Professional Development Opportunities

Open Source Professional Development Resources

Achieve the Core free online module series

Understanding the Foundational Reading Skills

Reading Rockets free online module series

What every teacher should know, Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing

National Center for Improving Literacy Tutorials & Tool kits

Teaching Foundational Reading Skills MOOC-Ed

A free online self-directed course geared to help you more effectively prepare your students in grades K–3 with the skills they need to become successful readers. A certificate of completion for 20 hours (2 CEUs) or 30 hours (3 CEUs) of professional development will be provided on request to participants who complete certain criteria within the platform.

Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties by David A. Kilpatrick, PhD

This text offers school psychologists, reading specialists, and educators a practical and accessible guide to the most relevant research, information, and strategies available for understanding, assessing, and intervening with students who present with reading difficulties.

Free Online Module Series

Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties is an on-demand eLearning series that was developed by David Kilpatrick, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Specific Learning Disability Specialist in the Exceptional Student Services Unit of the Colorado Department of Education.

Archived Presentations

The Colorado Department of Education recorded Dr. David Kilpatrick's presentations at the 2017 Reading in the Rockies Conference. Access to the archived recordings are below:

The Nature of Reading Development and Reading Difficulties

A summary via Spelfabet

Assessment and Highly Effective Intervention in Light of Advances in Understanding Word-Level Reading

Part 1 summary via Spelfabet
Part 2 summary via Spelfabet

Recorded Presentations

The following presentations have been recorded from various live learning opportunities with the Colorado Department of Education.

The Science of Reading: Evidence-Based Reading Instruction for Students with Dyslexia by Dr. Margie Gillis
A Scientific Approach to Reading and Reading Disabilities by Dr. Jack Fletcher

2019 READing Conference Highlighted Speaker: Steven Dykstra, PhD

Why Don't They Understand How Wrong They Are? (PPT)

In October 2019, the department hosted the 5th Annual READing conference. Steven Dykstra, Ph.D., a psychologist from Milwaukee Wisconsin, where he does writing, speaking, and advocacy on the subject of reading and literacy, was one of the keynote presenters. His presentation focused on our shared history of reading instruction - to show us how we got here, where that is, and how we might find the courage to do better.

The following are archives from the Ohio Department of Education.