AVID Transforming Literacy Through Content-Area Reading (Elementary)
AVID Transforming Literacy Through Content-Area Reading (Elementary)
Aug. 13-14, 2024
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8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. daily
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Sourcewell
This AVID Community of Practice is designed to engage elementary educators in exploring the impact of leveraging disciplinary literacy skills to transform gaps into gains. This course is available to all elementary educators, regardless of whether your school is an AVID school or not.
Date: Aug. 13-14, 2024
Time:
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. daily
Location:
Sourcewell
Cost:
$50 for non-participating AVID schools; Comprehensive Package pricing: $5 for non-participating AVID schools
Learn more about the Comprehensive Package and see a list of participating districts here >
Prerequisites: None
CEUs: Teacher CEU; Administrator CEU
Learning objectives:
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Explore opportunities to provide students with diverse text types and activate background knowledge to support engagement with content and extend students’ depth of comprehension.
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Experience AVID's Critical Reading Process and engage in collaborative strategies that build students’ content-area literacy skills and allow them to access rigorous content.
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Gain the knowledge, strategies, and resources necessary to foster a culture of literacy and gradually release responsibility to students.
Description:
This training is designed to engage elementary educators in considering what happens when we leverage disciplinary literacy skills to transform gaps into gains. Participants will engage with literacy strategies as a means of learning about them, allowing them the opportunity to reflect on how these strategies can be incorporated into their instructional practices
About the leader:
This course will be led by an AVID national presenter.
Event Registration
Registration deadline: July 30, 2024
Check-in: 8 a.m.
Questions: education@sourcewell-mn.gov
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