Professional Learning
Graduate-level research, translated for educators and school teams.
I support educators, coaches, interventionists, and school leaders working to improve literacy for older students. This work connects research on adolescent literacy, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, disciplinary literacy, assessment, and intervention to the practical decisions educators make in real schools.
Science of Reading for Older Students
The main pathway for educators who want to go deeper: a graduate-seminar-quality cohort on adolescent literacy.
Participants engage with research, examine student data, use practical tools, and apply the work to their own instructional or school context. Founding cohort begins the week of October 1, 2026.
- Student profiles from screening & diagnostic data
- Assessment interpretation without overclaiming
- Intervention design for real school schedules
- Vocabulary, morphology & academic language
- Comprehension & reading-to-learn routines
- Writing across the disciplines
- Disciplinary literacy in ELA, science, social studies & CTE
- Grades 4–12
Free Ohio Literacy Academy resources
Public professional learning resources related to the Ohio Literacy Academy, with videos, companion tools, and classroom-ready materials available at no cost.
Building a Literacy Culture: Leadership, Content Learning, and Intervention
A three-part school leadership resource with videos, transcripts, viewing protocols, reflection questions, and companion tools for building a coherent literacy culture in grades 6-12.
Literacy Across the Disciplines: English Language Arts
A free augmented ELA viewing resource focused on genre, background knowledge, academic language, source work, perspective taking, and critical disciplinary literacy.
Literacy Across the Disciplines: Social Studies
A free augmented social studies resource for supporting students as they read primary sources, corroborate evidence, identify bias, contextualize claims, and synthesize multiple accounts.
Literacy Across the Disciplines: Science
A free augmented science resource for supporting students with scientific vocabulary, technical texts, figures, explanations, evidence, and lab-report reading and writing.
Literacy Across the Disciplines: Mathematics
A free augmented math resource for supporting students as they read written problems, interpret diagrams, use mathematical vocabulary, and explain reasoning in clear language.
Literacy Across the Disciplines: Career Technical Education
A two-video CTE resource for supporting students with technical manuals, workplace documents, discipline-specific vocabulary, graphic organizers, and communication for real career pathways.
Literacy Across the Disciplines: Arts
A two-video arts resource for supporting students as they read about artists, historical contexts, performance texts, critiques, artist statements, and discipline-specific vocabulary.
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Use this form for the Science of Reading for Older Students cohort, workshop and institute inquiries, Reading Ways Pathways questions, or general professional learning interest. I read every submission personally.