The Residency Partnership Series™
The Residency Partnership Series™
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A Multi-Year System for Literacy Growth, Teacher Development, and Data-Driven Instruction
Professional learning works best when it happens with teachers, not for them.
Professional learning works best when it happens with teachers, not for them.
The Residency Partnership Series™ is a modular, inquiry-based professional learning system designed for school districts ready to make a meaningful, lasting investment in educator growth and student literacy outcomes. Grounded in PhD research and built around what teachers actually need, this framework brings expert facilitation directly into classrooms and creates the conditions for real, lasting change.
What Is a Residency Partnership?
A residency partnership is a one to three year-long commitment to deep, job-embedded professional learning. Rather than a one-day workshop, this is a sustained collaborative relationship designed to help educators connect theory to practice in their own classrooms, with their own students.
Research consistently shows that teachers value professional learning most when it is collaborative, job-embedded, and ongoing. The Residency Partnership Series™ was built on exactly these principles.
How It Works
How It Works
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Each residency runs across three consecutive days, three times throughout the school year — a total of nine days of focused professional learning annually.
Sessions include:
- Demonstration lessons in participants' own classrooms
- Small-group coaching and debriefs
- Facilitated workshops connecting research to practice
- Leadership planning conversations
- A resource package with lesson plans
- Three Zoom check-ins between in-person visits
This structure creates a rhythm of learn, observe, try, and reflect — giving educators time to implement new strategies and return to the group with real questions from real classrooms.
Who It's For
Who It's For
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The Residency Partnership Series™ is designed for school districts, schools, and educational organizations committed to improving literacy outcomes through educator development.
It's a strong fit if your district is:
It's a strong fit if your district is:
- Supporting beginning teachers in building strong foundational literacy instruction
- Expanding use of Universal Early Literacy Screening tools and putting that data to work
- Working with students who aren't yet reading proficiently but don't require intensive intervention
- Looking for professional learning tailored to specific roles, including Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, Instructional Leaders, and Intervention Teachers
Choose Your Focus
Choose Your Focus
Every residency follows the same structure and includes the same nine days of on-site learning.
What changes is the focus — shaped around your district's highest-leverage priorities.
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Literacy Ready
Literacy Ready
For districts building foundational literacy capacity
The Literacy Ready Residency gives beginning educators a practical, research-informed foundation for teaching reading and writing.
Over the course of the year, teachers develop skills in:
- How literacy develops in young children — and what that means for classroom practice
- Structuring an effective literacy block with predictable, purposeful routines
- Using assessment to guide instruction and respond to what students actually need
- Differentiating for a range of learners without constantly creating new materials
Includes district-wide licensing for the Literacy Ready Signature Series (a $5,000 value).
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Reggio-Inspired Literacy
Reggio-Inspired Literacy
For districts investing in a pedagogical shift
The Reggio-Inspired Literacy Residency helps educators build classroom cultures where children see themselves as capable readers, writers, and meaning-makers.
Over the course of the year, teachers develop skills in:
- Centering children's voices and curiosity as the starting point for literacy learning
- Using documentation to make thinking visible and assessment more meaningful
- Designing the classroom environment to provoke engagement and support literacy development
- Building the kind of relational trust that allows children to take risks and grow as learners
Includes district-wide licensing for the Reggio-Inspired Literacy Signature Series (a $5,000 value).
Additional Focuses
Additional Focuses
Using Data to Drive Instruction
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- Many provinces now require primary teachers to collect Universal Early Literacy Screening data — but collecting it is only the first step. This focus supports teachers in doing the harder work: understanding what the data is telling them and changing their instruction in response. Through three data-review cycles across the school year, teachers learn to analyze student results, identify gaps in literacy development, and build progress monitoring into their everyday practice.
Closing the Literacy Gap
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- Some students have many literacy skills but still aren't reading or writing at grade level. They don't need intensive intervention — they need targeted, explicit instruction in the specific areas where they haven't yet reached mastery. This focus helps teachers identify exactly what those students need, design responsive learning experiences, and track whether their instruction is making a difference.
Don't see your context here?
The Residency can be scoped around your district's priorities or educators' specific roles — whether that's Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, Instructional Leaders, or Intervention Teachers. Reach out to talk through what that could look like.
The Residency can be scoped around your district's priorities or educators' specific roles — whether that's Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, Instructional Leaders, or Intervention Teachers. Reach out to talk through what that could look like.
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Investment
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Residency Partnership
Every Focus Includes:
- Needs assessment
- Nine days on-site
- Demonstration lessons
- Small-group coaching
- Leadership planning
- Resource package
- Three Zoom check-ins
Signature Focus Residencies also include district-wide Signature Series licensing.
Customization is available to fit your context, your educators, and your goals.
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Our school district has worked with Jen Kelly for two years... Educators in our district have been thrilled to learn with Jen as she is gentle and open in how she presents and responds to adult learners while at the same time helping them learn new literacy strategies that attend to current research. She provides clear and easy to understand explanations of the research that empower educators to want to learn more while infusing practical ideas using children’s literature and scaffolded steps for different learners. Jen fosters the joy of learning in both students and adults in her work with them.
It was a pleasure working with Jen Kelly as she supported our school district’s literacy goals. She listened carefully to our needs, joined our leadership team seamlessly, and contributed insightful ideas. Her deep literacy knowledge, collaborative spirit, and confident, relatable presentations make her an exceptional literacy resource consultant for any district.
Our school district has worked with Jen Kelly for two years... Educators in our district have been thrilled to learn with Jen as she is gentle and open in how she presents and responds to adult learners while at the same time helping them learn new literacy strategies that attend to current research. She provides clear and easy to understand explanations of the research that empower educators to want to learn more while infusing practical ideas using children’s literature and scaffolded steps for different learners. Jen fosters the joy of learning in both students and adults in her work with them.
What Changes When Teachers Have the Right Support?
Participating educators come away with practical skills and confidence they can use right away. Here's what that looks like in practice:
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Gathering and using literacy screening data to make smarter instructional decisions.
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Differentiating instruction to meet the specific needs of every student in the room.
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Monitoring progress over time to track measurable, meaningful growth.
For school districts, the result is a more skilled teaching workforce, stronger student literacy outcomes, and a culture of continuous, evidence-informed improvement.
Data That Shows What's Working
Data That Shows What's Working
Universal Early Literacy Screeners are used across much of North America to benchmark student readiness and progress. Within the Residency Partnership Series™, that data becomes a living tool.
- Classroom teachers use individual student results to make informed instructional decisions and provide responsive teaching day to day.
- School principals use school-wide trends to identify where teachers need additional support, resources, or targeted professional learning.
- Superintendents use district-wide data to guide resource allocation, staffing decisions, and strategic planning at the board level.
This isn't data for data's sake. It's a shared commitment to knowing whether students are learning and doing something about it when they're not.
Ready to Bring the Residency to Your District?
Ready to Bring the Residency to Your District?
Every district has different needs, different educators, and different students.
A conversation is the best place to start.
Every district has different needs, different educators, and different students.
A conversation is the best place to start.
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