Voyager Sopris Learning EDVIEW360 Podcast Series

Join this fascinating, useful presentation as Dr. Leslie Laud shares the most powerful evidence-based practices for raising literacy outcomes—while emphasizing the role writing can play. As Dr. Laud calls on an abundance of current research, much of it just out in 2020-2021, she will help you understand its impact and how the research sheds new light on what works in explicit, Structured Literacy instruction. This webinar will present the latest evidence-based practices so you can best help your students get caught up following the gaps in instruction they may have experienced during the past year.

Attendees will learn:

• The latest advances in the science of writing
• The five keys of the science of writing
• The most promising practices you can use tomorrow
• About resources that can help you continue to grow as a writing teacher
• The overlap between reading and writing, and why writing can lift overall literacy outcomes 

Join education and assessment expert Dr. Kelly Powell-Smith of Acadience Learning as she examines the critical issues educators face when making assessment decisions. Which assessments are necessary to support schoolwide Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) in the area of literacy, and when should they be used?

You’ll walk away from this informative session with newfound understanding of:

• The various purposes assessments serve and what kinds of reading assessments are needed in a MTSS
• How to connect reading assessments to critical questions educators need to answer in a MTSS
• How to design an effective and efficient reading assessment system that results in actionable data leading to improved student outcomes

Dr. Powell-Smith will share application of these ideas in pre-K–8 settings, and she will provide specific examples and recommend resources.

We hope you’ll join us!

For our middle school English Learners, special considerations must be made based on the stages of language acquisition, literacy levels in their native language, and support needed to learn to read and write in English. As an educator, are you doing everything possible to change the trajectory of literacy challenges into success?

During this informative and eye-opening presentation, Dr. Antonio Fierro—an esteemed literacy expert and an English Learner himself—will illustrate why teachers of older English Learners must be diagnostic in nature with their approach to reading intervention. Attendees will also learn:

• To apply techniques that build on language components
• Why a Structured Literacy approach is essential for grades 5–8
• The language elements necessary to teach academic vocabulary and improve oral and written discourse
• How small-group and age-appropriate intervention succeeds when other approaches may not

We hope you’ll join us!