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Our mission is to provide relevant and timely professional development to meet teachers' practical needs. We value teachers' time, knowledge, and experience. We offer many training options to help ensure you and your students are successful!
In Raising the Standards, Sarah Collinge inspires teachers with classroom examples of the CIA approach, demonstrating how to teach the program in your own classroom. A video book study accompanies this title.
In the Assessment and Intervention Guide, Peter Dewitz guides teachers as they build assessments into their daily instruction. Assessment tools can be downloaded from the assessment page.
"Collinge's CIA approach can make literacy learning an engaging, enjoyable, and effective experience for all students!" Getting Smart Staff

Learn about the program!
A 35-minute overview explains the design of the 3-6 program. A 25-minute overview explains the design of the 7β8 program.
A 7-minute overview explains the CIA (collect, interpret, apply) approach. Recommended for review committees and new teachers.
Onboarding Training
Onboarding webinars are recommended for teachers and building leaders new to the program or needing a refresher. If you would prefer to schedule a live session, please reach out to an advisor.
This 1.5 hour course is for teachers who are new to the program and will prepare teachers for teaching the read-aloud units.
This 1.5 hour course is for teachers who are new to the program and will prepare teachers for teaching the book club units.
Digging Deeper
The webinars below are recommended for teachers and building leaders with some experience teaching the program.
This 1.5 hour course is for teachers who have some experience with the program and will guide teachers in using formative and summative assessments.
This 1.5 hour course is for teachers who are in their second year with the program and will help teachers evaluate their implementation and plan next steps.
"Sarah is extremely knowledgeable using her own teaching experiences in addition to her research to provide essential and realistic teaching strategies that are easily implemented in the classroom."
5th Grade Teacher, WA



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