Intermediate Literacy Leadership Academy 3-5

4-8 Participants: $13,245, 9-12 Participants: $15,125

Explore the latest tools and high-leverage instructional routines to support intermediate grade literacy.

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Benefits

Promote intermediate literacy by learning ACT 20 approved reading training

  • 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.

  • Build knowledge and strengthen leadership and teacher practices.
  • Learn how to blend key research indicators from the Science of Reading to make shifts in current practices.
  • Explore quality indicators of literacy instruction supported by the Science of Reading research and understand where the district is with these practices using tools from each session.
  • Utilize actionable tools and high-leverage instructional strategies in your district to gather data to inform the next steps.
  • Be empowered with information and tools to blend new practices into current resources, review current resources and implementation for quality, or begin the curriculum review process.
  • Collaborate with district leadership teams to enhance your district practices.
  • Experience personalized and specific feedback toward current district practices and planning forward.
  • Create district implementation plans focused on improving reading instruction.
  • Leverage instructional strategies from early literacy to support struggling readers at the intermediate level.
  • Leverage instructional strategies to support reading and writing instruction with a focus on grade-level text.

Who might benefit from participating?

Organizational stakeholders who use literacy strategies like:

  • Administrators
  • Certified Staff
  • Students
  • Teachers
  • C&I Directors

Structure/Schedule

Ensure your teacher teams know how to implement effective, evidence-based reading curriculum

  • Six in-district professional learning days
  • Work with our literacy experts to observe Science of Reading practices and craft a new literacy improvement program for your organization

Outcomes/Deliverables

Leadership Systems

Understand academy goals and explore high-impact leadership practices that support literacy improvement.

Data Decision-Making

Analyze data for impactful small-group instruction to support reading and writing.

Influence and Instruction

Learn about the influence of fluency and discourse on deeper comprehension while also understanding morphology, sentence and text structure, and leveraging the reading-writing connection