K-12 Schools Staff Training
Fit learning into your busy schedule with access to on-demand training modules, downloadable PDFs, upcoming webinars, and tools to educate your staff and end users any time of day or night.
Educator Resources
Want to host your own training session? Looking for resources to use with your school community? Browse the resources below!
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Sora Bursts Video Series – Week 5
This week, you’ll learn how to plot your roadmap for Sora success.
Click here to download a copy of this week’s worksheet, which is an easy-to-use checklist of strategies for your Sora journey
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Sora Bursts Video Series – Week 4
This week’s video includes tips to “level up” your digital librarian skills.
Click here to download a copy of all 10 tips we recommend for taking those skills to the next level
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Sora Bursts Video Series – Week 3
This week’s video covers ways to make your Sora data “actionable” for goal setting, getting more students reading, and reporting out on ways Sora is having a positive impact on your school community.
Click here to download a copy of this week’s optional homework about taking your reading metrics to the next level
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Sora Bursts Video Series – Week 2
This week’s Sora Burst video is full of strategies to help you boost your digital circulation.
Click here to download a copy of this week’s optional homework, a template for “turbo-charging” your digital circulation
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Sora Bursts Video Series – Week 1
Welcome to our series of short, actionable videos to get the most out of your Sora collection.
Click here to download a copy of the first week’s optional homework, a template for creating Sora “elevator pitches.”
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Educator Kit – Supersonic Phonics
This .ZIP file contains an introductory video about Supersonic Phonics and decodables, a helpful self-paced PDF guide to get educators started with phonics and decodables, and our Sora Starter Pack which includes lessons and activities, level charts, and more.
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PowerPoint Slides – Get Started with Sora for Staff & Students
Download these slides to host your own internal Sora training with educators, school librarians, students, or anyone else in your school building who need to know how to log into Sora, browse and borrow titles, use app features, and more.
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PowerPoint Slides – Introduce Sora to Students & Families
Download these slides to introduce Sora to students, parents/guardians, and your school community at parent-teacher conferences, activity fairs, back-to-school nights, or anywhere you connect with folks who may be new to digital reading at your school or district.
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Self-Paced Curriculum (PDFs) – Getting Started with Sora
This .ZIP file contains 3 helpful self-paced PDF guides to get educators started with Sora, including: Sora Essentials, a getting started guide for the student reading app; Summer Reading with Sora, a guide for making the most of summer reading with Sora; and Supersonic Phonics, a guide to our phonics and decodable books in Sora.
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ZIP file – Sora “Quick Tip” videos
This .ZIP file contains links to 1-minute “quick tip” videos for K-12 educators who want to learn about the following in Sora: finding copies of a title, accessibility features, sharing direct links, and navigating without using page numbers.
There are also 1-minute videos about Class Sets and On-Demand Class sets, using Marketplace Top 200 lists to fill in gaps in your digital collection, and using the Sora Activity dashboard.
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Lesson Plan – Annotations with Sora
This kit contains 1 PDF lesson plan on exporting notes from Sora and ways to incorporate them into assignments, 1 Word document template on using Sora for Cornell-style notes, 1 short video showing how to create annotations, 1 short video showing how to export annotations, and 1 marketing graphic for the web or social media.
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