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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES A Year at a Glance
You'll find support for your Learning Without Tears program no matter where you are on your journey. Whether you’re just getting started teaching early literacy curricula or want to expand your Learning Without Tears implementation to support differentiated instruction, we’ve got you covered.
Our accessible, yearlong plan begins with a Getting Started learning session to kick off your program implementation followed by a Deeper Dive or Cohort Coaching collaborative learning experience(s) later in the year to support educators in achieving positive student outcomes throughout the year.
Collaborative Goal Setting
Personalized planning meetings that help you establish goals and curate the learning experience to reach success for the current school year and beyond.
Getting Started
Onsite | Virtual | Modular | Blended Participants will learn to implement their LWT program through engaging handson learning, collaborative discussion, action planning, and reflection.
Planning for Deeper Dive / Cohort Coaching
In a collaborative meeting with LWT teams and school partners, reflect on previous learning experiences and set learning goals for the upcoming Deeper Dive or Coaching Sessions.
YEAR 1
Winter
Deeper Dive Session
Onsite | Cohort Coaching
Participants will reflect on recent program use and student data, engage in collaborative problem-solving and action planning, and learn about selected Deeper Dive topics.
Spring
Renewal and Fall Planning
Collaboration between Learning Without Tears teams and school partners to renew program materials, address additional curriculum needs, and plan your professional services for the fall.
Year 2 And Beyond
Professional Services for Year 2 and beyond include Refresher sessions that provide program updates differentiate support for new and returning educators, including program updates, and opportunities for educators to plan for a strong start for the new school year.
Helping students become proficient readers and writers takes time and effort. With A–Z for Mat Man and Me, you'll help them build alphabet knowledge by integrating phonics with connected text.
Getting Started
Participants will receive a complete overview of the A–Z for Mat Man and Me program 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:
• Accelerate letter learning and integrate phonological awareness and phonics skills through systematic and explicit instruction
• Facilitate meaningful conversations to build integral social emotional habits, oral language, and comprehension skills
• Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners while highlighting and celebrating diversity through authentic, universal, and engaging stories
• Leverage digital assets to bring alphabet learning to life LWTears.com/AZMM
Deeper Dive
This session is recommended 3–12 months after attendees have completed their Getting Started session. It will include a review of key curricular concepts, a reflection on recent program use, a focus on selected key topics, and it will provide attendees opportunities to ask questions
Select from the following topics to customize a Professional Learning session based on your teachers’ needs:
• Using A–Z for Mat Man and Me in your classroom
• Focused review of digital tools
• Assessment/data analysis support
• Differentiated instruction for English language learners (ELL) students and students with special needs
• Supporting students developmentally
• Learn effective read aloud strategies
• Providing background knowledge and vocabulary
• Maximizing use of the student text
• Teaching reading 101
• Classroom scenarios and case studies
• Encoding and decoding to support students
• Multimodal practice
• Differentiating with modes of reading
• Teaching phonics and word study skills
Phonics, Reading, and Me sequentially and systematically helps students acquire the range of skills they need to become proficient readers. This supplemental program prioritizes phonics skills that can be difficult to learn but truly make a difference for students along the path to reading.
Getting Started
Participants will receive a complete overview of the Phonics, Reading, and Me program 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:
• Accelerate letter learning and integrate phonological awareness and phonics skills through systematic and explicit instruction
• Facilitate meaningful conversations to build integral social-emotional habits, oral language, and comprehension skills
• Differentiate instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners while highlighting and celebrating diversity through authentic, universal, and engaging stories
• Leverage digital assets to bring alphabet learning to life
Deeper Dive
This session is recommended 3-12 months after the Getting Started session, and will include a review on key curricular concepts, reflect on recent program use, learn about selected key topics, and have an opportunity for questions.
Select from the following topics to customize a Professional Learning session based on your teachers’ needs:
• Using Phonics, Reading, and Me in your classroom
• Focused review of digital tools
• Assessment/data analysis support
• Differentiated instruction for ELL students and students with special needs
• Supporting students developmentally
• Learn effective read aloud strategies
• Providing background knowledge and vocabulary
• Maximizing use of the student text
• Teaching reading 101
• Classroom scenarios and case studies
• Encoding and decoding to support students
• Multimodal practice
• Differentiating with modes of reading
• Teaching phonics and word study skills
With the Get Set for School Curriculum for Pre-K, 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.
Getting Started
LWTears.com/GSS
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 engage in hands-on learning, collaborative discussion, action planning, and reflection.
Learning Outcomes:
• Explore research-based, best practices for Pre-K instruction and assessment
• Build and foster rich classroom routines of literacy, emergent writing, numbers & math, and more
• Facilitate play-based instruction for whole and small groups
• Differentiate learning to meet the needs of diverse learners
• Leverage digital assets in the Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool to bring learning to life and to meet distance learning needs
• Provide direct instruction and model best practices for students
• Plan effective, interactive lessons that encourage student application and generalization of skills
• Facilitate and integrate essential social-emotional learning skills
Deeper Dive
This session is recommended 3–12 months after the Getting Started session, and will include a review on key curricular concepts, reflection on recent program use, a focus on selected key topics, and an opportunity for questions.
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
