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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
   This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
2. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Community Mapping
   This Web seminar will examine Community Mapping as a practice designed to uncover a rich array of resources in households and communities that hold the potential to enhance literacy learning for children while developing reciprocal relationship with families.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Confidence in Community Literacies: Bilingual Writers Reading the World
   In this Web seminar, join Steven Alvarez in considering how the strengths of after-school community programs—connecting with language-minoritized communities in ways that build relationships of trust, or confianza, between parents, extended families, and caring adults in neighborhoods—can inform our practices as teachers of English language learners.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Honoring Student Voice in the Early Childhood Classroom: Dramatic Play, Stories, and Story Acting
   This web seminar focuses on honoring student voice through story and story acting.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
   Persuasive Writing
   This strategy guide focuses on persuasive writing and offers specific methods on how you can help your students use it to improve their critical writing and thinking skills.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Toward a Culturally Responsive Inquiry Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms
   Join us for this third session of the Culturally Relevant Teaching in Early Childhood Classrooms series where we will explore risks and rewards of inquiry in K-2 classroom settings.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
   In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create "reading buddies."
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   What's So Critical about Critical Literacy in the Early Childhood Classroom?
   Join us for this second session of the Culturally Relevant Teaching in Early Childhood Classrooms series where we will explore what critical literacy looks like in a K-2 classroom setting.