Professional Development Opportunities for New York City Educators

Offerings and Pricing

• Most of our offerings are available to NYC educators under the Literacy Professional Development vendor contract between Lesley University and New York City Public Schools.
• Contract offerings have special prices and registration processes for NYC educators (see below).
• NYC educators may also register for non-contract offerings in the same manner and for the same price as participants from districts other than NYC Public Schools.

NYC Contract Offerings:

• Summer Literacy Institute, K–8–The Language of Teaching: Planning, Instructing, and Assessing Writing
• What Every School Leader Needs to Know about Good Literacy Teaching and Effective Literacy Coaching
• An Introduction to Guided Reading in a Good Literacy Program (K–2)
• An Introduction to Guided Reading in a Good Literacy Program (3–8)
• Systematic Teaching of Phonics and Spelling in the Primary Classroom (K-3)
• The Effective Literacy Coach
• Leveled Literacy Intervention
• Literacy for All Conference

Non-contract Offering:

• Literacy Beginnings: Real Life Talking, Reading, and Writing in the PreK–K and K Classroom

-- Summer 2012 Offerings --

Summer Literacy Institute, K–8–The Language of Teaching: Planning, Instructing, and Assessing Writing

• July 9–12, 2012  -- Featuring Katie Wood Ray

Session Topics Include:

• Examining how your teaching of writing is shaped through your language and beliefs
• Exploring how you might use published writers to help students envision genre possibilities, experiment with text structure, control the length of text, develop a sense of craft, and understand the conventions of writing
• Turning the language of the Common Core State Standards into kid-friendly,explicit minilesson statements and units of study to meet the needs of writers in your classroom

Type of Offering: Contract

Time: 8:00 am–3:45 pm

NYC Contract Cost: $955
Available for graduate credit for $870 per credit (2 and 3 credits available).

E-mail: literacy@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8402 for a NYC registration form

Literacy Beginnings: Real Life Talking, Reading, and Writing in the PreK and Kindergarten Classroom

• July 23–26, 2012 -- Featuring Matt Glover
  
• Learn how to create teachable moments for inquiry, play and the nurturing of the imagination through developmentally appropriate early childhood experiences that foster joyful language and literacy learning. Learn more about this event.

Type of Offering: Non-contract

Cost:

• $570 non-credit, online registration
• $595 non-credit paper registration
• Graduate credit for $870 per credit (2 and 3 credit options available)

E-mail: litcol@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8693 to learn how to register

What Every School Leader Needs to Know About Good Literacy Teaching and Effective Literacy Coaching

• July 30–August 2, 2012

Type of Offering: Contract

This training, taught by Irene Fountas and Lesley University faculty, is designed for school leaders interested in examining the roles of effective teaching, student assessment, coaching, and supervision in improving student achievement in reading and writing. Learn to use observational tools to examine the classroom environment and understand best teaching practices.

Time: 8:30 am–4:00 pm

Location: Lesley University, University Hall, at 1815 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138

Online training dates: TBD

NYC Contract Cost: $2,703 (includes lunch and materials)

Not available for graduate credit.

Registration: Contact Chris Sarmatzis at csarmatz@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8671 to register.

An Introduction to Guided Reading in a Good Literacy Program (Grades K–2)

• July 30–August 2, 2012

Type of Offering: Contract

This course will take an in-depth look at how to use Guided Reading in a K–2 classroom. It is based on Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell's book, Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children. Topics include:

• Using leveled books
• Assessing a student's strengths and needs
• Matching books to a student's reading level
• Organizing and managing your classroom during the Guided Reading lesson
• Incorporating Shared Reading, Read Aloud, Independent Reading, and literature discussion in the classroom

Time: 8:00 am–3:50 pm

Location: Lesley University, University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

NYC Contract Cost: $955 for non-credit

Graduate credit: $870 per credit

Registration: Contact Crrcourses@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8170 to learn how to register.

Systematic Teaching of Phonics and Spelling in the Primary Classroom, K–3

• August 6–10, 2012

Type of Offering:
This course focuses on the 9 critical areas of phonics and spelling learning as well as the role of letter-sound relationships in the reading and writing process. Topics include:

• Techniques for teaching how letters and words work
• An overview of 100 mini-lessons for K–2 classrooms
• The role of phonological awareness in learning to read and write
• How to use students' reading and writing to assess phonics and spelling knowledge
• Comprehensive spelling system for grades 1–4
• Designing and planning effective word study center activities

Time: 8:00 am–3:50 pm

Location: Lesley University, University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

NYC Contract Cost: $955 for non-credit

Graduate credit: $870 per credit

Registration: Contact Crrcourses@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8170 to learn how to register.

The Effective Literacy Coach

• August 13–17, 2012; September 28–29; November 16–17, 2012, plus 30 hours of online professional development between face-to-face meetings

Type of Offering: Contract

The Effective Literacy Coach is an intensive training by Lesley faculty. You will learn the attributes of a healthy, professional learning community; models of coaching and professional development; how to observe and analyze teaching; how to help teachers use data to inform decision making; how to organize for coaching and professional development sessions; how to create an effective school-based literacy team; and the relationship between literacy theory and real-world practice. You will receive 30 hours of online instruction between face-to-face meetings.

Location: Lesley University, 1815 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

NYC Contract Cost: $7,613 (includes 6 graduate credits)

Registration: Please email litcol@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8693 to register.

An Introduction to Guided Reading in a Good Literacy Program (Grades 3–8)

• August 13–17, 2012

Type of Offering: Contract

This course will take an in-depth look at how to use Guided Reading in an intermediate classroom. It will focus on observing and analyzing reading behaviors for effective instruction, as well as understanding the parts of a Guided Reading lesson, and how each element helps students become more effective readers.

Time: 8:00 am–3:50 pm

Location: Lesley University, University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

NYC Contract Cost: $955 for non-credit

Graduate credit: $870 per credit

Registration: Contact Crrcourses@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8170 to learn how to register.

Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

• August 21–23, 2012 (Days 1–3) and October 23–25, 2012 (Days 4–6)

Type of Offering: Contract

LLI teachers work with groups of three students, five times per week for 18 weeks with the goal of bringing them to grade level. Teachings being trained in LLI learn how to implement structured lessons that include phonics/word study and the reading of leveled texts. This six-day training is for teachers who provide small group reading support in the primary grades.

Leveled Literacy Intervention:

• Combines reading, writing, and specific work on sounds, letters, and words
• Provides explicit teaching of effective strategies for writing, and uses writing to extend understanding of texts and of words
• Emphasizes teaching for comprehending strategies
• Continuum of student understandings to guide the series of lessons
• Uses authentic texts
• Is ideal for teachers who provide small group reading support in the primary grades, including Reading Recovery teachers, Title I teachers, and reading teachers

Teachers wishing to be a part of the LLI training must be able to work with at least one group of three students five days a week as well as attend all six days of training. 

Location: Lesley University, 1815 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

NYC Contract Cost: $4,350

Registration: Call 617.349.8693 or email litcol@lesley.edu to learn how to register.

-- Fall 2012 Offerings-- 

23nd Annual Literacy for All Conference

• November 4–6, 2012

Type of Offering: Contract (for the 3-day event)

Choose from more than 100 workshops and earn 14.5 professional development hours at the Northeast region's leading PreK–8 literacy conference and Reading Recovery professional development event. This year's conference will feature a Technology Strand, PreK–K Strand, as well as sessions for administrators, middle school educators, literacy coaches, and classroom teachers. Learn about this year's offerings.

Location: Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence

NYC Contract Cost: $575 for the 3-day event

Registration:

• NYC educators attending the three-day conference must register by paper registration form.
• Please email literacy@lesley.edu or call 617.349.8402 for a form