Build on your foundational knowledge of
Reading Apprenticeship
In-person dates
Essentials II takes your Reading Apprenticeship practice to the next level. Middle school, high school, and college educators experience and learn specific cognitive and knowledge-building routines they can embed in their instruction to increase students’ abilities to mobilize personal schema and build knowledge about disciplinary text, language, and concepts, whether in-person or online. Both tracks will provide a deeper dive into the Reading Apprenticeship framework’s four dimensions of learning and metacognitive conversation.
This course is a Phase 2 Reading Apprenticeship professional learning opportunity equivalent to other Phase 2 courses and seminars.
What You Will Learn
Participants learn to:
- Support students to ask and answer a wide range of questions about text to support reading and disciplinary reasoning
- Help students in developing a range of strategies to solve reading problems
- Support students to use and construct visuals to support sense-making while reading
- Support students to get the gist while reading and constructing summaries
- Help students access and build on their schema to support engagement and learning
- Help students vary their reading processes to meet the unique demands of texts in your discipline
- Help students use the academic language of your discipline
- Use students’ reading, thinking, and talking about reading to support growing competence and changing needs
Who Will Benefit
- Middle school, high school, and higher education educators of all subject areas
- Administrators, coaches, and instructional support personnel
Prerequisite: Completion of a Phase 1 Reading Apprenticeship institute, seminar, or online course
Additional Details
- Comprised of 2-day live institutes + more
- Full day (6-hour) sessions of immersive learning
- Builds community and models classroom strategy and implementation
- Teachers experience extended inquiry, collaboration, and reflection with colleagues
- Flexible in dates and sequencing (2-4 days) options for school / district buyout scheduling
- Available for small team / individual registration 1-2x per year
Cost & Included Resources
- In-person registration fee: $1550
Note: This service is also available at your site or as a private course online. Please contact us for pricing and to set dates that work for your team.
Included course materials:
- Our best-selling book, Reading for Understanding
- A binder of professional readings
- Classroom implementation materials
Federal funding: The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) recognizes four levels of evidence. The top three levels require findings of a statistically significant effect on improving student or other relevant outcomes. Based on the law’s definition, Reading Apprenticeship qualifies as a “strong” evidenced-based professional development model that states, districts, and schools can utilize to advance their specific adolescent literacy initiatives. To support these efforts, state and local leaders can look to braid federal funding streams such as Title I, Title II-Part A and B, and Title III.
Refund policy: For individual registration sessions of this course, we offer full refunds up to two weeks before the scheduled course start. A 50% refund will be granted if the request to withdraw is received within two weeks before the course begins.