introducing the national center for literacy education
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Introducing the National Center for Literacy Education, supporting and celebrating school teams working to improve literacyTRANSCRIPT
National Council of Teachers of English
The New Stakeholders: Informing Literacy Education Reform from the Grassroots
Flipping the Script: Introducing the National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE)
Kent Williamson, Executive Director, NCTE
KaiLonnie Dunsmore , Director of Literacy Initiatives, The Ball Foundation
Supporting and Celebrating School Teams Working to Improve Literacy
NCTE and Ball Foundation Forging a Broad Alliance to improve literacy education through…
Support sound planning, teaching, and assessment by cross-disciplinary teams
Celebrating department, school, and system success and sharing sound practices
Coordinating new research and professional development innovation
Generating policy recommendations to foster on-going support for team-generated literacy improvement plans.
NCTE and Ball Foundation Forging a Broad Alliance (NCLE) to improve Literacy Education for All by fostering……
Coherent
Innovative
Effective
Instruction
Support for Instruction
Organizational Conditions
NCTE and Ball Foundation Forging a Broad Alliance (NCLE) to improve Literacy Education for All by fostering….
COORDINATING & SUPPORTING
RESEARCH
SEEDING & SUPPORTING
SOUND
INSTRUCTIO
N
INFORMING & MAKING
RECOMMENDATIONS
POLICY
Literacy In Learning Service (LiL)
Research
School Teams(CoP/PLC)
Peer reviewed, writing mentors,
teachers as producers and
consumers
Saranac, MI Middle School Team – all subjects
Literacy Coaches, Philadelphia
ELL Coordinators, Iowa
District wide K-1 teachers Chicago
SIL in Rowland, CA
English Dept. Chair
Writing Workshop CoP
Policy
Inst
ruct
ion
Academic Vocabula
y – HS CoP
Recognition : “Literacy in Every Classroom” School and “Literacy Innovation Schools”
Case or
Video
Articles
Tools
CoP
Just –in-Time Search
Related Content
Guiding Questions
websites
Examples on next slides
NCLE Stakeholders SYSTEMS AND SCHOOLS that share their practices and
strategies—Centers for Literacy Innovation and Literacy in Every Classroom Schools.
Professional Organizations The Connected Learning Coalition—NCTE, NCTM, NSTA,
NCSS, ACTE, CoSN; Associations for school and system leaders (e.g. NASSP,
ASCD, NAESP, CCSSO, etc.) Other literacy and teaching groups (NWP, IRA, TESOL)
Policy Research Organizations/Think Tanks
Foundations who invest in teaching and literacy
Research & Teaching Universities and Colleges
Core NCLE Elements
Literacy in Learning Service—free, interactive online service featuring case studies, vignettes, and analysis of literacy innovation;
Summer Working Meeting—setting priorities and building financial support for research and PD innovation;
Policy Symposia and press events—shining the spotlight on how informed educators sustain growth in literacy learning
What You Can Do Use, contribute to, identify CoP Cases, review the
Literacy in Learning Service upcoming academic year;
Participate in consortia to create essential research and professional development programming;
Make it viral—help tell the story of how interdisciplinary teams are working together to sustain literacy learning growth;
Accentuate the positive—rather than forcing change from the top, down it’s time to understand and support systemic practices that make sustainable progress possible.
Contact us:
Kent Williamson [email protected]
Anne [email protected]
Cathy Fleischer [email protected]
KaiLonnie Dunsmore [email protected]