school) Leadership Development/Leadership Seminars to Improve Teaching and Learning (8 days on site per school) Observation, Program Development and Leadership Support Days (8 days for leadership work per school; 4 days for program coordination/support for whole groups sessions) (duplication see Requirement #4) – Anne Goudvis, PGCPS has Introduction of Comprehension Toolkit: Comprehension a well-developed middle school Curriculum Toolkit Consultant Framework Progress Guide (CFPG) for reading. Joanne Durham, The CFPG has been aligned to State academic Curriculum & standards. (In 2009-2010, the middle grades CFPG Instruction; was aligned to include the Toolkit strategies; Turnaround Literacy additional work will be done this summer to refine.) Coach; However, comprehension strategy instruction, to Title I Literacy ensure that students use the thinking processes that Coach enable them to develop interpretive and critical stances towards reading objectives, is not yet widespread in grades 6-8. Teaching and use of comprehension strategies has been shown in the research to be effective across all ages and grade levels [(Pearson and Gallagher, (1983), Pearson et. al. (1992), Pressley (1976 and 2002)]. The Comprehension Toolkit provides teaching moves and language as tools for teachers to teach students to apply these strategies. Elementary schools in PGCPS that have integrated use of the Toolkit with the CFPG have shown increases in student achievement. Approximately one-half of the feeder
school) Leadership Development/Leadership Seminars to Improve Teaching and Learning (8 days on site per school) Observation, Program Development and Leadership Support Days (8 days for leadership work per school; 4 days for program coordination/support for whole groups sessions) (duplication – see Requirement #4) Introduction of Comprehension Toolkit: PGCPS has a well-developed middle school Curriculum Framework Progress Guide (CFPG) for reading. The CFPG has been aligned to State academic standards. (In 2009-2010, the middle grades CFPG was aligned to include the Toolkit strategies; additional work will be done this summer to refine.) However, comprehension strategy instruction, to ensure that students use the thinking processes that enable them to develop interpretive and critical stances towards reading objectives, is not yet widespread in grades 6-8. Teaching and use of comprehension strategies has been shown in the research to be effective across all ages and grade levels [(Pearson and Gallagher, (1983), Pearson et. al. (1992), Pressley (1976 and 2002)]. The Comprehension Toolkit provides teaching moves and language as tools for teachers to teach students to apply these strategies. Elementary schools in PGCPS that have integrated use of the Toolkit with the CFPG have shown increases in student achievement. Approximately one-half of the feeder Anne Goudvis, Comprehension Toolkit Consultant Joanne Durham, Curriculum & Instruction; Turnaround Literacy Coach; Title I Literacy Coach