Literacy Instruction, Curriculum and Coaching Panel

Moderated by Sharon HarperSoutheast CORE Director

Welcome to our Panelists

• Monty Wilson, Ed.S. Instructional Supervisor, Wilson County Schools • Lisa Coons Middle School Coordinator, Sumner County Schools • Linda Kennard, Ed.D. Director, Curriculum & Instruction, Shelby County Schools

Today our panelists will be discussing the following three questions: • How are you approaching literacy across subject

areas?

• How are your leveraging the Tennessee writing assessment?

• How are you ensuring students are reading complex texts? And additionally, how are you all supporting students struggling with text complexity?

How are you supporting literacy across subject areas?

Monty WilsonInstructional Supervisor, Wilson County Schools

Wilson County Professional Development Plan for Common Core Literacy

• 2012 (Summer) –ELA teachers (full day), SS teachers (1/2 day), and PE teachers (1/2) day.

• 2013 (Spring) – CTE teachers (1/2 day)• 2013 (Summer) – Fine Art teachers (1/2 day) and

Science teachers (1/2 day)

ELA Initial Focus

• Incorporating non-fiction to accompany literature

• Transitioning writing assignments from “free-response” to “text based”

• Selection and use of complex texts using qualitative and quantitative measures.

• Incorporating more analyses of multiple texts

PE Initial Focus

• Why literacy is a school-wide initiative

• How PE teachers can impact student literacy

• Writing task – What are they? How were they created?

• Text-based evidence• How to grade a student’s essay

Health/Wellness Literacy Task(Argumentation – Task 9)

After reading “New Guidelines Planned on School Vending Machines,” write a

report that examines why school vending machine laws were modified

and the effects of the legislative change. What conclusions or

implications can you draw? Support your discussion with evidence from

your research.

SS and CTE Initial Focus

• Why literacy is a school-wide initiative

• How SS/CTE teachers can impact student literacy

• Writing task – What are they? How do we create them? (Focus on LDC’s Template Tasks)

• Text-based evidence• How to grade a student’s

essay

Literacy Focus for all Content Areas in 6-12(Mathematics excluded due to CRAs)

• ½ Day Training on Common Core (Included participants completing a Literacy Task for Fine Arts)

• 9 hours of PLC time by course/cluster to create school-level Literacy Tasks which included …– Two different informational texts to read– One required literacy task for each article (included summarizing,

formulating central idea, identifying textual evidence to support central idea, Tier-2 vocabulary questions with textual evidence)

– Analytical writing assignment which required a comparison of the two texts

Resources

• Literacy Design Collaborative Template Tasks• PARCC Model Content Frameworks• Appendix B Common Core Standards• Common Core Coaches and Trained Teachers• Holistic Rubrics• Samples Student Work• District Created Literacy Templates• Institute for Learning

Our Hope …

IncreasedStudentLiteracy

How are your leveraging the Tennessee writing assessment?

Lisa Coons Middle School Coordinator,Sumner County Schools

2012-13 Writing Work: Phase One

OCTOBER Gave pilot as cold assessment

WEEKLY OCT PD

Teacher Professional Development: state rubric and anchor papers

WEEKLY NOV PD

Teacher Professional Development: Model Scoring

and collaborative scoring sessions

Phase One Resources

State writing prompts

State anchor papers

State rubrics

Weekly PD schedule

2012-13 Writing Work: Phase Two

DECEMBERAnalyzed student growth and created

monthly writing maps with weekly benchmarks

JANUARY PD DAY

Trained Teachers on map objectives and assessments

JANUARY Map-based writing instruction and provided weekly interventions

Phase Two Resources

Student results

Locally created maps

Additional prompts for benchmarks

All teacher PD day and weekly PLC time

2013-14 Writing Work

October Analyzed formal writing prompt results

November Plan new writing maps (decentralized approach)

December Teacher Professional Learning Options: Anchors, Maps and Interventions

2013-14 Resources

State student results

Locally created building maps

New state rubric and anchor papers

Teacher leadership and weekly PLC time

How are you ensuring students are reading complex texts? And additionally,

how are you all supporting students struggling with text complexity?

Linda Kennard, Ed.D. Director, Curriculum & Instruction,

Shelby County Schools

ELA/Literacy Common Core Panel

Tackling Text Complexity in Shelby County Schools

Dr. Linda KennardDirector of Curriculum & Instruction

How are we ensuring that students are reading complex texts?

• Align curriculum maps with the PARCC Model Content Frameworks

• Provide teachers with Common Core aligned resources – Adopted texts– Supplementary materials

PARCC FrameworkQ

UART

ERS

Reading Complex Text Writing to Texts

Research Project

Reading Complex Text

Many of the short texts are

from the Reading Text Book

An extended text is in addition to the shorter texts

You can learn more from the

CCSS Appendix B Please noteThat there will be

literature and informational

short text each nine weeks.

Writing to Texts

Students must be writing about what they are reading if they are going to be ready for the PARCC assessments that begin in 2014-2015.

For more information on the types of writing and samples, see CCSS Appendix C

Research Project

One Research Project

each nine weeks.

Integrate knowledge from sources when

composing

Integrate knowledge from your Extended Text

with science and or social studies when

writing.

PARCCPlanning Guide

Reading Complex Texts Writing to Text Research Project

SCS Curriculum Maphttp://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ela.php

What steps must be taken to cite evidence from the text when making a point or stating a claim? What steps must be taken when formulating a summary? How does a narrator’s point of view affect the meaning of a story?

CCSS SPIs I Can.. Content

Reading Complex Text

Weeks 1-3

SCS 1st Quarter Complex Texts – 5th

Short text selections - Literature• Thunder Rose • Island of the Blue Dolphin • Inside Out Short text selections - Informational• Satchel Paige • Shutting Out the Sky• Passage to FreedomExtended text• The Secret Garden

SCS 1st Quarter Complex Texts – ENG IIExtendedText: Night, by Elie Wiesel Short Stories:• There Will Come Soft Rains • By the Waters of Babylon• The Masque of the Red DeathInformational Text • Speech:

Keep Memory Alive – EXEMPLAR • “The Babylon Captivity”

How we are supporting students struggling with text complexity?

• Professional Development is ongoing, sustained, and job embedded

• TNCore Coaches have created Seven Common Core Study Groups Modules

• Open District web site that provides curriculum maps, pacing guides, and PARCC planning guides

• Password protected (Weebly) for K-5 resources teacher, district, and external links.

Common Core Study Groupshttp://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ccsg.php

English Language Artshttp://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ela.php

English Language Arts- Elementary www.scselementaryliteracy.weebly.com