Regie has spoken for decades at major educational conferences in the United States, Canada, and abroad, and conducted full-day workshops for educators. Her current focus is on specific, exemplary literacy and leadership practices that accelerate and sustain schoolwide achievement across a whole school and/or district/province where students are currently under performing. All practices she and/or her colleagues demonstrate are supported by research, decades of experience, and ongoing reflection. Regie's work in schools and districts brings to life effective teaching, assessing, and leading in a thriving, joyful school and district culture.
Professional learning topics emphasize raising expectations, effectively implementing current Standards, teaching English language learners and students who struggle, teacher as reader and writer, the reading/writing connection for accelerating literacy acquisition, teaching with a sense of urgency, planning with the end in mind, teaching responsively and applying formative assessment every day, and celebration and joy in teaching and learning.
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Sample professional learning topics
Reading
- Organization of excellent classroom libraries with students
- Application of shared reading
- Perspectives on guided reading, including management
- Choosing “just-right” books
- A closely monitored independent reading program
- One-on-one reading conferences
- Engagement and enjoyment in reading
- Assessing schoolwide reading environment
- Self-determining readers
Writing
- Organization of the classroom for daily writing
- Application of shared writing
- Perspectives on teaching writing, including management
- Teaching more nonfiction writing along with narrative
- One-one-one writing conferences with useful feedback
- Choice within structure
- Revision, editing, spelling and grammar concerns
- Publishing
- Assessing schoolwide writing environment
- Self-determining writers
Leadership
- Instructional walks
- Leadership teams
- Celebration of teachers
- Giving effective feedback
- Leading professional literacy communities
- Highly effective principals
- Leaders as readers and writers
- Effective coaching practices
- Knowing and applying relevant and current research
- Leading a successful school change effort
Professional Literacy Communities (PLCs)
- Building a schoolwide culture of trust and respect
- Setting up and sustaining an ongoing school-based PLC
- Understanding and applying an Optimal Learning Model (“I do it.” “We do it.” “You do it.”)
- Meeting as a whole school—vertical teams as well as in grade level, horizontal teams
- Viewing and discussing effective literacy practices
- Applying effective practices to the classroom
- Collaboration and coaching between and among peers
- Effectively leading a PLC