Professional Learning Catalog 2024

Literacy Development

Getting Started with LitLeague LitLeague is an after-school, extended-day, enrichment, and intervention program that fosters a safe environment for children to build their social-emotional and literacy skills. Students engage in read-alouds, group discussions, independent reading, writing activities, games, and songs and celebrate their strengths as they become confident readers and writers. In this session we’ll delve into LitLeague resources and practice planning and delivering lessons that will inspire a lifelong passion for learning. Learning outcomes: • Understand how to promote the Seven Strengths that will help your students become super readers and super citizens • Master the components of a LitLeague unit • Prepare and lead Strength, Skill, and Engage sessions • Support and respond to student work • Customize sessions for students’ interests, strengths, and needs Getting Started with LitCamp en español Celebrate the richness of Spanish-speaking students’ language with LitCamp en español ! This session will walk you through a typical LitCamp day, its wide variety of Spanish and bilingual texts, and the teaching strategies that will help your students develop their fluency in English and Spanish. We’ll dive into LitCamp’s components, practice delivering a lesson, and prepare you to lead a summer experience that embraces your students’ strengths as they become dynamic readers and writers in both languages. Learning outcomes: • Understand how to promote the Seven Strengths that will help your students become super readers and super citizens • Explore the philosophy, structure, and scaffolding of LitCamp en español • Use LitCamp en español to accelerate language and literacy development • Launch a day at LitCamp that builds fluency and creates a mutually supportive environment where all students gain the confidence that their voices are heard • Mitigate instructional challenges through the lens of the Seven Strengths

Recommended for: K–8 teachers and instructional coaches Time: Three hours Item #s: In Person: 860629 Virtual: 743459 Participants: Up to 30 Requires purchase of LitLeague

Recommended for: PreK–8 teachers and instructional coaches Time: Three hours Item #s: In Person: 860953 Virtual: 743462 Participants: Up to 30 Requires purchase of LitCamp en español

Recommended Reading Celebrating Our Cuentos: Choosing and Using Latinx Literature in our Elementary Classrooms by Dr. Julia López-Robertson

Rooted in Strength by Dr. Cecilia M. Espinosa and Dr. Laura Ascenzi-Moreno

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