Professional
Development
Slide Decks
Looking for resources to support professional development in your school or board? We’ve got you covered!
Team ONlit is continuously developing slide decks and book study plans to support educators in their learning journey.
If you have any ideas or suggestions, please contact our team at [email protected].
Seven Mighty Moves
Book Study Slides
7 Mighty Moves: Science-Based, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-3 Reading Success is a practical book, written by teacher and author Lindsay Kemeny, that outlines 7 “moves” to align instruction with reading research. Use these slides to support a book study in your school or board. Developed by Kate Winn, the slides have key takeaways and discussion questions for each move, supporting insightful discussion and collaboration among your colleagues.
Details
- 4 x 1 hour sessions (two moves per session)
- 7 x 30 minute sessions (one move per session)
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Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting
Assessment and evaluation aim to maintain high standards, improve student learning, and benefit all students, parents, and teachers. Educators gather information that accurately reflects how a student is achieving the curriculum expectations and judge the quality of student learning of the overall expectations. This slide deck walks through the basics of evaluation, clarifying how to evaluate and report on student achievement.
Details
23 slides, estimated 30 minutes
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Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction
Book Study Materials
The second edition of Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions focuses on supporting educators to translate screening, diagnostic, and progress monitoring data to effective, evidence-based instruction. The book highlights foundations of explicit instruction and evidence-based assessment, then walks through the “Big Five” of reading instruction: unpacking what each element is, why it is important, and includes a menu of instructional activities for educators to put in practice. Developed by Kate Winn, the slides have key takeaways and discussion questions for each move, supporting insightful discussion and collaboration among your colleagues.
Details
80 slides in total:
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Adapting Commercial Phonemic
Awareness Programs
Phonemic awareness instructional programs are commonly used, but they may not always be fully aligned with research. These slides walk through several ways commercial products can be adapted, in both content and delivery, to provide the most effective phonemic awareness instruction.
Details
15 minutes of slides, with an opportunity for a collaborative task to examine a lesson and generate adaptations
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Introduction to MTSS
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support is the delivery system for evidence-based instruction. This set of slides deck and corresponding speaker notes outlines key elements of MTSS: tiered instruction, data-based decision-making, collaborative problem solving, teaming and shared leadership, and a school-wide assessment system.
Details
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