Free PD That Actually Gets It
For 4th & 5th Grade Teachers
Teaching 4th and 5th grade and craving PD that truly works for your students?
You'll find both here — literacy and math.
Word study that goes beyond spelling lists, word problem strategies that ditch "find the keywords," reading instruction (from whole group to small group and everything in between) that you'll actually love, and math centers that won't make you pull your hair out or spend all weekend laminating.
If any of that sounds like what you've been looking for, keep scrolling. There's something here for you.
We recommend bookmarking this page and making your way through the PD opportunities one at a time throughout the summer.Â
📖 For Your Literacy Block 📝
✍🏼 Level Up Your Word Study (a.k.a. Spelling)
Free • 3-video series
Tired of weekly lists your students memorize on Thursday and forget by the next week? I'll show you what word study can really do in 4th and 5th grade — decoding, syllable types, morphology, and a routine you can actually sustain. Comes with free downloads.
For teachers who want spelling instruction that builds real spelling AND decoding skills.
🔥 Ignite Your Reading Instruction
Free • 5-day signature event • On-demand this summer only
⏰ Once you sign up, you've got 2 weeks of access.
Five days showing you what your reading instruction can be — every part of it.
- Day 1 — Whole-group instruction that reaches every reader (three approaches you can mix and match)
- Day 2 — Small groups with real goals, built on the six-step framework I use every time
- Day 3 — What the other students do while you're pulling small groups
- Day 4 — Science of reading, embedded in what you're already doing
- Day 5 - Your free Ignite-to-Impact toolkit, so you walk away with the goods — not just good intentions
For teachers who want their reading instruction to land — no overhaul required.
➗ For Your Math Block 🧮
đź’• Fall in Love with Math Centers
Free • 3-video series
I made every mistake with math centers before I figured out the fix: keep it super simple. This series is everything I wish someone had told me sooner:
- Video 1 — How to keep it simple (no rotation board required)
- Video 2 — How to keep students on task when you're not watching
- Video 3 — How to keep centers engaging without spending all weekend laminating
For teachers who've tried math centers and given up — or avoided them because they seem like too much.
đźź° Mastering Word Problems Beyond Key Words
Free • Single workshop
"Stop teaching keywords" — cool, but then what? This is the workshop that answers that question. I'll show you what I teach instead, plus the routines, sorts, and moves I use for students who really struggle. Includes free resources to help you implement what you learned with your students.
For teachers whose students pull the numbers, pick an operation, and move on.
About Me
Hey, I'm Jennifer. I spent 10 years teaching 3rd-6th grade, mostly self-contained 5th grade with really wide ranges of learners. I made every mistake in the book and didn't give up. Everything in these trainings is what I actually used with my real students — not the ones I wished I had.
Want even MORE support, all school year long?
Our All-Access Memberships might be just what you need!
All-Access Reading+
Literacy resources that respect upper-elementary rigor and realityÂ
All-Access Reading+Â is built for the kind of literacy instruction most resources ignore: teaching grade-level reading, writing, and grammar while students are still catching up.
When you become a member of Reading+, you don’t have to choose between rigor and support.
You get both.
Inside the membership:
- Grade-level fiction and nonfiction skill resources with options (we love options) for teaching, practicing, engaging, and assessing
- Science of Reading–aligned resources for decoding, syllable types, morphology, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Done-for-you small-group reading lessons you and your students will actually enjoy
- Dedicated libraries for test prep, constructed response, and seasonal or holiday instruction, so nothing derails you mid-year
- A full grammar library for grades 4–5 (with intentional 3rd-grade review only where it truly makes sense)
- Done-for-you writing support for sentence, paragraph, and essay writing
All-Access Math
Math resources built for real student work
All-Access Math gives you a deep, organized collection of skill-aligned math resources you can rely on throughout your math block.
These are resources you can pull from to plan lessons, assign meaningful work, review skills, check understanding, and respond when students need something different.
Inside the membership:
- Skill-aligned resources for instruction, practice, review, assessment, and reteaching
- Multiple resource options for the same skills, so one activity isn’t doing all the heavy lifting
- Hands-on tasks, partner work, independent practice, and thinking-heavy activities
- Word problems, error analysis, homework pages, exit slips, and assessments
- Printable and digital resources, including self-checking Google Forms
- Dedicated collections for word problems, test prep, and seasonal or holiday math
- A growing collection of teaching slides designed to support instruction and reteaching over time
The Combo: Reading+ & Math
All-Access Reading+ and Math together
If literacy and math are both taking up mental space, the combo gives you:
- full access to both memberships
- one place to pull what you need
- the strongest value for your first month
