PRofessional development events

Designed to enhance and extend an educator's learning, the Lesley University Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative offers seminars and institutes throughout the school year and in the summer for either professional development points or graduate credit.

Fall 2008

• 19th Annual LITERACY FOR ALL - Northeast K-8 Literacy Conference and Reading Recovery Institute  Sunday-Tuesday, November 16-18, 2008 
  • Request a 2008 Literacy for All Fold-Out Poster: The poster contains session titles, presenters, daily schedule, and information on how to register for the conference online. Hang this poster in your teacher's lounge!
    
  • Download a full conference brochure here. See full session descriptions and other highlights. (Note: Conference brochures will be printed this summer and mailed to school districts in early fall.)
    
  • Download a paper registration form here.
    

• For more information on any of these events, call 617.349.8402 or email literacy@lesley.edu

Spring 2009

Get the Facts: Nonfiction Reading and Writing Institute (K-6)  Monday-Tuesday, January 26-27, 2009 and Thursday-Friday, February 26-27, 2009

Featuring noted children's authors Seymour Simon and Jerry Pallotta and literacy experts Irene Fountas, Cindy Downend, and Kathy Ha

January 26-27, 2009

Speakers: Noted Author Jerry Pallotta and Irene Fountas, Literacy Expert

• Explore why teaching students to read, think, talk, and write about nonfiction is important
and discuss what teachers need to know to support this work.
• Understand the demands of nonfiction text and determine behaviors and understandings
to notice, teach, and support in whole group and small group instruction.
• Discuss implications of the demands of nonfiction texts in our teaching of guided reading.
• Investigate aspects of the writing process with author Jerry Pallotta and think about
the implications of this for our teaching.

February 26-27, 2009

Speakers: Noted Author Seymour Simon, Cindy Downend and Kathy Ha,
Literacy Experts

• Meet author Seymour Simon and hear how his work as a writer of nonfiction has
developed over time.
• Explore an inquiry stance toward the teaching of nonfiction and investigate how research
and inquiry support students in content area reading and writing.
• Experience nonfiction writing through a variety of genres and forms.
• Learn how to support writers of nonfiction using interactive read aloud, mini-lessons,
and conferring.

• Download a brochure about the institute here.

For more information on this event, call 617.349.8402 or email literacy@lesley.edu

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

Taught by Irene Fountas   January 21–23, 2009 & March 11–13, 2009

For more information on this event, call Tara DeLeo at 617.349.8798 or email tdeleo@lesley.edu