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Literacy in the Secondary Schools 2006 - 2007 "Would you tell me please," asked Alice, "where I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," replied the Cat. -Lewis Carroll Half Hollow Hills Central School District

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Page 1: Literacy in the Secondary Schools 2006 - 2007 "Would you tell me please," asked Alice, "where I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where

Literacy in the Secondary Schools2006 - 2007

"Would you tell me please," asked Alice, "where I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," replied the Cat.

-Lewis Carroll 

Half Hollow Hills Central School District

Page 2: Literacy in the Secondary Schools 2006 - 2007 "Would you tell me please," asked Alice, "where I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where

Literacy in the Secondary Schools

GOALS• To continue the initiatives started

last year around data driven assessments and instruction

• To use the State ELA Core Curriculum as a guide in vertically aligning our own curriculum

• To foster collaboration among faculty in order to share best practices, and maintain a venue for discussion and application of professional learning methodologies.

Page 3: Literacy in the Secondary Schools 2006 - 2007 "Would you tell me please," asked Alice, "where I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where

Literacy in the Secondary Schools

Where are we now?• Focus on Using

Assessment to Drive Instruction– Standardized Data (Reading

Assessments, ELA, Regents, PSAT, SAT, AP Exams)

– Student Work (Essays and Portfolio Pieces)

– Baseline, Midyear, Formative, and Summative Assessments

Page 4: Literacy in the Secondary Schools 2006 - 2007 "Would you tell me please," asked Alice, "where I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where

Literacy in the Secondary Schools

Where are we now?• Focus on Curriculum and

Planning Processes– UBD (Understanding by

Design for planning and assessing student work)

– Planning around text choices and literary elements and techniques

Page 5: Literacy in the Secondary Schools 2006 - 2007 "Would you tell me please," asked Alice, "where I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where

Literacy in the Secondary Schools

Where are we now?• Focus on Instructional

Techniques and Strategies– Differentiation– Dialectical Journals– Cooperative Learning – Silent Sustained Reading

Page 6: Literacy in the Secondary Schools 2006 - 2007 "Would you tell me please," asked Alice, "where I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where

Literacy in the Secondary Schools

Where are we going?• Assessments

– Using the State ELA Exam as the baseline for each grade in middle school

– Offering a reading level assessment (such as the Gates-MacGinitie) to incoming ninth graders

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Literacy in the Secondary Schools

Where are we going?• Curriculum

– Curriculum Mapping– Units of Study planned

around thematic connections between texts of various genres

– Thematic Compliments to Social Studies

Page 8: Literacy in the Secondary Schools 2006 - 2007 "Would you tell me please," asked Alice, "where I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where

Literacy in the Secondary Schools

Where are we going?• Instruction

– Modeling– Mentor Texts– Student Centered Learning– Year-long Independent

Reading

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Literacy in the Secondary Schools

Instruction

Assessment

Curriculum

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Literacy in the Secondary Schools

Final Thoughts

We want to “get to” a place where curriculum, assessment, and instruction are in constant motion; each an integral factor in the creation of the other.

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Literacy in the Secondary Schools

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