Designing High Quality Professional Development: Building a Community of Reading Experts in Elementary Schools

This brief from the Center on Instruction provides guidelines for building a high-quality professional development program to support reading instruction in elementary schools. This resource can facilitate planning professional development that is necessary to deliver an effective instructional program in schools that are implementing School Improvement Grants (SIG) and/or College and Career Ready Standards (including Common Core State Standards).

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This resource pertains to the following topics:

• Literacy
• Foundational Reading (K-3)
• Research: Meta-analyses and Summaries
• SIG
• College & Career Ready Standards (including Common Core State Standards)

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