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Georgia's Literacy Initiatives: Promoting Reading and Achievement

Learn about Georgia's efforts to improve literacy, including partnerships, professional institutes, assessment platforms, and community programs. Discover how evidence-based practices are driving improvement in schools and districts.

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Georgia's Literacy Initiatives: Promoting Reading and Achievement

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  1. Dr. Caitlin McMunn Dooley, Ph.D. Deputy Superintendent Teaching and Learning

  2. A little about me…

  3. Literacy is understanding, evaluating, using, and engaging with written texts to participate in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential. OECD, 2016 Literacy is understanding, evaluating, using, and engaging with written texts to participate in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential. OECD, 2016

  4. Georgia’s Poverty Issue

  5. Data Landscape: Georgia’s 4th Grade Reading Growth on NAEP

  6. NAEP Comparison GA and MA

  7. NAEP Comparison GA and DoDEA

  8. GaDOE’s Literacy Efforts • Literacy Think Tank and P-20 Partnerships • Winter and Summer Literacy Institutes (Professional Org partnerships) • L4GA Data Summit (2019) • Keenville gamified early formative assessment platform • Kindergarten Readiness Check • Get Georgia Reading community partnerships, data summits, and program evaluation • Delivery of over 1M books • “Lunch in the Library” • $61.5M L4GA Grant – sub-granted to Local Ed Agencies • “Tiny grants” for Library Media support • Dyslexia Law (2019 SB 48) – Handbook, training, endorsement, pilot

  9. L4GA Grants

  10. Using Evidence-base Practices to Improve

  11. Networked Improvement Communities

  12. How to Improve Why We Want to Improve What to Improve

  13. STATE REGIONS/ COMMUNITIES DISTRICTS SCHOOLS

  14. Networked Improvement Communities

  15. Moving Forward Year One Evaluation report submitted to US ED Oct 2019 Project data and outcomes will be shared via webinar November 20129

  16. L4 Team • Franeka Colley, ELA/Special Education Specialist • Anisha Donald, ELA Program Specialist • Caitlin McMunn Dooley, Deputy Superintendent • Julie Morrill, Program Manager, L4GA Grants • Stephanie Sanders, ELA Program Manager • Meghan Welch, Ph.D., 4GA Program Specialist

  17. Summer Literacy Institute

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