Empower your K-12 Educators!

TMI Education and Gravity Goldberg, LLC are proud to offer The Literacy Alliance for the 2020-2021 school year. The Literacy Alliance provides school districts with a community-based, comprehensive and sustained professional development solution to promote exemplary K-12 literacy practices - across ALL content areas.

As a member of the 2020-2021 Literacy Alliance, your district will have access to an extensive collection of membership benefits, including:

• Minimum of 10 premium grade level-specific K-12 workshops and events, designed for K-12 teachers and educational leaders - and - totaling nearly 500 PD credit hours!
• Minimum of 5 after school literacy study group sessions, organized around “hot topics” in literacy instruction
• Professional books and resources, including the latest publications from Gravity Goldberg, Pam Koutrakos and Sarah Fiedeldey, to name a few
• Discounted rates for TMI Education and Gravity Goldberg, LLC in-district services, workshops and special events
• Sustained email support and professional guidance
• And more!

2020-2021 Literacy Alliance Workshop Offerings

The 2020-2021 Literacy Alliance workshop schedule is currently available. As is our customary practice, all program offerings will align to current NJDOE mandates and initiatives, research-based best pedagogical practices and member feedback. For more information - and - to register, please visit the desired (hyperlinked) program event page below:

• Diving In: Immersion Work to Deepen Learning for Learners In Special Education Settings
• Co-Teaching Essentials: Nurturing Ourselves & Each Other to Foster  Dynamic Learning  Spaces
• Stepping into Levels and Genres Planning for High Impact Reading Instruction
• Using Read Aloud & Video Aloud to Cultivate Community & Conversation (K-6)
• Less is More: How One Text Invites TONS of Teaching & Learning 
• Big Potential: Reading, Writing, &  Researching in Clubs (Grades 3-8)
• Rethinking Revision: Inviting  Writers to Revise From Seed to  Publication (Grades 3-8)
• Engaging Secondary Students with  Reading, Writing, &  Thinking (Grades 7-12) 

2020-2021 Literacy Alliance Membership Information

 Membership Fee - $4,500 (allows for up to 5 seats/workshop and all other membership benefits; additional seats provided, when available, on a first-come, first-serve basis)

And the benefits don’t end there! As a member-district of The Literacy Alliance you can have access to an additional 500 professional development hours through the TMI Professional Learning Consortium. As a member of the TMI Consortium your staff will have access to premium professional development programs, conferences and events in support of topics including, but not limited to: social-emotional learning, executive function, mindful practices, brain-based teaching and learning, current topics/issues in school law, differentiation, technology integration, and more - all for a discounted single annual fee of $2995 (standard membership fee is $4250)!

As a community-based initiative, The Literacy Alliance invites all member-districts to participate as active stakeholders in the framework process. This means we highly encourage and welcome input from each member-district in ensuring our framework will meet, and satisfy, the needs and expectations of each respective member-district as well as the collective community of member-districts as a whole. Feedback from member-district leadership and their staff is critical to achieving the collective goals and objectives of The Literacy Alliance.

Each member district may have up to 5 teachers participate in each of the 10+ programs throughout the 2020-2021 school year. The individual teachers/administrators attending each session is at the discretion of the member-district.

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