The rigor embedded in the ELA GA Standards of Excellence and the GA Milestones requires teachers to embrace new practices.  The workshop will focus on four instructional keys:

=         Understanding the Lexile indicator as a component of text complexity

=         Facilitating close reading activities

=         Empowering collaborative conversations

=         Capitalizing on the reading-writing connection by using response to reading activities

The instructor will facilitate hands-on teacher practice and provide engaging strategies to ensure a professional experience tailored toward professional learning goals and designed to impact students’ reading achievement. 

*** NOTICE ***

Griffin RESA reserves space in professional learning classes and workshops for employees of our member systems (Butts, Fayette, Griffin/Spalding, Henry, Lamar, Newton, Pike, and Upson). In the rare event when classes are full or overbooked, slots must be made available for employees of member systems.  Priority of class availability is as follows:

1. Certified personnel under contract with a member system or RESA
2. Classified personnel of a member system or RESA
3. Certified personnel under contract with a system that is a member of a RESA outside the Griffin RESA area
4. Personnel of a state agency
5. Presently unemployed persons from the Griffin RESA area seeking renewal of certificate
6. Personnel employed by a system that is not a member of a Griffin, such as private schools or agencies
7. Out-of-State personnel

The fee displayed for the class is the fee for personnel in categories 1 and 2. Personnel in categories 3 - 7 are subject to an out-of-area fee, when applicable. Please contact our office if you have questions about fees.