We know sketching is a key ingredient for making GLAD® charts meaningful and comprehensible. As adults, however, we are often scared of making visuals in front of others. There is great news for all the reluctant drawers out there - if you can write the letters of the alphabet, you’ve already got some basic sketching skills! Come learn from a reformed non-sketcher how you can use your alphabet writing skills to grow your sketching skills and build your confidence in creating quick visuals in front of others. This is an interactive session with hands-on activities and opportunities to practice sketching. Come ready to write and draw in a safe environment and have some fun along the way!

Join us to explore how to facilitate the real-world tasks that are built into each unit of your math program. These lessons are often skipped, but they foster students’ positive disposition towards math and help them see math's relevance in everyday life. We will look specifically at Math in Action examples from iReady and the Let’s Put It to Work problems from IM, but this will be applicable to all math programs.

See how Early Childhood GLAD® strategies can be used as you develop foundational literacy skills and reading for understanding in your early childhood classroom.

Experience Project GLAD®’s Sentence Building Strand from the Here/There Chant to the Sentence Patterning Chart and its many extensions. You'll leave with an understanding of how these strategies "hang together" to support both oracy and literacy. You will have the opportunity to write your own Here/There Chant to jumpstart your students’ sentence building in the fall. Come ready to chant, sing, read, and write in a playful and supportive environment!