Workshops

As the most effective professional development builds on staff expertise and directly targets student achievement goals, Tonya Ward Singer designs custom trainings for each of her clients. In her work with schools and districts, she first supports administrators in identifying top priorities for professional development and then designs resources and trainings to address those goals. Popular topics for buy-back days, early release trainings and conferences include:

Advancing Academic Language for Core Success

• Advancing Academic Language through Structured Talk
• Developing Academic Language and Literacy with High-Interest Non-Fiction
• Teaching High-Leverage Vocabulary
• Interactive Sentences for Core Content Success

Empowering K-8 Writers

• Teaching Language for Academic Writing
• Teaching for Success with STAR Writing
  • Crafting Vivid Narratives
• Mastering Inferences for Literature Response
• Persuading with Power
• Summarizing Expository Essays
• Analyzing Writing to Address High Priority Needs

Systematic English Language Development

• Planning and Teaching Systematic ELD
• Diagnostic ELD: Analyzing and Addressing High-Priority Needs
• ELD Leadership Training: From Theory to School-wide Practice