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Project : ISB Literacy Central
Note: I am approaching this like a "Schooling by Design" template since the project is for multiple audiences, both adult and students.
Audience: PreK-5 Teachers, IAs, Substitutes, Students, Administrators
Established Goals (Standards)
  • Teachers understand the literacy framework and underlying research-based rationale, develop the skill fluency and related content knowledge in order to effectively implement the balanced literacy components so that all students develop as effective communicators, collaborators, and life-long learners.
  • Students understand the skills and strategies to move forward as a learner, collaborator, and communicator.
  • Administrators and parents understand the literacy framework and underlying research-based rationale in order to work as effective partners in learning
Enduring UnderstandingsEssential Questions
  • Schools that have common agreements and common approaches to literacy see increased learning gains.
  • Exemplars provide guidance to any learner for developing necessary knowledge, skills, and understandings
  • How can we, as a community, develop everyone's capacity to be life-long learners, collaborators, and communicators?
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Indirect and Direct
Six Facets of Understanding
Indirect:
  • All teachers are consistently implementing the balanced literacy components.
  • Parents, administrators, and IAs understand the framework, its accompanying rationale and are able to appropriately and effectively support literacy learning
Direct:
  • All students are making their predicted annual progress in areas of literacy
  • Students know where they are in their learning within each of the component areas and set goals for next steps.
Explain what the balanced literacy components are and how you're currently implementing each component based on the needs of your current students and which resources you're using.
Apply understanding, skills, and knowledge of literacy in day-to-day implementation of the literacy components, making students (IAs and parents) aware of the connections
Interpret assessment evidence daily, weekly and at the end of a unit in order to plan for, design, and implement the most effective learning pathway for all students.
Take perspective of the learner, researching and prioritizing their learning needs in order to know how how to facilitate their next steps in developing their literacy.
Self-Knowledge: Realize ways you can maintain your personal style and passions within the common framework.
Empathize with struggling, reluctant learners, meeting them where they are and taking them forward.
Notes: Project: Create "Literacy Central" which include the following components for each of the intended audience:
1. Teachers, IAs, substitutes: Video exemplars of the following with text and voice-overs explain key points:
  • Reading workshop (multiple videos per following component: mini-lesson, small group work, teacher share, conferencing)
  • Writing workshop (multiple videos per following component: mini-lesson, small group work, teacher share, conferencing)
  • Interactive Read-aloud
  • Shared Writing
  • Word Study
  • Assessing readers using various available tools (both how-to's and exemplars for purposes of calibration)
  • Examples of integrating digital literacy
  • Unit specific exemplars of key strategies and skills
  • How to locate and check books out of the book room
2. Administrators, Parents: Videos explaining the rationale and research base of using the balanced literacy framework such as:
  • Rationale and importance of "just-right" reading
  • Rationale and importance of developing stamina in both reading and writing
  • Rationale, importance, and effective ways of reading aloud to your child
  • Ways of engaging and expanding reluctant readers' repertoire
3. Students: Video exemplars of finding good reads, effective ways of tracking and sharing thinking and work with others, collecting and presenting evidence as to how they're progressing as a learner in the area of literacy, etc. Such videos would include:
  • Reading buddies at different grade levels
  • Post-its and reading notebooks at different levels
  • How to choose a just-right book
  • How to effectively find a book in the Hub
  • Great reads: recommendations via voice threads, book reviews, etc.



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