SRSD Courses & Events
COURSE CATALOG
SRSD Live Courses
Introduction to thinkSRSD Course (Live via Zoom)
Gr 1-8 Intro
Learn the think SRSD writing instructional approach, an evidence-based, explicit set of sequenced strategies and scaffolds for teaching all writing genres. think SRSD can be integrated into any content area or ELA program. The think SRSD framework improves the structure, coherence and clarity of students’ writing at all levels: word choice, sentences, organization and content. Participants will also learn how to teach note-taking, organization, and revision. There are opportunities to develop your own lessons and practice delivering these. This course is open to all educators in grades K-12. (Note: K/1 teachers may prefer to take our K/1 only courses.) This approach is grounded in SRSD (self-regulated strategy development) as well as wider findings from current cutting-edge leading writing researchers. Students find not only writing success but joy when using this framework.
This course includes both Releasing Writers and Power Up books. Total cost is $449.
To enroll a group over 20 – email [email protected]
Jul 21 & 22, 2025 – 8:30am-3pm EST
Jul 28 & 29, 2025 – 9am-3:30pm EST
Aug 5 & 12, 2025 – 10:30am-5pm EST
Sentence Level Course (Live or Recorded)
Learn approaches to teaching students the art of crafting beautiful sentences and how the grammatical choices they make can impact their readers’ experience, all grounded in the latest empirical research and thinking on how to teach sentence writing in curricular embedded ways. Note: You will be given preliminary short gist workbooks in PDF format, then given the final copies when they are ready as well.
This course includes Gist It: Sentence Instruction Workbooks for Students Gr K-8. Total cost is $199.
To enroll a group over 20 – email [email protected]
Recorded Sessions, Spring 2025
Curriculum Integration Course (Live and Recorded)
Discover how to seamlessly integrate Think SRSD into your core ELA curriculum. Explore sample integration maps and hear directly from coaches and teachers who’ve already brought this approach to life in their classrooms.
Pre-requisite: We recommend completing the main Think SRSD Introductory Course first. This integration course builds on the core framework, strategies, and scaffolds introduced there—so you’ll get the most out of this experience if you’re already familiar with them. Think of this as your next step: a powerful way to elevate and energize your existing ELA or content area instruction.
Total cost is $199.
To enroll a group over 20 – email [email protected]
HMH Into Reading, Recorded
Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA), Recorded
Wonders, Recorded
thinkSRSD Keynotes & Presentations
PaTTAN Department of Education Conference
June 12, 2024
WY Department of Education Conference
June 19-20 & 25-26, 2024
Accelerate Literacy Conference
June 23-29, 2024
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference
July 12, 2024
Cicero, IL Annual Literacy Conference
July 24, 2024
Big Sky Literacy Conference
August 1-3, 2024
Reading in the Rockies Conference
September 27-28, 2024
New Jersey IDA Conference
October 18, 2024
TN RISE Conference
April 5, 2025
About Us
thinkSRSD is the community of teachers and researchers who use and study SRSD. We offer SRSD in-person professional development and e-learning courses taught by teachers with decades of experience using SRSD. The teachers at thinkSRSD have taught SRSD courses for over 10 years, since offering the very first open enrollment course in SRSD in 2008.