Explore how Oregon’s literacy frameworks were developed, how they support professional learning and instructional change, and why concepts like disciplinary literacy and belonging are central to the state’s vision.
Discover how educators can better equip students for careers in science and health by teaching them to read, write, and communicate like scientists and healthcare professionals.
This webinar series offers bite-sized, 30-minute sessions that explore how to support students in navigating complex content, building knowledge, and developing critical thinking skills. Save your spot for upcoming webinars and catch up with past recordings anytime.
WestEd works to enhance literacy by providing high-quality, teacher-focused professional learning, research and evaluation, and technical assistance services.
Writing Apprenticeship is a professional development model and instructional approach for middle school and high school English language arts and history/social studies educators. At the heart of this model is a joyful belief: Writing belongs to every learner in every classroom.
The P–3 Learning Progressions help to create meaningful learning experiences from preschool through 3rd grade. The progressions focus on typical learning pathways in five domains, including language and literacy development.
This resource explores the development and instruction of foundational literacy skills. It focuses on how to help children learn to decode and encode words quickly to support their independent reading and writing.
Families can play a critical part in developing their child’s literacy skills. In this post, family engagement expert Maria Paredes discusses strategies that schools can use to involve families in literacy development.
“Disciplinary literacy is how we transform learners from passive consumers of information into active creators of knowledge, preparing students to tackle tomorrow's challenges and build the brighter world we all envision.”
—Misty Sailors, Interim Director, Literacy at WestEd
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WestEd partners with educators at all levels to improve literacy outcomes through high-quality, teacher-focused professional learning, research and evaluation, and technical assistance services. Check out these four featured services.
Reading Apprenticeship is a professional development model and instructional approach that aims to improve foundational and disciplinary literacy for middle school, high school, and college students.
Writing Apprenticeship is an all-new professional development model and instructional approach to equip middle and high school educators to support students with real-world writing practices.
Reading to Learn provides teachers, teacher leaders, and instructional coaches with a simple and practical framework to help students comprehend traditional and nontraditional texts.
The Formative Writing Framework helps clarify writing instruction, calibrates consistent scoring, and provides user-friendly resources to address student challenges.
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