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We're serious about getting kids to grade level!
“In all of my years as a school leader and turnaround specialist, I have found that the root cause of failure is always the same: low reading achievement. Improving reading skills is the key factor for schools to have any chance of turning around. And by focusing on reading as the leverage for turning the school around, sustainable student achievement gains can be made long term.”
Tammy Miller, VP & School Turnaround Specialist
Coaching and Professional Development - embedded support you can count on
Our Coaching and Professional Development is based on a four-step framework that uses data to inform instructional paths that result in school-wide literacy gains. It is tailored for teachers and principals.
Readable English Coaching Framework:
1
Program Usage
Optimize the use of all aspects of the Readable English program, including integrating the Conversion Tool throughout all classes and class subjects.
2
Data Analysis & Progress Monitoring
Learn to review, analyze, and interpret data to make effective instructional decisions.
3
Goal Setting
Learn to establish achievable learning goals with ongoing progress monitoring for students.
4
Community and Culture
Create school-wide activities centered on literacy. Facilitate collaboration between classroom teachers, SPED, and EL teachers.
School / District Literacy Planning
The focus of Literacy Planning is to provide a district wide approach to ensure all students are reading proficiently at grade level.
- Full literacy assessment of all students including reading levels and appropriate interventions
- Inventory and evaluation of all reading assessments, materials, resources, and mandates.
- Strategic planning to determine which reading assessments will be given, how data will be used for intervention/enrichment, the utilization of reading resources and materials to accomplish grade level reading.
- A continuum of the outcomes and reading skills to be mastered at each grade level will be developed.
- A professional development plan and timeline will be provided to address each component of the district literacy plan.
School / District Literacy Turnaround
The Literacy Turnaround Solution includes all aspects of School/District Literacy Planning, in conjunction with ongoing implementation support, professional development and coaching.
What’s included:
- All of the School / District Literacy Planning components shown above and
- Ongoing training/coaching to effectively implement and monitor the Literacy Turnaround plan.
- Ongoing data and progress monitoring with responsive structural changes to ensure results.
- Future plan for the continuation of the turnaround success.
Readable English Trainer Certification
Certify your own trainer. This will provide internal ongoing support, leadership development and will be cost saving as new teachers can be trained internally.
How it works:
- Teachers and instructional coaches who have successfully implemented Readable English will be eligible to become a certified trainer of Readable English.
- Candidates will receive training and mentoring, and will shadow a Readable English trainer to learn the full training and coaching methodology.
- To complete the certification process, candidates will need to demonstrate their knowledge of the program and their training skills and will be supervised throughout their first school coaching role.
