• Explore professional development opportunities offered by BVU School of Education

  Strengthening Secondary Writing Skills (for teachers serving grades 9-12)

  • CCSS/ICCS Best Approaches for Supporting Student Creative Writing in the Secondary Classroom 
  • CCSS/ICCS Best Approaches for Supporting Student Academic Writing in the Secondary Classroom 
  • CCSS/ICCS Best Approaches for Supporting Student Research Writing in the Secondary Classroom 
  • Uniting Teacher Writing Expectations Across the Curriculum 

  Building Vocabulary 

  • Revisiting Marzano: 6 Steps to Building Content Area Vocabulary in Middle School (for all content teachers serving 5-8) 
  • Revisiting Marzano: 6 Steps to Building Content Area Vocabulary in Middle School (for all content teachers serving 5-12) 
  • Creating Word Rich Classrooms: Secrets Content Area Teachers Never Learned About the Power of Words (for all content teachers serving 9-12)

  Strengthening Secondary Reading Skills

  • Turn Around Strategies to Help Students Struggling with Textbook Reading (for all content teachers serving 5-12) 
  • Turn Around Strategies to Help Students Struggling with Reading Motivation (for all content teachers serving 5-12)
  • Building a Robust Classroom Library (for ELA teachers serving 5-12)
  • Building a Robust Content Area Library (for all content teachers serving 5-12)
  • Beyond the Textbook: Using Print, Digital, and Media Resources to Support Content Area Comprehension (for all content teachers serving 5-12)
  • Helping Students Find the Reading Zone: The Secret to Falling in Love with Reading (for ELA teachers serving 5-12)
  • Literary Theory in the High School Classroom (for ELA teachers serving 5-12)
  • After School Book Clubs for At-Risk Students (for teachers & librarians serving 5-12)
  • Secondary Summer Reading Programs: Do’s, Don’t’ s and Definitely’ s (for teachers, librarians, and admins serving 5-12)
  • Reading Through a Critical Lens: Introducing Literary Theory to Build Comprehension (for ELA teachers serving 9-12)
  • New Definitions of Reading: Generation Z's Relationship with Print, Digital, and Media Text (for all content teachers serving 5-12)
  • Young Adult Literature Survey of 21st Century Genres (for ELA teachers serving 5-12)
  • Developing a Novels Course for the High School Curriculum (for ELA teachers serving 5-12)
  • Reimagining Independent Reading Programs: Moving Beyond AR Toward College Readiness (for ELA teachers and librarians serving 9-12)
  • Graphic Novels as Alternative Text (for all content teachers and librarians serving 5-12)
  • CCSS/ICSS: Understanding Text Complexity and How to Implement Complex Texts Across the Curriculum (for all content teachers serving 5-12)
  • CCSS/ICSS: Revisiting Text Complexity Part I: Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Readability (for all content teachers serving 5-12)
  • CCSS/ICSS: Revisiting Text Complexity Part II: Qualitative Approaches to Measuring Readability (for all content teachers serving 5-12)
  • CCSS/ICSS: Revisiting Text Complexity Part III: Reader & Task Considerations (for all content teachers serving 5-12

  Community Literacy

  • Combating Book Deserts: How to Fuel Book Access and Reading Engagement in Low Literacy Communities (for teachers, librarians, administrators, and community volunteers serving k-12)
  • Little Libraries: Creating Your Own Community Literacy Outreach (for anyone interested in promoting community literacy)
  • Books on Wheels: BVU's Book Beaver Bibliotrike: Sharing Our Story to Help You Build Your Own Books on Wheels Program (for anyone interested in promoting community literacy)

  Performance Literacy

  • Performance Reading Workshop: Narrative Voice and Dramatic Delivery (for all content teachers serving 5-12, and interested community members)
  • Storytelling Workshop I: How to Tell a Tale Channeling Your Inner Drama Mama (for ELA & TESL teachers serving 5-12, and interested community members)
  • Storytelling Workshop II: How to Teach Storytelling Skills Using Classroom Curriculum (for ELA & TESL teachers serving 5-12, and interested community members)
  • Readers Theatre: The Secret Fluency Builder for Middle & High School Readers (for ELA & TESL teachers serving 5-12)
  • CBRT: Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre: A Creative Approach to Engaging Students in Content Area Curriculum (for all content teachers serving 5-12)
  • Poetry Jam Workshop: Exploring Poetic Phrasing, Rhyme, Rhythm, Beat and Dramatic Delivery (for ELA teachers serving 5-12)

  Literacy & Standards

  • Standards-based writing instruction
  • Balanced Literacy
  • Small Group Reading
  • The 3 ELA Shifts

  Physical Education

  • Professional Development for Physical Education Teachers: Integrating Classroom Subjects into Physical Education

  Special Education

  • Inclusive Education
  • Working with Families of Children with Disabilities
  • Differentiating Instruction 
  • Co-Teaching in Inclusive Classrooms

  English as a Second Language

  • Inclusive Education
  • Supporting English Language Learners (ELLs) in the Classroom
  • Strategies for ELLs

  Other

  • LGBTQIA+ Training/Inclusion

• Iowa Central Community College
• Iowa Western Community College
• Iowa Lakes Community College: Estherville / Emmetsburg / Spencer
• Marshalltown Community College
• North Iowa Area Community College
• Indian Hills Community College

• Western Iowa Tech Community College: Denison / Sioux City
• Southwestern Community College
• Des Moines Area Community College: Carroll / Newton
• Southeastern Community College
• Kirkwood Community College
• Ellsworth Community College

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