Early Literacy Tutor Professional Learning Framework
Practice-Based Formal Learning
- Instructional Activities and the Learning Cycle (Teacher Education by Design, University of Washington)
- Powerful Video Focusing Techniques to Accelerate Teacher Learning, Encourage Deep Reflection, and Facilitate Rich Discussions (Edthena.com)
Feedback and Individualized Coaching
- Coaching Specialist (Americorps - Reading and Math Incorporated)
- Learning Coach Job Description (North Carolina Education Corps)
- Literacy Coaching Advice: Cultivating Healthy Relationships with Teachers (Bethanie Pletcher)
- What is Trust? How Do We Build It? (EdWeek, Elena Aguilar)
- The Discomfort of Coaching While White (EdWeek, Elena Aguilar)
- 3 Strategies for Effective Coaching Across Difference (EdWeek, Noel Apostol Colin)
- Animated Short Defining Empathy (Brene Brown)
- The Power of Vulnerability (Brene Brown)
- The Anatomy of Trust - Video (Brene Brown)
- Dare to Lead Hub (Brene Brown)
- Phoneme Blending Intervention Integrity Observation Checklist (Reading Corps)
- Instructional Developmental Pathway (Reading Rescue)
- Checklist for an Effective Reading Rescue Lesson (Reading Rescue)
- Virtual Tutor Observation and Coaching Form (AARP Foundation’s Experience Corps)
- Instructional Practice Guide for K-5 Literacy (LIFT Education Network)
- K-2 Foundational Skills Observational Tool (Student Achievement Partners)
- Observation and Feedback - Developed from Leverage Leadership, Chapter Two (Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, Georgia Department of Education)
- Coaching For Change: Giving Feedback - Video (EL Education)
- “6 Step” Feedback Guide (Insight Education Group)
- Best Foot Forward: Video Observation Toolkit (Harvard.edu)
- Coaching Tools (Bright Morning)
- Open-Source Coaching Resources (Bright Morning, Elena Aguilar)
A Community of Support and Social Learning
- Developing Early Literacy Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) (Institute of Education Sciences)
- Communities Of Practice: A Brief Introduction (Etienne Wenger)
- Teacher Participation In Video Clubs And Impact On Practice (Harvard.edu)
- Boost Teacher Learning With Video Clubs (EdWeek, Michele Repass)
- Racial Equity Tools: Caucus and Affinity Groups (Racial Equity Tools)
Platforms
- Instructions For FaceBook Groups (Facebook)
- Instructions For LinkedIn Groups (LinkedIn)
- Video Demo On Mighty Networks (Mighty Networks)
- Video Demo On Tribe. (Tribe., SaaS Master)
- Video Demo On Discourse Forum (Discourse, Jono Bacon)
- Video Demo On Vanilla Forums (Vanilla Forums, CMX)
- Video Demo On Slack (Slack)
Training Recipe Book
How Children Learn To Read and How Adults Teach Them To Do So
- Canvas-Based Reading Foundational Skills Course (Schoolkitgroup.com)
- Learning to Read, A Primer: Pt 1 (Amplify.com)
- Science Of Reading, A Primer: Pt 2 (Amplify.com)
- The Science Of Reading (State Collaborative On Reforming Education)
- Early Reading Accelerators Prezi (Achievethecore.org)
- Early Reading Accelerator Slide Summary (Achievethecore.org)
- The Science Of Early Learning (Deans for Impact)
- Foundations of Learning to Read (Cox Campus)
- Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing: Assessment (Reading Rockets)
- Put Reading First (National Institute for Literacy - The Partnership for Reading)
- Reading 101: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Phonics (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Fluency (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Vocabulary (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Comprehension (Reading Rockets)
- Building Fluency: Unbound A Guide to Grades K-2 ELA Standards (UnboundED)
- 10 Key Vocabulary Practices for All Schools (The Meadows Center)
- Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade Practice Guide (What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences)
- Executive Summary: Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel (National Institute for Literacy)
- What Works: An Introductory Teacher Guide for Early Language and Emergent Literacy Instruction (National Center for Family Literacy)
- Reading 101: Print Awareness Activities for Your Pre-K Child (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Activities for Your Pre-K Child (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Vocabulary: Activities for Your Pre-K Child (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Oral Language Comprehension: Activities for Your Pre-K Child (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Writing Activities for Your Pre-K Child (Reading Rockets)
- Learning to Talk and Listen: An Oral Language Resource for Early Childhood Caregivers (National Institute for Literacy)
- Meaningful Conversations (Cox Campus)
- Transforming Story Time (Cox Campus)
- Building World Knowledge(Cox Campus)
- Sharing Ideas Through Writing (Cox Campus)
- Assessing Our Students - Video Course (Cox Campus)
- Virtual Assessment Toolkit (Cox Campus)
- 10 Key Policies and Practices for Teaching English Language Learners (The Meadows Center)
- Supporting English Learners’ Oral Language Development (American Federation of Teachers - Aída Walqui and Margaret Heritage)
- Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School (What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences)
Supporting The Whole Child
- The CASEL 5 SEL Framework (Casel.org)
- The Neurosequential Model: Stress, Trauma, and The Brain - Video (PBS Learning Media, Dr. Bruce Perry)
- What is Executive Function? And How Does It Relate to Child Development? (Center on the Developing Child - Harvard University)
- How to Build Core Capabilities for Life - Video (Center on the Developing Child - Harvard University)
- The Science of Early Learning (Deans for Impact)
- Teaching Self-Regulation by Modeling - Video (Edutopia.org)
- Demonstrating Self-Regulation with Tone of Voice - Video (Edutopia.org)
- Activating The Brain With Movement Breaks - Video (Edutopia.org)
- Getting Ready to Learn with Mindfulness - Video (Edutopia.org)
- UFLI VIrtual Teaching Resource Hub: Managing Attention and Behavior (University of Florida)
- Child Abuse Prevention Guidance (Praesidium)
Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education
Understanding CR-SE
- Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework (New York State Education Department)
- “Yes, But How Do We Do It?” Practicing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings)
- Transforming Our Public Schools: A Guide to Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (NYC Culturally Responsive Education Working Group, Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative)
- A Quick Intro On Culturally Responsive Education (short version: 2:09) (NYC Coalition for Educational Justice)
- A Quick Intro On Culturally Responsive Education (long version: 7:55) (NYC Coalition for Educational Justice)
- Raising a Critically Conscious Teaching Force (Crehub.org, Media Sutra)
- Practicing Culturally Responsive Education (Crehub.org, Media Sutra)
- Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, Pedagogy (Black Linguistic Justice)
- Black Language Education (Black Linguistic Justice)
- 2016 Teaching Tolerance Award Winner Karen Schreiner (Learning for Justice)
- 2020 GUIDELINES Award for Excellence in Teaching (Learning For Justice, Teaching Tolerance)
Reflecting On Your Own Schooling
- Gangtas, Wankstas, and Ridas: Defining, Developing, and Supporting Effective Teachers in Urban Schools - Jeff Duncan-Andrade (Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade)
- Being Culturally Responsive as a White Teacher - Video (Crehub.org, Media Sutra)
- The Archeology Of The Self (Crehub.org, Media Sutra)
- Seen in The Classroom (Crehub.org, Media Sutra)
- Creating Your Educational Autobiography (Jennifer Moore)
Building Relationships With Young Children
- The Power of Connection: Stress, Trauma and the Brain - Video (Insights For Educators, PBS Learning Media)
- The Power of Relationships (Edutopia.org)
- Making Connections With Greetings - Video (Edutopia.org)
- Cultivating Trust With One-on-One Time - Video (Edutopia.org)
- Five Elements of Developmental Relationships Overview - Video (Searchinstitute.org)
- Developmental Relationships in Real Life - Video (Searchinstitute.org)
- Developmental Relationships Framework PDF (Searchinstitute.org)
- 33 Adaptable Strategies For Building Relationships With Students in a K-12 Virtual Environment (teachtrainlove.com)
- 8 Strategies For Building Relationships With ELLs in Any Learning Environment (Coloríncolorado.org, Lydia Breiseth)
Continuous Learning Resource Bank
Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education
- "Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors" - Diversity in Books - Video (Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, Reading Rockets)
- Beyond Good Intention: Selecting Multicultural Literature (Joy Shioshita, Lee and Low)
- Diverse Books: Booklists and Related Resources (Coloríncolorado.org)
- Black Language Education (Blacklanguagesyllabus.com)
- Black Language in Children’s and YA Lit (Blacklanguagesyllabus.com, Kaelyn Muiru)
- “Language, Race, and Power” - Video (Jamila Lyiscott, PhD, The Brainwaves Video Anthology)
- Professional Development: Culture in the Classroom (Learning for Justice)
- Black Language Education (Black Linguistic Justice)
Building Relationships with Young Children
- Building Positive Relationships with Students: What Brain Science Says (Understood.org, Trynia Kaufman)
How Children Learn To Read and How Adults Best Teach Them To Do So
- Introduction: How Children Learn to Read - Reading 101 (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing: Assessment (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Phonics (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Fluency (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Vocabulary (Reading Rockets)
- Reading 101: Comprehension (Reading Rockets)
- Early Literacy: Print Awareness, Phonological Awareness, and Alphabet Knowledge - Video Course (Cox Campus)
- Rollins Center For Language and Literacy - 44 Phonemes - Video (Cox Campus, Yvette Manns)
- Reading Fluency (Achievethecore.org)
- Fluency Passages and Resources Grades 2-3 (Achievethecore.org)
- Fluency Rubric (Creating Fluent Readers, Tim Rasinski)
- Building Fluency: Unbound A Guide to Grades K-2 ELA Standards (UnboundED)
- 10 Key Vocabulary Practices for All Schools (University of Texas at Austin, The Meadows Center)
- Choosing Words to Teach (Reading Rockets, Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown, Linda Kucan)
- Taking Delight in Words: Using Oral Language to Build Young Children’s Vocabularies (Reading Rockets, Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown, Linda Kucan)
- Vocabulary Teaching (Timothy Shanahan)
- Vocabulary Development with ELLs (Coloríncolorado.org, Reading Rockets)
- What Productive Talk Looks Like in the Elementary Grades (Edutopia, Susan O’Brien)
- Foundational Skills to Support Reading For Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade - Practice Guide (What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences)
- Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade - Practice Guide (What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences)
- Building Standards-Aligned Read Alouds (UnboundED)
- The Science Of Reading Comprehension Instruction (Nell K. Duke, Alessandra E. Ward, P. David Pearson)
- Using Read-Alouds with English Language Learners (Coloríncolorado.org, Julie Motta)
- Educating English Language Learners: A Review of the Research (Diane August)
- Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School (What Works Clearinghouse, Institute of Education Sciences)
- Meaningful Conversations - Video Course (Cox Campus)
- Transforming Story Time - Video Course (Cox Campus)
- Building World Knowledge - Video Course (Cox Campus)
- Sharing Ideas Through Writing - Video Course (Cox Campus)
- Supporting Dual Language Learners Right From The Start - Video Course (Cox Campus)
- Principles of Instruction: Research-Based Practices That All Teachers Should Know (Barak Rosenshine)
- Why Explicit Instruction? - Video (Dr. Anita Archer)
- Gradual Release of Responsibility and Complex Text (Reading Rockets, Timothy Shanahan)
- Unleash The Science Of Learning (Retrievalpractice.org)
- Positive Cold Call Culture (Teach Like a Champion)
- No Opt Out Options Flowchart (Teach Like a Champion)
- How to Provide Meaningful Feedback: Teacher’s Guide (The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, Payne, B., & Swanson, E.)
- “I See You. I Care. How Can I Help You Grow?” (Charter School Growth Fund)
- Virtual Small Group Literacy Instruction Resources (Cox Campus)
- Engaging and Effective Virtual Read Alouds (Cox Campus)
- Virtual Assessment Guide (Cox Campus)
- Community Building in a Virtual Setting - Video (Cox Campus)
- Teaching ELLs Online: How to Develop Students’ Language Skills (Coloríncolorado.org, Beth Skelton, Lydia Breiseth)
- UFLI Virtual Teaching Resource Hub - Lesson Structure (University of Florida, College of Education)
- UFLI Virtual Teaching Resource Hub - Instructional Activities (University of Florida, College of Education)
- UFLI Virtual Teaching Resource Hub - Tutorials (University of Florida, College of Education)
- UFLI Virtual Teaching Resource Hub - Managing Attention and Behavior (University of Florida, College of Education)
- UFLI Virtual Teaching Resource Hub - Tech Tools and Tips (University of Florida, College of Education)
- UFLI Virtual Teaching Resource Hub - Teaching Reading Online Webinar Series (University of Florida, College of Education)
- Supporting Student Collaboration in a Virtual Setting: General Education and Small Group Services (Marshall Street, Kristi Ransick)
Supporting The Whole Child
- Core Competencies of Socio-Emotional Learning (PBS Learning Media)
- Regulating Yourself and Your Classroom - Video (Dr. Bruce Perry, PBS Learning Media)
- Strong Start Morning Routine (Van Ness Elementary, Transcend, Inc., Whole Child Model)
- Intentional Language and Tone (Van Ness Elementary, Transcend, Inc., Whole Child Model)