K12 Comprehensive Reading Plan Elementary Overview 20052006

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K-12 Comprehensive Reading PlanElementary
Overview 2005-2006
Instruction
Resources
Assessment
Professional Development
Supplemental Services
Monitoring
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Elementary K12 CRP

• Be the Leader
• who knows the plan and does it.
• Be --- Know -- Do

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Elementary K-12 CRP

• What are the major pieces?
• Student Achievement
• Monitoring
• Teacher Support
• Staff Development

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Elementary K-12 CRP

• Student Achievement
• SSS Diagnostic
• SRI
• Common Assessments
• FCAT Results
• Fluency Probes
• DAR

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Elementary K-12 CRP

• Monitoring
• Team Meetings
• Instructional Reviews
• Weekly walkthrough visits
• District fidelity checks

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Elementary K-12 CRP

• Teacher Support
• Teams
• Model Classrooms
• Coach Support (if applicable)
• District training modeling
• Other school-centered support
• strategies

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Elementary K-12 CRP

• Staff Development
• Tiered
• - Basic
• - Foundational
• - Highly Accomplished

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Principal Leadership

• Build your own knowledge of reading
• Content
• Effective instructional practices
• Professional Development opportunities will be
  planned for upcoming CAO Meetings and Area
  Meetings as well as through the Department of
  Elementary Education and Just Read, Florida!

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Principal Leadership

• Identify reading leaders on your staff and form a
  reading leadership team
• Work with reading leadership team to
• review the student assessment data
• develop priorities for the year
• build an action plan to meet priority goals you
  set
• NOTE The Department of Elementary Education
  intends to provide opportunity for each school to
  send one Reading Leader to Literacy trainings
  provided throughout the year in order to build
  capacity at every school throughout the district.

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Principal Leadership

• Build on initiatives already in place at your
  school
• Balanced Literacy
• K 2 Literacy Initiative
• BEL
• Grades 3-5 Reading Coach
• Reading First
• SAI
• AAA
• Title I

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Non-Discretionary

• 90 minutes daily uninterrupted reading
  instructional block
• Provide staff with training on the plan
  (PowerPoint and script to be provided to all
  schools in August).

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Non-Discretionary

• Reading/literacy coaches must adhere to the Just
  Read, Florida! coach model
• Must commit to working towards completion of
  reading endorsement unless already certified or
  endorsed in reading (to be provided through coach
  monthly trainings)
• Must be certified in elementary education
• Must attend ALL training meetings (twice per
  month)
• Must complete monthly coach activity logs
• May not be scheduled with students, used as a
  substitute, or for administrative tasks
• Should have ability to work with adult learners
• Must be able to deliver professional development
• Must agree to attend Just Read, Florida! Coaching
  Academy from August 8-11, 2005

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Non-Discretionary

• Progress monitoring of Tier 3 third graders and
  Level 1 and 2 fourth and fifth graders with an
  Oral Reading Fluency probe a one minute running
  record for speed and accuracy (to be provided)
• Instructional Reviews principal classroom
  walkthroughs to review instruction and learning
  environment

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Non-Discretionary

• Use of Assessment/Curriculum Decision Tree for
  Grades 3-5(6)
• Correlation of K-12 CRP plan to your School
  Improvement Plan
• (SIP template will contain sample reading
  goals and research base aligned to plan)

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Changes for Elementary

• Reading certification or endorsement expected for
  EVERY reading/literacy coach in the district
• 90-minute uninterrupted initial instructional
  block for reading writing process instruction
  occurs outside this period
• Immediate Intensive Intervention must occur
  outside the 90-minute block for struggling
  readers

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K-12 CRP August/SeptemberEssential Reminders
Checklist

• Provide in-service on the K-12 CRP during
  pre-planning.
• Provide professional development materials to
  support instruction.
• Ensure that the reading coach is not used as a
  reading resource teacher, substitute,
  administrator, or in any other capacity that
  takes them away from their main task of being a
  full-time professional development resource in
  reading.

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K-12 CRP August/SeptemberEssential Reminders
Checklist

• Require assistant principals to read the plan.
• Require coaches/reading teachers to read the
  plan.
• Establish Reading Leadership Team.
• Require members of the Leadership Team to read
  the plan.
• Establish lesson plan review schedule.

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K-12 CRP August/SeptemberEssential Reminders
Checklist

• Establish data monitoring calendar.
• Establish model reading classroom.
• Establish schedule for weekly classroom
  walk-throughs.
• Be prepared to scaffold support to reading
  teachers whose students arent improving.
• Have teachers tie Individual Professional
  Development Plan to reading.
• Include reading strategies in SIP.

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K-12 CRP August/SeptemberEssential Reminders
Checklist

• Give overview of plan to staff.
• Require all coaches to attend staff development,
  as offered.
• Require professional development contact to keep
  copies of tiered professional development that
  focused on reading.
• Clarify role of coach.

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K-12 CRP Support

• Copies of the entire plan once approved.
  (Document center)
• Assistance in establishing a model classroom.
• Staff Development will be provided for assistant
  principals, reading coaches and reading contacts.

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Final Thought

• Be the Leader
• who knows the plan and does it.
• Be --- Know -- Do