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Professional Learning

For more than 30 years, CAREI has supported professional learning opportunities for educational administrators, policymakers, organizational leaders, program staff, school districts, community partners, and more: from customized consulting to curriculum trainings to online professional learning modules through our membership program, District Assembly, we supply professional learning to help you adapt and thrive.

Professional learning opportunities by CAREI core

    Literacy Core professional development offerings

    Professional development to support MTSS implementation

    • Installing coaching infrastructure and support through the district and buildings for sustained implementation. 
    • Installing and training staff in data-based decision making practices and procedures for continuous improvement.  
    • Installing and training staff in MTSS implementation unique to secondary level.  
    • Installing and training staff in utilizing Early Warning Systems.

    Guidance and support for investigators across the career span

    • Collaboration with researchers to strengthen their grant writing, conceptualize research plans, and create compelling arguments.
    • Guide and direct high-quality, equity-centered research designs: from pilot studies to large-scale.
    • Support the identification of analytic strategies, ensuring the rigorous and equitable use of data that can be translated into clear, actionable insights.

    Program evaluation, goal-setting, and educator support

    • Evaluation capacity building for educators and administrators, including collaboration on survey and assessment design, focus groups, and data analysis to guide decision-making.
    • Development of logic models/theories of change that visually depict programs, providing educators with the tools they need to ensure a more effective, evidence-driven approach to implementation and evaluation.

    Looking for ongoing learning opportunities? Join the District Assembly!

    CAREI District Assembly brings together university researchers and school practitioners from across the country. Through our member-only portal, you'll gain access to:

    • On-demand professional learning modules (eligible for Continuing Education Unit—CEU certification).
    • Research Watch newsletters.
    • Research-based tools, implementation resources, and guides.
    • Documents, slides, and recordings from past District Assembly sessions.
    • Research and policy briefs curated by CAREI experts.

    Trainings, courses, and memberships

    CAREIALL

    A virtual, comprehensive professional development course designed to support educators in operationalizing the science of reading in their classrooms and across school systems.

     

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    PRESS

    A self-paced online course supporting the implementation of tiered systems of supports in elementary literacy, built on the Path to Reading Excellence in School Sites (PRESS) framework.

     

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    District Assembly

    CAREI's member-only professional development offering, District Assembly provides members with trainings, learning modules, research updates from the field, and more.

     

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