Disciplinary Literacy Academy 6-12
4-8 Team Members: $12,125 per year 9-12 Team Members: $13,350 per year
Join educators as we promote the authentic application of learning and systems change for disciplinary literacy.
Benefits
With personalized support days, your district can gather instructional data, strategically plan your next steps, and support teachers with feedback and customized learning.
- Delivers a range of professional learning sessions that foster continuous development.
- Provides assistance to develop and implement long-term literacy goals.
- Supplies tools for monitoring student progress and adapting teaching methods.
- Promotes literacy integration across all content areas, enhancing comprehension.
Goals
In-Person Learning Sessions Objectives
Build background knowledge of best practices in disciplinary literacy, including the latest science of reading research Identify and unpack the literacy skills embedded in content area standards (e.g.: Science and Engineering Practices / Cross-Cutting Concepts, Social Studies Inquiry Strand, Standards of Mathematical Practice). Design authentic opportunities for students to read and write as practitioners of your specific discipline. Develop a repertoire of strategies to make authentic reading, writing, and vocabulary-building opportunities accessible to ALL students.
In-District Coaching Support Objectives
Support teachers in implementing literacy routines and strategies across content areas. Collect instructional data to highlight your system's current reality using a learning walk routine. Develop a strategic plan to scale the learning across your system. Support teacher leaders, coaches, and building / district administrators in leading disciplinary literacy work across your system.
Who might benefit from participating?
- Content Area Teachers in Grades 6-12
- Secondary Instructional Coaches
- Middle & High School Administrators
- Directors of Curriculum & Instruction
Structure/Schedule
- Year 1 Sessions:
- Two (2) half-day learning sessions for district and building leaders
- Two (2) full-day whole-team learning sessions
- Three (3) personalized, in-district coaching sessions
- Year 2 Sessions:
- One (1) half-day learning session for district and building leaders
- Three (3) full-day whole-team learning sessions
- Three (3) personalized, in-district coaching sessions
Outcomes/Deliverables
Outcomes
- Find literacy standards in the practice standards of each content area
- Unpack what reading skills are necessary and characteristic of successful readers in your discipline
- Use authentic texts in content areas and scaffold to help all students access texts without sacrificing rigor
- Know reading look-fors and some close reading routines to support all students in accessing, comprehending, and storing information from content area texts
- Unpack what writing skills are necessary and characteristic of successful writers in your discipline
- Explore authentic writing tasks — what does that mean? What does it look like in a 6-12 classroom?
- Take away quick strategies to get students to use writing to process their thinking
- Know writing look-fors and some writing routines to support all students in engaging in authentic literacy tasks appropriate for the discipline
- Explore speaking and listening look-fors and high-leverage routines and discussion protocols that can be immediately applied in the classroom
- Build a strategy bank that contains high-leverage routines and processes to support reading, writing, speaking, and listening in your discipline / content area and be able to immediately apply them
