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Welcome to Reading Apprenticeship: Writing Connections
January 14, 2015 Webinar
Event Number: 590 602 669
Call-in toll-free number: 877-413-2826
Conference Code: 710 087 0264
Question Process: • Ask questions using the chat function at the top or left of your screen. Or write on paper and ask after the speakers are finished.
• Mute with #6 until Q&A sessions
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Grant Administrators Reading Apprenticeship: Writing Connections
Mary Stump Associate Director Strategic Literacy Initiative, WestEd
Diane Lee Financial Analyst/Program Coordinator Strategic Literacy Initiative, WestEd
Cathleen Kral Multi-State Coordinator for RAISE and RAWC
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Today’s Goals
• Introduce Reading Apprenticeship
• Describe current opportunity to participate in grant supported professional development 2015-2016 Reading Apprenticeship: Writing Connections
• Make contacts for further information in your state
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• Builds Skills & Knowledge – Explicit instruction of
comprehension strategies – Reading/writing connections – Discipline-based literacies
• Fosters Dispositions for Academic Learning – Stamina and persistence – Tolerance for ambiguity – Code breaker stance
Reading Apprenticeship: Instructional Framework & PD Model
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The Reading Apprenticeship Framework
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Design Principles in Professional Development: Inquiry-Based PD
• Connections to teachers’ experience, disciplinary commitments, and expertise
• Practice “making thinking visible” with varied subject area texts and investigations
• Collaborative, metacognitive learning experiences embedded in content
• Opportunities to explore student reading and thinking, often with video cases
• Facilitators lead from practice
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What Teachers Learn with Reading Apprenticeship
• How to recognize and model for students the reading strategies you use as an expert reader in your subject area
• How to engage students in understanding their own thinking processes—the power of metacognition
• How to integrate and accelerate students’ subject area learning and subject area literacy
• How to foster learning dispositions of persistence, stamina, problem solving, and collaboration
• How to turn the sustained work of learning back to students, successfully
• How to plan lessons that incorporate all dimensions of the Reading Apprenticeship framework
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What Does a Reading Apprenticeship Classroom Look Like?
• A focus on comprehension • On-going conversation about how students are
thinking when they read • Skilled coaching and modeling of effective
thinking and reading processes • A climate of collaboration • An emphasis on student independence • See it in action. Classroom videos at
www.ReadingApprenticeship.org/ Research-Impact/Videos/Classroom
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www.ReadingApprenticeship.org - research, videos, presentations, success stories, news & more
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Reading Apprenticeship: Writing Connections 2013-2016
Project Goals & Objectives
• Improve teacher effectiveness by providing Reading Apprenticeship professional development and school-based support for about 1,000 science, history, and English teachers in four states
• Improve student achievement and learning by increasing students’ use of metacognitive literacy routines (both reading and writing) that lead to deeper content area learning and evidence-based persuasive writing in science, social studies and language arts.
• Improve PD support, feasibility, and cost effectiveness by developing online components
• More emphasis on writing-to-learn than in RAISE model of PD, but reading comprehension, metacognition, and learning in the disciplines is still our focus.
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Current Opportunity Reading Apprenticeship: Writing Connections
Professional Development Model • School teams participate in subject area groups (ELA, HISTORY, SCIENCE) • Preference given to school teams of 6-9 (two or three from each subject area) • About 40 teachers in each content group per training site • Both in person and online • Monthly meetings of school teams facilitated by your own teacher leaders at your school site
• Summer 2015: 3 days in person • Fall 2015: 4 hours a month online • Winter 2015/2016: 2 Days in person • Spring 2016: 4 hours a month online • Summer 2016: 2 Days in person
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What the Online Learning Looks Like
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Tech Requirements
• Reliable high-speed internet connection (minimum of 512kbps)
• A microphone and webcam (most late model computers have these items as built-in features).
• A USB headset is preferred for the best audio quality but not required.
• A computer 5 years old or newer with 1GB of RAM and 2GHz processor.
• Operating system requirements are Windows XP SP3 and newer, Mac OSX 10.6 and newer, or Linux – chrome OS.
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Reading Apprenticeship: California CA RAWC Team & SLI National Office Staff
Rita Jensen WestEd
Diane Lee WestEd [email protected] 510.302.4280
Margot Kenaston WestEd
Mary Stump WestEd
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Reading Apprenticeship: California
National Office, home to: • R&D Lab • National Summer Institutes, Oakland • Active district contracts throughout the state
Recent grant-funded work in CA: Reading Apprenticeship Improving Secondary
Education “RAISE” 2011-15 • 21 schools • 80 teachers • 10,000 students
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California Training Dates and Sites 240 teachers – history , ELA, science
Oakland, CA – 300 Lakeside Drive, WestEd Offices July 20-22, 2015 January 2016 – Dates to be announced July 18-19, 2016
Southern CA – Long Beach area and possibly Fontana area July 27-29, 2015 January 2016 – Dates to be announced July 14-15, 2016
4 hours a month online learning throughout school year
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Reading Apprenticeship: Indiana
Donna Walker, Indiana State Coordinator [email protected] 317-414-7203
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Reading Apprenticeship: Indiana
RAISE 2011-15 • 18 high schools • Approximately 350 teachers and
administrators • Approximately 45,000 students RAWC 2014-15 • Cohort 1 – 9 schools • Cohort 2 – prospectively 15-20 schools
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IN Cohort II Dates and Venues
Avon Middle School North 1251 N. Dan Jones Road Avon, IN 46123
July 6-8, 2015 January 25-26, 2016 June 21-22, 2016
4 hours a month online learning throughout school year
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Indiana Teachers and Administrators are Saying…
"Our students are literally interacting with text more than ever. This is evidenced as students get new text, they talk to it. They know the importance of writing down what they are thinking.” Craig Smith, Assistant Principal at Chapel Hill Middle School, Wayne Township, Indianapolis
"We took notes yesterday on story elements. Today we read a short text and the students were annotating the text making connections to the notes we took yesterday. I told them they were amazing.” Debbie Fey, 7th Grade ELA teacher, Chapel Hill Middle School.
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Reading Apprenticeship: Michigan 2010-2015
Bill Loyd, Michigan State Coordinator [email protected] (734) 260-9176
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Reading Apprenticeship: Michigan 2010-2015
RAISE
RAWC
• 138 high schools (4 Cohorts) • Approximately 1,004 teachers and
administrators • Approximately 125,500 students
• Cohort 1 - 19 schools • Cohort 2 – prospectively 55 - 60
schools
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Michigan Dates and Venues
Southeast MI – Dearborn at Fordson High School Aug 19, 20, 21 (W-F) 2015 Feb 11,12 (Th-F) 2016 June 20, 21 (M-T) 2016
Southwest MI - Ingham Intermediate School District Aug 26, 27, 28 (W-F) 2015 Feb 18, 19 (M-T) 2016 June 23, 24 (Th-F) 2016
Northern MI – North Central Michigan College Aug 12, 13, 14 (W-F) 2015 Feb 1, 2 (M-T) 2016 June 27, 28 (M-T) 2016
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Michigan Teachers and Administrators are Saying…
I think RA is the vehicle that we use to bring back hope and life to our students, who have been conditioned to a “sit and get” style of education for so many years that many of them struggle with how to think for themselves, ask questions and engage in intellectual debate.
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What a Student Has to Say . . .
"Reading Apprenticeship didn't help me at all. It slowed me down and made me think."
Grade 10 student focus group interview
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Reading Apprenticeship: Pennsylvania
Susan Kinney, Coordinator [email protected] (484) 547-8862
Melissa Devlin, Assoc. Coordinator [email protected]
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Reading Apprenticeship: Pennsylvania 2010 - 2015
RAISE • 55 high schools (4 Cohorts) • Approximately 600 teachers and
administrators • Approximately 75,000 students RAWC • Cohort I – 11 JH/M schools • Cohort II – 25-30 JH/M schools
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Cohort II Training Dates and Sites
Eastern Pennsylvania: Berks IU Reading, PA (8:30 am – 3:30 pm) June 29-July 1, 2015 December 7-8, 2015 June 27-28, 2016
Western Pennsylvania: Allegheny IU Homestead, PA (8:30 am – 3:30 pm) August 5-7, 2015 December 3-4, 2015 August 3-4, 2016
2 to 4 hours a month online learning throughout school year
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What PA Administrators are Saying . . .
“The active literacy routines learned and honed by Souderton’s teachers through Reading Apprenticeship professional development have enabled Souderton’s effective implementation of Common Core State Standards, have promoted an increase in focused, collegial discussions about instruction, and have resulted in ongoing, extraordinary growth in our students’ reading and writing skills as evidenced by PVAAS growth.”
Sam Varano, Principal, Souderton Area High School
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What PA Teachers are Saying . . .
“In my classroom, students are reading a greater amount of text and are more actively engaged with text. As a classroom teacher, I have also become more cognizant of demands different kinds of text place on our students. As a result, I am offering far more in the way of direct reading instruction and practice. Instead of simply conveying information to my students, they are constructing their own knowledge through reading, critical analysis, and writing. They are working harder, learning more content, and developing greater literacy skills as a result. What has been fascinating to me is how many students have become more confident. I would have to say that I have never had a professional development experience so dramatically change what I do in the classroom, and more importantly, what my students do.”
Alicia Ross History and AP Teacher Blue Ridge High School
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Grant Requirements
• Participate in all in-person and online professional development sessions.
• Implement learned Reading Apprenticeship practices and routines.
• Meet monthly as a school team • Select a teacher leader who attends
three state-wide meetings a year and facilitates team monthly meetings.
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Grant Participation Benefits
• FREE PD in 2015-16
• Teacher Stipends • $500 for participation in professional
development • Additional stipends for Teacher Leaders
• Contribute to building knowledge and practice about what works for teachers and students
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Roles in Capacity Building and Support
Teacher Leaders (one for each school team) • Convene and facilitate monthly on-site team meeting • “Lead from practice” • Communicate with admins. regarding school teams’ work, needs for support, etc. • Participate in state-level Teacher Leader meeting • Receive a $250 stipend
Principals/Assistant Principals • Support teams by seeing they have time for professional development • Develop your understanding of Reading Apprenticeship by attending some of the
professional development, teacher meetings and observing teachers State Coordinators
• Coordinate the professional development • Communicate with teacher leaders and administrators regarding needs for support, PD
logistics, etc. • Share knowledge and practices across schools and states
WestEd • Provides the professional development and manages the overall project
• Pays stipends & is responsible for fiscal management • Reports progress to U.S. Department of Education • Disseminates information and learning
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INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING? Here’s your next steps:
STEP 1: Contact your state coordinator and ask for an application Or Visit www.readingapprenticeship.org and fill out the ‘registration’ form Or Open the email you will get tomorrow from your state coordinator. It will have
an application for you to fill out.
STEP 2:
- Review the commitments and requirements again with your team and school leadership and make sure your teachers are available. We will not have make up sessions.
STEP 3: - Fill out the application ASAP and no later than March 1. Priority will be given
to teams of 6 or more. Each state has a limited number of spots.
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Questions & Answers (type in chat box)
Our core text: Reading for Understanding by Schoenbach, Greenleaf & Murphy (2nd ed., 2012)
Download excerpts on the website readingapprenticeship.org or purchase it on amazon or wested.org
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Contact Us! Indiana: Donna Walker [email protected] 317.414.7203
Pennsylvania: Sue Kinney [email protected] 484.547.8862
Michigan: Bill Loyd [email protected] 734.260.9176
California: Diane Lee [email protected] 510.302.4280
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