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Coalition
Activities
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| Teacher
education programs continue to emphasize and integrate literacy
across all content areas and assess teacher candidates for this
knowledge and practice |
- Clark
University/Worcester Public Schools
- Writing
to learn, Learning to Write Institute, Summer 2002, for
k-12 mentor teachers and master’s students, with
monthly follow-up meetings during the school year
- Literacy
Across the Curriculum summer institute for secondary teachers
and MA & MAT students
- Literacy
Development Course for elementary teacher candidates
- Literacy
development seminars for teachers on-site during school
year examine practice through ‘rounds
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| Partnerships
continue to focus on implementing effective literacy strategies
across the content areas in pk-12 classrooms |
- Boston
College/Boston Public Schools
- E-mail
tutoring for writing for Brighton High School students
- Bilingual
study group for teacher interns
- Instructional
Leadership teams focus on literacy in all subject areas
- Clark
University/Worcester Public School
- Yellow
Brick Road literacy group formed for shared and guided
path to mixed readings
- Literacy
Workshop block period (94 min.) for 9th graders instituted
- Lesley
University/Dever School, Boston
- Literacy
course taught for first time at Dever in August 03
- Children’s
Literature course scheduled so Dever faculty can participate
- Northeastern
University/Boston Public Schools
- Continue
to work with three partner schools to build literacy programs
- UMass
Amherst/Springfield Public Schools
- Gerena
School expanding math literacy program and working with
psychometricians to create a performance index for student
work
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| Partnerships
continue to evaluate k-12 student achievement data from local
and national assessments and modify literacy strategies and programs
in the schools, universities and community based upon the findings |
- Clark
University/Worcester Public Schools
- Representatives
of small school design teams meet bimonthly to discuss
and assess literacy strategies and outcomes
- Lesley
University/Dever School, Boston Public Schools
- Analyzed
drop in MCAS math scores to understand where students
lack sufficient content knowledge; identified teaching
weaknesses and are devising new teaching strategies with
literacy coach.
- Wheelock
College/Boston Public Schools
- Ongoing
formative assessment of literacy programs at Young Achievers
in Math & Science
- Work
with teachers to manage and utilize vast amount of student
data to improve and focus classroom instruction and see
the need to prepare preservice teachers to analyze and
use data in their teaching
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