Registration Deadline: TUE. 9/29/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Vocabulary is everyone’s favorite reading component! And helping students master reading vocabulary is a key to helping them master comprehension. But how many words should you teach? And which words are the most important? What strategies are best for helping students learn new words? How do […]
Registration Deadline: WED. 9/30/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Participants will engage in a couple of classroom activities to experience scaffolding, checking comprehension and the gradual release of responsibility. These aspects of teaching and tutoring are then defined, explained further and participants get opportunities to practice them.
Join the ATLAS Lounge for Ask ATLAS Office Hours. Passcode to join the meeting: lounge2026 Stop by the virtual ATLAS Lounge on Monday, October 5, anytime between 2-3pm.This office hour is dedicated to ESL teaching, and Patsy will be sipping coffee, awaiting a conversation with you! (Learn more about Patsy Egan and her language […]
Registration Deadline: MON. 10/5/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Research shows that explicitly teaching a set of comprehension strategies is a great way to help intermediate-level readers maximize their understanding of texts. Come learn a handful of great comprehension tools that will help students develop critical thinking skills and comprehension skills.
Registration Deadline: WED. 10/7/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Small group work can be one of the most effective ways to increase student engagement and language practice, but facilitating a group isn't always easy. Volunteers are often asked to lead discussions, support practice activities, or facilitate group work. Balancing participation among learners with different personalities, […]
Registration Deadline: FRI. 10/9/26 Join us for a day of purposeful PD grounded in effective math instructional practices. Guest Speaker: Heidi Schuler from TERC, and our CALM facilitator. Heidi Schuler […]
Registration Deadline: TUE. 10/13/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Teaching intermediate alphabetics (syllables, prefixes, suffixes, root words) is a great way to help students build their decoding and comprehension skills. Come learn a variety of fun and easy-to-use routines and activities for helping intermediate-level readers develop these important tools.
Registration Deadline: WED. 10/14/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Working with beginning-level learners can feel both exciting and intimidating, especially for new volunteers. Students may have limited literacy skills, emerging […]
Registration Deadline: MON. 10/19/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Come and review the important role of fluency in reading instruction. We will discuss the three key components of reading fluency and look at a variety of activities tutors and teachers can try. We will talk about the mechanics of doing fluency practice via Zoom, Google […]
Registration Deadline: THU. 10/22/26 Venue: Online (see details below) Participants develop their personal cultural awareness and learn how expectations around school culture shape how people teach and learn. Guiding principles for effectively delivering instruction to adults are also covered. Finally, participants increase their sensitivity to the challenges of learning English and developing literacy as an […]
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