English/Language Arts:

Monitoring Comprehension - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete.

Reading in the Content Areas - It's Just Different! - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete.

Looking at Vocabulary - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 3 hours to complete.

Examining Student Work: Protocol for Improving Reading Instruction -
(Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Emblematic Illustrations - (Self-paced)
Course Overview:
Strive to understand some of the ways that African Americans were portrayed in popular culture, some of the ways that they portrayed themselves, and the ways these portrayals reflect larger historical developments at the turn of the century by analyzing objects in American Memory. Appropriate for middle school and high school educators.

Squeezing Documents - (Self-paced)
Course Overview:
Tour the collections and different media formats as you learn strategies and tips for successful searching. Use an inquiry approach to analyze and critically understand document based primary sources. The workshop serves as a model and is intended to be replicated in classrooms.

The Great Depression - (Self-paced)
Course Overview:
Complete and discuss inquiry-based lessons related to the Depression Era novel, The Grapes of Wrath, using three different American Memory collections.

Building Fluency: Do It Well & Do It Right - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Feedback: A Powerful tool for Raising Student Achievement in Language Arts - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 1 hour to complete.

Phonics: The Building Blocks of Early Reading - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Beginning to Write - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Phonemic Awareness - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Writing in Content Areas: Understanding Content - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Writing at High Levels in the Intermediate Grades - (Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
You will be required to take a test at the end of the workshop in order to receive your certificate. The entire program will take you about 2 hours to complete.

Artifacts & Fiction - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
This video workshop for high school American literature teachers introduces techniques for reading cultural, political, and religious artifacts and connecting them to the literature they teach.

Conversations in Literature - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
Teachers, academics, and authors gather as a “community of readers,” immersing themselves in classic and contemporary literature from Hamlet to works by Langston Hughes, James Dickey, and Alice Walker. These participants, led by Dr. Judith Langer, model the habits of effective readers in an approach known as “envisionment building.”

Developing Writers (for High School Teachers) - (Self-paced Video Workshop)
Course Overview:
Practical and philosophical advice for teaching writing, while examining issues every teacher faces—such as high-stakes assessments and dealing with differently abled students.