1. Maximizing Staff to Ensure Quality Literacy Instruction
Session 4A, February 2014 NTI
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2. Learning Targets
I can analyze staffing practices to ensure that all students are maximizing literacy instructional time.
I can create a set of action steps to refine my staffing practices.
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3. Collaboration There exists vast expertise and knowledge in this space.
This session will draw on deep collaboration and sharing of expertise, as well as action planning.
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4. Introductions
Introduce yourself to your table mates sharing your role and school district.
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5. Reflection Jot down current successes with Module implementation.
Write down some current obstacles or barriers with Module implementation.
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6. Funnel Protocol: From Top to the Tip
Each participant lists top 3 barriers; one per sticky note regarding staffing or scheduling.
Facilitator reads ALL sticky notes.
Categorize sticky notes.
Identify one priority in each category.
Select a SINGLE sticky note-the group must come to consensus.
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7. Read, Turn, and Talk
“The principal, along with the literacy leadership team, needs to examine the school schedule to find time to meet critical literacy learning needs. Most successful schools have arranged to provide additional instructional time for students who are reading below grade level. Schools do this in a variety of creative ways, including extended instructional blocks during the day, before and afterschool sessions, and summer programs.”
(Torgesen et al 2007)
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8. Read and Annotate Choose one of two options:
Teaching All Students to Read in Elementary Schools: A Guide for Principals
Improving Literacy Instruction in Middle and High Schools: A Guide for Principals
Use the note-catcher, “Notice; Wonder; Take-Aways” on p. ___ to record your thinking.
Note any suggestions in the article that may support solutions to the obstacles and barriers you expressed in the previous protocol.
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9. Break
Please be back in 15 minutes
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10. Pair-up Find a partner who read the article you did NOT read.
Share key learning from the text.
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11. Brainstorming Solutions
Notice the charts around the room with the prioritized topics from the Funnel Protocol.
Form 2 groups at your table.
Carousel around the room and chart solutions to the barriers/obstacles that are listed.
Once all solutions are charted, we will do a silent gallery walk.
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12. Turn and Talk What are your notices and wonders from the gallery walk?
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13. Action Planning
Work through the Guiding Questions on the Action Planning Task Card on p. ___ regarding current staffing and scheduling practices.
When finished, complete the action steps on the task card.
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14. Synthesis: Quiet Journaling
Consider your progress on the learning targets:
I can analyze staffing practices to ensure that all students are maximizing literacy instructional time.
I can create a set of action steps to refine my staffing practices.
Also, any new learning or lingering thoughts…
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