Upcoming
Workshops
Professional learning for educators whose district can’t bring GDS in this year.
Not every educator works in a district that can bring GDS in. Workshops are being built for them: teachers and school leaders who want to learn the GDS framework on their own, often with their own professional-development budget.
The framework stays one connected whole. Each workshop is a doorway into one part of it, and runs page by page, like a classroom, so what you learn goes straight into practice.
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Workshops open once our privacy protections, email verification, and launch approvals are in place, so there is no signup or payment here yet.
Available now: Educators PlanningRewind/Replay presentationsHow the framework works
Upcoming workshop topics
One framework, taught one part at a time
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The Science of Reading
What must be taught: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
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Systematic Explicit Instruction
How classroom delivery is structured so that every step of a lesson is taught on purpose.
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Gradual Release with the Mastery Gate
I Do, We Do, You Do with a Partner, You Do Alone — and no student works alone until the teacher documents mastery.
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Collective Efficacy
The shared belief that every student can learn, and shared adult responsibility for results.
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Instructional Leadership
Expectations, support, evidence monitoring, explicit feedback, and accountability: the leader’s side of the instructional model.
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Evidence-Based MTSS
Tiered support built on evidence, so students who need more get it in time.
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Coaching Cycles
Data and strategy, demonstration, co-planning and co-teaching, observation, and explicit feedback.
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Advice vs. Feedback: The Principal Role in Teacher Performance Improvement
Why feedback, not advice, is what moves teaching practice — and how principals give it.
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Lexile and Quantile Measures
Using Lexile and Quantile measures to match reading and mathematics work to where students are.
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Best First Instruction
Getting core instruction right the first time, for every student, before intervention is needed.