Reading Apprenticeship i3 Grant Scaling Up Content-Area Academic Literacy in High Scholl English Language Arts, Science and History Classes for High Need Students

The Award Top-rated in the Validation Category 22.6 Million (including 20% match) Distributed over 5 years Pennsylvania is one of 4 states participating Technical Review

Twenty Percent Match $3,660,236 Stone Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation, JP Morgan Foundation, JP Morgan Private Investment Bank, The Stuart Foundations.

Grant Activities RCT (Randomized Control Trial) – schools new to RA Building Capacity – schools already implementing Leadership – RCT Schools – Building Capacity Schools – State System of Intermediate Units

District/School Participation Must have a high need population Must have a similar high school within the district of close by for comparison Commit to all four years of the project Must have content area teachers in the following disciplines – English Language Arts – Biology – US History

District/School Treatment/Control – Schools have a 50% chance of being in the treatment group – Professional development will begin summer 2011 for treatment schools – Professional development will begin summer of 2014 for control schools.

Teacher Participation 9 th Grade English Language Arts 10 th Grade Biology 11 th Grade US History Need two to three teachers from each discipline

The Commitment Participate in 10 days of discipline specific professional development – 5 days summer 2011 – 2 days during academic year – 3 days summer of 2012 Actively work to implement Reading Apprenticeship with fidelity Participate in site visits Accurately collect data on student performance & teacher implementation

Benefits Provision of Professional Development & training materials Stipends to teachers for summer attendance & data collection Reimbursement for substitutes

Leadership Training Participants must attend the full 10 day training Representation from RCT, Building Capacity and PAIU needed Complete an application Selected applicants will attend a leadership training to be held 2012

Summer (July?) 2011 Dates??? Locations???