Reading Coach Institute, Elementary
Levels: K–6
Length: 3 days
Audience: Teacher leaders and coaches
Prerequisite: Reading background desirable
Description
This institute, focused on technical coaching, is designed to prepare teacher leaders and coaches to support and facilitate literacy instruction in the classroom and to successfully implement research-based reading programs. Coaches learn to support literacy implementation at the site level. During this institute, content can be applied to widely used basal textbook series.
Participant Outcomes
- Guide and support effective instructional practice
- Support teachers in their own classrooms
- Help teachers collect and analyze assessment data
- Facilitate grade-level meetings
- Solve common problems before they hinder implementation
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.
Reading Leader Institute, Elementary
Levels: K-6
Length: 3 days
Audience: Superintendents, district administrators, and school principals
Description
This institute equips district administrators, site administrators, and leadership teams with a solid understanding of the issues for leadership focused on program implementation. Participants practice with resources used to analyze data, observe classroom teaching, monitor implementation over time, and plan intervention with teachers and students. The institute also includes research readings that focus on addressing pressing issues of equity and the achievement gap, and it can support any research-based program a district/school has adopted.
Participant Outcomes
- Understand the leadership issues that impact program implementation.
- Use data to identify what is working and who needs intervention.
- Create an intervention plan to keep the program on track to reach achievement goals.
- Implement grade-level meetings as tools to support achievement growth.
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.