Literacy+Strategies

**C. A. Erwin High** has been implementing many new strategies that we learned his summer. The most beneficial strategy we can share so far is conversation calendars. This builds a great relationship with your students and gives you great insight to their world and their needs.


 * ACRHS**: On October 22nd, 2007, our team taught Robert Marzano's instructional strategies to groups of faculty members. Our original four team members recruited four additional instructors from our faculty, and over the course of a work day, we taught as faculty members rotated through four one hour and fifteen minute sessions. Each of the instructors taught for between 30 and 45 minutes; the balance of the time in each period allowed teachers to work to adapt the strategies for their own instruction. At a follow-up sessions led by our administration, faculty members shared strategies that they had used in their classrooms.

[|This site] provides some effective (and painless) ways to integrate Marzano's strategies into individual instruction.

On February 20th, 2008, Allen Kromer and Stephanie Jackson led planning period sessions for faculty members to share some of Cris Tovani's reading comprehension philosophies and strategies. The sessions provided an overview of Tovani's approach, provided strategies for students to use to improve comprehension, shared how to employ some of her strategies, and demonstrated how the strategies are suitable for a broad range of texts that are typically encountered in classrooms throughout our school.

The final session for this year's staff development took place on April 8th, and teachers shared how they used Tovani strategies and ideas in their classrooms. Administrators moderated each of these planning period round table discussions.


 * Owen High School** has joined the Literacy instruction in the Content Areas to continue progress in No Child Left Behind. Wiki is to augment teacher instruction using the BIG6 research methods. The combination of literacy instruction in the content area, strengthened with BIG6 will enable students to have the opportunity to learn subject area concepts and vocabulary, their word knowledge and capacity to read a broader range of texts will be further enhanced.


 * TCR** is behind in the process, but we have implemented SSR in the Freshman Academy. Future meetings of the Instructional Team should guide the direction of literacy instruction in our school.


 * Enka High School** has been working on Writing in the Content Areas as part of our stafff development. Our most recent session taught teachers how to develop rubrics for grading writing in any content area. In addition, the staff was trained in PLATO, a computer program that reinforces content and skills across the curriculum.