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Lets Get Started! Initial LC Tasks

• Dr. Sharon Walpole
• University of Delaware

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• Understanding your grant
• Understanding your core program
• Planning whole-group and needs-based instruction
• Planning assessments
• Planning professional development

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Understanding your grant
Who?
How?
What?
When?
Why?
Where?
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1. Make a graphic organizer

• Specific Responsibilities
• District Building Literacy Teachers
• Rep Admin Coach

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Sample (LC Handbook, pp. 42-43)
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2. Decide how to use it

• Review with state department
• Remind administrators of the shared commitment
• Use in preplanning to remind teachers of shared
  commitment
• Present to School Board and parents
• Present quarterly updates

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Understanding your Core Program

• Conduct a personal review of every grade levels
  manuals with the LC Handbooks Descriptive
  Template (p. 133)
• Pay special attention to any placement or
  progress-monitoring tests and any materials
  intended for needs-based use

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• Check for other review information to identify
  potential strenghts and weaknesses
• http//www.fcrr.org/FCRRReports/reportslist.htm
• http//reading.uoregon.edu/curricula/

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• Consider other ways to learn about the program in
  action
• Can consultants help?
• Are there videos?
• Are there schools using the program that you can
  call or visit?

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• Decide what stuff must be stored, displayed,
  and used in each classroom
• Make a checklist for your teachers
• Make sure everyone has what he or she needs

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Plan time for whole-group and needs-based
instruction Think about time
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Then think about groupings
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Think about support

• How can it be managed?
• Push-in programs?
• Paraprofessionals?
• Circle-Seat-Center rotations?
• What will teachers need to be successful?
• Routines?
• Materials?
• Modeling?

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PS

• This is a long-haul project
• Just get started

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Planning for Assessment

• Decide who will assess
• Get your school-level calendar with all vacations
  and events
• Find out when the required assessments will be
  due
• Schedule trainings and due dates for

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Plan professional development

• Make a strict schedule
• During the day for grade-level teams?
• After school for the entire staff?
• On release days?
• Start with the CORE!!!!
• Will you have consultants come during
  preplanning?
• How can you help teachers set up their rooms so
  that they have what they need?

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• Make direct connections between the summer
  trainings and your core
• Make sure that all of your attention is directed
  to giving everyone the support needed to start
  teaching

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How should YOU plan your time?
Grant Core Schedules Assess PD
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• Spend some time prioritizing and planning the
  time you have before school starts.

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