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.

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.