Adolescent Literacy: the Roadmap to Student Success

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Adolescent Literacy the Roadmap to Student
Success

• NASBE Adolescent Literacy Conference
• Alexandria, VA
• April 19-20, 2007
• Melvina Phillips

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Literacy Leadership Model

Committed Instructional Leadership
Strategic, Accelerated Intervention
Informative Formal and Informal Assessments
Increased Student Achievement
Highly Effective Teachers
On-going Job-embedded Research-based Professional
Development
The student is the heart of the Literacy
Improvement Cycle
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What is Effective Literacy Leadership?

• Creates supportive infrastructure
• Schedules to support student learning
• Schedules to support teacher professional growth
• Encourages effective instructional practices
• Provides essential resources
• Monitors and supports embedded literacy
  instruction
• Literacy Walks
• Informal and Formal Observations
• Identifies and secures correct intervention
  programs to meet student literacy needs

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Literacy Leadership Team
Beginning a literacy initiative cannot be the
sole responsibility of one individual shared
leadership is essential (Kostin Haeger,
2006). It is more efficient to work as a Literacy
Leadership Team to analyze data, plan action
steps, and support the school-wide literacy
initiative through the framework of a
well-designed Action Plan.
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Highly Effective Teachers The Essential
Ingredient
Content teachers are the best source for
providing students with explicit instruction on
how to critically read and think about
text. Abromitis, 1994 Campbell, 1994, Kamil et
al., 2000
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Strategic Teaching Model
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Implications for SBE

• Create Public Relations Initiative to Communicate
  Need for Adolescent Literacy
• Design a Comprehensive State Literacy Plan to
  Address
• Accountability
• Comprehensive Assessments
• Professional Development
• Pre-service
• In-Service
• Curriculum Inclusive of Literacy Standards
• Intervention Needs
• Adequate Funding to Support Districts and Schools