Leading Secondary Literacy for Impact: Expanding Structured Literacy Implementation into Secondary Classrooms
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District and school leaders: join CESA 6 Literacy to build your knowledge and tools to support teachers and coaches as you work together to improve literacy instruction and student achievement in your secondary classrooms.
This leadership academy offers a combination of professional learning, personalized, on-site coaching, and the opportunity to network with other district teams as part of a learning community.
Benefits
- Understand the impact of Act 20 on future secondary classrooms
- Address impactful science-aligned literacy practices at the secondary level
- Explore most essential assessment data to drive instruction
- Learn new high-leverage routines and use new tools for secondary literacy success
- Plan forward with customized team coaching sessions for district improvement
- Delivers a range of professional learning sessions that foster continuous development.
- Develops educational leaders through targeted training and strategic planning sessions.
- Builds teacher capacities with professional development in literacy practices.
- Introduces innovative and evidence-based teaching strategies for literacy.
Who might benefit from participating?
- Secondary Coaches and/or Instructional Support
- Secondary Principals
- Directors of Curriculum & Instruction
- Directors of Special Education
Structure/Schedule
Year 1:
Focus on science-aligned literacy practices at the secondary level and identifying current state.
- Three (3) in-person Learning Sessions
- Two (2) in-district customized coaching days
Year 2:
Focus on strengthening collection of instruction data and maximizing high impact instructional practices.
- Two (2) in-person Learning Sessions
- Two (2) in-district customized coaching days
Outcomes/Deliverables
Effective Literacy Practices: Build understanding of impactful literacy practices, supported by brain research, with a focus on grades 6-12 and how leaders can leverage instructional knowledge through strategic actions.
Assessment and Data Systems: Explore components of effective reading assessments, including formative assessments, and the role of data systems in literacy improvement.
Strategic Planning and Implementation: Examine considerations for strategic planning, including district tools, routines, and actions that support successful change and plan implementation.
Leadership and Change Management: Develop an understanding of complex change, high-leverage leadership actions, and tools for monitoring and sustaining implementation success.
Collaborative Action: Work as a district team to synthesize understanding, share insights on implementation success, and build actionable steps for literacy improvement.
