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:
Research in adolescent literacy clearly shows that understanding word meaning increases content knowledge and comprehension. In this session, we will introduce research-based instructional practices that teachers can use to select content-rich and critical words for focused instruction. Next, we will explore with teachers how to use teacher assessment and student self-assessment to inform instructional practices in vocabulary, including assessments at the beginning of instruction to gauge where students are, during instruction to understand how students are progressing in knowledge development, and after instruction to determine next steps for the future. Finally, and most importantly, we will provide engaging and meaningful vocabulary instructional tools for use across disciplines that are designed to develop sophisticated and flexible knowledge of key words. The format of the session will be interactive, applied, and engaging. Participants will be given resources that can easily be adapted to their own classroom settings.

Objectives:
1. Identify content-rich and critical words for focused instruction
2. Assess students’ knowledge of word meanings throughout the instructional process
3. Provide engaging and meaningful opportunities for students to learn word meanings.  

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?

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?

Introduction
We’ve all heard about the science of reading, but what about the Science of Writing? In this session, we’ll examine research and methodology from writing expert and Savvas author, Dr. Young-Suk Kim. Participants will gain insight into the foundational writing skills that reflect best practices in a "science of writing" classroom and engage in writing routines that foster meaningful writing experiences for students of all abilities.

Objectives
Identify student writing gaps and strengths, better understand the needs of foundational writing, map student writing growth across age-appropriate levels, connect the practices of the science of reading and the science of writing.
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:
We’ve all heard about the science of reading, but what about the Science of Writing? In this session, we’ll examine research and methodology from writing expert and Savvas author, Dr. Young-Suk Kim. Participants will gain insight into the foundational writing skills that reflect best practices in a "science of writing" classroom and engage in writing routines that foster meaningful writing experiences for students of all abilities.

Objectives:
Identify student writing gaps and strengths, better understand the needs of foundational writing, map student writing growth across age-appropriate levels, and connect the practices of the science of reading and the science of writing.

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
We’ve all heard about the science of reading, but what about the Science of Writing? In this session, we’ll examine research and methodology from writing expert and Savvas author, Dr. Young-Suk Kim. Participants will gain insight into the foundational writing skills that reflect best practices in a "science of writing" classroom and engage in writing routines that foster meaningful writing experiences for students of all abilities.

Objectives
Identify student writing gaps and strengths, better understand the needs of foundational writing, map student writing growth across age-appropriate levels, connect the practices of the science of reading and the science of writing.
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?