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REMINDER: We strongly recommend that you finish all coursework by January 27, 2025. If your in-progress courses are not completed, then we cannot guarantee that your course progress will be accurately reflected after our scheduled Cox Campus Updates. See more about our updates in your dashboard.
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...
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...
Session Description: The series will cover Oral Language. It is required that leaders have completed Cox Campus coursework on these topics (or have completed similar professional development) prior to joining. Audience: This PLC is for district and school leaders with working knowledge of the science of reading and are currently implementing structured literacy practices in...
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...
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...
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...
Session Description: The series will cover Early Literacy and Explicit & Systematic and Phonics Instruction. It is required that leaders have completed Cox Campus coursework on these topics (or have completed similar professional development) prior to joining. Audience: This PLC is for district and school leaders with working knowledge of the science of reading and are currently...
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,...
Description: Together, we will explore how to empower children through progress monitoring and explore how it can positively impact child outcomes in multiage environments. This session will explore various tools for monitoring progress across diverse age groups, discuss implementation strategies for family childcare homes, and explore how to use the data to guide instruction. Objectives:...
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...
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...
Session Description: The series will cover Fluency Instruction. It is required that leaders have completed Cox Campus coursework on these topics (or have completed similar professional development) prior to joining. Audience: This PLC is for district and school leaders with working knowledge of the science of reading and are currently implementing structured literacy practices in...