Featured Professional Learning Opportunities
See All Upcoming Professional DevelopmentTeaching 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.
The Power of Fluency to Accelerate Learning
K-5In this 2-day training, reading fluency will be defined and you will learn how to assess fluency and teach for automaticity and fluency during whole group, small group, and individual teaching opportunities.
Phonics and Vocabulary Instruction in Intermediate Grades
3-8Learn to teach your students how to use syllabication and their understandings of morphology (the meaning of word parts) to read and comprehend text.
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.
30 Years
of experience improving
childhood literacy
50,000+
educators served from
across the nation and
around the world
Millions
of children’s lives
improved through literacy
Seeking to Understand the Science of Reading
The 2024 book, “Fact-checking the Science of Reading: Opening Up the Conversation,” is an unbiased, accessible review of ten major claims associated with the Science of Reading movement.
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.