virginia’s state improvement grant and state personnel development grant the content literacy...
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Virginia’s State Improvement Grant and State Personnel
Development Grant
The Content Literacy Continuum & Response to Intervention
NAEP ReadingNAEP Reading• Below the proficiency level
–68% of 8th graders
• Below the basic level
–26% of 8th graders
The Performance Gap
Years in School
DemandsSkills and
The “Gap”
2013-2014
5 th
9 th
9 th1Yr
2Yrs
1 1/2Yrs
2 1/2Yrs
5 Questions5 Questions1. What happens for those students who are reading
below the 4th grade level?2. What’s in place in core classes to ensure that students
will get the “critical” content in spite of their literacy skills?3. What happens for students who know how to decode
but can’t comprehend well?4. Are procedures for teaching powerful learning
strategies embedded in courses across the curriculum?
5. What happens for students who have language problems?
The listening, speaking, reading, writing, and
thinking skills and strategies required to
learn in each of the academic disciplines.
SUBJECT MATTER
SKILLS
LANGUAGE
STRATEGIES
Level 1: Enhance content instruction (mastery of critical content for all regardless of literacy levels)
Level 2: Embedded strategy instruction (routinely weave strategies within and across classes using large group instructional methods)
Level 3: Intensive strategy instruction (mastery of specific strategies using intensive-explicit instructional sequences)
Level 4: Intensive basic skill instruction (mastery of entry level literacy skills at the 4th grade level)
Level 5: Therapeutic intervention (mastery of language underpinnings of curriculum content and learning strategies)
The Virginia SIG
• Content Literacy Continuum (CLC) demonstration sites
• Professional developers– Inservice & preservice
• Professional developer network
• Develop and disseminate curricular support materials
• Policy reform
Partnerships & Alignment
• Partnerships– Shared responsibility– Shared commitment– Shared credit & benefit
• Deep Alignment– Instructional systems– Instructional supports– SPP & NCLB,– State, district and school initiatives
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Aligning Instructional Systems
Aligning Systemsto Support Instruction
A Comprehensive Aligned Instructional System
rigorous standards
curriculum & m ateria ls
assessm ents & data
professional developm ent
accountability
p lanning
personnel
use of funds
specia l program s
specia lized instructional program s
instructional stra tegies
operations
1) Management
2) Content implementation
3) Evaluation
4) Sustainability
The topical discussions will address:
1) Management: How to manage the initiative?
• Identify the demonstration sites– RFP– Informational sessions– Selection panel
• Staffing/resource allocation– Project Management Team – Training/Technical Assistance Centers (T/TACs) – Cadre– Leadership teams
• Relationship building
VDOE - Project Management Team
VA-CLC Cadre
CLC School Leadership Team
VDOEEvaluation
Team
T/TAC Team
CLC Division Leadership Team
• Ensure District Administrators understand the big picture; active in decision-making and communication loop
• Ensure School Administrators & Teachers are a vital part of the Adolescent Literacy Team & are in the loop
• Clarifies how Evaluation connects through project management and VA-CLC Cadre
• Ensure all staff have current information and understand the big picture – not just aspects that apply to them
• Provide an ongoing feedback loop for all involved
Virginia SIG CLC Communication Flowchart
2) Content implementation: Scaling-up
• Pilot stage– Leadership mechanisms– Fidelity to the model
• Scaling-up– Professional developers
• In-service• Pre-service
– Implementation guide– 8 regions, including large and urban districts– Coaching– Expertise
• Innovation zones– Concentration of skilled workers & advanced infrastructure (T/TAC,
SIM Network & Leaders)– Research capacity (KUCRL & W&M)– Policy alignment / waivers
• Parent involvement?
2) Content implementation:
• Role of leadership– Distributed leadership and partnerships
• Local Team “buy-in”– Time & sustained commitment– Research validated– Fidelity– Respect / co-construction– Accountability
• Systematic factors influencing change– Leadership– Sustained focus– Alignment
3) Evaluation: How to evaluate the impact?
• Developmental model• Implementation• Outcome data
– State Performance Plan– 9th grade retention– Teacher retention
• Cost• Comparison
Aligned & developed in partnership
4) Sustainability: How do you sustain it?
• Statewide network of professional developers & coaches (in-service & pre-service)
• Training/Technical Assistance Centers (T/TAC) • Guides for school & division level implementation• Developing leaders, coaches & other staff• Policy development• Establishing a coaching protocol• Alignment • Guide districts to plan for sustainability
– District level coaches & professional developers– Support districts to implement the initiative
• $$$ ???