A learning experience designed to introduce teachers to the Reading Apprenticeship Framework
In-person dates
- REGISTER for June 24–26, 2024 in San Francisco, CA
- REGISTER for August 12–14, 2024 in Livonia, MI
Reading Apprenticeship Essentials I gets you and your team started with Reading Apprenticeship. Middle school, high school, and college educators will experience new ways to create a positive learning community with student strengths and texts at the center.
Both tracks provide a solid foundation in the Reading Apprenticeship Framework’s four dimensions of learning—social, personal, cognitive, and knowledge-building—and the development of these interacting dimensions through metacognitive conversation.
This course is a Phase 1 Reading Apprenticeship professional learning opportunity equivalent to other Phase 1 courses and seminars.
What You Will Learn
- Recognize and model for students the reading strategies you use as an expert reader in your subject area
- Engage students in understanding their thinking processes—the power of metacognition
- Integrate and accelerate students’ subject-area learning and subject-area literacy
- Foster learning dispositions of persistence, stamina, problem-solving, and collaboration
- Turn the sustained work of learning back to students, successfully
- Plan lessons that incorporate all dimensions of the Reading Apprenticeship framework
- Translate traditional classroom practices and tools into digital spaces and processes using video conferencing and online annotation tools (online track only)
Who Will Benefit
- Middle school, high school, and higher education educators of all subject areas
- Administrators, coaches, and instructional support personnel
Teams of two or more are highly recommended.
Additional Details
- Comprised of 3-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: $1750
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 outcomes 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 prior to the scheduled course start. A 50% refund will be granted if the request to withdraw is received within the two week period before the course begins.