Game on: Literacy Games for All Readers
2026-12-01 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | https://thewindwardschool-org.zoom.us/j/99893240748
Make learning fun! Imagine phonics drills replaced by games your students actually ask to play again. This course shows you how to make that shift, grounding playful, competitive activities in the Science of Reading so every round builds real reading fluency, executive function, and motivation. Participants leave with a full toolkit of hands-on activities, group games, and curated virtual resources ready for Monday morning.
Key Learning Objectives:

Facilitate collaborative and competitive educational games—including Magic Square, Suffix Extravaganza, and Homophone Roller—to reinforce complex language patterns.

Utilize virtual platforms and generators such as Wordwall, digital interactive whiteboards, and custom puzzle makers to differentiate and scale literacy games.

Align classroom game implementation with the Word Recognition and Language Comprehension strands of Scarborough’s Reading Rope and explicit instruction models.

Create structured vocabulary lessons that explicitly teach letter-sound correspondence, Greek and Latin roots, affixes, and word-building matrices to enhance advanced decoding and spelling.

Date: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 4:30 PM -6:00 pm EST
Instructor: Kinjal Nicholls, MA
Grades: Prek-3
Location: Virtual
Price: $90
Credentials: 1.5 Approved CTLE Hours

Supporting Executive Function at Home: Building Time Management, Self-Regulation, and Independence
2026-12-02 13:00 - 14:00
Executive function skills play a critical role in helping children manage responsibilities, regulate emotions, and navigate daily challenges with greater independence. In this session, caregivers will explore practical strategies to strengthen key executive function skills, including time management, planning, organization, task initiation, and self-monitoring. Participants will learn how to establish routines, use visual supports, and implement goal-setting practices that help children manage tasks, transitions, and expectations at home. The session will also focus on developing emotional regulation and coping skills to support positive behavior and resilience. Caregivers will leave with actionable strategies they can immediately use to foster independence, self-regulation, and success at home and in school.
Key Learning Objectives:

Understand the connection between time management, self-regulation, and other essential executive function skills that support student success.

Learn practical routines, visual supports, and home-based strategies that help children plan, organize, initiate tasks, and manage transitions more independently.

Explore goal-setting and progress-monitoring techniques that enable children to break tasks into manageable steps and build ownership of their learning.

Identify effective strategies for supporting emotional regulation, coping skills, and positive behavior management at home.

Examine appropriate use of digital tools and technology resources that can help children develop executive function skills, manage responsibilities, and build independence.

Date: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1:00- 2:00 pm EST
Instructor: Jackie Britt- Friedman, PsyD
Grades: Grades 2–8
Location: Virtual
Price: $60
Credentials: 1 Approved CTLE hours

Using Progress Monitoring to Drive Reading Instruction
2026-12-03 16:30 - 18:30 | https://thewindwardschool-org.zoom.us/j/96626443722
Effective reading instruction depends on understanding what students know, where they are struggling, and how to respond. In this interactive session, participants explore the role of progress monitoring in daily reading instruction and learn how to use efficient, research-based assessment tools to measure word reading, language, and reading comprehension. Through the analysis of student case studies, educators examine formative and summative assessment data, identify instructional implications, and determine appropriate next steps for learning. Participants leave with a practical teacher toolbox of assessment-informed instructional strategies that can be applied across a variety of reading programs and curricula to support student growth and achievement.
Key Learning Objectives:

Understand the purpose of progress monitoring in the context of daily reading instruction through materials that align with targeted outcomes

Learn the most effective and feasible tools for word reading progress monitoring

Identify the distinct roles of language and reading comprehension measures

Engage with student case studies to collaboratively analyze formative and summative assessment results and determine implications for instruction

Take away a “teacher toolbox” filled with instructional strategies that align with progress monitoring data, ready to be implemented across various curricula

Date: Thursday, Dec. 3, 4:30-6:30 pm EST
Instructor: Alison Leveque, PhD and Dana Carr-Ford, MA, MEd
Grades: K-8
Location: Virtual
Price: $120
Credentials: 2 Approved CTLE Hours
