Reignite your teaching practices with Zinc’s On-Demand e-Learning Modules.

Completing all four modules makes you eligible* for free Zinc licenses for all of your students.

*Zinc awards free student accounts for one to two teachers per school.

Build a classroom of confident, engaged, and motivated readers.

This one-hour, four-part training series, shares Zinc’s simple reading protocol that will upgrade ALL your students’ reading levels and can instantly help your students engage with anything they read—starting with the very next text you teach in class.

  • After completing this 10- to 12-minute module, you will:

    • Understand the obstacles that decoding and vocabulary pose for secondary readers

    • Identify Tier 2 words and understand how to help students learn them through multi-modal and spaced repetition strategies

    • Recognize common decoding gaps among adolescent readers and learn how to address them with simple, everyday classroom practices

    • Create a classroom environment where all students know to look for and correct reading mistakes

  • After completing this 20-minute module, you will:

    • Understand the obstacles that hold students back from comprehending when reading

    • Learn a simple reading protocol that teaches students what to DO when they read

    • Acquire tactics to apply these strategies to any text, making class discussions more inclusive and alive

  • After this 20-minute module, you will be able to:

    • Plan effective integration of Zinc activities

    • Understand the components and intended outcomes of Zinc Journeys

    • Assign course-aligned activities in Zinc

    • Identify key information in Zinc reports to inform classroom instruction

  • After completing this 10-minute module, you will be able to:

    • Explain the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

    • Understand the role of love-driven effort in learning

    • Understand what motivates teens and how reading can appeal to their deepest needs

    • Build a classroom culture of reading

Want to connect with someone at Zinc before you start these modules? Email partnerships@zinclearninglabs.com.