Improving Reading Achievement through Professional Development

1. Improving Reading Achievement through Professional Development A joint production of the GA Reading Team!

2. Our Process Together we have read and discussed chapters in Dorothy Strickland and Michael Kamil’s edited book, Improving Reading Achievement through Professional Development Here is a summary of our work

3. Gerald Duffy Teachers who improve reading achievement: What research says about what they do and how to develop them

4. Main Ideas • Adaptive teaching • Training vs. educative model • Thinking differently about professional development

5. Discussion Summary • Effective teachers adapt and modify • Reading First Teacher Academies

6. Challenges in our Setting • Policy makers/allocation of adequate funding • Collaboration at federal, state, college, local levels

7. Susan Burns and Robert Stechuk Establishing the basis for improved reading achievement: Prekindergarten and kindergarten

8. Main Ideas • Knowledge • Strategies • Enact, assess, analyze, reflect

9. Discussion Summary • Continued Resistance • Advantage of mentoring

10. Challenges in our Setting • General Resistance • Competition • Partnering

11. Jan Dole and Jean Osborn Professional development for K-3 teachers: Content and process

12. Main Ideas • Three keys to knowledge

13. Discussion Summary • How do we do it?

14. Challenges in our Setting • Roadblocks • Materials • People • Fidelity

15. Kathy Ganske and Joanne Monroe Fostering literacy at the later elementary grades: What teachers need to know and be able to do

16. Main Ideas • Preservice teachers • Professional learning • Collaboration

17. Discussion Summary • No separation of college and state • Teacher interests and needs • Inclusion

18. Challenges in our Setting • Steps to alignment • Assessment • Monitoring

19. Susan Florio-Ruane, Taffy Raphael, Kathy Highfield, and Jennifer Berne Reengaging youngsters with reading difficulties by means of innovative professional development

20. Main Ideas • TLC • Book Club Plus

21. Discussion Summary • Collaboration • Experiences • Control • Application(s)

22. Challenges in our Setting • T • L • C

23. Elizabeth Pand and Michael Kamil Professional development in the uses of technology

24. Main Ideas • Traditional • Emerging • Future

25. Discussion Summary • Disparity • Connecting theory and practice • Modeling • Reflection

26. Challenges in our Setting • Overcoming disparity • Developing resources • Utilizing modeling • “Buy-in”

27. Gay Su Pinnell and Emily Rogers Reflective inquiry as a tool for professional development

28. Main Ideas • A mirror image

29. Discussion Summary • Collaboration • Individual with Coach • Independent

30. Challenges in our Setting • “No matter how well founded the practices may be they will not result in greater student learning unless they can be established in classrooms.”

31. Irene Gaskins Professional development at Benchmark School

32. Main Ideas • Importance of teacher knowledge and skills • Importance of professional learning • Importance of instructional leader

33. Discussion Summary • Professional learning is the key to improved student learning • What • How • Outcomes • Evolving

34. Challenges in our Setting • Current attitudes • Resources • Personnel

35. Michael Copland Distributed leadership for instructional improvement: The principal’s role

36. *Literacy Coach *Leadership Teams *Grade Level Teams *Vertical Team Administrators RRFC Main Ideas

37. Discussion Summary • Manager • Policies • Instruction • Plan and Design • LC • Principal • RRFC • Format for leadership team meetings

38. Challenges in our Setting • Leadership styles • Lazy principals • Attitudes • Schedules, time management, priority

39. So how’d we do? • What are the strengths of a shared accountability approach to adult learning? • What are the weaknesses? • What can we do to build this professional community?