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You’re Brilliant! How to Close Literacy Gaps for Students Using Your Intuition
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by Nancy Akhavan, Ed.D., Author and Speaker; and Nichole Walsh, Ed.D., Instructional Coach
Sponsored by Learning Without Tears
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How do teachers in grades K-3 make those 20-minute lessons count most? Learn from Dr. Nancy Akhavan and Dr. Nichole Walsh as they share in-the-moment scaffolds to meet all students where they are. Teachers gain techniques for differentiating phonics, handwriting, and spelling during whole-class and small-group reading instruction. Best of all, they learn to trust their own brilliance, expertly synthesizing student data with what their learners are doing in the real time of instruction.
View this edWebinar to learn:
- Techniques for differentiating phonics, handwriting, and spelling
- How to use student data along with what’s happening in real-time instruction
- Scaffolds for meeting all learners where they are
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-3 teachers.
About the Presenters
Dr. Nancy Akhavan has spent 30 years as an educator and consultant. Her work focuses on student support through good first literacy instruction, intervention, English language development, leadership development, and organizational systems to increase student achievement. For the past 15 years, she has conducted professional development, given keynotes, and provided seminars for thousands of educators nationally and internationally. She has served as a consultant for numerous districts and coached school district leaders, principals, and teachers related to serving the most challenged situations and historically underserved youth in our educational systems.
Dr. Nichole Walsh has over 20 years of experience in the field of education teaching, leading, and consulting in Title I schools with high populations of multilingual learners. As a district secondary instructional coach teaching, Dr. Walsh trained and supported 7-12-grade teachers across all disciplines in literacy, language, engagement, assessment, and technology. She also worked as both a middle school principal and as a high school curriculum and instruction VP, where she led PLCs and unit design work across all content areas. Dr. Walsh also successfully supported the implementation of schoolwide MTSS in behavior and academics at the secondary level.
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