Read, Share, Teach Workshops

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Has professional reading and/or the purchase of expensive professional development programs led to significant change in your teachers' classroom practice?

Because we suspect the answer to both parts of this question may not be an unqualified "yes," Stenhouse is developing professional workshop materials--available free on-line--that extend our books beyond the printed page and, we hope, into your teachers' practice.

 

About the Workshops

We call these professional development workshops Read, Share, Teach (RST) because we believe these actions lie at the heart of significant change in the teaching profession.
Each workshop focuses on one book and, when available, its supporting videotape(s). The resources used in these workshops are:

Craft Lessons by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi
When Students Write (videotapes) by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi
In the Company of Children by Joanne Hindley
Reading Conferences (videotape) by Joanne Hindley
Inside Reading and Writing Workshops (4 videotapes; includes Reading Conferences) by Joanne Hindley
Literature Circles, 2nd edition by Harvey Daniels
Looking into Literature Circles (videotape) by Harvey Daniels
Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller
Happy Reading! (videotape) by Debbie Miller
Spelling K-8 by Diane Snowball and Faye Bolton
Focus on Spelling (videotape) by Diane Snowball
I Read It, but I Don't Get It by Cris Tovani
Thoughtful Reading (videotape) by Cris Tovani
Mentoring Beginning Teachers by Jean Boreen, Donna Niday, Joe Potts, and Mary K. Johnson
Mentoring (videotape) by Donna Niday and Jean Boreen
Mentoring Across Boundaries by Jean Boreen and Donna Niday
Still Learning to Read by Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak
Bringing Reading to Life (videotape) by Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak
The Facilitators' Guides
The workshops start with the on-line facilitators' guides. The facilitator could be you, a colleague, an administrator--anyone who's comfortable leading the group. The guides are provided as free, downloadable and printable PDF files, and there's a guide for each book/videotape(s). The guides are divided into three two-hour workshops and provide step-by-step explanations for guided professional reading, collaborative activities, careful assessment of student work, and assignments for testing teaching strategies between sessions.

Download a free guide to leading professional study groups, Designing Professional Development for Teachers(PDF).

Ready to Get Started
What other materials do you need? A copy of the appropriate book for each workshop participant and one set of the relevant videotape(s) for the group. That's it. Call your local Stenhouse Distributor or download our RST order form to take advantage of the special offer for facilitators.

Try RST. Change is hard; it shouldn't be expensive, too.

Please let us know what you think of this professional development resource. Your feedback and suggestions will help us choose books for and tailor future RST workshops. Thank you.