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Bring Clarity, Structure, and Confidence to Your Literacy Instruction

On-demand Spotlight PDs designed to help bring clarity with simple literacy routines, implement structured literacy, and make confident, data-informed decisions without overwhelm.

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Every Spotlight PD is intentionally designed to support your journey. You can sort by category or use the search bar below to find the right place to begin. Here’s what we recommend:

1 - Start with Clarity — SMARTER Routines. Ground daily instruction with simple, explicit routines.

2 - Build Structure — Structured Literacy. Implement a systematic, research-aligned approach across grade levels.

3 - Strengthen Confidence — Targeted Instruction. Learn how to differentiate while supporting diverse learning profiles.

Literacy PD Process

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SMARTER Routines Ascend SMARTER Intervention SMARTER Routines Ascend SMARTER Intervention

Brainstorm. Draft. Edit. Sound familiar?

You've probably heard of these steps. Your students probably have too. But this training isn't really about the steps; it's about what students do when they get stuck and how to give them a writing process they can actually use on their own.

This 1-hour on-demand PD on long-form writing routines for K–6 teachers will help students plan, draft, and edit independently without losing voice or structure.

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SMARTER Routines Ascend SMARTER Intervention SMARTER Routines Ascend SMARTER Intervention

Are your students struggling to write effective sentences?

Students know their phonics patterns. They can identify parts of speech. They’ve practiced grammar worksheets. But when it’s time to actually write... the sentences fall apart.

Run-ons. Fragments. Ideas that are all over the place. Spelling that doesn’t reflect what they’ve been taught. And when you ask them to “edit,” they read it once, change a period, and call it done.

It’s not that they haven’t been taught. It’s that they don’t have a clear, repeatable process for putting it all together.

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