A Leader S Guide To Reading And Writing In A Plc At Work Elementary

Confidently lead early literacy improvement in your professional learning community (PLC). Aligned to the Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher series, this results-focused guide outlines how to take urgent action to address deficiencies and increase literacy rates. Learn how to bring a new level of focus to your teacher teams and help them do the important daily work of ensuring every student successfully reads and writes at or beyond grade level. Understand the importance and goals of literacy-focused instruction in an elementary setting. Gain specific suggestions for four types of leaders: (1) district, (2) school, (3) coach, and (4) teacher. Help collaborative teams emphasize literacy knowledge and reading and writing skills in a curriculum's essential standards. Create effective data-inquiry practices that inform team decision-making about interventions and extensions. Facilitate high-quality literacy instruction using the gradual release of responsibility framework. Develop equity in literacy instructional strategies to ensure growth and development for all. Contents: Introduction: Leaders of Literacy Chapter 1: Establish Clarity About Student Learning Expectations Chapter 2: Examine Assessment Options for Literacy Chapter 3: Create a Learning Progression to Guide Instruction and Assessment Chapter 4: Develop Collective Understanding of Learning Expectations Chapter 5: Respond to Student Data to Ensure All Students Learn Chapter 6: Design Lessons Using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Instructional Framework Chapter 7: Plan for High-Quality Instruction in Literacy Chapter 8: Select Appropriate Instructional Strategies Chapter 9: Consider Equity in Literacy Epilogue Appendix A: Reference Points, Templates, and Tools Appendix B: List of Figures and Tables References and Resources Index

"Elementary leaders recognize the urgency to improve literacy rates; however, the real work in leading elementary schools to effective literacy instruction lies in taking action to address deficiencies and obstacles that avert progress. Where do leaders focus their time and attention to ensure students can read and comprehend grade-level content? A Leader's Guide to Reading and Writing in a PLC at Work, Elementary by Kathy Tuchman Glass and Karen Power is the ultimate guide to leading literacy instructional efforts in an elementary setting. How do teams establish clarity about their expectations of students? How do they more effectively design and issue assessments that gather information about what students know and can do? How can leaders help their collaborative teams engage more effectively in collective inquiry around the data they gather and then provide students with effective interventions and extensions that maximize learning? This resource addresses all these questions and more so leaders can better support their teachers and improve students' reading and writing skills to prepare students for their future learning"--

Take an active role in achieving and sustaining literacy improvement in your PLC. An essential leadership resource in the Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher series, this valuable guide outlines how to drive literacy instruction in a secondary setting. Learn how to support your collaborative teams, gather and analyze data, and ensure students can read and write at or beyond grade level. This book offers leadership strategies for secondary literacy education that works: Understand the challenges of leading literacy and the importance of using those challenges as opportunities for change. Launch your journey to become a literacy leader with effective listening, learning, and engagement in active leadership. Recognize the importance of data to new literacy-focused initiatives, reading instruction, and writing strategies. Establish effective professional development and differentiated instructional strategies for effective literacy instruction across academic disciplines. Measure literacy growth and sustain an environment of continual literacy learning to improve student learning outcomes. Contents: Introduction: The Need for Literacy Instruction Chapter 1: Confronting the Challenges of Leading Literacy Chapter 2: Starting With Listening, Learning, and Leading With Action Chapter 3: Leading With Data Chapter 4: Leading Professional Learning Chapter 5: Leading Instruction Chapter 6: Leading Intervention Chapter 7: Measuring Growth and Sustainability Epilogue References and Resources Index

"Secondary leaders recognize the urgency to improve literacy rates; however, the real work in leading secondary schools to effective literacy instruction lies in taking action to address deficiencies and obstacles that avert progress. Where do leaders focus their time and attention to ensure students can read and comprehend grade-level content? A Leader's Guide to Reading and Writing in a PLC at Work, Secondary by series editors Mark Onuscheck and Jeanne Spiller and authors Daniel M. Argentar, Katherine A. N. Gillies, Maureen M. Rubenstein, Brian R. Wise, and Michelle Garlick is a valuable guide and tool for leading literacy instructional efforts in a secondary setting. How do leaders come to understand and share with teams the critical impact of reading and writing skills across all academic disciplines? How do leaders take an active role in establishing and sustaining literacy initiatives? How do they ensure teams collaboratively gather and analyze data in ways that reveal literacy-skill growth among students and where more work is needed? This resource addresses all these questions and more so leaders can better support secondary-level collaborative teams and improve students' reading and writing skills to prepare them for their future learning and life beyond school"--

Professional development embedded within the PLC culture is vital to successfully implementing the Common Core State Standards. Integrate the CCSS for English language arts into your school’s instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices with this straightforward resource. Using specific leader-driven examples and scenarios, discover the what and how of teaching so you can ensure students master the standards.

Literacy is a skill for all time, for all people. It is an integral part of our lives, whether we are students or adult professionals. Giving all educators the breadth of knowledge and practical tools that help students strengthen their literacy skills is the focus of Read, Write, Lead. Drawing on her experience as a mentor teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and staff developer, author Regie Routman offers time-tested advice on how to develop a schoolwide learning culture that leads to more effective reading and writing across the curriculum. She explains how every school—including yours—can: implement instructional practices that lead to better engagement and achievement in reading and writing for all students, from kindergarten through high school, including second-language and struggling learners; build Professional Literacy Communities of educators working together to create sustainable school change through professional learning based on shared beliefs; reduce the need for intervention through daily practices that ensure success, even for our most vulnerable learners; and embed the language of productive feedback in responsive instruction, conferences, and observations in order to accelerate learning for students, teachers, and leaders. In their own voices, teachers, principals, literacy specialists, and students offer real-life examples of changes that led to dramatic improvement in literacy skills and—perhaps just as important--increased joy in teaching and learning. Scattered throughout the book are “Quick Wins”--ideas and actions that can yield positive, affirming results while tackling the tough work of long-term change.

What makes a powerful and results-driven Professional Learning Community (PLC)? The answer is collaborative work that expands the emphasis on student learning and leverages individual teacher efficacy into collective teacher efficacy. PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design calls for strong and effective PLCs plus—and that plus is YOU. Until now, the PLC movement has been focused almost exclusively on students and what they were or were not learning. But keeping student learning at the forefront requires that we also recognize the vital role that you play in the equation of teaching and learning. This means that PLCs must take on two additional challenges: maximizing your individual expertise, while harnessing the power of the collaborative expertise you can develop with your peers. PLC+ is grounded in four cross-cutting themes—a focus on equity of access and opportunity, high expectations for all students, a commitment to building individual self-efficacy and the collective efficacy of the professional learning community and effective team activation and facilitation to move from discussion to action. The PLC+ framework supports educators in considering five essential questions as they work together to improve student learning: Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit? The PLC+ framework leads educators to question practices as well as outcomes. It broadens the focus on student learning to encompass educational equity and teaching efficacy, and, in doing so, it leads educators to plan and implement learning communities that maximize individual expertise while harnessing the power of collaborative efficacy.

Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at WorkTM process? Two experienced practitioners show you how to explore the critical components needed to lay the foundation of a PLC, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, how to reflect on your communication effectiveness, and more.