inquiry with curated text sets promotes reading comprehension
2. Identify the key elements of curating text sets for inquiry in diverse disciplines.
3. Model and share a variety of protocols proven to support text engagement that promotes reading comprehension.

Outcomes:
1. Brainstorm curated text set and text engagement strategies to support an authentic inquiry that would be appropriate for your context.
2. Apply tools to continue to investigate ways to engage students in curated text sets.
3. Apply tools to continue to investigate ways to engage students in authentic inquiry in your context.

The follow-up to this session will be Round-Table Presentations by a team of core and elective teachers from Cody Middle and High Schools. Stephany’s team will discuss how they plan authentic inquiry in their different disciplines and support that inquiry with targeted vocabulary instruction, text-based student-to-student discussion, and engagement with curated text-sets.


Credit Reflection Questions: Applying Learning to Practice

• What new insights did you gain from the presentation, and how did they connect to your existing knowledge or experience?
• In what ways did the presentation deepen or enhance your understanding of the topic?
• How do you plan to apply what you learned in your work? Who will benefit from it, and what changes or improvements do you expect to see?

In this hands-on session, teachers will explore proven strategies to plan authentic disciplinary inquiry with curated text sets that promote reading comprehension. Authentic inquiry is essential for all students, as it is proven to develop critical thinking and language skills that are requirements in the classroom and in life. Investigating authentic disciplinary concepts through text sets supports growth in both fluency and comprehension, encourages increasing levels of reading stamina, and increases both motivation to tackle and engagement with stretch text. In this session we will unpack the strengths and challenges of curating useful text sets and planning authentic inquiry as we scrutinize effective strategies to help our students benefit from these inquiries to amplify their understanding of important disciplinary concepts.

Goals:
1. Describe the ways in which authentic inquiry with curated text sets promotes reading comprehension
2. Identify the key elements of curating text sets for inquiry in diverse disciplines.
3. Model and share a variety of protocols proven to support text engagement that promotes reading comprehension.

Outcomes:
1. Brainstorm curated text set and text engagement strategies to support an authentic inquiry that would be appropriate for your context.
2. Apply tools to continue to investigate ways to engage students in curated text sets.
3. Apply tools to continue to investigate ways to engage students in authentic inquiry in your context.

The follow-up to this session will be Round-Table Presentations by a team of core and elective teachers from Cody Middle and High Schools. Stephany’s team will discuss how they plan authentic inquiry in their different disciplines and support that inquiry with targeted vocabulary instruction, text-based student-to-student discussion, and engagement with curated text-sets.


Credit Reflection Questions: Applying Learning to Practice

• What new insights did you gain from the presentation, and how did they connect to your existing knowledge or experience?
• In what ways did the presentation deepen or enhance your understanding of the topic?
• How do you plan to apply what you learned in your work? Who will benefit from it, and what changes or improvements do you expect to see?

Introduction:
This session builds upon an article by Dr. Maria Murray in The Reading League Journal (Jan/Feb 2021 issue) by highlighting an evidence-based instructional practice known as Word Chaining. Participants will walk away with knowledge of a practical tool to use with students building foundational word recognition skills and explore several resources and frameworks for thinking through the selection of evidence-based practices.

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe why scientifically-based instructional practices are important and examine a framework for selecting effective interventions for striving readers
2. Understand the research on word chaining (word building), the components that likely contribute to its effectiveness, and where to conceptualize it on Scarborough's Rope
3. Identify several ways to create word chains in the classroom and potential methods for scaffolding or intensifying the intervention to match students' needs

Credit Reflection Questions: Applying Learning to Practice

• What new insights did you gain from the presentation, and how did they connect to your existing knowledge or experience?
• In what ways did the presentation deepen or enhance your understanding of the topic?
• How do you plan to apply what you learned in your work? Who will benefit from it, and what changes or improvements do you expect to see?