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K–5 Language, Literacy, and Learning Leading Together Webinar Series
Join WestEd’s K–5 Language, Literacy, and Learning Webinar Series for five engaging 30-minute sessions that explore some of the essential building blocks of comprehension.
Comprehension Without Compromise: High Expectations for Every Reader
In this 30-minute webinar, explore evidence-based scaffolding, oral language strategies, and assistive technology that make complex texts accessible.
Reading Comprehension Is More Than Decoding
Reading comprehension is more than decoding. In this 30-minute webinar, unpack what it really requires—background knowledge, vocabulary, inference, and language.
Language at the Center: Expressive and Academic Language as the Engine for Reading Comprehension
Explore how oral language, vocabulary depth, and academic registers shape students’ ability to make meaning from complex texts in this 30-minute webinar.
Beyond Grade Level: Meeting Advanced Readers Where They Are and Where They Can Go
Join this 30-minute webinar to explore research-backed strategies that genuinely deepen reading comprehension and stretch capable readers.
Language at Work: Building Reading Comprehension Through Writing
Discover how writing in students’ own voices builds the academic language and reading comprehension skills complex texts demand in this free, 30-minute webinar.
Apprenticing Students to Read and Write in the Disciplines
Reading and writing in the disciplines is a vital experience in secondary schools. This 30-minute Leading Together webinar offers a research-based approach that deepens students’ reading comprehension, strengthens engagement, and builds the disciplinary literacy skills they need to read, write, think, and communicate like experts in any subject area.
Beyond Language Development: Designing Quality Opportunities to Learn for Newcomer Students
In this 30-minute interactive webinar, explore how to design instruction and systems that support newcomer English Learners through rigorous, language-rich opportunities to learn.
Summer 2026 Professional Learning
Join WestEd’s 2026 summer institutes in QTEL, Reading Apprenticeship, Writing Apprenticeship, and AI Summer Sandbox. Space is limited—register today!
WestEd at the 2026 AERA and NCME Annual Meetings
WestEd staff will lead, present, chair, or serve as discussants in 34 sessions and meetings at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, and 4 sessions at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), on April 8–12, 2026, in Los Angeles, California and virtually.
