Helping Your Struggling ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS Students: Practical, Successful Strategies (Grades 6-12)

Presented by Sarah Robinson
Outstanding English/Language Arts Teacher and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for All Middle and High School English/Language Arts (ELA) Teachers, Interventionists, Resource Specialists, Support Staff, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, and Administrators

The best, most powerful strategies designed to catch up your struggling ELA students and increase their success
Explore numerous innovative techniques that are easy to use, ready to implement the next day, and flexible enough to meet the diverse needs of your struggling ELA students
Set the stage for struggling students to succeed in your class, and explore proven ways to increase students’ interest and motivation
Receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with valuable strategies, resources and ready-to-use tools to implement with your students who struggle in English/Language Arts

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Tired of looking around your classroom only to see students working hard to AVOID reading? Done asking questions or providing prompts only to receive blank stares or empty pages? If you feel like you are struggling with your struggling ELA students, this seminar is for you!

Outstanding ELA teacher and national trainer SARAH ROBINSON has spent over 20 years developing strategies to help her struggling students overcome their obstacles and is excited to share them with you. Your students will wonder why they haven’t seen these highly effective and easy-to-use strategies before! Learn practical ways to get your struggling students ACTUALLY reading and writing. Help struggling students approach and read challenging text independently, while reflecting on their progress as readers. Engage students in deep text discussions and provide a bridge to writing. Help struggling students change their mindsets, developing a culture of “I can” while building a classroom of thriving readers, writers and thinkers. And much, much more! Join Sarah for a dynamic, enlightening and fun day of learning powerful, proven ways you can help your struggling ELA students excel and break the cycle of struggle and failure in English/Language Arts.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Catch Up Your Struggling Grades 6-12 ELA Students and Increase their Success
Discover the best, most powerful classroom-proven ways to accelerate and help your struggling students in English/Language Arts … Outstanding practical strategies specifically designed for secondary ELA teachers
Enhance Your ELA Lessons to Increase Struggling Students’ Success
Learn time-efficient ways to create and deliver English/Language Arts lessons that effectively boost the engagement and achievement of your struggling students
Motivate the Unmotivated with Highly Effective Intervention Strategies
Learn to diagnose your unmotivated ELA students and prescribe the most appropriate and effective interventions from dozens of classroom-tested strategies
Embolden Struggling Readers to Adopt a Positive Growth Mindset
Help struggling readers drop a fixed/failure mindset and adopt a positive growth mindset … Discover strategies that enable struggling students to tackle difficult text and move from an “I can’t” to a “Let’s do this!” mentality
Strengthen Struggling Students’ Reading, Writing and Thinking
Explore practical strategies and techniques to help maximize gains in even the most reluctant students’ reading, writing and thinking … Watch your students’ confidence grow
Move Students from Terrified and Shut Down to Thriving and Excelling
Struggling students are sometimes terrified to the point of shut down! … Learn effective strategies designed to help struggling students make significant gains in their English/ Language Arts skill development and confidence
Provide the Scaffolding that Your Struggling Students Need Most
Discover outstanding ways to scaffold and support struggling ELA students in grades 6-12 … Explore mini tasks that allow students to make continual improvements as the complexity of their work increases
Three Keys to Incorporate into Any Lesson to Support Struggling Students
Discover how you can easily incorporate three key elements into your instruction that your struggling students need … Research-based strategies to motivate your students and accelerate their skills
Connect with Powerful, Free and Engaging Web Resources
Connect with Powerful, Free and Engaging Web Resources
Receive an Extensive Struggling ELA Students Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive a comprehensive digital resource handbook filled with dozens of valuable resources, strategies and ready-to-use tools to implement with your students who struggle in English/Language Arts

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

The best, most powerful, classroom-tested approaches you can use to catch up your struggling grades 6-12 ELA students and help them be more successful
Research based, classroom-proven strategies for supporting struggling students you can easily implement the very next day
Ways to help your struggling students adopt a positive growth mindset
Tools for extending and deepening student thinking, discussion, writing, and learning
How to build a positive, proactive environment that increases struggling students’ confidence and success
Engaging skill practice strategies you can easily incorporate into any lesson at a moment’s notice
How to help students see their success and growth, and chart next steps for their learning
Effective ways for students to self- and peer-reflect on reading, writing, and speaking/ listening to drive greater growth
Motivating technology tools including free web resources, lessons and activities perfect for struggling ELA students
Questioning techniques and writing burst ideas to bolster student thinking, discussion and complex writing
Strategies to help your struggling students overcome the obstacles that keep them from believing they can be successful in English/Language Arts
Highly effective reading activities to accelerate learning and support the skill development of struggling students

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

I know firsthand – our struggling ELA students can be a true challenge! Our challenges have only increased as a result of the impact of COVID-19 on our struggling students’ learning. The good news is that I have spent over 20 years teaching and coaching teachers in ELA classrooms with historically low performing students.

I am so excited to work with you on this vitally important topic. Helping struggling students catch up has been and continues to be at the core of my heart and my passion as an ELA educator! There is no more rewarding feeling than witnessing struggling students – who told you from day one they despised reading and writing – transform to students that eagerly select books, have deep text-based discussions, and write well and from their heart.

It can be done! Over the years I have gathered and developed a plethora of strategies and techniques that I am excited to share with you for helping reluctant and struggling students make a true shift in their mindsets and performance as readers and writers. I want to share the best of the best of my proven strategies with you. I want you to experience more of those tear-inducing moments, where your ELA students simply floor you with their insight, performance and fervor. And I want you to leave excited to go back and implement these strategies with your struggling students!

Prepare for a fast-paced day packed full of strategies that have not only proven successful with my students, but also with those of many colleagues and teachers I have coached. With innovative lesson ideas, strategies and mindset techniques – all designed to enable your struggling students to become more independent, critically thinking, successful readers and writers – I know this is a day you will not want to miss!

Sincerely,
Sarah Robinson

P.S. Not only do I promise that you will leave with a ton of great strategies and ideas – I guarantee you will leave inspired and excited to help your struggling students find success in English/Language Arts!

Who Should Attend

Middle and High School English/Language Arts (ELA) Teachers, Interventionists, Resource Specialists, Support Staff, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Instructional Aides, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

Research-based, classroom-proven strategies for helping your struggling ELA students catch up
Lesson samples and ideas you can use the very next day
Dozens of resources, forms and ideas that will help you put your learning into immediate practice and provide your struggling students with accelerated support
Helpful reproducible checklists, traits assessments, reflections, active reading cards and much more!
Extension activities you can incorporate as your students move from struggling to succeeding!

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas with Other Educators
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in helping their struggling ELA students.

Consultation Available
Sarah Robinson will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own English/Language Arts program.

Semester Credit Option
UMASS Logo Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.

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