Literacy Task Force

1. Literacy Task Force

2. Work Force and College Ready Task Force Leadership College Teachers Collaboration of all key stakeholders working towards the common goal of student success at all levels High School Middle School Students Parents Elementary School Community Pre-K Birth Explicit and Systematic Alignment of Curriculum and Instruction

3. Graduation Rates by Race and Gender Broward Florida Source. Florida’s Graduation Rates from FDOE Education Information and Accountability Department

4. Broward Graduation Rates by Race With Charters Without Charters Source. Florida’s Graduation Rates from FDOE Education Information and Accountability Department

5. Black Male Graduation Rate for Broward & Four Large Florida Districts Source. Florida’s Graduation Rates from FDOE Education Information and Accountability Department

6. Five Innovation Zones Highest 2010 Retention Rates Source. Florida’s Graduation Rates from FDOE Education Information and Accountability Department

7. Black Male Graduation Rates for High Schools Highest 2010 Retention Rates Source. Florida’s Graduation Rates from FDOE Education Information and Accountability Department

8. Immediate Goal: Increase Third Grade Promotions

9. student who is not overage. Early Indicators of High School Performance A student who is over-age for grade level by the 5th grade is oversix hundred times more likely to be a low performing high school student than a student who is not over-age in fifth grade. Research, Evaluation, Assessment & Boundaries Research Services Department 2004

10. student who is not overage. Factors Leading to Retention Need for Response to Intervention Implementation With Fidelity • Insufficient Interventions • Unresponsive Students • High Mobility Rate • Late Identification of Needs • Misinterpretation of Policy

11. Immediate Goal: Increase Percentage of Students Proficient in Middle Schools • student who is not overage.

12. Immediate Goal: Increase Percentage of Students Proficient in High Schools • student who is not overage.

13. student who is not overage. Making an Impact • Alignment of Curriculum • Response to Instruction/Intervention • Struggling Reader and Math Charts • Electronic Scheduling Based on Student Data • College Readiness • Elementary Reading Summer Institute for Second • and Third Grade Teachers

14. Plan of Action • Task Force: Literacy, College Workforce, Graduation, • Response to Intervention • Professional Development for Administrators and Teachers • Review of implementation and assessment practices, coaching • models, Response to Intervention model, compliance with state • and district policies and guidelines, and student support at targeted • schools Overall Student Progress Third Grade Promotions High School Graduations

15. Plan of Action • Ongoing support and monitoring for targeted schools to ensure • programs and state/district policies and guidelines are implemented with • fidelity • Summer Academic Institute for second and third grade teachers and • students • Review of teacher hiring practices for Third Grade Summer Reading Camp • Increased reading support through content area classrooms, JROTC, and • CTACE Overall Student Progress Third Grade Promotions High School Graduations

16. Roles and Responsibility Of Literacy Task Force • Work collaboratively between district and community • stakeholders to ensure all students become proficient • readers and writers. • Explore researched information that enhances knowledge • about strategies for improving literacy • Plan, organize, evaluate, and recommend literacy • initiatives for all levels Collaborating for Change Connecting Through Literacy

17. Literacy Task Force Initiatives Discussion Questions