Literacy Leadership Team, The: Sustaining and Expanding Success, CourseSmart eTextbook

The Literacy Leadership Team: Sustaining and Expanding Success provides clear and practical time-proven practices to assure that schools are consistently developing an “informed eye” when developing literacy curriculums and programs. This unique book provides a wealth of information to assist not only the literacy coach as a lead learner, but the entire literacy leadership team to focus on positive change or forward shifts in schools. 

 

In order to influence learning and instruction in a positive manner, this much-awaited book helps literacy leadership team members develop a common language and understanding about literacy processing and adult learners. Enrique and Kathy share advice on how each team member will bring a wealth of personalized knowledge and experiences that they will need to acknowledge and use as a seed for thinking in different directions so that they are better able to support the school as a place of learning for everyone.     

 

This is the perfect companion to The Literacy Coach:  Guiding in the Right Direction!          

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Literacy Leadership Team:  Sustaining and Expanding Success

(A companion volume to The Literacy Coach:  Guiding in the Right Direction)

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword by David Booth

Introduction

SECTION 1: Creating a Foundation to Sustain Success

Chapter 1         Understanding adult learning

·        “X-ed” Change

·        Andragogy

·        How Andragogy differs from Pedagogy

·        Models for Adult Learning

·        Who is an Adult Learner

·        Summary

·        Libretto

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

Chapter 2         Understanding Conditions for Learning

·        “X-ed” Change

·        Expectation

·        Responsibility

·        Immersion

·        Use

·        Response

·        Demonstration

·        Engagement

·        Approximation

·        Summary

·        Libretto

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

 

Chapter 3         Developing a Common Language

·        “Xed” Change

·        Benefits of developing a common language

·        Features of developing a common language

·        Team Practices to develop a common language

·        Updating terms

·        Summary

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

Chapter 4         Understanding literacy processing

·        “X-ed” Change

·        Reading as a process

·        Developmental stages of reading

·        Writing as a process

·        Reciprocity of literate activities

·        Teaching for strategic activity to sustain literate enterprises and expand meaning

·        Summary

·        Libretto

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

Chapter 5         Getting started

·        “X-ed” Change

·        Setting ground rules

·        Assembling a working system to support change

·        Identifying members

·        Elementary (pre-K- 5)  literacy leadership teams

·        Secondary (6-12) literacy leadership teams

·        Summary

·        Libretto

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

SECTION 2: Assembling a Working System to Promote Forward Shifts

 

Chapter 6         Identifying an initial adaptive challenge

·        “X-ed” Change

·        Using assessment to guide investigations

·        Using evaluation to guide practice

·        Summary

·        Libretto

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

Chapter 7         Investigating an adaptive challenge

·        “X-ed” Change

·        Using professional literature

·        Instructional procedures to employ

·        Summary

·        Libretto

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

Chapter 8         Refining an adaptive challenge and developing an action plan

·        “X-ed” Change

·        Developing a focus based on literacy processing

·        Developing an action plan

·        Executing an action plan

·        Summary

·        Libretto

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

Chapter 9         Developing a study group and reflecting on the plan

·        “X-ed” Change

·        Reaching consensus

·        Selecting resources

·        Summary

·        Libretto

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

SECTION 3: Utilizing Scaffolds to Expand Success

 

Chapter 10       Utilizing the literacy coach

·        “X-ed” Change

·        On-going job-embedded professional learning

·        Literacy coaching as a continuum

·        Facilitating a workshop

·        Providing an observation lesson

·        Co-teaching

·        Conferring, observing, and debriefing

·        Facilitating a study group

·        Facilitating collaborative action research

·        Summary

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

Chapter 11       Developing a long-term school-wide plan

·        “X-ed” Change

·        Looking ahead: using a 5-year plan

·        Summary

·        Libretto

·        Reflection

·        Exchange

 

Chapter 12       Establishing Support at the State Level

Evan B. Lefsky, contributing author

·        The K-12 Literacy Plan

·        State-Funded University-based Support

·        Implementing a K-12 Literacy Leadership Conference

·        K-12 Literacy Coach Academies

·        Summer Literacy Leadership Team Institutes

·        Professional learning Resource

·        Principal and Teacher Preparation

·        University Faculty Fellows

·        Access to Data

·        Summary

 

Final Note 

Appendices

Appendix A - Literacy Leadership Team Self-Assessment Survey

Appendix B - Five Stage Plan for Sustaining and Expanding Success

Appendix C - Action Plan for Intentional Literacy Instruction

Appendix D - Annotated bibliography

 

Glossary

References

Index (2 pages)