Follow Up to the National Community Literacy Summit

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Follow Up to the National Community Literacy
Summit

• May 19, 2007
• Tanya Shuy
• tshuy_at_nifl.gov

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Steering Committee

• Amy Arebreton
• Public Private Venture
• Jay Connor
• The Collaboratory for Community Support
• Douglas Marriott
• Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles

• John Mitterholzer
• The Cleveland Foundation
• Katherine Pavey
• Discovery Alliance
• Douglas Perkins
• Vanderbilt University

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Summit Focus

• Literacy Instruction
• Performance Measurement

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Literacy Instruction

• The Essential Components of Literacy For Programs
• Dr. Timothy Shanahan
• Literacy Instruction Across the Lifespan
• Dr. Barbara Foorman
• Dr. Daphne Greenberg

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5 Keys to Literacy Success Across the Lifespan

• Amount of teaching
• Content of teaching
• Quality of teaching

• Student Motivation
• Alignment and Support

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Community Literacy Programs for Children

• A program is only as good as its implementation
• Ongoing assessment for student progress
• Intensity of tutoring matters
• Helpful to have a knowledgeable reading expert to
  coordinate supervise

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Community Literacy Programs for Adults

• Assessment needed for strengths weaknesses
• Need to take into account learners goals
• Learning takes time
• Learners tend to attend, stop, then come back
  or go to a different location
• Direct, explicit instruction is needed
• Sequential instruction

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Literacy Mentoring

• Susan Taylor with Essence Magazine and Essence
  Cares Initiative
• Inspire a national mentoring movement
• Recruited national partners and is working with
  them to introduce literacy skill building into
  mentoring

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Broadening the Role of Literacy in Communities
Experiences from the Field

• Helene Kramer
• Good Schools For All, Buffalo Reads

• Carl Guerriere
• Greater Hartford Literacy Council

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Buffalo Reads

• Developed collaborative model
• Feasibility Study (different outcome measures)
• Goals for age appropriate literacy, adult
  literacy, providers
• Literacy infused everywhere

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Greater Hartford Literacy Council

• Strategic partners
• Assets Needs Assessment
• Develop quality standards for literacy services
• Baseline report Status of Literacy in Greater
  Hartford with recommendations for action

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Measuring Effectiveness

• Patrick Gaston with Verizon Foundation
• Need to state what the learner learned in terms
  of literacy advancement/achievement
• Verizon Lifespan Literacy Matrix

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Performance Measurement in Community
LiteracyHarry Hatry

• Outcome sequence chart
• Service quality characteristics

• Categories of data sources
• Data collection procedures

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Challenges in Measuring and Collecting Data for
Evaluation

• Petrice Sams-Abiodun, Lindy Boggs National Center
  for Community Literacy
• Douglas Marriott, Literacy Network of Greater Los
  Angeles

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When the Community is the Unit of Analysis

• Diversity of providers
• Range of assessments instructional methods
• Reporting requirements vary
• Literacy Alliance Evaluation strength of
  partnerships collaboration plus integration of
  best practices

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Literacy _at_ Work

• Data measurement with training
• Public/private partnership of organizations
• Challenges skills assessment, performance
  measurement, data management

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Next Steps for the Institute

• Special 2008 Issue of Community Literacy Journal
• Special Topics Discussion List
• Topic - Community Literacy
• coming soon

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Sources for further information

• National Institute for Literacy Community
  Literacy Summit page http//www.nifl.gov/nifl/comm
  unity/communityliteracy.html
• Special Topics Discussion List
• http//www.nifl.gov/lincs/dicsussions
• Community Literacy Journal
• http//www.communityliteracy.org/
• Outcome Indicators
• http//www.urban.org/center/cnp/projects/outcomei
  ndicators.cfm