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Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium Literacy Advisory CommitteeJanuary 22, 2014
Our purpose today is to review the key literacy professional learning opportunities that have taken place in the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium region this year based on advisory committee direction and dialogue.
…and begin plans for next year that aligns with Inspiring Education, Curriculum Redesign and school authority needs/direction.
What you asked us to do and what we did
What you asked us to do!
• Support for Curriculum Redesign and the cross-curricular competencies
• Develop a literacy framework (balanced literacy, daily 5, intervention)
• Follow up with AARI• Plan a Literacy summer
conference
What we did and are doing!
• Support for Curriculum Redesign through district days, development of cohorts, PD resources
• Develop a literacy guideline • Implement Literacy for All Pilot
Project –Grades 7-12 • Provide Professional Learning
opportunities with authors• Engaged in plans for a summer
conference
ERLC Regional Literacy Guideline
• Meeting• Draft• Purpose– Communications for
facilitators– Informative for planning
professional learning– Potential to support
school authority planning
• Next steps– Literacy benchmarks– Alberta revised program
of studies ( e.g., curriculum redesign)
– Cross curriculum competencies
Learning Opportunities
Upcoming• Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
–Struggling Reader, Jan 23• Penny Kittle- Book Love
and Writing, March 3 & 4• Daily Five –The Sisters, Feb 7• Karen Erickson -Literacy for Stu
dents with Significant Disabilities Feb 11,12,13
• Literacy Benchmarks –Karen Loerke – April 25
• Future?
Past• Robert Cutting –FNMI and st
orytelling• Balanced Literacy –Division I
(Wendy Legaarden and Judy Bourassa)
• Balanced Literacy Division II –(Anne Muir & Keri Busenius)
• Best Practices (Division III, IV) –Irene Heffel
• Smartboards and Ipads for Language Arts –Karla Holt
PD Resources
• Archived Webinars – Literacy RTI– Ipads– Smart Boards– Engaging Learners– Literature and Social Studies
• Pilot –Literacy for All Wiki• Inclusive Education PD Re
sources – Literacy • Curriculum Redesign Wiki
– Cross-Curricular Competencies
• Learning Technologies
• What else? Future needs?
District Days – Karen Loerke
• Completed 9/18 districts; Plans with 13/18
• Book clubs, guided reading, close reading
• Reading and writing assessment
• Word study• Coaching• Literacy Benchmarks
• Grounded in literacy principles
• Comprehensive literacy approach
• Incorporate “curriculum redesign” ( e.g. literacy benchmarks and cross- curriculum competencies)
Literacy Benchmarks
• Organized by three components: 1)awareness, 2) knowledge and understanding, and 3) strategies
• Developed in all subject/discipline areas at all grade levels
• 9 elements and 5 developmentally age groups
Draft Literacy Benchmarks: 9 Elements
1. Awareness• How being literate enables me and others to create and express
meaning• Use literacy skills to represent what I know, and do, and need to
learn
2. Knowledge and Understanding• Communicate to define and develop ideas • Use my knowledge of structures, rules and tools of language to
communicate meaning• Use diverse texts and media to develop ideas and understanding
Draft Literacy Benchmarks: 9 Elements
3. Strategies• Connect and select background knowledge
and personal experiences to develop new understanding
• Use effective and efficient strategies to acquire knowledge and understanding
• Use effect and efficient strategies to respond to knowledge and understanding
Summer Literacy and Numeracy Conference
• Summer 2013 – Literacy, technology and
inclusive education
• Summer 2014 • K-12 Literacy and
Numeracy Benchmarks– Thought leaders– Aligned with ERLC region
literacy framework?
• Should we or shouldn’t we?
• RFP districts…..• Format e.g., Literacy
Benchmarks– Use tools of language to
communicate meaning– Use effective strategies
to acquire knowledge
Next Steps
Planning Forward• Literacy Guideline –directs
future directionsOther?