Improving Reading Achievement through Professional Development

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Improving Reading Achievement through
Professional Development

• A joint production of the GA Reading Team!

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Our Process

• Together we have read and discussed chapters in
  Dorothy Strickland and Michael Kamils edited
  book, Improving Reading Achievement through
  Professional Development
• Here is a summary of our work

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Gerald Duffy

• Teachers who improve reading achievement What
  research says about what they do and how to
  develop them

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Main Ideas

• Adaptive teaching
• Training vs. educative model
• Thinking differently about professional
  development

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Discussion Summary

• Effective teachers adapt and modify
• Reading First Teacher Academies

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Challenges in our Setting

• Policy makers/allocation of adequate funding
• Collaboration at federal, state, college, local
  levels

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Susan Burns and Robert Stechuk

• Establishing the basis for improved reading
  achievement Prekindergarten and kindergarten

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Main Ideas

• Knowledge
• Strategies
• Enact, assess, analyze, reflect

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Discussion Summary

• Continued Resistance
• Advantage of mentoring

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Challenges in our Setting

• General Resistance
• Competition
• Partnering

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Jan Dole and Jean Osborn

• Professional development for K-3 teachers
  Content and process

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Main Ideas

• Three keys to knowledge

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Discussion Summary

• How do we do it?

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Challenges in our Setting

• Roadblocks
• Materials
• People
• Fidelity

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Kathy Ganske and Joanne Monroe

• Fostering literacy at the later elementary
  grades What teachers need to know and be able to
  do

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Main Ideas

• Preservice teachers
• Professional learning
• Collaboration

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Discussion Summary

• No separation of college and state
• Teacher interests and needs
• Inclusion

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Challenges in our Setting

• Steps to alignment
• Assessment
• Monitoring

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Susan Florio-Ruane, Taffy Raphael, Kathy
Highfield, and Jennifer Berne

• Reengaging youngsters with reading difficulties
  by means of innovative professional development

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Main Ideas

• TLC
• Book Club Plus

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Discussion Summary

• Collaboration
• Experiences
• Control
• Application(s)

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Challenges in our Setting

• T
• L
• C

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Elizabeth Pand and Michael Kamil

• Professional development in the uses of
  technology

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Main Ideas

• Traditional
• Emerging
• Future

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Discussion Summary

• Disparity
• Connecting theory and practice
• Modeling
• Reflection

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Challenges in our Setting

• Overcoming disparity
• Developing resources
• Utilizing modeling
• Buy-in

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Gay Su Pinnell and Emily Rogers

• Reflective inquiry as a tool for professional
  development

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Main Ideas

• A mirror image

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Discussion Summary

• Collaboration
• Individual with Coach
• Independent

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Challenges in our Setting

• No matter how well founded the practices may be
  they will not result in greater student learning
  unless they can be established in classrooms.

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Irene Gaskins

• Professional development at Benchmark School

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Main Ideas

• Importance of teacher knowledge and skills
• Importance of professional learning
• Importance of instructional leader

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Discussion Summary

• Professional learning is the key to improved
  student learning
• What
• How
• Outcomes
• Evolving

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Challenges in our Setting

• Current attitudes
• Resources
• Personnel

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Michael Copland

• Distributed leadership for instructional
  improvement The principals role

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Main Ideas

• Literacy Coach
• Leadership Teams
• Grade Level Teams
• Vertical Team
• Administrators
• RRFC

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Discussion Summary

• Manager
• Policies
• Instruction
• Plan and Design
• LC
• Principal
• RRFC
• Format for leadership team meetings

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Challenges in our Setting

• Leadership styles
• Lazy principals
• Attitudes
• Schedules, time management, priority

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So howd we do?

• What are the strengths of a shared accountability
  approach to adult learning?
• What are the weaknesses?
• What can we do to build this professional
  community?