Institute for Teaching and Learning

Services We Provide

We strive to provide meaningful, on-going and job-embedded professional development customized to the needs of our clients. We work to assist school districts develop a comprehensive system of professional development that involves the consistent and sustained effort of everyone in the organization. Our focus is Preschool through Middle School. Areas of expertise include but are not limited to:

Customized Consultation Services

School and District-wide Literacy Programs System Analysis

Consultation to district curriculum councils in system-wide literacy change and/or development

Response to Intervention. Developing and implementing RtI models, including delineation of tiers, selection and implementation of core, supplemental and intervention reading programs.

Facilitation of District-wide Literacy Leadership Councils

Faciltation of Peer Resource Committees for the purpose of on-going job-embedded professional development

On-site support analyzing, validating and using assessment data to develop instructional and progress monitoring plans. Guiding and/or leading district committees in the development of literacy assessment frameworks.

Working with building level teams, using evidence based reading research, to develop literacy programs including assessment, instruction, progress monitoring and evaluation

On-site support to teachers in literacy program implementation

Customized Technical Assistance

Evidence Based Reading Research and Instruction

NCLB, Reading First and the Five Research Proven Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read

Using Data-Driven Progress Monitoring to Inform Instruction

DIBELS: Overview, Administration and Interpretation

Explicit Teaching in: