Teachers, librarians, academic coaches, and administrators met Friday afternoon for the inaugural meeting of the TCS Literacy Team. Representatives from all schools are reading and using Doug Lemov's Reading Reconsidered as a guide to jump start professional conversations about how to increase reading and improve literacy skills in TCS. The district team is led by Jennifer Cardwell, Kelly McGough, and Edra Perry. Each school has created school literacy teams that will lead their members in reading and discussing Reading Reconsidered.
Our District Goal: Improving student growth through various measures of achievement by focusing on increased literacy skills in every subject-area, through the reading of complex texts, discussions, and writing.
Our District Literacy Team Purpose is to assist each school team in conducting turnaround training that will lead students to increased literacy proficiency. This should also provide increased reading data at each school which will help schools meet their local indicators.
Each school has written a purpose and goals. The HTMS Purpose and Goals:
Provide teachers with professional development that will prepare them for choosing appropriate texts and provide instruction on how to teach students to read closely and analyze texts.
Expose students to complex texts and engage them with the texts through close readings and analyzation of the complex texts
According to Lemov, Driggs, and Woolway, our responsibility as schools is to prepare students to read with:
- rigor
- independence
- precision
- insight
So how do we do that? According to the authors:
- Read harder texts.
- Close read.
- Read more nonfiction.
- Write more effectively in response to texts.
This passionate team is dedicated to helping every school in our district raise expectations, rigor, and achievement. The team has a plan that we believe will accomplish the goals of increased reading skills.
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