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Custom Professional Development Packages
Work with The Empowering Advocate to create a customized package of ongoing professional development support and services.
Independent Contracts
Assessments? Have a specific research concern? The Empowering Advocate can help with these goals and more.
Specialized Literacy Support
Specialized Literacy Support
The Empowering Advocate is happy to work with your organization or individual for specific literacy goals.
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Some Professional Development Topics I offer
- Writing from source text (text-dependent assessment and responses)
- Integrating content-area reading and writing across the curriculum
- Selecting texts for content or psycho-social development
- Creating lesson informed by the before-during-after reading model
- Creating lessons using the write-aloud/ think-aloud strategy
- Comprehension strategies across the disciplines Best practices for writing instruction (early childhood, elementary, middle, high school specific OR K-12)
- Using centers/ stations for literacy development Integrating perspective-taking with literacy instruction
- Developing a writing curriculum to support the 6 traits of writing Using the national recommendations for writing in elementary or secondary grades
- Flipping the literacy classrooms (flipped classroom model)
- Motivating young readers and writers
- Strategies to support motivation in the literacy classroom Integrating technology, iPads, and applications with literacy instruction for students with dyslexia
- Comprehension strategies for adolescent students with dyslexia
- Classroom management strategies that foster literacy achievement
- Integrating the college and career readiness standards for literacy development Integrating multiple literacies within the science and social studies classrooms
- Supporting social-emotional learning with diverse learners (K-12; ELL; gifted; SPED) Writing-to-learn strategies for all content areas
- Text structure instruction in elementary and middle grades
- Using mentor texts to support writing and/or reading
- Understanding the foundations of the science of reading (academic language, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics)
- Using the writing standards to support daily objectives
- Differentiating literacy instruction for small groups, whole class, and individual tasks
- Teaching writing genres (e.g., narrative, informational, opinion/persuasive) Using rubrics and feedback for writing assessment
- Understanding teacher writing orientations and how they influence instruction
- Plus more! Bring your ideas and we can customize a plan for you and your needs.