SchoolWide Literacy Plan

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School-Wide Literacy Plan

• Warren Easton Senior High School
• 2008-2009

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School-Wide Literacy Plan

• Purpose
• Goals
• Components
• Implementation

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Purpose

• Collaboration between the English Department and
  the English Language Arts/Humanities Intervention
  Team
• Co-curricular approach to increasing student
  fluency and comprehension reinforces skills where
  our students have historically shown weakness

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Purpose

• Draw from best practices and proven research to
  select and tailor strategies to meet our
  students unique and individual needs
• Allow individual departments to select and
  implement strategies that best align with course
  structure, content standards and grade-level
  expectations

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Purpose

• Create a unified and consistent approach to
  increasing student fluency and literacy
• Foster school-wide culture of high expectations
  and multi-disciplinary literacy

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Goals

• Increase student literacy and achievement
• ILEAP
• GEE
• Graduation Rate
• Provide teachers with resources and tools to
  fluidly implement strategies and practices

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Goals

• To implement HSTW researched based strategies to
  improve student performance
• To provide Rigor and Relevant instruction
• To challenge students by creating and maintaining
  a high expectation environment in the classroom
  at all times.

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Components

• Expectations
• Teachers reinforce high academic goals
• Students experience standard requirements across
  the disciplines
• School-Wide Programs
• Community of learners
• Competitive yet supportive spirit
• Departmental Focus

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Components - Expectations

• Word Wall
• Consistent repetition and addition of vocabulary
• Students maintain notebook for each course
• Reinforces organization

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Implementation

• School-Wide
• 15 minutes of daily reading
• Word A Day
• Daily writing
• Departmental
• Book assignments
• Daily writing

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Implementation School-Wide

• Daily Reading
• Rotate periods so each class is evenly affected
• Participation points for students who read during
  entire allotted time
• Students announce reading time to generate
  enthusiasm
• Meaningful rewards for participatory students
• Gift certificates, dress-down passes, etc.

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Implementation School-Wide

• Word A Day
• Announced over PA
• Incorporated into Do Now/Warm Up
• School Word Wall

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Implementation - Departmental

• Book assignments
• Each department is assigned a quarter
• Students read a published work (book, long
  article, novel, short story) pertaining to the
  subject area as part of quarterly curriculum
• Word A Day
• Rotation of content area focus (i.e. science
  vocabulary for week 1, mathematics vocabulary for
  week 2, etc.)
• Incorporation in quiz/test grades
• Daily writing
• Departments tailor writing assignments to meet
  course objectives (journals, problem-solving
  activities, lab reports, etc.)

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Whats Next?

• Distribution of best practices and proven methods
  from top sources
• High Schools That Work
• Blooms Taxonomy
• Southern Regional Education Board
• Departments review materials and select three
  strategies
• Feasible
• Align with course objectives
• Enrich learning and literacy

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Language Arts Department

• Write weekly in all classeswrite to learn, write
  to demonstrate knowledge, Authentic writing
• Use reading and writing strategies to enhance
  learning
• Write research papers in all classes, and grade
  them for content and language fundamentals

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Math Department

• Students will keep Mathematics Logs
• Students will develop study guides
• Other writing assignments will include
• Essay type test questions
• Open response questions
• Lab Reports will be assigned
• Process Papers will be completed by students

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Science Department

• Students will complete Weekly Reflections
• Open response questions for assignments and tests
• Graphic Organizers will be used in lessons

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Social Studies Department

• Students will complete Personal Narratives of
  notable historians
• Students will complete one report per semester
• Open response test questions

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Visual Art and Music

• Students will keep a Writers Notebook
• Students will complete Process Papers
• Personal narratives will be assigned
• One report and or project per semester

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Physical Education

• Open response test items
• One written report each semester
• Students will complete Weekly Reflections

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