NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION

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• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION
• Adolescent Literacy Network
• April 19, 2007

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In the beginning

• Executive Order, September 2001
• Interim and Final Reports
• Florida Reading Landscape
• Florida Center for Reading Research at FSU
• Preparing for Reading First, Spring 2002
• Legislative appropriation 11 million
• Reading Coaches Elementary, Middle, High
• Organizational Structure, January 2002
• Reading office
• Housed at Florida Department of Education
• Report to Governor, Commissioner, State Board of
  Education, Legislature

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Beyond third grade

• Professional Development
• Assessment
• System Changes

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Professional Development

• Start with Leadership
• Just Read, Florida! Leadership Conference
• 2007 is the 6th annual over 4000 in attendance
• Deal with pipeline
• Certification Exams
• Reading Endorsement www.justreadflorida.com/endo
  rsement
• Work with those in trenches
• Just Read, Florida! Teacher Academies
• Free Endorsement courses (online, traditional)
• Reading Coaches, regional support system
• LEaRN

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Assessment

• Diagnostic program for lowest 25
• 1999 K-3
• 2004 K-12
• Screening and Progress Monitoring
• Florida Oral Reading Fluency Probe, 6-10
• MAZE Procedure, 6-10
• Progress Monitoring and Reporting Network
• Data management system
• State, regional, district, school,
  classroom-level data
• www.fcrr.org

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WHAT NEEDS CHANGING?

• (AND WHO OWNS IT?)

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• State Board of Education
• Teacher prep program approval process
• Teacher certification process (endorsement)
• Commissioners Authority
• Curriculum standards revision
• Adding literacy benchmarks to each content area
• Statute
• Requiring intensive reading classes
• Level 1 (most struggling reader decoding and
  fluency)
• Intensive reading class
• Reading endorsed teacher
• Level 2 (struggling reading vocabulary and
  comprehension)
• Content area class
• Reading endorsed teacher
• Appropriations

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How do we fund this thing?

• Look at existing funds and reprioritize
• Get some early wins, and then ask for the big
  bucks (and ask the following to help you)
• State Board Members
• Teachers
• Superintendents
• Be the squeaky wheel

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Elementary
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Middle
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High