Methods of Support

Powerful Choices offers learning experiences on many topics, allowing you to target your school's unique needs.
Our professional development can take the form of:

  • interactive workshops

  • demonstration labs in your classrooms

  • individual coaching

  • guided unit and lesson planning

  • data work

  • visits to model classrooms

  • leadership: walkthroughs, look-fors, and coaching

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LITERACY

  • Guiding principles and research base

  • Reading workshop

  • Writing workshop

  • Interactive read-aloud

  • Guided reading

  • Shared reading

  • Early literacy: UTK and TK

 
 

Academic Discourse

  • Routines for increasing student talk

  • Sentence frames to engage students in higher-level thinking

  • Accountable partner talk

  • Class discussions that grow complex ideas

 
 

Science of Reading Application

  • High-frequency words

  • Cueing systems

  • Consultation on phonics and phonemic awareness 

  • Comprehension

 
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USING DATA TO MOVE READERS AND WRITERS

  • Gold-standard reading and writing assessment tools

  • Writing data cycles

  • Student work analysis to guide instruction

  • Making use of iReady data

  • Differentiation and intervention methods

    • Strategy groups

    • One-on-one conferring

    • Strategic partnerships

    • Guided reading

 
 

Supporting Language Development

  • Literacy in dual immersion classrooms

  • Translanguaging for accelerating growth

  • Integrated ELD in social studies and science

  • Differentiating instruction for English learners

  • Addressing the needs of newcomers

  • Monitoring progress to drive Instruction

 
 

Equity and Anti-Racism

  • Growing an equity lens

  • Building relationships rooted in equity

  • Culturally responsive read-aloud

  • Teaching about identity, diversity, justice, and action

  • Equity-based methods for secondary classrooms

 
 
 
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MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR PD INVESTMENT

  • Tools for school leaders and coaches: Walkthroughs, look-fors, and coaching protocols

  • Relationship-based classroom management

  • SBAC preparation in ELA

  • Reading and writing across the curriculum