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Adolescent Literacy Leader Institute

Levels: 6–12
Length: 3 days
Audience: Superintendents, district administrators, site administrators, and leadership teams, with coaches as determined by the client

Description

This institute prepares district administrators, site administrators, and leadership teams to lead their middle and high schools to effectively meet the needs of struggling, underperforming readers and to promote instructional practices that support all students using reading to learn. Participants will practice with resources used to analyze data, observe classroom teaching, monitor implementation over time, and plan intervention with teachers and students, as well as examine options for scheduling.

Participant Outcomes

• Prepare the leadership team to understand their roles in supporting full implementation.
• Prepare administrators to lead powerful instructional changes for significant academic improvement.
• Describe a support system for reading, including intervention and content teachers.
• Demonstrate the use of assessment data to target assistance for teachers and students and plan instructional interventions.

Reading Leader Practicum, Adolescent Literacy

Levels: 6–12
Length: At least 3 sessions recommended (combination of site work and workshops)
Audience: District and site administrators and teacher leader teams, with coaches as determined by the client
Prerequisite: Must have attended a CORE Adolescent Literacy Reading Leader Institute or equivalent

Description

This series of support sessions and classroom visits provides district and school administrators with practice using skills introduced at the Adolescent Literacy Leader Institute. These sessions serve as an opportunity for leadership teams to visit classrooms implementing intervention programs or comprehensive English/reading programs as well as to observe instructional strategies in content-area classrooms.

Participant Outcomes

• Gain new skills essential to managing successful reading programs.
• Understand how to manage a seamless implementation in concert with reading team leaders.

Adolescent Literacy Coach Institute

Levels: 6–12
Length: 2 days
Audience: Teacher leaders, department heads, and literacy coaches
Prerequisite: Participants must come prepared to demonstrate a 10-minute reading-related lesson

Description

In this two-day institute, designed for coaches functioning in middle and high school settings, participants learn to support literacy implementation across content areas and within reading and intervention classrooms. The issues and challenges older students face; the stages of reading development; the different phases of a coaching cycle; and ways to facilitate team, grade-level, or department data study and problem-solving meetings are among the topics covered.

Participant Outcomes

• Apply a three-phased coaching cycle.
• Provide support for teachers working with intervention, core, and content materials.
• Help teachers collect and analyze assessment data to increase achievement.

Adolescent Literacy Coach Practicum

Levels: 6–12
Length: For every five participants, 4 days of on-site follow-up preparation and practice
Audience: District coaches and others who support implementation through coaching and lesson models
Prerequisite: Participants must have attended a CORE Reading Coach Institute or equivalent

Description

For district clients, CORE staff facilitates regular support sessions following the Reading Coach Institute. CORE Educational Consultants mentor the coaches as they model lessons, and observe and debrief teachers. The practicum also helps coaches learn to analyze test data, facilitate on-site collaborative conversations, and develop solutions to implementation challenges. Practicum activities can focus on any research-based basal program a district/school has adopted.

Participant Outcomes

• Fully master skills and strategies for working with classroom teachers, including lesson modeling, classroom observation, and debriefing teachers.
• Practice assessment analysis skills and intervention planning.

Response to Instruction and Intervention Institute for Middle and High School

Levels: Middle and high schools
Length: 3 days, ideally consecutive, but may be taken separately
Audience: District leadership, site administrators, special education staff, teachers

Description
This focused CORE institute is designed to lay the foundation for the implementation of a Response to Intervention or Response to Instruction (RtI) system in middle and high schools. Schools and districts will learn how to design a multi-tiered model with appropriate prevention and intervention materials, assessments, and screening tools to address the needs of students. Participants will learn the origins of RtI in federal law and research, and the essential components and important implementation considerations of RtI. Clarifications will be made regarding the relationship between multi-tiered models and special education referral and placement. Participants will complete a self-inventory and develop a set of “next steps” during this workshop, which focuses on using RtI in reading instruction.

NOTE: This institute is designed for districts/schools new to RtI and multi-tier systems. Following this institute, and for schools/districts already knowledgeable about multi-tier models, CORE offers expert technical assistance on site to design and implement your own RtI system. Call for details.

 

Participant Outcomes

• Learn the major initiatives that support RtI (components of IDEA 2004 and NCLB).
• Acquire a working knowledge of the principles, essential components, and processes of RtI.
• Develop a set of “next steps” to implement an RtI multi-tiered system.

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