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Levels: 6–12
Length: 3 days
Audience: Superintendents, district administrators, site administrators, and leadership teams, with coaches as determined by the client

Description

This institute prepares district administrators, site administrators, and leadership teams to lead their middle and high schools to effectively meet the needs of struggling, underperforming readers and to promote instructional practices that support all students using reading to learn. Participants will practice with resources used to analyze data, observe classroom teaching, monitor implementation over time, and plan intervention with teachers and students, as well as examine options for scheduling.

Participant Outcomes

Prepare the leadership team to understand their roles in supporting full implementation.
Prepare administrators to lead powerful instructional changes for significant academic improvement.
Describe a support system for reading, including intervention and content teachers.
Demonstrate the use of assessment data to target assistance for teachers and students and plan instructional interventions.

Levels: 6–12
Length: 2 days
Audience: Teacher leaders, department heads, and literacy coaches
Prerequisite: Participants must come prepared to demonstrate a 10-minute reading-related lesson

Description

In this two-day institute, designed for coaches functioning in middle and high school settings, participants learn to support literacy implementation across content areas and within reading and intervention classrooms. The issues and challenges older students face; the stages of reading development; the different phases of a coaching cycle; and ways to facilitate team, grade-level, or department data study and problem-solving meetings are among the topics covered.

Participant Outcomes

Apply a three-phased coaching cycle.
Provide support for teachers working with intervention, core, and content materials.
Help teachers collect and analyze assessment data to increase achievement.