CORNERSTONE:

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CORNERSTONE

• New School Institute 2008

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The Children
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Cornerstone The Vision

• To read, to write, to think critically, to
  reason, to analyze and evaluate information, to
  communicate effectively in a variety of forms,
  and to inquire systematically into any important
  matter.

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ELLIN KEENE

• ELLIN OLIVER KEENE served as Deputy Director and
  Director of Literacy and Staff Development for
  the Cornerstone Project at the University of
  Pennsylvania for 4 years.

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WEBSITEhttp//www.cornerstoneliteracy.org

• Cornerstone is a national literacy initiative of
  The New York Institute for Special Education and
  in its essence is about whole school change
  with literacy as the vehicle.

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Leadership Video http//www.cornerstoneliteracy.o
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• We know that leadership is very much related to
  change. As the pace of change accelerates, there
  is naturally a greater need for effective
  leadership.
• --John Kotter, author of Leading Change

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Current
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Essential ElementsSchool change framework to
impact reading
Teacher buy in
Remember these four things for success! This is
very similar to the Cornerstone change process.
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Cornerstone Goal and Strategy

• The goal of Cornerstone is to sustain a model of
  excellence for student literacy that improves and
  enhances childrens learning through school-based
  professional development
• allowing teachers to develop instructional
  strategies and shared leadership.

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Professional Development

• Kevan Collins leads a Focus Group Videoconference
  on phonics, one type of Cornerstone professional
  development.
• PD includes work toward understanding all six
  cueing systems this session dwells on the
  grapho-phonic system.

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FIRST FOCUS GROUP
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Lesson Study

• .research-based practices, using elementary
  school classrooms as clinical sites.

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LESSON STUDY
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Literacy Leadership Team Meetings

• shared leadership, and coaching of adults.

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Rigor and Inquiry

• and a school and classroom environment of rigor
  and inquiry is promoted.

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FIRST-GRADE GOES OWLING
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Teachers and Students Learning

• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this
  thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy
  when we are growing.
• William Butler Yeats

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LESSON LINK
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Newsletters
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The Children