Expand your internal capacity to deliver high-quality professional development by becoming licensed to deliver this workshop
in your district or service area.

Facilitator Training: Text Complexity and Close Reading for Common Core English Language Arts 

Monday, June 30 -to- Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Denver, Colorado
8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Text complexity and close reading play central roles in the Common Core. Specifically, the English language arts (ELA) standards “hinge on students encountering appropriately complex texts at each grade level in order to develop the mature language skills and the conceptual knowledge they need for success in school and life” (CCSSI). But how can teachers and leaders measure text complexity?  What strategies should students use to read complex texts? This workshop will help you to address these questions.

First, participants will increase their understanding of the central role of text complexity and how close reading of complex texts can foster student gains in reading proficiency. Second, participants will explore ways to measure text complexity. Third, participants will practice strategies for close reading of complex texts using step-by-step guidance for explicit teaching of reading in the content areas. Participants will also receive:

Upon successful completion of this training, you will be licensed to deliver this workshop to educators within your district or service area and retain 100% of tuition fees for all trainings you deliver.

Who should attend?
Professional development staff from districts or educational service agencies who intend to deliver training on McREL’s Text Complexity and Close Reading for Common Core ELA workshop.

Licensing requirements

• Sign and return a Memorandum of Understanding with McREL
• Attend the 3-day face-to-face training
• Submit feedback on a lesson that McREL provides
• Assist a teacher with planning a lesson that incorporates the instructional shifts. Document the planning and your reflection on the lesson and submit the documentation for review by McREL
• Submit evaluations from sessions that you provide for teachers or other educators

Cost
$3,000 per person. This includes the initial two-day workshop, one-day facilitator training, materials, licensing to present unlimited trainings within your district or service area for a period of one year, and an annual relicensing opportunity. Lunch, snacks, and beverages are also included.

Meet your presenter

Dr. Robin Wisniewski focuses on high-performance and high-reliability systemic processes, effective leadership, and disciplined innovation for the development, optimization, and transformation of preK–20 education systems. Dr. Wisniewski is a former tenured associate professor and graduate leadership director at Baldwin Wallace University; specialist and coordinator in counseling, reading, and student development at Kent State University; and center director at the University of Arizona. She holds B.B.A., B.A., M.Ed., Ed.S., Ph.D., and doctoral equivalency degrees in areas of business, curriculum, literacy, and school and clinical psychology.