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Progress Monitoring Made Simple: Tools and Strategies for Educators
Why this Workshop:
Ongoing progress monitoring is a powerful tool for educators, offering real-time insights into student learning and instructional effectiveness. By consistently assessing students' reading and spelling skills, teachers can identify areas of strength and need, adjust their strategies accordingly, and ensure every learner is on the path to success. This workshop provides practical techniques to streamline the progress monitoring process, helping educators track growth, interpret data meaningfully, and plan next steps for instruction. Participants will leave equipped with actionable methods to make assessment-driven instruction both efficient and impactful.
Key Learning Objectives:
· Identify the foundational reading and spelling skills that are most important to monitor for instructional decision-making
· Understand which types of progress monitoring tools align best with specific skill areas (e.g., decoding, encoding, fluency, comprehension)
· Interpret student progress data through case-based scenarios to recognize signs of growth, stagnation, or regression
· Connect assessment results to instructional planning by selecting strategies that address student needs and support targeted learning
· Leave with a practical “toolbox” of strategies to make assessment-informed instruction more efficient and impactful across grade levels and programs
Laying the Foundation: Phonemic Awareness Routines That Work
Why this Workshop:
Phonemic awareness is essential for early reading success, yet many students struggle with sound recognition, blending, and segmentation. This interactive workshop will help educators understand the role of phonemic awareness in literacy development and provide actionable ways to support it in daily instruction. The session will highlight engaging activities that benefit all learners and can be easily incorporated into any early literacy program. Participants will explore common challenges—such as difficulty distinguishing similar sounds or manipulating phonemes—as well as effective scaffolding and intervention strategies.
Key Learning Objectives:
· Understand the role of phonemic awareness in early literacy and its connection to decoding, spelling, and fluent reading
· Identify common areas of difficulty—including sound discrimination, blending, and segmentation—and recognize how these challenges may appear in student performance
· Explore a variety of adaptable routines and games to build phonemic awareness across student skill levels
· Gain ready-to-use tools and routines that align with phonemic awareness goals and fit within any curriculum
