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Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grantee Meeting March 6-8, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grantee Meeting March 6-8, 2012 Chicago, Illinois.

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Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grantee Meeting March 6-8, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

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  1. Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grantee Meeting March 6-8, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

  2. This information is being provided for the purpose of the fiscal year (FY) 2012 Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy grantees meeting. Assessment tools, curriculum, and other information and materials mentioned or shown at this meeting by presenters or grantees are provided as resources and examples for the viewer’s convenience. Their inclusion is not intended as an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education. In addition, the instructional practices and assessments discussed or shown in these presentations are not intended to mandate, direct, or control a State's, local educational agency's, or school's specific instructional content, academic achievement system and assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction. States and local programs are free to use any instructional content, achievement system and assessments, curriculum, or program instruction that they wish, so long as the instructional materials and literacy activities meet the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy program requirements and are part of their approved grant application.

  3. Colorado’s Comprehensive Literacy Plan Formula Grantee Leveraging and Sustaining the Education Reform Agenda to Improve Literacy Outcomes

  4. Colorado’s Education Reform Landscape • Unified Improvement Plans • New standards and assessment system • Unified accountability system (ESEA Waiver) • Educator effectiveness initiative • Limited literacy capacity within the department • Focus of department and support of State Board • Context of Governor Hickenlooper’s Literacy Initiative • Lt. Governor’s Literacy Blueprint

  5. Colorado’s Education Reform Landscape Inclusion of Birth to Five (P-20 System): • Early Childhood Leadership Commission • Network of 30 local early childhood councils serving 55 counties • Colorado Preschool Program funded through school finance formula • Outcomes for preschool special education, CPP, Title 1 preschool students measured through Results Matter assessment initiative and data tracked longitudinally through use of State Assigned Student IDs.

  6. State Literacy Plan Purpose

  7. State Literacy Plan Development Process

  8. Plan Development: Impact and Sustainability • Common vision of how Department’s strategic priorities coalesce around literacy • Provide vision for and contribute to the development of the state literacy plan • Guide the implementation of the state literacy plan

  9. Plan Development: Impact and Sustainability • Collective work and responsibility of all units within the department • Exceptional Student Services • Response to Intervention • Language, Culture, and Equity • Federal Programs including Title I • Read to Achieve • State Libraries • Early Childhood Initiatives • Gifted and Talented • Teaching and Learning • Research and Evaluation

  10. Contacts Lynn Bamberry, Competitive Grants and Awards, bamberry_l@cde.state.co.us Michelle Boyer, Early Childhood Initiatives,boyer_m@cde.state.co.us Candy Myers, Exceptional Student Services, myers_c@cde.state.co.us Dian Prestwich, Read To Achieve and Colorado Basic Literacy Act, prestwich_d@cde.state.co.us

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