"Elementary leaders recognize the urgency to improve literacy rates; however, the real work in leading elementary schools to effective literacy instruction lies in taking action to address deficiencies and obstacles that avert progress. Where do leaders focus their time and attention to ensure students can read and comprehend grade-level content? A Leader's Guide to Reading and Writing in a PLC at Work, Elementary by Kathy Tuchman Glass and Karen Power is the ultimate guide to leading literacy instructional efforts in an elementary setting. How do teams establish clarity about their expectations of students? How do they more effectively design and issue assessments that gather information about what students know and can do? How can leaders help their collaborative teams engage more effectively in collective inquiry around the data they gather and then provide students with effective interventions and extensions that maximize learning? This resource addresses all these questions and more so leaders can better support their teachers and improve students' reading and writing skills to prepare students for their future learning"--
A Leader's Guide to Reading and Writing in a PLC at Work, Elementary by Kathy Tuchman Glass and Karen Power is the ultimate guide to leading literacy instructional efforts in an elementary setting.
"Secondary leaders recognize the urgency to improve literacy rates; however, the real work in leading secondary schools to effective literacy instruction lies in taking action to address deficiencies and obstacles that avert progress.
"Secondary leaders recognize the urgency to improve literacy rates; however, the real work in leading secondary schools to effective literacy instruction lies in taking action to address deficiencies and obstacles that avert progress.
... goals that will be pursued during this time and providing necessary resources to support the ongoing inquiry that is central to the work of these teams (Louis, Marks, & Kruse, 1996; Mullen & Hutinger, 2008; Olivier & Hipp, 2006).
Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at WorkTM process?
Visual Environment, Attention Allocation, and Learning in Young Children: When Too Much of a Good Thing May Be Bad. ... Best practices in writing instruction (pp. 13–27). ... 11 essentials for a highly effective classroom library.
Pearson. Bear, D. R., Invernizzi, M., Templeton, S., & Johnston, F. (2020). Words their way: Word study for phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Beck, I. L., & McKeown, M. G. (2007).
Provides recommendations on ways to improve school performance.
ANNOTATED RESOURCES The toolkit document summarizes important information on the history and pillars of ESSA, including descriptions of the major objectives of ESSA to develop the knowledge and awareness of literacy leaders striving to ...
Therefore, to design and execute effective lessons, we recommend teams use gradual release of responsibility, an instructional framework that originated with P. David Pearson and Margaret C. Gallagher (1983). It involves an orchestrated ...