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Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium Literacy Advisory Committee January 22, 2014

Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium Literacy Advisory Committee January 22, 2014.

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Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium Literacy Advisory Committee January 22, 2014

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  1. Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium Literacy Advisory Committee January 22, 2014

  2. Our purpose today is to review the key literacy professional learning opportunities that have taken place in the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium region this yearbased on advisory committee direction and dialogue. …and begin plans for next year that aligns with Inspiring Education, Curriculum Redesign and school authority needs/direction.

  3. What you asked us to do and what we did What you asked us to do! • Support for Curriculum Redesign and the cross-curricular competencies • Develop a literacy framework (balanced literacy, daily 5, intervention) • Follow up with AARI • Plan a Literacy summer conference What we did and are doing! • Support for Curriculum Redesign through district days, development of cohorts, PD resources • Develop a literacy guideline • Implement Literacy for All Pilot Project –Grades 7-12 • Provide Professional Learning opportunities with authors • Engaged in plans for a summer conference

  4. ERLC Regional Literacy Guideline • Meeting • Draft • Purpose • Communications for facilitators • Informative for planning professional learning • Potential to support school authority planning • Next steps • Literacy benchmarks • Alberta revised program of studies ( e.g., curriculum redesign) • Cross curriculum competencies

  5. Learning Opportunities Upcoming • Kylene Beers and Robert Probst –Struggling Reader, Jan 23 • Penny Kittle- Book Love and Writing, March 3 & 4 • Daily Five –The Sisters, Feb 7 • Karen Erickson -Literacy for Students with Significant Disabilities Feb 11,12,13 • Literacy Benchmarks –Karen Loerke – April 25 • Future? Past • Robert Cutting –FNMI and storytelling • Balanced Literacy –Division I (Wendy Legaarden and Judy Bourassa) • Balanced Literacy Division II –(Anne Muir & Keri Busenius) • Best Practices (Division III, IV) –Irene Heffel • Smartboards and Ipads for Language Arts –Karla Holt

  6. PD Resources • Archived Webinars • Literacy RTI • Ipads • Smart Boards • Engaging Learners • Literature and Social Studies • Pilot –Literacy for All Wiki • Inclusive Education PD Resources – Literacy • Curriculum Redesign Wiki – Cross-Curricular Competencies • Learning Technologies • What else? Future needs?

  7. District Days – Karen Loerke • Completed 9/18 districts; Plans with 13/18 • Book clubs, guided reading, close reading • Reading and writing assessment • Word study • Coaching • Literacy Benchmarks • Grounded in literacy principles • Comprehensive literacy approach • Incorporate “curriculum redesign” ( e.g. literacy benchmarks and cross- curriculum competencies)

  8. Literacy Benchmarks • Organized by three components: 1)awareness, 2) knowledge and understanding, and 3) strategies • Developed in all subject/discipline areas at all grade levels • 9 elements and 5 developmentally age groups

  9. Draft Literacy Benchmarks: 9 Elements 1. Awareness • How being literate enables me and others to create and express meaning • Use literacy skills to represent what I know, and do, and need to learn 2. Knowledge and Understanding • Communicate to define and develop ideas • Use my knowledge of structures, rules and tools of language to communicate meaning • Use diverse texts and media to develop ideas and understanding

  10. Draft Literacy Benchmarks: 9 Elements 3. Strategies • Connect and select background knowledge and personal experiences to develop new understanding • Use effective and efficient strategies to acquire knowledge and understanding • Use effect and efficient strategies to respond to knowledge and understanding

  11. Summer Literacy and Numeracy Conference • Summer 2013 • Literacy, technology and inclusive education • Summer 2014 • K-12 Literacy and Numeracy Benchmarks • Thought leaders • Aligned with ERLC region literacy framework? • Should we or shouldn’t we? • RFP districts….. • Format e.g., Literacy Benchmarks • Use tools of language to communicate meaning • Use effective strategies to acquire knowledge

  12. Next Steps Planning Forward • Literacy Guideline –directs future directions Other?

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