Sentences with phrase «help literacy leaders»

We offer guidance and expertise to help literacy leaders conduct structured reading and writing observations, train staff members in effective intervention strategies and grouping, create multi-tiered systems of support, and use data to engage in self - inquiry and improvement.

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These memos were therefore created to give easy - to - digest, actionable guidance to literacy leaders at every level — from business and community members working on the effort, to practitioners providing direct support to children — and help reach real impact for children across the country.»

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

They come here looking for research - based practices to enhance their instruction and help them serve as literacy leaders in their schools.

Well - intentioned school leaders want to ensure that poor, minority children get what they need to improve their reading scores and have been told that helping such students requires direct and explicit teaching of literacy skills.

Help ARA let these individuals know that we appreciate and recognize their efforts to promote literacy by presenting them the ARA Literacy Lealiteracy by presenting them the ARA Literacy LeaLiteracy Leader pin.

On the personal knowledge development level, Hillman says principal training in interactive read - alouds, writing practices, guided reading, and similar skills, which are offered by the Literacy Collaborative and other organizations, are key to helping school leaders make informed assessments of literacy instruction in their Literacy Collaborative and other organizations, are key to helping school leaders make informed assessments of literacy instruction in their literacy instruction in their schools.

Jennifer McDermott Jennifer McDermott, as a CEL project director, focuses on supporting teachers in secondary literacy, supporting coaches and leaders with their coaching practice and helping schools and districts design professional development.

This certificate will provide the research and practical knowledge necessary for school leaders and classroom teachers to develop and implement literacy programs and practices that will help sustain the gains students make in the early years and support reading success as students proceed through elementary school.

By serving as a source and a resource, she has helped transform leaders through sharing her expertise in student engagement strategies, disciplinary literacy, curriculum design, developing assessments and cooperative learning.

Convince business leaders, who recognize the importance of having employees able to think critically and comprehend material, to create partnerships with schools to help them implement successful literacy practices.

WestEd and Using Data Solutions have worked together with funding from the Spencer Foundation to develop four scenario - based exercises to help teachers and leaders measure levels of data literacy.

Our primary commitment is to help education leaders plan comprehensive professional development programs that are customized to local needs and that build collaborative inquiry and data literacy skills across all stakeholders in a school or district.

A student leader helps classmates learn sight words during guided literacy Photo: Sharon Rubenstien

«The LNF will help school leaders and managers to embed literacy and numeracy across all subjects in the curriculum and will support all teachers to become teachers of literacy and numeracy.

Inspired Teaching helped lead this important conversation, building upon Inspired Teaching's work with Teacher Leaders in SCALE: Science Curriculum Advancement through Literacy Enhancement.

Her work in the Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI) involved helping school leaders and teacher teams to implement school wide systems of assessment in literacy, integrate vocabulary instruction across content areas, and plan, develop and teach strategic reading lessons for students reading below grade level.

In addition, Jennifer provided professional development for the district's literacy coaches through a series of workshops with the goal of helping school leaders to better analyze and plan effective instruction aligned to student learning needs.

The book also offers strategies to help educators integrate literacy and learning across the content areas, provide targeted interventions for students who are struggling the most, and develop a supportive school environment that involves parents, community members, and district leaders.

Practical tools, helpful resources, and vignettes based on the authors» extensive work in school districts nationwide make this an indispensable guide for principals, central office administrators, literacy coaches, department chairs, and other school leaders committed to helping students succeed.

«By supporting educators in creating exceptional literacy plans for all students, the Literacy Leaders» Institute helps us achieve this goalliteracy plans for all students, the Literacy Leaders» Institute helps us achieve this goalLiteracy Leaders» Institute helps us achieve this goal.»

With an expertise in providing training and support for administrators, instructional leaders, and teachers, Dr. Gertler is responsible for the development of materials that help all content - area teachers support the literacy growth needed for life - long learning.

And both can help school leaders ensure successful implementation of the new standards by promoting a focus on rigor, literacy - saturated learning experiences, and curricular coherence.

Both the Western Carolina and ECU lab schools will «have a strong focus on literacy,» and their leaders reckon they'll need to supply non-academic help to «students who have a lot of needs» away from school.

As the founding member of credit counselling in Canada, Credit Canada is a leader in financial literacy and the longest - standing credit counselling agency in the country, having helped over two million Canadians achieve financial empowerment throughout its 50 + year history.

We are recognized as industry leaders for our extensive experience, in - depth financial literacy, and commitment to helping Canadians from all walks of life.

To help recognize Financial Literacy Month in Canada, we asked Canada's first Financial Literacy Leader, Jane Rooney, why financial literacy is so imLiteracy Month in Canada, we asked Canada's first Financial Literacy Leader, Jane Rooney, why financial literacy is so imLiteracy Leader, Jane Rooney, why financial literacy is so imliteracy is so important.

To help recognize Financial Literacy Month in Canada, we asked Canada's first Financial Literacy Leader, Jane Rooney, why...