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Who Will Benefit
- Higher Education (university, college, community and technical college) Staff and Faculty of all subject areas and levels
Service Details
Online Courses
Reading Apprenticeship 101 Course
Introductory Reading Apprenticeship online course for higher education faculty of all subject areas.
Introductory Reading Apprenticeship online course for higher education STEM faculty.
Continuing online course with a dual focus on deepening Reading Apprenticeship practice and supporting development as leaders for literacy improvement.
Face-to-Face Professional Learning
Three-day introductory Reading Apprenticeship in-person seminar for STEM college faculty.
Reading Apprenticeship for First Year Experience
Three-day seminar focusing on how to use Reading Apprenticeship as an instructional framework to support robust learning in “First-Year Experience” courses and/or summer bridge programs.
Leadership Community of Practice
Training-of trainer experience to lead professional development on your own campus: 6 days in-person and 8-month online course.
More details — including cost, dates, and contact information — for each of the Reading Apprenticeship professional development opportunities are provided in the links above.
What Makes This Service Unique
For over two decades, Reading Apprenticeship has bridged the science of adolescent literacy to real tools and practice with proven results.
Since 1995, the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd has been conducting literacy research, facilitating Reading Apprenticeship professional development, and changing students’ relationships to subject area reading, writing, and reasoning — in middle school, high school, and college.
College faculty staff using the Reading Apprenticeship framework regularly model disciplinary-specific literacy skills, help students build high-level comprehension strategies, engage students in building knowledge by making connections to background knowledge they already have, and provide ample guided, collaborative, and individual practice as an integral part of teaching their subject area curriculum.
As a result, students develop the literacy competencies, subject area knowledge, and the learner dispositions they need — for school, college, careers, and life.
Visit the Reading Apprenticeship website to learn more about our impact, research studies, success stories, and more.
Learn More
To learn more, visit the Reading Apprenticeship professional development page.
Through my participation of [Reading Apprenticeship professional learning], I see success as a process not an end result. In the same way I see my students on a journey of discovery, I see my co-workers and myself. We are learning together, and problem solving in an often confusing and contradictory world. Success means sharing tools and essential motivation to design future solutions to real problems, not possessing static knowledge that eventually goes nowhere.”
WestEd Bulletin
Stay up to date with the latest WestEd news, events, research, and leading voices to support your commitment to improving learning, healthy development, and equity in schools and communities.
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Reflections on the Evolution of the Literacy Education Field
Insights & Impact / July 5, 2023
Cynthia Greenleaf is an award-winning Senior Research Scientist in Literacy at WestEd. After being inducted to the Reading Hall of Fame, she reflects on what's changed in the literacy field and how Reading Apprenticeship remains relevant after 27 years. -
Reading Apprenticeship: Leadership Community of Practice Online Summer Institute
Events (Archived) / July 3, 2023
Learn how to effectively facilitate Reading Apprenticeship professional learning on your campus to support deeper learning across the disciplines. -
The Reading Apprenticeship Framework: A Roadmap Back to Student Confidence and Engagement
Events (Archived) / March 24, 2023
This webinar will explore the impact of COVID-19 on students' confidence and engagement and examine how the Reading Apprenticeship framework can help.
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