LWT Professional Services Summer 2022

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Dynamic Professional Development and Implementation Support for Your Team

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Flexible learning options that help you reach your goals

Dear Colleagues, Thank you for taking a moment to learn about Learning Without Tears Professional Services!

Our learning team includes fellow teachers, school leaders, occupational therapists, and parents.

We know firsthand that educators are stressed and have little time for their own learning, yet they yearn for accessible and relevant professional learning to re-energize themselves and the students they serve.

Our Professional Services provide dynamic professional development opportunities and implementation support for your teams. We care about your outcomes and collaborate with you to build flexible educator learning plans to jointly invest in your success with our programs, ensuring maximum impact. We optimize student success by helping educators effectively use our programs and materials with fidelity and confidence.

In this brochure, you’ll discover more about our interactive, learner-centric approach. It’s based on decades of Learning Without Tears’ renowned fun, hands-on methods, the Standards for Professional Learning, our lived experience, and a data-informed focus on progressive improvement. We are learners at heart!

Reach out to our knowledgeable, helpful coordinators to begin building your organization’s personalized learning plan—together.

Sincerely,

Juliet Correll (VP, Learning) & The Learning Without Tears Learning Team

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Flexible Learning Plans... Easy as 1,2,3!

Customizing your Professional Services plan is simple. First, select an implementation level. Second, choose the workshop format that best supports your learning goals and scheduling needs. Third, choose the workshop topic.

1. IMPLEMENTATION LEVELS

2. FORMATS

Getting Started

Onsite

Build the foundation for implementation success with the knowledge, strategies, and skills your staff need for high quality instruction and practical application.

Deeper Dive

Review key curricular concepts, reflect on recent program use, learn about selected Deeper Dive topics, and have an opportunity for questions.

Up to a full-day of customized and personalized, hands-on learning

Live Virtual

Half- or full-day interactive learning on an engaging virtual platform

Modular

Short virtual sessions with guidance for application and practice between modules

Blended Learning

Asynchronous webinar followed by a live, virtual Q&A session

3. WORKSHOP TOPICS Early Learning Page: 2–3 Get Set for School Pre-K Curriculum

Handwriting Page: 6–7 Emergent Writing for Pre-K Handwriting Without Tears Print Handwriting Without Tears Cursive

Early Literacy Page: 4–5 A-Z for Mat Man and Me Phonics, Reading, and Me Keyboarding Page: 8–9 Keyboarding and Digital Citizenship

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With Get Set for School, getting students on track for kindergarten readiness is simple.

This complete, research-based Pre-K program provides a hands-on curriculum that engages young minds through purposeful play, active engagement, and custom manipulatives.

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GETTING STARTED SESSION Participants will receive a complete overview of the Get Set for School program and learn to access and use their teaching resources and classroom materials. Participants will also engage in hands-on learning, collaborative discussion, action planning, and reflection.

Learning Outcomes:

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Explore research-based, best practices for Pre-K instruction and assessment

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Build and foster rich classroom routines of literacy, emergent writing, numbers & math, and more

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Facilitate play-based instruction for whole and small groups

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Differentiate learning to meet the needs of diverse learners

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Leverage digital assets in the Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool to bring learning to life and to meet distance learning needs

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Provide direct instruction and model best practices for students

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Plan effective, interactive lessons that encourage student application and generalization of skills

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Facilitate and integrate essential social emotional learning skills

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DEEPER DIVE TOPICS Select topics to customize a professional learning session based on your teachers needs: • • • • • • • • •

A day in the life of a Pre-K classroom with discussion of one week’s lessons Focused review of the Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool (PreKITT) Assessment Alphabet knowledge Classroom scenarios Name writing Small group instruction Fine motor skills and grip Multisensory activities for learning one or more of the following: • Readiness to Write • Learning Capital Letters, Numbers, and Lowercase Letters • Language and Literacy • Numbers and Math • Oral Language • Science and Social Studies

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EARLY LITERACY Students build foundational literacy skills on the pathway to becoming fully fluent readers.

Through these research-backed programs, students will learn alphabet knowledge and explicit, targeted phonics skills.

GETTING STARTED IMPLEMENTATION Participants will receive a complete overview of the A–Z for Mat Man and Me and/or Phonics, Reading, and MeTM program(s) and learn to access and use their teaching resources and classroom materials. Participants will engage in hands-on learning, collaborative discussion, action planning, and reflection.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: A–Z for Mat Man and Me: •

Accelerate letter learning and integrate phonological awareness and phonics skills through systematic and explicit instruction

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Facilitate meaningful conversations to build integral social emotional habits, oral language, and comprehension skills

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Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners while highlighting and celebrating diversity through authentic, universal, and engaging stories

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Leverage digital assets to bring alphabet learning to life

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Phonics, Reading, and Me:

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Teach phonics and other high utility skills systematically and explicitly

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Scaffold phonics instruction to meet the diverse needs of students at varying levels

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Build knowledge to develop phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension skills with rich literary and informational texts

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Use data to monitor student progress and make informed instructional decisions to improve student outcomes

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Maximize instructional time by leveraging the Phonics, Reading, and Me integrated print and digital resources

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DEEPER DIVE IMPLEMENTATION Participants will review key curricular concepts, reflect on recent program use, learn about selected Deeper Dive topics, and have opportunities for Q&A.

DEEPER DIVE TOPIC OPTIONS: COMING IN 2023

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Good handwriting skills develop from good handwriting instruction. Handwriting Without Tears provides students with the explicit, direct instruction and purposeful practice they need to master handwriting and develop automaticity. Multisensory activities and manipulatives appeal to all learning styles and provide a hands-on approach to handwriting.

GETTING STARTED IMPLEMENTATION Participants will receive a complete overview of the Emergent Writing (Pre-K), Print (K–2), and/ or Cursive (2–5) program(s) and learn to access and use their teaching resources and classroom materials. Participants will engage in hands-on learning, collaborative discussion, action planning, and reflection.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Emergent Writing: •

Plan your instruction based on developmental stages for readiness that will foster important sensory motor and social-emotional skills

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Identify playful ways to teach fine motor skills and grip using music and tools for little hands

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Discover our step-by-step approach to effectively teach coloring skills

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Implement purposeful hands-on, multisensory manipulatives, music, and digital learning to teach size, shape, position in space, and alphabet knowledge to support emerging writing skill development

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Print: •

Describe the importance of the handwriting process as a means to teach or remediate letters, words, and sentences

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Implement purposeful hands-on, multisensory manipulatives, music and digital learning to teach grip, position concepts, alphabet knowledge, and letter formation

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Examine how double lines lead to student writing success and apply strategies to help students write on any type of lined paper

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Identify at least two additional resources to support handwriting instruction and intervention including the Screener of Handwriting Proficiency

Implement purposefully designed materials to help children progress from coloring, tracing letters and numbers to writing their names

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Cursive: •

Learn the importance of teaching cursive handwriting to boost academic success in your students

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Identify a multisensory, child-friendly teaching order to teach cursive connections, lowercase, and capital letters

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Learn how to use the Handwriting Interactive Teaching Tools with your students to enhance and support your lessons

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Explore engaging ways to incorporate writing activities and Building Writers into your daily instruction

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Locate additional resources to support your yearlong handwriting instruction, including the Screener of Handwriting Proficiency

DEEPER DIVE TOPICS Select topics to customize a professional learning session based on your teacher's needs: •

Multisensory activities for learning one or more of the following: o Developing readiness to write o Learning capital letters and numbers o Learning lowercase letters o Learning cursive letters and connections

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Strategies to teach and remediate letter formation, spacing, sizing, and line use

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Paper-based activities beyond the workbook

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Differentiated instruction for ELL and special needs

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Focused review of PreKITT and/or IDTT

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Keyboarding Without Tears prepares students in more than just typing. They learn the rules of the online world, developing flexible skills and confidence to help them succeed. This online, game-based curriculum for grade K–5 helps students learn typing, general computer readiness, and online test prep. Students can also access an award-winning digital citizenship curriculum from Common Sense Education.

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GETTING STARTED IMPLEMENTATION A curriculum and implementation overview will equip your educators and co-educators with the tools they need to successfully get students started in the KWT program. Educators will preview the 36-week scope and sequence across the K–5 grade levels, including the first six weeks of foundation skill-building activities, to experience the engaging, cross-curricular themes and activities that students find familiar and fun. An overview is provided of the features available in the educator dashboard for effective management of classes and students, including the optional digital citizenship and tech readiness components. Lastly, participants will be introduced to the assessment options and the reporting data.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

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Apply best practices using developmentally appropriate keyboarding instruction

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Implement Keyboarding Without Tears with fidelity in your learning environment

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Leverage the features and settings in +Live Insights

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DEEPER DIVE TOPICS Take your keyboarding instruction to the next level with these topics: •

Customize instruction with pacing options and enrichment opportunities

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Implementation of Digital Citizenship, Tech Readiness, and Reinforcement lessons

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Assessment Accelerator for online testing skill practice (Coming January 2023)

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Why Professional Services?

• Affordable, flexible and customizable • Yearlong curriculum implementation support • Provides your educators with the yearlong curriculum implementation support needed for student success • Interactive, hands-on learning experiences • Dynamic facilitators with real-world classroom experience • Experienced facilitators who are not only topic experts, but have real-word experience in the classroom

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Partner with us to create a professional learning plan for your team: PDCoordinator@LWTears.com

Federal funding options are available!

Learning Without Tears Professional Services is eligible for federal funding, including Title II and ESSER III.

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