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AIM for Literacy

AIM for Literacy. Solutions to Advance Adolescent Literacy in West Virginia May 2008. As promised…. Who: Literacy Leadership Teams (LLT) What: Webinar 2 LLT roles and responsibilities Year 1 of multi-tiered literacy instruction When: May 28, 2008-Wednesday

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AIM for Literacy

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  1. AIM for Literacy Solutions to Advance Adolescent Literacy in West Virginia May 2008 West Virginia Department of Education

  2. As promised… Who: Literacy Leadership Teams (LLT) What: Webinar 2 • LLT roles and responsibilities • Year 1 of multi-tiered literacy instruction When: May 28, 2008-Wednesday Where: Any convenient location April 16th PowerPoint presentation is available at http://wvde.state.wv.us/ose/RtI.html West Virginia Department of Education

  3. “The challenge for the Literacy Leadership Team, then, is to set goals that can be enacted by all stakeholders, measured for progress and revisited yearly for revision.” JoAnne Allain (2008)

  4. KNOW West Virginia Department of Education

  5. DO West Virginia Department of Education

  6. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS West Virginia Department of Education

  7. West Virginia Department of Education

  8. AIM for Literacy Meeting the Needs of All Learners through Tiered Instruction

  9. West Virginia Department of Education

  10. West Virginia Department of Education

  11. West Virginia Department of Education

  12. West Virginia Department of Education

  13. Roles and Responsibilities of the LLT

  14. Identifying Strengths and Challenges • Literacy Capacity Survey • Give the Literacy Capacity Survey. • Collect results. • Use as a planning guide for LLT. • Assess Student Needs • Which assessment(s) will we use? • Large group tests as a “first cut” • Assess all struggling students beyond the WESTEST to determine specific needs (Tier 2 and 3) • Place students in appropriate tier. • Determine movement in tiers.

  15. What is the school-wide emphasis on adolescent literacy? • 1. The administrator’s role in improving the school’s literacy opportunities is clearly evident. • 2. School leaders encourage collegial decision making. • 3. School leaders support integration of literacy instruction across the content areas. • 4. School leaders and staff members believe the teaching of reading is their responsibility.

  16. Literacy Capacity Survey and the World Café Process • Groups sit around tables and discuss guiding questions for a given amount of time. One person stays at the table the entire time to capture the conversation, then share with the next group. • When time is called, participants move to a new table with different individuals, hear about the previous conversation, then continue that group’s discussion. • At the end of several rounds, questions and ideas are recorded on a flip chart. • http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-worldcafe.html

  17. Literacy Capacity Survey • Based on your individual and/or team results, what have you discovered? • What strengths and needs are suggested? What priorities emerge? • What potential roadblocks do you see and how will you overcome them? • What are your next steps in the advancing the process building literacy capacity at your school?

  18. Determining Needs of Students • Most large-group assessments provide a “first cut.” • WESTEST • Schools need to collect further critical diagnostic information to begin to understand their students’ literacy problems. • Scholastic Reading Inventory - www.scholastic.com • Gates-MacGinitie, Degree of Reading Power (DRP) • Adopted text series test • Compile data and determine the number of classes needed for strategic and intensive students. • Strategic students need targeted literacy instruction. • Intensive students need comprehensive literacy instruction. • Communicate with parents.

  19. Identifying Resources • Tier 1 = Effective Instruction in ALL Classes • Standard based unit plans • Instructional guides • Research based vocabulary instruction • Research based comprehension strategies • Differentiated Instruction • Rubrics • Lexiles • Assessment for learning

  20. Identifying Resources • Tier 2 – Strategic • All in Tier 1 • Strategic tutoring • Content specific reading and writing strategies • Tier 3 – Intensive • All in Tier 1 • Specialized training in specific programs (i.e., Wilson Reading)

  21. Year 1 Implementation Keys for Success

  22. Year 1: 2007/2008 • Conduct awareness sessions to build a culture of literacy in your school • Agree on what Tier I instruction is at the upper elementary and middle school levels • Research best practices for Tier 1 instruction • Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency, Writing and Motivation • Analyze current Tier 1 instruction relative to best practices • Implement some new practices across the curriculum • Identify universal screening and progress monitoring assessments

  23. Challenges from the AIM Pilot Schools • Changing teacher opinions about whose responsibility it is to teach reading skills • Convincing teachers to try new classroom strategies without making it seem like “extra” work • Movement among tiers • Differentiating instruction is more difficult than one size fits all • Teachers implementing strategies in isolation, rather than seeing the strategies as a part of their teaching philosophy • Assessing in more than one way

  24. Successes from the AIM Pilot Schools • Students were given timely assessments FOR learning and modifications were made to enhance learning. • Content class literacy instruction • The following strategies have been implemented this year: K-W-L, Frayer, Reading for a Purpose, Semantic Map, Word Sort, Quick Sketch, Venn Diagram, Anticipation Guide, RAFT, NICK, Word Map, Think Aloud. • Increase use of small group instruction • Increased targeted instruction

  25. Additional Resources National Association of Secondary School Principals http://www.pricipals.org/s_nassp/bin.asp?CID=52747&DOC=FILE.pdf JoAnn Allain Sopris West Joann Allain Sopris West $34.49 West Virginia Department of Education

  26. Additional Resources http://www.all4ed.org/publication_material/reports/reading_next Douglas Fisher & Gay Ivey ASCD

  27. Additional Resources http://lexile.com/EntrancePageHtml.aspx?1

  28. “Improving adolescent literacy requires that this goal be shared and central to the mission for a school staff. Buy-in is not a one time ‘event’ but rather an ongoing process.” Don Deshler (2006)

  29. Next Steps • Create a tentative LLT meeting calendar. • Conduct the Literacy Capacity Survey. • Start building your culture of literacy at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year.

  30. Next Time Who: Literacy Leadership Teams (LLT) What: Webinar 3 • Strengthening the Core Program • Universal Assessments When: August 27, 2008 3:15-4:15 p.m. Where: Any convenient location in your building

  31. Contact Information Linda Palenchar RTI Coordinator Office of Special Programs, Extended and Early Learning lpalench@access.k12.wv.us (304) 558-2696 Terry Reale Reading English Language Arts Coordinator Office of Instruction treale@access.k12.wv.us (304) 558-5325 West Virginia Department of Education

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