Literacy Framework Workshops at TIE26
Two half-day, hands-on workshops are scheduled across both days of the conference—giving educators the flexibility to attend one or both. Designed for real planning, collaboration, and district-level literacy work. ELA-SD grantee districts may use grant funds to support attendance.
These workshops are structured as facilitated working sessions, providing guided time to plan, write, and refine key components of a district or building-level Literacy Framework.
How These Workshops Work
- Each workshop is a half-day, facilitated working session
- Designed for active planning, writing, and collaboration
- Includes guided prompts, tools, and templates
- Built-in time to collaborate with educators from other districts
- Participants leave with drafted or refined components of their Literacy Framework
Workshop Details
Science of Reading and Explicit Instruction: Designing a Coherent Professional Learning Plan for Structured Literacy
- Core components of the Science of Reading
- The role of explicit, systematic instruction in structured literacy
- Moving from awareness to intentional professional learning
- Sequencing literacy professional development over time
- Designing a multi-year professional learning plan
- A shared understanding of structured literacy principles
- Identified priorities for district professional learning
- A draft or refined multi-year literacy PD plan
- Ideas and strategies from other districts
From Assessment to Action: Building a Literacy Data System
- Screening, diagnostic, progress monitoring, and outcome assessments
- How assessment types work together in a coherent system
- Timing, staffing, scheduling, and administration considerations
- Writing clear assessment protocols
- Designing data-driven decision-making processes
- A drafted or refined literacy assessment plan
- Clear assessment administration protocols
- Data dig and progress monitoring protocols
- Tools to support consistent, valid assessment practices
Grant & Funding Information
ELA-SD Grantee Districts:
We have confirmed with the South Dakota Department of Education that ELA-SD grantee districts may use grant funds to support staff attendance at the TIE Conference for these literacy workshops.
Attendance at the TIE Conference does not replace the required SD Literacy Conference in June in Mitchell, which remains a requirement for all ELA-SD grantee schools.
Districts that need to discuss reallocating grant funds to support attendance may contact doeliteracy@state.sd.us to explore potential budget adjustments.