The Washington Alliance for Better Schools offers a variety of professional development opportunities for educators, administrators, parents and community members. Click on any of the offerings below for more information.

Achieving Family Friendly Schools : this two-day workshop is for schools that can send a team for creating and implementing a plan to improve how their school works with families. Teams are usually led by school principals, and comprised of up to four additional members from administration, faculty, parents and/or community partners. More information Here.

Reading Links : Reading LINKS: designed for teachers of K-6, Reading LINKS is a multi-media program that models ways to incorporate scientific reading research in classroom instruction. Reading LINKS contains six training modules with participant materials. For more information click Here.

Secondary Reading Strategies: The Secondary Reading Strategies program focuses on training math, science, and social studies teachers on how to include varied reading and learning approaches in their instruction. For more information, click Here.

ELL - English Language Learners : for K-12 classroom teachers, this two-day ELL workshop, "Adaptations are Essential: Adapting Reading Instruction for English Language Learners" focuses on the sheltered English framework and adaptations that can be used with English Language Learners at any grade level. More information Here.

Boeing Educator Enrichment Day : for teachers of grades 3-8, the annual Boeing Educator Enrichment Day offers a variety of sessions for helping educators make science lessons more exciting, imaginative and tangible to their students. For more information click Here.

Boeing: WABS/ Boeing Volunteers are partnering to provide after school clubs in Math and Science. For more information click Here.