Professional Development

Reading Apprenticeship is designed to increase teacher effectiveness and improve students' reading and writing skills in content area classes. How do we accomplish this? By offering intensive, hands-on professional development services to help teachers and instructional leaders implement the Reading Apprenticeship approach.

Service Audience Duration
School Districts Comprehensive District Services Districts Long-term; 1 to 3 years
Middle and
High Schools
Leadership Institutes
(Training of Trainers)
Teams of teacher leaders, administrators and other literacy leaders 8 days (5 + 3)
Teacher Institutes Cross-disciplinary groups of middle and high school teachers 2 to 8 days
Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course Institute Teachers of the 9th grade Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy Course 5 days
Community
Colleges
Leadership Community of Practice Community college instructors (please note: there is a pre-requisite to enroll in this training) 4 day summer training plus 2 day follow-up winter conference
Online course Community college instructors 30 hours over 6 weeks
Faculty Seminars Community college instructors 2 to 7 days