National Council of Teachers of English

The New Stakeholders: Informing Literacy Education Reform from the Grassroots

Flipping the Script: Introducing the National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE)

Kent Williamson, Executive Director, NCTE

KaiLonnie Dunsmore , Director of Literacy Initiatives, The Ball Foundation

Supporting and Celebrating School Teams Working to Improve Literacy

NCTE and Ball Foundation Forging a Broad Alliance to improve literacy education through…

Support sound planning, teaching, and assessment by cross-disciplinary teams

Celebrating department, school, and system success and sharing sound practices

Coordinating new research and professional development innovation

Generating policy recommendations to foster on-going support for team-generated literacy improvement plans.

NCTE and Ball Foundation Forging a Broad Alliance (NCLE) to improve Literacy Education for All by fostering……

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Instruction

Support for Instruction

Organizational Conditions

NCTE and Ball Foundation Forging a Broad Alliance (NCLE) to improve Literacy Education for All by fostering….

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Literacy In Learning Service (LiL)

Research

School Teams(CoP/PLC)

Peer reviewed, writing mentors,

teachers as producers and

consumers

Saranac, MI Middle School Team – all subjects

Literacy Coaches, Philadelphia

ELL Coordinators, Iowa

District wide K-1 teachers Chicago

SIL in Rowland, CA

English Dept. Chair

Writing Workshop CoP

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Academic Vocabula

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Recognition : “Literacy in Every Classroom” School and “Literacy Innovation Schools”

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CoP

Just –in-Time Search

Related Content

Guiding Questions

websites

Examples on next slides

NCLE Stakeholders SYSTEMS AND SCHOOLS that share their practices and

strategies—Centers for Literacy Innovation and Literacy in Every Classroom Schools.

Professional Organizations The Connected Learning Coalition—NCTE, NCTM, NSTA,

NCSS, ACTE, CoSN; Associations for school and system leaders (e.g. NASSP,

ASCD, NAESP, CCSSO, etc.) Other literacy and teaching groups (NWP, IRA, TESOL)

Policy Research Organizations/Think Tanks

Foundations who invest in teaching and literacy

Research & Teaching Universities and Colleges

Core NCLE Elements

Literacy in Learning Service—free, interactive online service featuring case studies, vignettes, and analysis of literacy innovation;

Summer Working Meeting—setting priorities and building financial support for research and PD innovation;

Policy Symposia and press events—shining the spotlight on how informed educators sustain growth in literacy learning

What You Can Do Use, contribute to, identify CoP Cases, review the

Literacy in Learning Service upcoming academic year;

Participate in consortia to create essential research and professional development programming;

Make it viral—help tell the story of how interdisciplinary teams are working together to sustain literacy learning growth;

Accentuate the positive—rather than forcing change from the top, down it’s time to understand and support systemic practices that make sustainable progress possible.

Contact us:

Kent Williamson kwilliamson@ncte.org

Anne Gereargere@umich.edu

Cathy Fleischer cfleische@emich.edu

KaiLonnie Dunsmore Kdunsmore@ballfoundation.org