Literacy Design Collaborative: Planning Tools and Resources for Teaching Literacy Skills in All Content Areas

Introductions 3 Please use this powerpoint as a template to adapt and insert your own contact information and professional details here and on slides 3, Insert your information here! Jane Doe Principal

Goals and Agenda 3 1. Introductions 2. Learn about the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC’s) planning resources ●Revisiting the shifts of the CCSS ●Writing strong assignments/tasks ●Planning standards-driven literacy instruction ●Teaching discipline-specific literacy skills 3. Experience the LDC planning tools ●LDC CoreTools 4. LDC’s i3 Grant ●What schools get ●Expectations for schools/teachers

Common Core Instructional Shifts and Demands 3 ▪Increasing rigor and relevance ▪Sharing responsibility of teaching reading across content areas ▪Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational text ▪Reading, writing, speaking and listening grounded in evidence from texts ▪Practicing regularly with complex text and academic vocabulary ▪Emphasizing 3 modes of academic writing: narrative, informational/explanatory and argumentative ▪Addressing grade level literacy outcomes

What is the content I want to teach with my assignment? What cognitive “work” do I want my students doing with that content? Which CCSS are driving the reading and writing work I want my students doing with this assignment? LDC’s Planning Tools: Teaching Literacy Responsively By Planning Intentionally 2 Now that I have a strong assignment, how can I design a responsive instructional plan for it? LDC began with teachers who created planning tools to develop assignments that address the CCSS shifts and help students write well about what they read. These tools help teachers address these questions: What are discipline-specific literacy skills? Which skills am I teaching with my assignment?

What is the content I want to teach with my assignment? What cognitive “work” do I want my students doing with that content? Which CCSS are driving the reading and writing work I want my students doing with this assignment? LDC’s Planning Tools: Teaching Task Templates LDC’s Teaching Task templates help teachers make assignment prompts that answer the following questions:

Using LDC’s Teaching Task Templates to Build Your Writing Assignment Prompts 3 The Teaching Task templates provide a structure for students to write in response to reading.

Using LDC’s Teaching Task Templates to Build Your Writing Assignment Prompts 3 The CCSS ask students to become proficient in writing informational/explanatory, argumentative, and narrative products. LDC’s Task Templates support you in developing assignments for your students to write in two of those modes: informational/explanatory and argumentative.

LDC Teaching Task Templates 3 Next, the Task Templates ask you to determine the cognitive demand of your assignment. These are aligned with the demands of the CCSS.

Exploring the Task Prompt: Gr. 6-8 Social Studies 3 Gr. 6-8 Social Studies Prompt: After researching primary and secondary source documents on the Emancipation Proclamation, write an essay in which you discuss the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure and evaluate its lasting legacy in American history. Support your position with evidence from your research.

LDC Teaching Task and CCCS Alignment 3 ReadingWriting 1. Read explicitly, make logical inferences, use evidence from text 1. Write arguments to support claims using valid reasoning and evidence 2. Determine themes, central or main ideas & analyze development 2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine & convey complex ideas and information 3. Analyze development over course of text (ideas, individuals, events) 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences 4. Interpret & analyze words and phrases as used in text4. Write with development, organization, purpose & audience 5. Analyze structure of texts5. Plan, revising, editing, rewrite, write anew 6. Assess how point of view or purpose shape content & style of text 6. Use technology to produce & publish writing 7. Integrate & evaluate content in diverse media formats7. Conduct short and sustained research projects 8. Trace & evaluate arguments & claims through texts8. Gather relevant information & evidence;source texts 9. Analyze two or more texts to build knowledge & to compare9. Use textual evidence to support analysis, reflection, research 10. Read & comprehend grade level texts10. Write routinely over short and extended time Gr. 6-8 Social Studies Prompt: After researching primary and secondary source documents on the Emancipation Proclamation, write an essay in which you discuss the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure and evaluate its lasting legacy in American history. Support your position with evidence from your research.

12 Gr. 6-8 Social Studies Prompt: After researching primary and secondary source documents on the Emancipation Proclamation, write an essay in which you discuss the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure and evaluate its lasting legacy in American history. Support your position with evidence from your research. Focus CCSS Reading and Writing Anchor Standards: RH.6-8.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. WHST.6-8.1: Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content. Cognitive Demand: Evaluate Text-Dependent: Prompt requires reading the text to answer (cite evidence from Proclamation indicating its use as a war measure)

What is the content I want to teach with my assignment? What cognitive “work” do I want my students doing with that content? Which CCSS are driving the reading and writing work I want my students doing with this assignment? Building the Instructional Plan for Your Assignment: The LDC Module 2 Now that I have a strong assignment, how can I design a strong instructional plan for it? LDC’s module template helps you to build the instructional plan for your writing assignment. It helps teachers answer the following questions: What are discipline-specific literacy skills? Which am I teaching with my assignment?

A Teacher’s Example: Gr. 7 Social Studies Module 3 The Case for Revolution Handout: Module One-Pager

LDC CoreTools ●Over 50,000 teachers online ●Teachers and LDC partners (UC Berkeley, Facing History, Battelle STEM) share their modules and mini-tasks for you to copy, adapt, and use ●Quality review system created by Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (LDC Peer Review rubric) CoreTools is a free online platform to find, adapt, or create your own daily lessons and larger writing assignments.

Your Turn to Explore CoreTools 3 Search LDC CoreTools to explore mini- tasks and modules specific to your grade level or content area! Be sure to use the search filters to explore content easily.

Understanding Disciplinary Literacy 3 ●The LDC module template helps you build an assignment that teaches the literacy skills key to a content area. (Reading a novel is different from reading a lab report!) ●LDC mini-tasks are daily lesson plans to teach each skill. Check out Facing History and Battelle mini-tasks for history and science lessons! Handout: Disciplinary UnderstandingsDisciplinary Understandings

Let’s Discuss! 3 1.How might the LDC planning tools support you in addressing the Common Core standards? In teaching your students to read and write well? 2. What are you wondering?

LDC’s i3 Grant: What Schools Get - i3 information provided as an example 3 Virtual and In-Person Coaching for Teachers ●In September: ○Coach joins first planning meeting ●Every week: ○Coach provides written feedback on instructional plans ●Every other week: ○Coach facilitates planning meeting via video conference ●In spring: ○In-person LDC peer review training Coaching for LDC Project Liaison (Teacher Leader) ●Monthly virtual meetings with coach ●Optional coach-facilitated online discussions with other teacher leaders using private Teaching Channel Team group ●In September: 1 day paid training with coach Support for Principals ●Initial goal and benchmark setting ●Quarterly support visits from district LDC Specialist Additional Virtual Professional Learning Experiences ●Free enrollment to LDC’s online courses (can lead to salary credit) ●Access to national learning community and content experts (such as Facing History and Ourselves webinars) Handout: LDC Supports and RequirementsLDC Supports and Requirements

LDC’s i3 Grant: Expectations of Schools - i3 grant information provided as an example 3 Teacher Responsibilities 1.Teach at least two modules each school year. 2.Participate in weekly collaborative planning meetings with team, which include: a.Instructional planning (using LDC CoreTools); b.Analysis of student work from mini-tasks and modules; c.Discussion of classroom implementation of mini-tasks and modules; d.Revision of instruction based on student outcomes. 3.Participate in weekly online coach-led discussions (using Teaching Channel). Project Liaison Responsibilities 1.All same as teacher 2.Monthly 30-min meeting/call with coach to plan PLC work and develop instructional leadership skills 3.Facilitate communication between planning team, coach, and principal 4.Participate in summer training (paid)

3 Next Steps 1.Create a free CoreTools account at Explore modules and mini-tasks for your grade level/content area 1.Insert your steps here!