Professional

Support

Successful literacy initiatives in middle and high schools require exceptional expertise, tailored to the needs of your staff and done in a way that builds the leadership capacity of your team so that the work is sustainable.

Courses, webinars, one-on-one mentorship, and more

DEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS

Building instructional leadership capacity can be challenging and takes time. Reading Ways offers resources for supporting instructional leadership across all aspects of our work with partner schools.

Leadership services

Courses, webinars, resources, and more

Professional Learning for teachers

Students need robust reading comprehension skills to tackle rigorous content in high school and beyond. Superficial attempts to import basic reading strategies from English classes into math, history, and science settings have largely failed. Although teachers have access to countless strategies, locating high-quality resources and knowing how to apply them purposefully in the classroom can be challenging.

Teacher services

Resources and strategies

We have selected research-based instructional strategies, sample text sets, discussion protocols, and word lists for teachers in each subject area. These resources are available in MS Word and PDF.

Literacy Webinar Series

Reading Ways hosts webinars with authors, researchers, and teachers who are leading the way in adolescent literacy. Every webinar provides specific resources to use at your school.

Teacher courses

Our hybrid courses bring together videos, research, and instructional resources in an exceptional learning management system. Our online learning supports teams of teachers examining research, testing new practices and reflecting on what worked (and what did not).

Keynotes and Workshops

Reading Ways also offers keynote events, as well as single-day or multi-day workshops (e.g., summer institutes) for groups of middle and high school teachers.

A NEW MODEL FOR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

OUR MODEL

Our model for professional learning is designed to improve your school’s in-house capabilities in a sustainable and lasting way. Reading Ways has developed this model based on years of professional experience and research into adult learning.

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Our goals

To create and sustain a community of teachers who reflect deeply on their practice and push one another to improve it.

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To use a research-based model of higher-order thinking that aligns the instructional mission of teachers across content areas.

To embed high-quality research based pedagogical tools in schools and classrooms, and to work with teachers to adopt them.

To improve reading scores and create a new generation of pupils able and willing to critically engage with texts in digital environments.

LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO IMPLEMENT READING WAYS

THE IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

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Find out more about the services we offer in the implementation guide, as well as why we are offering them and how to implement them. In the appendix you will find example budgets and the literacy leadership action plan template.

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