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Recurring Event K-5 Teachers: Evidence-Based Practices to Improve Literacy Outcomes

Setting Up a Positive Classroom Culture Using Oral Language Routines | Dr. Margie Gillis

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description: Learn how to create a positive classroom culture through oral language routines to promote literacy and language development. Discover effective strategies and tips for building a supportive learning environment. Presented by: Dr. Margie Gillis Dr. Margie B. Gillis, Ed.D., CALT, is the founder and president of Literacy How, Inc., a non-profit organization that...

Recurring Event B-5 Leaders: Improving ECE Programs with 9 Ecosystem Elements

Establishing Culturally Responsive Environments | ECM Element 2

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description:  An early learning classroom does not exist in isolation of a larger sociocultural whole. To make learning experiences more relevant and to foster children’s critical capacity to share their lives and our world, an early learning environment must take into account children’s cultures, prior experiences, and frames of references. In culturally responsive and...

Recurring Event B-5 Leaders: Improving ECE Programs with 9 Ecosystem Elements

Exploring Consistent Routines, Rituals, & Transitions
| ECM Element 3

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description:  This  session will dive into  Ecosystem Element 3: Consistent Routines, Rituals and Transitions.   The group will  review and explore  evidence of established routines, comforting rituals, and well-planned transitions in classrooms. A child’s day is filled with Routines –arrival time, cleanup time, or naptime – that provide a sense of order in the events...

Recurring Event K-5 Teachers: Evidence-Based Practices to Improve Literacy Outcomes

Speech to Print Advantage | Dr. Jan Wasowicz

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Description: This session will explore the importance differences  between a ‘speech-to-print’ approach to literacy instruction and teaching that is based on ‘print-to-speech’. Presented by:  Dr. Jan Wasowicz, Founder, President, & CEO of Learning by Design, Inc. Dr. Jan Wasowicz, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, has more than 40 years of experience as a language, literacy, and learning...

Recurring Event B-5 Leaders: Improving ECE Programs with 9 Ecosystem Elements

Nurturing Language: Viewing Children as Conversational Partners
| ECM Element 4

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description:  This element focuses on the support of children’s language development and comprehension. Oral language is made up of receptive (listening) and expressive (speaking) components. Long before they can express themselves, young children begin to understand what is being said. This is known as receptive language. Once they begin to say sounds, words, and...

Recurring Event B-5 Leaders: Improving ECE Programs with 9 Ecosystem Elements

Reaching Children: Integrated Planning Around Anchor Books | ECM Element 5

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description:  This session will explore integrated planning around anchor books and looks at the school/site’s efforts to develop curricular experiences integrated around a culturally preserving, developmentally-appropriate anchor book with repeated reads. In this approach, teachers plan and implement activities that connect with a selected book to extend learning throughout the day. Focus words and...

Recurring Event K-5 Teachers: Evidence-Based Practices to Improve Literacy Outcomes

Supporting Fluent Readers Using POSSuM | Dr. Laura Rhinehart

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description:  This session will explore POSSuM  a mnemonic device  educators can utilize to to scaffold experiences linked to phonological, orthographic, semantic, syntactic, and morphological elements of words. Presented by Dr. Laura Rhinehart Dr. Laura Rhinehart is an Assistant Researcher at the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at the University of California,...

Recurring Event B-5 Leaders: Improving ECE Programs with 9 Ecosystem Elements

A Focus on Emergent Literacy Skills | ECM Element 6

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description:  This session will discuss element 6, Emergent Literacy Skills, which considers how teachers explicitly plan and provide curricular experiences and developmentally appropriate activities to support the development of early literacy skills. When there is a focus on emergent literacy, teachers promote children’s awareness of the sounds of language, recognition of letters, development of...

Recurring Event B-5 Leaders: Improving ECE Programs with 9 Ecosystem Elements

Understanding Children Through Observation & Progress Monitoring | ECM Element 7

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description: This session will discuss policies and practices for monitoring children’s developmental progress in all areas (with a focus on language and literacy). Following a cyclical process relying heavily on observation, and with expected child outcomes in mind, teachers collect information, reflect on where children are in their development, and use their findings to...

Recurring Event K-5 Teachers: Evidence-Based Practices to Improve Literacy Outcomes

From Language Comprehension to Reading Comprehension | Dr. Laura Justice

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description:  This session will dive into the topic of  Language comprehension and the transition to reading comprehension.   Explore development approaches and best practices in teaching.   Dr. Laura Justice, PhD  Dr. Justice’s research primarily focuses on young children who exhibit developmental vulnerabilities in language and literacy acquisition. Much of her research considers the effects of...

Recurring Event B-5 Leaders: Improving ECE Programs with 9 Ecosystem Elements

Intentional Supports for Dual Language Learners
| ECM Element 8

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description: This session will explore the Ecosystem Element 8, which focuses on intentional supports for DLL learners.  Dual Language Learners (DLLs) or emergent bilinguals, are children learning and developing in more than one language. This element is exclusively focused on the school/site’s systematic and integrated efforts to develop an equitable environment that support DLLs through...

Recurring Event B-5 Leaders: Improving ECE Programs with 9 Ecosystem Elements

Planning for Success through Strong Partnerships with Families | ECM Element 9

Cox Campus | Yearlong Learning Journey Webinar

Session Description: All families care about their children and just like teachers, want to support their learning. It's essential to plan to establish strong partnerships with families from the beginning.  This element examines how sites position families as partners, endeavor to build trusting relationships with them, and provide multiple opportunities for them to engage and actively...