Science of Reading Webinars

Science of Reading Webinars

Unlock Expert Insights: Webinars to Boost Literacy Across Your School

Explore four dynamic professional development paths—all rooted in the Science of Reading—to support administrators, coaches, literacy leaders, and classroom teachers at every stage of implementation:

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NEW Science of Reading Trainings

Give your team a fresh way to revisit crucial pieces of the Science of Reading. These three on-demand trainings explore reading, vocabulary, and morphology, making it easy to refresh your own knowledge, share focused learning with teachers, or build the series into professional learning.

The Essentials of Reading

What does it really take to become a skilled reader? See how word recognition and language comprehension work together and what that means for reading instruction.

Reading Essentials

The Essentials of Vocabulary

Vocabulary shapes how students understand everything they read. Discover how stronger word knowledge builds comprehension and supports increasingly complex learning.

Vocabulary Essentials

The Essentials of Morphology

A single word part can unlock the meaning of hundreds of words. Learn how morphology strengthens vocabulary, decoding, spelling, and comprehension.

Morphology Essentials

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Outcomes Based Contracting in Practice

Listen to a candid conversation about Outcomes-Based Contracting. Whether you’re exploring the approach or already putting it to work, hear what leaders are learning and what a stronger focus on student outcomes can make possible.

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Really Great Reading Sponsored edLeader Panels

Free On-Demand Professional Learning for Literacy Leaders

Our edWeb panels and Structured Literacy Community are RGR’s free, on-demand professional learning series for literacy leaders committed to strengthening systems—not just programs.

Grounded in the science of reading, we share practical strategies, research insights, and implementation guidance to support structured literacy across grade levels and systems.

Through expert-led conversations, evidence-based resources, and real-world examples from schools and districts, we focus on what drives measurable growth for students. Our goal is to equip educators with clarity, confidence, and actionable tools that translate research into classroom impact.

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District Leadership & Implementation Panels
Designed specifically for school and district leaders, these panels address systemic alignment, scheduling, instructional coaching, and managing successful curriculum adoption.

Achieving High Literacy Outcomes: Unique Solutions for Administrator Challenges

Overcoming Systemic Hurdles: Learn how district leaders navigate budget constraints, policy changes, and teacher shortages using creative resource prioritization to sustain high student literacy outcomes.
Building Sustainable Bridges: Discover practical strategies for recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers while strengthening the parent-school connection through accessible home literacy resources.

Leading with Fidelity: The Key to Effective Implementation and Lasting Results

The Fidelity Threshold: Learn why execution consistency is the single most critical factor in curriculum success, ensuring high-quality instructional materials achieve their intended classroom impact rather than falling short.
Data-Proven Results: Discover how aligning school systems around strong implementation metrics ensures the Science of Reading successfully drives measurable student growth and program effectiveness.

Supporting School Leaders: Strategies for Success from Day One

Purposeful Year-One Launch: Learn how district administrators set a clear vision from Day One, align professional development, and onboard early-career principals to establish a strong instructional foundation.
Systems for Sustainable Success: Discover actionable leadership habits and systems designed to build staff trust, model strong instructional practices, and support long-term educator growth.

The Cost of Getting Literacy Wrong: Long-Term Decisions, Lasting Consequences

Scaling Systemic Success: Discover how districts move beyond isolated gains to scale reading success across entire systems using aligned professional learning and high-quality instructional materials.
Evidence-Driven Leadership: Learn how leaders utilize strong feedback loops and classroom evidence to guide purchasing and implementation decisions that strengthen foundational word recognition and boost performance across all subjects.

Leading Literacy Through Change: How District Leaders Accelerate Outcomes

Building Resilient Systems: Learn how districts construct durable literacy systems that maintain instructional momentum and protect classroom consistency through leadership transitions, high teacher turnover, and shifting priorities.
Sustaining Long-Term Success: Discover practical onboarding models, professional learning plans, and targeted intervention strategies designed to reduce implementation fatigue and support educators in delivering consistent outcomes for all readers.

Improving Literacy Outcomes

Outcomes, Data, & Measurable Success
Focused on outcomes-based strategies, data-driven interventions, and implementation metrics to move literacy initiatives from simple compliance to measurable student success.

Foundation for Success: Early Literacy’s Impact on K-12 Learning

Building Pre-K Foundations: Discover the necessary steps to design and implement an effective Pre-K program that utilizes engaging, student-centered strategies to boost oral language development and accelerate skilled reading.
Empowering Early Educators: Learn how targeted professional development for early childhood educators creates a high-impact, sustainable foundation for long-term K-12 academic success.

Enhancing Literacy Outcomes for Struggling Readers: Strategies, Challenges, and Future Directions

Closing the Secondary Literacy Gap: Discover proven, state-level initiatives and district-level interventions designed to target low literacy rates, reduce high school dropout rates, and keep at-risk and multilingual adolescents engaged and progressing.
Empowering Secondary Educators: Learn how to deliver targeted professional development that equips secondary teachers across all subject areas with the essential instructional skills needed to support struggling readers.

Strategic Literacy Innovation: Transforming Literacy Outcomes with Supplemental Support

Filling Core Curriculum Gaps: Learn how to implement flexible, program-agnostic supplemental solutions that seamlessly integrate with any core curriculum to address critical gaps in orthographic mapping, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Optimizing Budgets & Reducing Burnout: Discover how high-quality, ready-to-use materials lighten teacher workloads to prevent burnout while driving early intervention that reduces the long-term need for costly remediation.

The Secondary Literacy Crisis: Why Reading Scores Are Falling—and How to Fix It

Addressing the "Missing Middle": Learn how to bridge critical gaps in secondary educator training so middle and high school teachers can deliver the structured, stigma-free literacy interventions older struggling students still need.
Balancing Content & Skills: Discover research-backed strategies to balance core content instruction with essential literacy skills, ensuring vulnerable populations—including chronically absent students, ELs, and special education populations—receive robust support.

Aligning Instruction, Intervention, and Support in Adolescent Literacy

Eliminating Instructional Fragmentation: Learn how middle and high school leaders reduce fragmentation and clarify priorities by aligning Tier 1 instruction, intervention models, and professional learning.
Systemic Secondary Alignment: Discover how districts build integrated systems that deliver consistent, coordinated literacy instruction and support structures to improve student outcomes in grades 6–12.

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Building the Foundationss
Grounded in the core pillars of reading science, these sessions bridge foundational research and classroom-ready instruction to build teacher confidence and drive student growth.

Closing the Reading Gap for EL Learners: Your Multilingual Learners Are Here

ELL Literacy Gaps: With English learners projected at 1 in 4 students by 2025, this panel applies the Science of Reading to bridge critical learning gaps.
Systemic Expert Advice: Respected leaders Dr. Hinojosa & Dr. Smith share 60 years of combined experience to help administrators drive student outcomes.

The Science of Oral Language: Turning Research Evidence Into Practical Tools

Oral Language Foundation: This session explores the critical role oral language plays in reading, self-regulation, and mitigating dyslexia.
Early Screening Impact: Learn how early identification and intervention for language delays build academic success and prevent behavioral issues.

Oral Language and Vocabulary Strategies to Develop Confident, Capable Learners

Continuous Growth Framework: This panel explores practical, grade-aligned strategies from early childhood through adolescence to build oral language and vocabulary.
Proactive & Responsive Design: Discover actionable classroom insights to deliver the right interventions at the right time for emerging and older learners.

Beyond Memorization: Orthographic Mapping

Unlocking Automatic Word Recognition: Learn how brain-based orthographic mapping drives structured literacy, replacing rote memorization to build automatic word recognition across all grade levels.
Targeted Support & "Lose the Rules": Discover how RGR’s "Lose the Rules" strategy eliminates spelling confusion to accelerate decoding for older struggling readers, ELs, and students with dyslexia.

The Overlooked Pieces of the Science of Reading

Systemic Language Comprehension: Learn how to implement an actionable, research-grounded roadmap across your district to build language comprehension from early oral skills to advanced text meaning.
High-Impact Instructional Levers: Discover how vocabulary depth and active inference-making work together to strengthen word pathways, improve syntactic processing, and boost student comprehension.