1. Patty Sweet psweet@alcaweb.org Cell: 580.744.0611 Text, Call, or Email Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

2. “Literacy for ALL” A TEAM Approach to the Integration of Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Speaking and Listening into All Content Areas Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

3.  Deepen the TEAM’s understanding of the initiative “Literacy for ALL: Every Day, Every Classroom, No Exceptions” Day 1 – “Begin with a Team” Day 2 – “Focus on Literacy Strategies” Day 3- “Monitor and Evaluate” – “Establish Timeline” Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

4. Objectives for Today’s Session  Understand the essential components of a high functioning team. – Common Vision (Future), Mission (Purpose), Goals (Planned Accomplishments) – Roles and Responsibilities (Leaders and Members) Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

5.  Explore 4 Levels of Implementation Level 1 – Develop a common vocabulary, purpose, and goals to facilitate understanding “What does that mean?” Team Approach Level 2 – Develop a deeper understanding “What does it look like?” Focus on Fidelity Level 3 – Deliberate practice “How do I do it?” Training for ALL Level 4 – “How do WE implement the initiative into OUR system and evaluate it’s effectiveness?” Monitor and Evaluate

6.  Initiate a Four Step Process to develop a district-wide plan and timeline 1. Begin with a TEAM approach 2. FOCUS on Literacy for ALL 3. Implement with FIDELITY and according to plan 4. MONITOR like crazy! – Monitor students’ work – Monitor implementation and assessment – Monitor rigor (cognitive demand) for ALL Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

7. Collegiality and Professionalism  When the (district, site, grade, subject) team is functioning well, all educators in a district consider themselves part of a team with a collective responsibility for the well being and achievement of all students. - Marzano ( 2011)

8. Productivity Cycle – 25/5 Organize work in Dashes and Sprints 5 or 10 minutes Dashes 25 minute Sprints Use timers to track working time and break time Always provide at least a 5-minute break to energize the body and brain.  Brain-based Strategy: Learning occurs in small chunks

9. Discussion Discussion Process offers the Opportunity to Reflect and Share Elbow Partner (Paired-Reflection) Table Talk (Consensus) Group-Team (Shared Belief-Requires a Reporter) Partner-Outside-Your-Team (Quick-Break)

10. Establishing Common Routines Call back signals… “Focus on Me Please” Hand of 5 for a 5 Second Countdown Hand of 10 for a 10 Second Countdown Countdown Timer

11. Begin with TEAMS Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

12. Who are the members of a Team? Community Patrons Community Leaders External Expertise External Partners Universities/Colleges Career Techs Parents Grandparents Extended Families In School Homebound Home Schooled Virtual Administrators Teachers Central Office and Secretaries All Support Staff – including aides, maintenance, bus drivers, security. EducatorsStudents CommunityParents

13. Roles and Responsibilities LeaderMembers What do leaders provide for the members? List Leader Responsibilities… What are the responsibilities of the members? List Member Responsibilities… Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

14. “The best worksheet is a blank piece of paper.” Get a Blank Sheet of Paper Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

15. Roles and Responsibilities Activity Fold the paper in half. Draw a line on the fold to create two columns. Label the left column Teachers Label the right column Students Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

16. Roles and Responsibilities Leader (Teachers) Members (Students) List Leader Responsibilities… What do leaders provide for the members? TEACHERS List Member Responsibilities… What are the responsibilities of the members? STUDENTS Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

17. Roles and Responsibilities Leader (Teachers)Members (Students) List Leader Responsibilities… What do leaders provide for the members? TEACHERS List Member Responsibilities… What are the responsibilities of the members? Save the World/Productive Willing to Learn/Open Minded 7 Accepting of Instructions 3 Organized/Self-Disciplined Task Management 2 Appropriate Behavior Listening/Attention 5 Communicate Needs 3 Collaborative/Teamwork 2 Think/Analyze/Reflect/Reason/Evaluate Study 2 Follow Rules 3 Respect and Tolerance 10 Be Prepared 8 Positive Attitude 3 Goals 3 Consistency Be on time/attendance 8 Responsibility/Accountability 6 Effort 10 Participation/Engagement 9 Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

18. Think-Pair-Share Identify Leader (Teacher) Responsibilities Identify Member (Student) Responsibilities Share and Compare with your elbow partner Share and Compare with your table Record your responses to share with the group Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

19. Learner Responsibility Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

20. Fidelity of Implementation Accountability Trustworthiness Commitment ResponsibilityConsistency Stability Uniformity Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

21. Leadership “…good leaders grow schools where the organizational culture is energized, collaborative, and results focused. As a result, teaching and learning in all classrooms are always getting better.” Jon Saphier, Research for Better Teaching Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

22. Compare Roles and Responsibilities Teacher/Student Student/Student Teacher/Teacher Admin/Teacher Admin/Admin Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

23. Compare Roles and Responsibilities Parent/Student Parent/Teacher Teacher/Parent School/Community Community/School Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

24. Latta 5 Core Values 1.Integrity 2.Honor 3.Dependability 4.Commitment 5.Accountability Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

25. Activity – Elbow Partners Define the “purpose of education”. Use any method you have at your disposal to help in this activity. Computer, iPad, Internet, Smartphone, etc. Be prepared to share your definition with the group.

26. Fundamental Purpose of Education The fundamental purpose of education is to teach a person to read and write… that is to make him literate in an ever- evolving society – to make a person aware, responsible, earn money, develop social skills, fuel one’s thirst for knowledge – to be career, college, citizen, workforce ready. National Learning Disabilities Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

27. “The purpose of education is to enable individuals to reach their full potential as human beings, individually and as members of a society; this means that these individuals will receive an education which will enable them to think and act intelligently…” http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Purpose_of_Education.htm

28. “The Purpose of Education” Education should equip us with the power to think effectively and objectively. To think is one of the hardest things in the world, and to think objectively is still harder. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/liberation_curriculum/pdfs/purposeof education.pdf Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, ©2004

29. The Purpose of Education: Good Citizenship Eleanor Roosevelt Pictorial Review 31 (April 1930) Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

30. 21 st Century Skills Preparing Students for THEIR Future Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

31. 7 Survival Skills for the 21 st Century 1.Critical thinking and problem-solving. The ability to ask good questions. 2.Collaborative problem-solving with a deep appreciation of the differences between peers. 3.Innovation 4.Ability to speak and write with voice and reason 5.Ability to question, learn, clarify thinking using research 6.Curiosity, creativity, imagination 7.Sense of initiative Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

32. Instructional Effectiveness Defined The effective integration of literacy and learning strategies. Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

33. What is Learning Strategies Instruction Strategy instruction is a powerful student- centered approach to teaching that is backed by years of quality research. In fact, strategic approaches to learning new concepts and skills are often what separate good learners from poor ones. Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

34. Elbow Partner Activity What is Literacy? Use any resource available to develop your teams understanding of literacy. Explore the question, “What is literacy?” Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

35. Literacy Defined Literacy has always been a collection of communication practices. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2009 Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

36. Twenty-first century readers and writers need to: Develop proficiency with the tools of technology Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems Design and share information Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

37. Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of information Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts Attend to the ethical responsibilities required in these complex environments Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

38. http://ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/TLE-TPSFramework12.pdf

39. “It’s not what you know. It’s what you can do with what you know.” -Tony Wagner Vision 2020 Keynote July 2013

40. 4 Areas of Focus 1. Reading 2. Writing 3. Speaking and Listening 4. Reasoning Detailed Series of Objectives or Essential Literacy Skills Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

42. Define “Reading” Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning (reading comprehension). Other types of reading are not speech based writing systems, such as music notation or pictograms. The common link is the interpretation of symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations.cognitive processsymbolsreading comprehensionwriting systemsnotationpictogramssymbols Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

43. To Read… to read or peruse written or printed matter. to utter aloud or render in speech written or p rinted words that one is perusing: to read to a person. to give a public reading or recital. to inspect and apprehend the meaning of writ ten or other signs or characters. to occupy oneself seriously with reading or stu dy.

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48. Think-Pair-Share Identify current practice Identify essential practice After discussion with your elbow partner CIRCLE TWO of the essential literacy skills for each of the four areas THAT YOU BELIEVE ARE ESSENTIAL AND DESERVE PRIORITY ATTENTION. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

49. Reflection on Survey Find one person who has the SAME identified essential literacy skill. Find one person who has something you did NOT IDENTIFY as an essential literacy skill. Underline the different essential literacy skill. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

50. Return to table and compare with your table Compare your findings with your team members. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

51. Problem With so many skills detailed in the literacy charts, it will be overwhelming for teachers and students to try to incorporate them all at once. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

52. Focus: Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” -Flannery 0’Conner Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

53. By integrating writing into content areas we can help students develop an attitude that effective writing skills are an important part of many of their daily activities and will be, increasingly so, in future endeavors. -Brandt and Graff (2005) Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

54. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain Reason #1: Written output is a great way to assess student knowledge. Reason #2: Writing is the essential skill students need as they enter adult life. Reason #3: Helping students learn to express themselves with confidence in all subject areas can contribute to improvements in behavior and self-esteem. Reason #4: Students who write clearly, think clearly. And students who think clearly have a better chance of navigating their way through the obstacles of adolescence. Reason #5: Writing is power. Why is writing across the curriculum important?

55. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain “In answer to the question that seems to be on every content area teacher’s mind these days: No, you don’t have teach writing now, too. You want me to teach writing now, too?

56. Language Arts teachers will continue to take the lead in writing instruction, and by using better techniques like Six Traits criteria- based assessment, Writing Process, and Writer’s Workshop, students should be coming into your classes better prepared for the writing work you will be asking them to do. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

57. But yes, you will have writing work for them to do. No one is asking you to teach writing per se, but you are being asked to include writing as an integral part of your classroom activity. Every student will write, and every teacher will require writing, so we all need to be on the same page as we move forward.” Steve Peha. Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc. Web www.ttms.org Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

58. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain For students, it is critical to develop an understanding through practice that writing is not simply an abstract set of rule-governed behaviors but rather a means to clarify thinking across contexts and in a variety of formats.” Emily Lardner co-director the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education What does the literature say?

59. In a world where information grows at a fast rate and is available from a multitude of resources, a person’s ability to make sense of information is a challenge. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

60. Students need to learn to communicate through writing in more than the language arts class. Science, Social Studies, Health…etc. provide students with real life questions and ideas to explore. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

61. What is one of the first things you do when someone gives you a new piece of information…like a phone number, recipe, directions to a location? Because writing things down: 1) Can makes them more concrete in our mind. 2) Gives us a point of reference as new information is added. Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain

62. “It’s not what you know. It’s what you can do with what you know.” -Tony Wagner Vision 2020 Keynote July 2013

63. What is a Rubric? Rubrics are a set of guidelines for distinguishing between performances or products of different quality. Rubrics describe levels of quality so that students know exactly what they have to do to achieve the higher level. Rubrics take a great deal of the subjectivity out of the grading process.

64. Rubrics can be a critical tool in the evaluation process because they do the following: Provide scaffolding for improving work Showcase students’ progress Help teachers grade subjective work fairly Help students self-assess their own work Help parents understand how work is graded Help students know in advance the criteria for work

65. Common Rubric Criteria 0 – No work to evaluate 1 – Did not complete the work 2 – Basic work, completed but had some problems that were not corrected 3 – Great job, hit all the requirements 4 – Outstanding, went beyond the basic requirements

66. Example Rubric Descriptive Scale – Criterion: Eye Contact During Speech No Evidence Minimal Evidence Partial Evidence Complete Evidence Does not look at audience Looks some of the time at some of the audience Looks most of the time at most of the audience Looks all of the time at all of the audience

67. First Goal of the PLC COMMON vocabulary, COMMON purposeCOMMON vision teams mission (purpose) Develop a COMMON vocabulary, COMMON purpose, and COMMON vision to communicate and collaborate efficiently and effectively as highly functioning teams to accomplish the mission (purpose) of the school.

68. Suggestions Literacy Workshops Open Response Tovani Reading Question Analysis/ Active Reading Summarizing Pre-viewing and Pre-reading a text Using Visuals to Preview Teaching the Text Last Vocabulary in Context Topic: LiteracyStrategies Domain Graphing Multiple Choice Strategies Speaking Skills Assessment Problem Solving Thinking Routines Openers and Closers Reading Visuals

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