Target Audience: District or building-based education coaches (instructional coaches, content coaches, technology coaches, etc.) who support adults in a secondary setting (6-12+ grade). The Secondary Coaching Network is intended for instructional coaches and teacher leaders who focus on coaching staff to support Tier 1 instruction. The purpose of the coaching network is to provide participants with ongoing professional learning to deepen knowledge surrounding evidence-based instructional practices and to engage in a collaborative environment centered on building the capacity of adult learners.

Target Audience: K-12 Literacy Leaders Join your literacy leader colleagues for collaboration and conversation meetings.

Audience: 6-12 Grade ELA Teachers, Literacy Coaches and Administrators interested in refreshing the ELA practice in their classrooms This 3-day series invites participants to consider new ways to get students to engage in content, texts, and with their peers in meaningful ways. Learn how to bring together new, research-based ideas with tried-and-true instructional techniques.

The Career Spotlight Series is geared towards school counselors and college/career professionals who work assisting students to create post-secondary plans. Each session will have a different career focus in which important labor market information and access points of the various career opportunities available to students after high school graduation.

Target Audience:  Children (PreK - Elementary) accompanied by a parent or guardian Please join us for the free, 6th Annual Macomb Reads Carnival!  This family event is educational and fun! Registration is encouraged so we can plan properly.  Please register both children and adults. When:  Saturday, November 2, 2024, from 10:00am - 2:00pm (Event Kick-off begins at 10am in the central training rooms) Where: Macomb Intermediate School District, 44001 Garfield Rd., Clinton Township, Michigan Activities: There will be free books, characters, a Michigan author and illustrator, free Yates cider & donuts, music, face-painting, games, prizes, an art activity, STEM demonstration, an apple cider-making demonstration, the giant map of Michigan, and more!

Target Audience: 1st grade teachers who completed Add+Vantage Math Recovery Course 1

This series offers interactive participation with the same material presented in the GELN Disciplinary Literacy Edupaths Courses. The free Edupaths courses can be accessed here: https://www.smore.com/qt9ve-professional-learning-events.

Target Audience: Grades K-2 Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Interventionists, Title I Teachers, Special Ed. Teachers and ELD Teachers, and Building Administrators The Michigan Academic Standards in Language Arts and the Essential Practices in Elementary Literacy are embedded within each of the modules. Macomb's Comprehensive Approach to Literacy is a framework designed to help ALL students grow as readers and writers!

Target Audience: Grades 3-5 Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Interventionists, Title I Teachers, Special Ed. Teachers and ELD Teachers, and Building Administrators This 4-date professional development series incorporates GELN's Suite of Instructional Practices in Literacy.  Participants will learn what the "buzz is about" regarding the science of reading, how to teach writing, how to impact small group instruction, and how to dig deeper in reading.

Join the MISD K-3 Literacy Coaches for a virtual book study around the resource How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction Second Edition - Resources for Grades K-3.