1. Leadership for Literacy in the 21st Century
Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers

2. What’s your story?

5. The Role of Family Members as Literacy Leaders
“Student achievement affects everyone, and parents are as much stakeholders in what their children accomplish in school as those who instruct them.”

6. Parents and Other Caregivers
Family Members...
Parents and Other Caregivers
(Parenting, communicating, volunteering, home learning)
Students
(Self-efficacy, motivation, good attitude, established
reading habits, willingness to practice)

7. The Role of Community Stakeholders as Literacy Leaders
School-university partnerships
(Parent/family workshops, grant acquisition, Ad
campaigns, Professional development for teachers and
For schools, Teacher prep programs, Graduate programs
for literacy professionals)
Religious and Civic Groups and Businesses

8. The Role of Literacy Leadership
What do we know about effective school leadership?
What does effective leadership for literacy achievement look like?
Who might be able to provide such leadership?

9. Effective School Leadership
“Effective change requires skilled leadership that can integrate the soft human elements with hard business actions.”
-Joiner (1987)

10. Effective School Leadership
Visionary
Belief: Schools are for Learning
Value human resources
Communicate/Listen effectively
Be Proactive
Take Risks
SEDL (Mendez-Morse 1992)

11. What does effective school leadership for literacy look like?
Know what works for all
Familiar with theory and research
Translate their knowledge into effective instruction and share it
Be creative with engagement
Garner support and respect from peers

12. Who are the potential literacy leaders? (on the ground)
Reading specialist
Reading coach
(State testing mandates, RTI, differentiated instruction for ELL
students, keeping current with “new” literacies, providing
leadership to others, professional development, fostering
literacy program development.)

13. Organizational Leadership for Literacy
Principal
(Demands are great: visionary, manager, instructional
leader, etc.)
Curriculum Supervisors
(Entire district, current literacy research, aligned
curriculum, collaborate with principals, know effective
instruction, professional learning, analyze data, make
decisions for all learners)

15. John Hattie’s Research
Collective Efficacy 1.57

17. Professional Learning Communities

21. Curriculum
R. Dufour
Assessment
Instruction
Instruction

22. How will we increase our instructional competence
How will we increase our instructional competence? (Teacher development)
How will we coordinate our efforts as a school? (Leadership)
-Robert Marzano

24. “Behavior and performance are influenced by the actions, attitudes, and behaviors of many others in the immediate environment.”
-J. Pfeffer and R. Sutton (2000)

25. Collaborative Teams of a PLC
Student Achievement
Teacher Actions in the Classroom
Collaborative Teams of a PLC
Principal Actions

27. Resources
Marzano, R., Heflebower, T., Hoegh, J., Warrick, P., and Grift, G. (2016) Collaborative
Teams that Transform Schools. Marzano Research.
Dufour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T., and Mattos, M. (2016) Learning by Doing- A
Handbook for Professional Learning Communities. Solution Tree.
Dufour, R. (2014) Harnessing the Power of PLCs. Educational Leadership.
Lewis-Spector, J. and Jay, A. (2011) Leadership for Literacy in the 21st Century.
Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers.

28. Summary of recommendations….