Workshops, events, educational resources and tools are available to empower educators in the fight for literacy.

Upcoming Workshops

DIBELS Next Transition Workshop - Day 1:  Administration & Scoring

The DIBELS Next Transition Workshop is designed to support educators who currently use DIBELS 6th Edition and want to learn how to administer and score DIBELS Next. This one-day workshop will briefly review the foundations of DIBELS, provide a description of the changes to all DIBELS Next measures, and offer training and practice on administering and scoring the new measures.  Participants will receive a "DIBELS Next Transition Workshop" training manual, practice benchmark booklets, free parking, certificate of attendance, morning coffee and lunch. 

DIBELS Next Workshop - Day 2:  Interpretation and Planning

This summer we are offering a second day of training to further interpret results and link data to instruction.  The DIBELS Next data provide teachers, administrators and parents with reliable information to provide intervention in a timely manner to keep students on the path to reading and school success. 

For more information, schedule, and registration, click here

Previous Workshops

DIBELS Next Transition Workshop - Day 1

Summer, 2010 
Charlestown Navy Yard, MA

Over this past summer the HILL trained over 200 educators at its one-day DIBELS Next Transition workshops.     

Previous Events

National Staff Development Council's 42nd Annual Conference

December 4-8, 2010
Atlanta, GA

Topic: "Linking Leadership Routines to Districtwide Literacy Change"
Monday, December 6
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Turn around your district's or school's literacy outcomes. Engage in the right high-gain routines at the right time with the right students to make significant gains. Move past resistance, teacher isolation, and ideological differences and see how average people with extraordinary commitment can use tested processes, strategies, and tools to institutionalize changes that improve literacy.

Presenters:
Sandra Jones, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Tucson, AZ, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Pamela Kurkoski, Atlanta Speech School, Atlanta, GA, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Kimberly Saunders, Contoocook Valley Regional School District, Peterborough, NH, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The Atlanta Speech School's Rollins Center for Language & Learning

Topic: "Leadership for Language and Literacy Development in Pre-K
December 9 and 10, 2010
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Atlanta, GA
Presenter: Linda Camp, Director Early Childhood , Hill for Literacy, Inc.

This workshop is designed for Project Directors, Site Directors, Principals, Directors of Curriculum and Instruction, ERF Project Directors and Coaches, and Early Education Coordinators. Participants will learn to lead language and literacy improvements through the use of data to create changes in practice in Pre-K classrooms.

Pennsylvania Branch of the IDA 32nd Annual Fall Conference

October 7-8, 2010 
Philadelphia, PA

On October 7, a panel of experts hosted by the Pennsylvania Branch of the IDA and sponsored by the Academy discussed "Leading Literacy Change...Improving the Teaching of Reading".  This was an invitational only event limited to 125 educational leaders who convened for an evening of networking and collaboration.  They develop strategies and plans to educate teachers in the empirical research in reading and the associated best practices for meeting student needs.

Featured panelists:

Louisa C. Moats, Ed.D
Nancy Hennessy, M.Ed.
Barbara A. Wilson
Sandra D. Jones, Ph.D.

On October 8, Sandra D. Jones, HILL Executive Director, presented an afternoon session entitled  "Leading Literacy Change: Response to Intervention as a Service Delivery Model" .  This presentation provided a roadmap that focuses on the leadership routines necessary for improving core, supplemental and intensive instruction in the 90-minute block.  Attendees examined the high impact professional development routines that overcome major challenges to implementing successful literacy change initiatives. 

U.S. Department of Education 2010 Reading Institute

Dr. Sandra Jones, HILL Director, presented "Linking Leadership Routines to Professional Development and Sustainable Literacy Change" at the 2010 Reading Institute conference in Anaheim on July 19-21, 2010.  Among the attendees were district administrators, principals, literacy coaches, reading specialists, literacy professional providers.     

Click here to view participant presentation handout. [PDF, 890KM]