Impactful Early Literacy Practices In-District Leadership Institute
9 to 45 Leaders: CESA 6 Districts: $10,800 Non-CESA 6 Districts: $11,600 (Plus travel expenses) 46 - 80 Leaders: CESA 6 Districts: $14,850 Non-CESA 6 Districts: $15,900 (Plus travel expenses) 81 - 150 Leaders: CESA 6 Districts: $18,900 Non-CESA 6 Districts: $20,300 (Plus travel expenses) 150+ Leaders: CESA 6 Districts: $27,000 Non-CESA 6 Districts: $29,000 (Plus travel expenses)
Meet ACT 20 reading training requirements and embrace the Science of Reading curriculum.
Benefits
Grow your team's knowledge of phonological awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension to leverage instructional routines that promote early literacy success.
- Provides comprehensive support for the implementation of science-aligned literacy practices.
- Introduces innovative and evidence-based teaching strategies for literacy.
- Builds teacher capacities with professional development in literacy practices.
- Aids in the design and execution of engaging and standards-aligned literacy curricula.
Goals
Build a strong knowledge base about science-based reach for reading instruction.
- Grow your knowledge about phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, phonemic awareness, and phonics and understand the brain research that supports these areas of reading.
- Learn key instructional frameworks that create opportunities for students to transfer skills from phonics into both reading and writing.
- Explore key "high-leverage" instructional routines that will be implemented with students and understand how to identify strong practices in the classroom.
- Understand the change process and change management to lead the literacy improvement work.
- Build knowledge about leadership strategies that ground the strategic planning process and support literacy improvement.
- Practice looking for high-leverage routines in instruction and how to coach a teacher or provide feedback.
- Reflect and analyze current instructional practices to be able to identify and prioritize practice changes in classrooms.
Who might benefit from participating?
Organizational stakeholders who use literacy strategies like:
- Administrators
- Certified Staff
- Students
- Teachers
- C&I Directors
Structure/Schedule
Learn how to best implement new teaching curriculum
- Six in-district professional learning days
- Leaders will identify 2-3 practice changes in the classroom to set goals and identify critical first steps.
- Learn and practice routines with extensive training, applying the institute learning content.
Outcomes/Deliverables
Structured Learning
Learn key instructional frameworks that create opportunities for students to transfer skills from phonics into both reading and writing
Learn New Teaching Routines
Explore key "high-leverage" instructional routines that will be implemented with students and understand how to identify strong practices in the classroom.
Updated Processes
Understand the change process and change management to lead the literacy improvement work.
Coaching Teachers
Practice looking for high-leverage routines in instruction and how to coach a teacher or provide feedback.
Instructional Analysis
Reflect and analyze current instructional practices to be able to identify and prioritize practice changes in classrooms.
