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Professional Development
We offer excellent professional development workshops to help you expand your skills, meet the diverse needs of your students, and manage your busy classrooms. Expert, nationally-known authors and educators provide engaging workshops across the country in writing process and assessment; spelling instruction; reading strategies; motivating and supporting struggling readers, teaching English learners; and effective, hands-on math instruction.

Workshops
 
Write Traits®: 6–Trait Instruction and Assessment
Grade(s): K – 12

The dynamic Write Traits® workshops help teachers develop competent, confident writers who can manage their own writing process and perform well on virtually any measure of writing proficiency.
Primary Write Traits® Workshop
Grade(s): K – 2

The Primary Write Traits® Workshop provides you with practical strategies to support the development of the traits in the writing of children in grades K-2.
The Writing Classroom
Grade(s): 3 – 12

The Writing Classroom workshop is designed for educators who want to start “from the beginning” and learn the details of how to incorporate the writing process into their instruction.
Spelling for Writers Workshops
Grade(s): 1 – 6

Spelling for Writers is a research-based, developmental approach to spelling that is differentiated for students’ individual ability.
Lessons in Literacy Workshop
Grade(s): 1 – 6

During this hands-on workshop, teachers will learn how to use the Lessons in Literacy program to teach, provide practice, and assess students’ literacy skills and strategies.
Every Day Counts® Calendar Math Workshops
Grade(s): K – 5

Every Day Counts® Calendar Math workshops are created specifically for K–8 teachers by the authors of the Every Day Counts® family of resources. Designed to make math rewarding for students and teachers alike, these interactive workshops are conducted throughout the year and can be customized to meet your school or district’s needs.
Every Day in Pre-K: Math Workshop
Grade: Pre K

This workshop provides teachers with a hands-on experience with Every Day in Pre–K Kit elements and teachers learn how math content can be provided in a developmentally appropriate way that supports early learners.
Partner Games Workshops
Grade(s): K – 6

Partner Games workshops help participants develop strategies for using games to develop students’ math proficiency through engaging, interactive practice. All the Partner Games workshops provide the opportunity for hands-on practice with the Partner Games materials.
Algebra Readiness Workshop
Grade(s): 6 – 8

This engaging, interactive workshop includes modeling of the Algebra Readiness program elements, discussion of good questioning strategies, practice using the material, and suggestions for assessing student understanding.
Math In Focus™ The Singapore Approach Workshop
Grade(s): K – 5

Learn about an exciting and successful approach to teaching elementary mathematics in this new one-day workshop. Based on the Singapore math curriculum, this workshop will help teachers build a solid math foundation and ensure a deeper conceptual understanding for ALL students.
New! Computational Fluency: More Than Just the Facts
Grade(s): K – 5

This interactive, hands-on workshop helps teachers develop an understanding of computational fluency. Participants will learn instructional strategies that support efficient methods of computation, promote use of number relationships, and develop fact fluency.
Afterschool Achievers Workshops
Grade(s): K – 8

The Afterschool Achievers: Math Club (K-8) and Afterschool Achievers: Reading Club (K-5) workshop is designed for educators implementing the Afterschool Achievers programs in an extended day program.
Summer Success® Workshops
Grade(s): K – 8

The Summer Success:® Math and Summer Success:® Reading workshops are designed for educators implementing the Summer Success® materials in their classroom. During each hands-on workshop, participants examine every component of the kit and practice using the materials under the guidance of a trainer.
Reading for Understanding in the Content Areas
Grade(s): 3 – 12

This workshop combines research with proven and innovative strategies to deliver powerful instruction designed to improve the reading skills of all students.
Reaching Struggling Adolescent Readers Workshop
Grade(s): 5 – 12

In this workshop teachers will learn and practice proven research-based strategies for building struggling adolescent readers’ vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.
Critical Reading and Writing Using Daybooks and Sourcebooks
Grade(s): 2 – 12

This 1-day workshop teaches educators how to use the Daybooks of Critical Reading and Writing and/or the Reading & Writing Sourcebooks in the classroom to support active, analytical reading and help students make connections between literature and written responses.
Reading Advantage Workshop
Grade(s): 6 – 12

Do you have students who struggle with reading in your classroom? Learn how to motivate your struggling readers with the carefully designed instructional support delivered by the Reading Advantage program.
Reading Initiative Consultation
Grade(s): Pre K – 12

The Reading Initiative Consultation is designed for districts or schools that want to implement a long-term plan to improve reading scores. Great Source Professional Development partners with each district/school to provide consultation services focused on specific literacy goals.
Writing Across the Curriculum
Grade(s): 6 – 12

A powerful approach to helping students learn content material is to have them write about the subject.
ACCESS Workshop
Grade(s): 5 – 12

Meet the special needs of English language learners with targeted professional development and carefully designed instructional materials that support language skills development and content-area literacy.
Leveled Libraries Workshop
Grade(s): K – 6

The Leveled Libraries workshop is hands-on, interactive training on how to develop your students’ reading fluency and independence using the Great Source Leveled Libraries.
Pre-K and Pre-K Plus Workshops
Grade: Pre K

Hands-on training that focuses on instructional techniques for developing phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, oral language and vocabulary skills, and print awareness and allows teachers to explore connections to math, science, and social studies.
Science Literacy: Preparing Students for the Future Workshop
Grade(s): 3 – 5

Learn how to build science content knowledge and support science literacy in this hands-on workshop. Participants will learn strategies for teaching science vocabulary, using the scientific process, incorporating classroom friendly hands-on experiments, differentiating instruction, and preparing students for state assessments.
Coaching
Grade(s): K – 12

Transfer new learning to the classroom and maximize professional development benefits by providing ongoing reading, writing, and math coaching support for your teachers.
California High School Exit Exam Blueprints for Success Workshop
Grade(s): 9 – 12

Designed for educators who prepare students for the California High School Exit Exam, this workshop will demonstrate how to use authentic instruction to teach all of the tested standards for language arts and mathematics.
 

Upcoming Workshops
October 23, 2008
Denver, CO
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