Literacy Audits
The Literacy Audit brings Jan to your site to help you take stock of current practices. By visiting classrooms and engaging in conversations with leadership teams, she will help you identify strengths, gaps, and overlaps across methods, models, and programs. Ideally, across multiple days, the audit provides an outside perspective on literacy instruction, informed by research, current practices, and the specific goals of the school. It equips you with actionable steps toward improvement and is a powerful first step in collaborating with Jan. An audit will help you maximize your resources, leverage strengths, and target areas in need of growth or change in order to make instruction more brain-friendly, consistent, and effective in your setting.
Keynotes
Based on Jan & Kari’s groundbreaking work, this keynote tells the story of their journey into the body of reading research, often referred to as the science of reading. They acknowledge that rethinking our practices is not only academic and practical work but is definitely emotional work as well. In this humorous, engaging, and science-filled keynote, Jan will share strategies that can build a bridge between the reading science and classroom practice on behalf of students. This keynote is ideal for districts experiencing polarization, resistance, or hesitation amongst staff members, and it illustrates the ways that bringing in more brain-friendly practices will ensure that more children learn to read with less struggle. Educators will leave with both clarity and energy for the journey ahead.
Shifting the Balance Workshops
A workshop can serve as a kick-off to launch your work with Shifting the Balance, or it can serve as a culminating event for a book study. A half-day workshop offers a light touch with each shift. A full day takes the shifts deeper. A two-day workshop gives teachers even more opportunities to reflect on the six shifts with each other and connect them to their classroom practice. All workshops are designed to deepen teachers’ understanding of both reading science and practical application. Each of these workshops is also available with specific variations designed for groups of literacy leaders.
Literacy Consultation
Jan is passionate about working with school leaders, coaches, and teachers to build brighter outcomes for students, one step at a time. During a literacy consultation, Jan directs her energies and expertise towards supporting the decisions and plans a client requests, such as examining curricula or designing a professional development series. They focus on identifying and building on a client's strengths while providing substantive, research-based support that targets specific goals.
The Literacy Audit brings Jan to your site to help you take stock of current practices. By visiting classrooms and engaging in conversations with leadership teams, she will help you identify strengths, gaps, and overlaps across methods, models, and programs. Ideally, across multiple days, the audit provides an outside perspective on literacy instruction, informed by research, current practices, and the specific goals of the school. It equips you with actionable steps toward improvement and is a powerful first step in collaborating with Jan. An audit will help you maximize your resources, leverage strengths, and target areas in need of growth or change in order to make instruction more brain-friendly, consistent, and effective in your setting.
Keynotes
Based on Jan & Kari’s groundbreaking work, this keynote tells the story of their journey into the body of reading research, often referred to as the science of reading. They acknowledge that rethinking our practices is not only academic and practical work but is definitely emotional work as well. In this humorous, engaging, and science-filled keynote, Jan will share strategies that can build a bridge between the reading science and classroom practice on behalf of students. This keynote is ideal for districts experiencing polarization, resistance, or hesitation amongst staff members, and it illustrates the ways that bringing in more brain-friendly practices will ensure that more children learn to read with less struggle. Educators will leave with both clarity and energy for the journey ahead.
Shifting the Balance Workshops
A workshop can serve as a kick-off to launch your work with Shifting the Balance, or it can serve as a culminating event for a book study. A half-day workshop offers a light touch with each shift. A full day takes the shifts deeper. A two-day workshop gives teachers even more opportunities to reflect on the six shifts with each other and connect them to their classroom practice. All workshops are designed to deepen teachers’ understanding of both reading science and practical application. Each of these workshops is also available with specific variations designed for groups of literacy leaders.
Literacy Consultation
Jan is passionate about working with school leaders, coaches, and teachers to build brighter outcomes for students, one step at a time. During a literacy consultation, Jan directs her energies and expertise towards supporting the decisions and plans a client requests, such as examining curricula or designing a professional development series. They focus on identifying and building on a client's strengths while providing substantive, research-based support that targets specific goals.